📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
This project is the result of a partnership of CSM with the Ministry of Education and with other non-for-profit organizations dealing with children with less opportunities.
💼 What the programme involves
The aim of this project is to contribute to the education of children with less opportunity. Some of them don't have the chance to learn languages, sometimes because the classrooms are too crowded to deliver a good services, sometimes because the teachers in public schools cannot teach languages properly, as the education level was low, specially english. Also, is the students want private lessons in summer to reinforce their competences, they would have to pay a high price that the parents cannot afford in most of the cases. Volunteers coming from abroad are the best option to deliver a free service for these children and at the same time for them to get a good international experience.
This workcamp consists at the reinforcement of languages capacities of children and young with few opportunities. In this operation we will try to gather both Moroccan and International volunteers to profit the occasion to make emphasis in the intercultural exchange.
The volunteers will work five days each week and get two free days, it can be the weekend or other days, this will depend on the work plan. They will teach one or two of the languages (English French). All the volunteers will work for hours each day in the morning.
Some extra activities will be organized by the association like animation with children.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated in a host family.
We need to highlight a couple of things that might be a bit difficult for the volunteers, given the past experiences with them. In Morocco, is rare to find the toilets that they are used to have in Europe. In this country, the toilet is normally a typical turkish bath.
International volunteers can also ask the national ones to take them to hammam, the public baths. Its a nice experience that they will enjoy, while relaxing and enjoying the hot water and the steam, good for the skin.
📍 About the location
The children that the volunteers will teach come from families with low economic resources so the volunteers will appreciate their everyday life habits and culture through practical and social involvement and feel like they are making a real change, since they will give them some skills that will help them at a personal and academic level. They will get in touch with national volunteers so that they can get involved in the community, not only inside the center but also outside, when they finish their work.
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The Jemma el Fnaa is one of the best-known squares in Africa and is the centre of city activity and trade. Snake charmers, acrobats, magicians, mystics, musicians, monkey trainers, herb sellers, story-tellers, dentists, pickpockets, and entertainers in medieval garb still populate the square.
Festivals, both national and Islamic, are celebrated in Marrakesh and throughout the country, and some of them are observed as national holidays. Cultural festivals of note held in Marrakesh include the National Folklore Festival, the Marrakech Festival of Popular Arts, and the Berber Festival.
The International Film Festival of Marrakesh aspires to be the North African version of Cannes and showcases over 100 films from around the world annually.
The families where the volunteers will be hosted and the project will be 20 minutes walking distance.