📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Morocco is considered the “door to Europe”. Many immigrants and refugees come to this country and get stuck in an illegal situation, living in bad conditions. National volunteers help them providing them with education, formation and cultural integration reflecting the tradition of solidarity and hospitality of Morocco.
The international volunteers will form a team with them, in a way that they will have the chance to appreciate both the immigrants and Moroccans 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.
Rabat is the capital and fourth largest city of Morocco with an urban population of approximately 580,000. Rabat features a Mediterranean with Oceanic influence. Located along the Atlantic Ocean, Rabat has a mild, temperate climate, shifting from cool in winter to warm days in the summer months
The biggest place for theatre is the Theatre Mohammed V in the centre of the town. The city has a few official galleries and an archeological museum.
Many organizations are active in cultural and social issues.
Further information about the country will be attached in the National Profile form.
💼 What the programme involves
PROJECT’S ACTIVITIES
Teaching – Cultural activities – Work camps – seminars
VOLUNTEER’S TASKS
The volunteers will be able to take part in all the activities that CSM and the local, national volunteers are already carrying out with immigrants and refugees, all of them children and teenagers in a center in Rabat that we have rented for that purpose.
Education.
- They will help the immigrants and refugees to get Integrated in the school system through skills support and non-formal education: Language support (English / French) very basic math for children
, sports and recreation programs for youth...
Integration
: Helping to promote the diversity of cultural expressions organizing once a week or once every two weeks inter cultural events.
We will divide the volunteers into groups, so that some volunteers will be teaching languages for immigrants or performing the other activities and the other way around.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will live in hosts families or shared apartments, depending on availability.
📍 About the location
HOW TO ARRIVE Rabat airport has a lot of flight connections. Once you get out of it, you will find a bus that costs 20 dirhams and that leaves you in front of the train station. You will find also several taxis that should take you to the city center. You can deal with them the exact point and the price, that should be 100 Dirhams.
Someone can go and pick you up from the airport for 150 Dirhams.
If you arrive to any other airport in Morocco, it will be easy for you to reach Rabat by train, just check the timetables on: www.oncf.ma
⚠️ Requirements
VOLUNTEER’S REQUIREMENTS
The participants will have to:
- Have common sense and assertion
- Strong motivation
- Believe in cultural exchanges when it comes to promote peace and stability
- Be able to take initiative
- Flaxibility, responsibility, patience
- Be willing to get involved in all the activities that they will carry out with the local volunteers: language support, cuisine workshops, be willing to participate and support sports activities etc.
At least a medium level of French is required for this project.
The volunteer must provide a copy of his/her criminal record.
🤝 Meeting point
The meeting point will be arranged by email before your arrival to Rabat, once you have passed them your flight details.
ℹ️ Additional information
AIMS OF THE PROJECT
To offer immigrants and refugees that come to Morocco the opportunity to get the basic skills that can allow them to get integrated in the Moroccan society and the first step to be more able to find a job.