Rapport d activité 2007 avec les Nouveau anglais

Annual Report 2007
Protection of children in precarious situation
Presentation of the association AL KARAM
History and status of AL KARAM
AL KARAM’s mission
AL KARAM’s operation
AL KARAM’s activities
Approach on the streets
Children’s accommodation in the centers
Medical assistance
Administrative assistance
Juridical assistance
Familial reintegration
Academic reintegration
Professional placement
AL KARAM’s projects
The projects realized or running in order to eliminate the worst forms of exploitation
of street children in Safi and Marrakech in 2007
International solidarity construction project in Safi
Holiday camp aided by the “Fondation d’Auteuil”
Campaign of sexual education
EU - commission’s initiative for democracy and human rights :
« Promotion des droits des enfants en situation précaire dans les rues de Marrakech »
“Promotion of the deprived children’s rights in the streets of Marrakech”
Campaign against child labor in artisanry
Assistance for professional placement of adolescents between 15 and 20 years of age
Installation of collateral workshops for the deprived children’s parents
Financial report
Acknowledgements
The association AL KARAM was founded in Safi in 1997 under the honorary
presidency of HRH the princess Lalla Meriem by Mrs. Karima MKIKA, the today‘s
president. In Arabic, “AL KARAM” means “generosity”.
AL KARAM created an open advisory center in the ancient medina of
Marrakech in 2004 in order to be able to listen to the children and their families,
followed by a girls’ accommodation center in 2005 and a boys’ accommodation
center in 2006.
AL KARAM is a nonprofit organization and was officially recognized as
serving the public good in 2001. It is completely neutral in every aspect of politics,
union and religion. Today AL KARAM is an important partner to the highest
authorities of state concerning the observation of the Convention on the Rights of
the Child. Karima MKIKA is furthermore, apart from being AL KARAM’s
president, consultant for Human Rights to the “National Initiative of Human
Development” (“Initiative Nationale de Développement Humain”, INDH), and
secretary general of the unit for the protection of youth in Marrakech. She was
decorated by the “Prix Mme Figaro”.
The association AL KARAM is also appreciated by international
organizations such as the “Bureau International du Travail” (“International Labour
Office”, program IPEC Maroc), the European Union, the “Fondation d’Auteuil”,
UNICEF, PCM, ALCS, Monaco, “keepsmiling” and foreign associations.
Leading a child between 5 and 18 years of age
To the abilities of
Taking Care
Participating
Educational support for the family
Academic support for the child
Supporting the child’s reintegration to his family
Supporting the adolescent’s inscription to a professional education
Helping the adolescent to find a profession
Helping the child to find other solutions
Protecting
Himself
Karima MKIKA
Our role is not to
substitute the family,
but to accompany the
children all the way
out of the crisis and
this by respecting the
International
Convention on the
Rights of the Child.
Together, it will be
possible!
Help us to give a smile to our children!
Al KARAM’s mission
Although there are no exact statistics on
the number of children living in and on the
streets of Marrakech, everybody can imagine
the enormous dimensions of this phenomenon.
In the streets, everybody is bound to see
begging children, in groups or individual,
young glue-junkies (white spirit), babies with
their mothers (or persons who rent the babies
for begging) and child laborers: They are selling
handkerchiefs, cigarettes, bonbons, flowers,
plastic bags, working as shoeshine boys,
porters, or with artisans manufacturing
babouches, pottery and metal ware.
When in 1994 Morocco ratified the
Convention on the Rights of the Child, the
association AL KARAM made its application its
business: by lobbying on the level of local and
national political institutions, and by its daily
work with the children and their families. It is
all about reintegrating the children into society,
about sensitizing and preparing them for all the
risks they can be confronted with: minors work,
begging, sexual transmittable diseases, moral
and physical exploitation...
AL KARAM’s operation
Manpower :
In the four centers (among them three centers of
accommodation), AL KARAM has 33 employees, four
of whom are delegated by Safi’s local administration.
Two administrative coordinators (among them the
“National Coordinator”, based in Marrakech), two
accountants, one secretary, ten educators, one social
assistant, one responsible for the placement in
employments and professional education and four
animators are full-time employees. One carrier, three
cooks, two cleaners, three night-guardians, one
gardener and one psychologist are working half-time
for the association.
The association’s administration consists of the
President, the Vice-President, the Secretary General,
the treasurer and one consultant. Those five members
are the association’s representatives towards other
institutions and are charged with the recruiting of new
funds, the essential decisions and the moral and
financial reports.
Locations:
Safi's Prefecture provides the association an ancient
palace of a Pasha, that is up to now the advisory and
accommodation center for the intern and extern
children. In Marrakech, the Prefecture pays the rent
for the boys’ accommodation center, where also the
administration is located. Different landlords as well
as the proper funds of AL KARAM help financing the
advisory center in the ancient medina, the girls’
accommodation center is provided by the “Moroccan
League for the children’s protection”. Before the end
of 2008, the construction of a new youth center should
have started. This center will offer the capacity for 40
intern boys and girls. The building lot has been placed
at the association’s disposal by the institution of AL
OMRANE, the construction costs (more the 3 million
Dirhams) will mainly be paid by the INDH and other
supporters.
Funds:
In 2007, AL KARAM’s resources came from private
donations (72,31%), international organizations
(16,88%) and French and Moroccan associations
(6,82%). Public subsidies did not exceed 4% (The
Prefectures, the Ministry for Families’ and Children’s
Affairs and the National Aid).
Nevertheless is to note, that also the government
contributes to his conventions of the partnership.
The Ministry of Health provides free access to
medical supply
The Ministry for Youth aids sportive
infrastructures, camps and soon will also
support kindergartens
Reintegration
into
Approach In
The Streets
Family
Contacting
School
Listening
Profession
Listening
Sensitizing
Open Air
Activities
Assistance in
Children’s
accommodation in
the centers
Accommodation
Orientation
Aftercare
Familial
Activities
Academic
Professional
Medical
Affairs
Judicial
Affairs
Administrative
Affairs
F
or certain children, the streets are nothing but a
workplace, for others they are their home. By
and by, they often become a place of freedom,
without rules and bondages. The more time a child
spends on the streets and the better he/she manages
his/her daily life, the harder it becomes to leave this
milieu.
Street work is executed by the educators in about 10
districts, day and night, 6 to 7 days a week, in the
ancient medina: The Place Jemaa El Fna, the gardens
of the Koutoubia Mosque, the “Avenue des Princes”
Aârsat Mâach, Bab Doukkala (bus station), Bab El
Khmis, Sidi Youssef Ben Ali (Douar Dlam).
These places are very touristy. 60% of the children
contacted by the association are concentrated in areas
where they beg. There they also sell every kind of
objects like handkerchiefs, flowers, bonbons,
cigarettes, etc. The children, working on the Place
Jemaa El Fna earn about 50 to 100 DIRHAMS per day
and the same phenomenon can be seen in the
“Nouvelle Ville”, Gueliz, Bab Jdid and the car park of
Marjane, a huge supermarket.
The contact places in Safi are: the bus station,
the port, the weekly market “Tnin”, the central
market, the promenade, the ancient medina, the
“Nouvelle Ville”, the districts of Kawki, Corss and
Biada, the surroundings of the hospital Okba and the
flea market. The majority of these places offer
financial resources for the children, or they can work
with the fishermen (cleaning fish...), sell bags or
cigarettes, etc.
Numbers of Approach on the streets
in 2007:
Approach on the streets 2007
120
107
100
Child laborers and « petites bonnes »
Girls
15
Boys
107
Diverse Works
Girls
28
Boys
46
Begging
Girls
15
Boys
39
Sniffing
Girls
00
Boys
42
Elopement and vagabondage
Girls
64
Boys
240
80
N umb er
60
46
39
40
20
42
28
15
15
6
0
0
Girls
6
Boys
Sit uat i o n o n t he st r eet s
Child labo rer and "petites bo nes"
diverse wo rks
begging
sniffing
elo pement and vagabo ndage
Gi r l s c o nt a c t e d o n t he st r e e t s i n 2 0 0 7 S A FI
B oy s c on t a c t e d on t he st r e e t s i n 2 0 0 7
S AFI
Children contacted
on the streets
0%
15%
Children contacted
on the streets
0%
36%
Old
Old
NU
50%
50%
35%
New
14%
New
Numbers of contacted children in Safi in 2007
Girls
Boys
22
93
Old cases:
New cases:
Girls
Boys
Girls
Boys
65
06
Age: 10 to 17 years
28
16
On
meetings on
to propose
centers and
with them.
The extern children
benefit from activities taking
place in the daytime and
return to their families every
night.
Staying
at
the
association over the day
allows them leave the streets,
makes
them
tell
other
children in the same parlous
situation about the possibility
of spending their time there,
attending school and taking
part in activities provided by
the educational team, such as
homework help, drawing,
sports, etc. They also have
lunch and tea at the
association.
Intern Girls:
Intern Boys:
Extern Girls:
Extern Boys:
Intern Children Total:
Extern Children Total:
the occasions of the
the streets, the objective is
the children to join the
to discuss this possibility
The centers are a first place for
the child so stay apart from the street
and his/her family and some sort of
neutral terrain. This neutrality might
allow him/her to express him/herself
with confidence, to tell his/her story, to
express
his/her
fears
and/or
difficulties to one of the responsible
educators. Sometimes also the families
are invited, with or without their
children, to offer them a forum for
speech and listening, too. The advisory
center is equally a place for activities,
homework and being watched and
supervised in every kind of errands.
Most of the girls are former
“petites bonnes”, often have lost contact
to their proper families and might have
been abused by their employers.
Most of the boys have been
maltreated by their familial and social
contacts. Often, they have been victim of
economic exploitation.
All
the
children
in
the
association’s responsibility benefit from
the possibility of restoring and washing
themselves and their clothes and
receiving help in school, medical and
official affairs, etc.
48
42
20
47
90
67
Children accom odated in the centers of
AL KARAM in Marrakech 2007
Extern Boys
30%
Extern Girls
13%
Intern Girls
Intern Boys
Intern Girls
30%
Intern Boys
27%
Extern Girls
Extern Boys
The intern children are
staying at the association as
temporary solution while waiting
for their reintegration to the family
(or
another
solution,
e.g.
orphanage). The association has in
no case the mission to house the
children for a long term.
The activities are also
supposed to create a confidential
relationship between the child and
the educators, to establish a clear
progression of the situation of the
child and to strengthen the children
mentally.
Children accommodated in the centers of
AL KARAM in Safi:
Interns Total
New Interns
Boys
Girls
Boys
Girls
22
13
Externs Total
5
7
New Externs
Boys
73
Boys
Girls
56
Girls
Children Intern Total:
Children Extern Total:
19
31
47
139
the administrative steps are
executed in cooperation with the
child and the family.
Medical Assistance
Medical
Assistance
consists of a complete analysis of
the health status of the child,
routine and individual checkups
and access to urgent treatment if
necessary.
The
association
has
developed a partnership with the
“Delegation of Health”, that allows
the beneficiaries to profit from free
access to the public health services.
This Medical Assistance is
essential and executed for every
new child joining the association,
in order to know their status of
health and any violence that they
might have been exposed to,
mainly sexual and corporal abuse.
Juridical Assistance
This
rarely
executed
assistance aims at the judicial
support of the child and his/her
family. It is executed by the
educational team and a voluntary
lawyer. It consists of collecting
reports on the life and/or possible
abuse of the children, the victim’s
and the family’s orientation
towards psychological help, the
child’s sensitizing about his
fundamental rights and their
observation, the accompaniment in
the process of plaint and
sometimes of the role as joint
plaintiff.
Administrative
Assistance
The team examines the
administrative status of the child.
The child is informed and guided
all
the
way
through
the
administrative effort, in order to
receive the “Etat Civil”, the first
step of Moroccan citizenship. The
following necessary procedures
are executed in cooperation with
the child, so that he/she is slowly
guided
to
administrative
autonomy. If the family is known,
Assistance in Marrakech 2007
Assistance in Safi 2007
45
8
40
7
35
6
30
25
Girls
20
Boys
5
4
15
3
10
2
5
1
0
0
Juridical and
administrative
Assistance
Medical Assistance
In Court
Boys
Juridical, administrative and medical
Assistance in Marrakech
Juridical and Administrative
Assistance
Girls
39
Boys
28
Total
67
Police
Medical Assistance
Girls
Boys
Total
11
20
31
Gendarmerie
Girls
Juridical and administrative Assistance in
Safi
In Court
Girls
Boys
Girls
7
7
Police
Girls
Boys
Medical Assistance and Orientation
70
Boys
1
1
48
The aim is to reintegrate the isolated and/or exploited child into society by reintegration into school and/or a
professional education. These possibilities might allow the child to recover his autonomy in development such as a
liberty of choice and the ability of dealing with it.
T
he responsibility for the
children stays with the
association only for the
duration of their reintegration into
their own or a substitution family,
what is and stays the fundamental
objective. On behalf of the children
and their well-being, the final
return into their original family or
the unit of a host family is
executed by the mobilization and
the
sensitizing of the adults,
concerning their part as educators
and parents. At the children’s
arrival at the association, the team
initiates the following actions:
Analysis
and
understanding
of
the
child’s situation without
judgment
Analysis of the familial
situation, constant visits
and contacts with the
family,
psychosocial
analysis of the family
Preparing the child for the
reintegration
into
the
family.
This
part
is
executed in cooperation
with the family in order to
support the child’s life. It
is an important step
towards the reintegration.
The final reintegration
takes place once both the child and
the family are ready for it. After a
reintegration, the team has to
assure regular aftercare. This
aftercare is being assured for one
year after the reintegration and is
executed case by case.
the relationship between the child
and the family or for preparing the
integration in the future. This aims
at the family’s implication for the
child’s favor, and equally at the
evaluation of the family’s financial
status, who sometimes considers
their children as a source of
incomes. It is all about sensitizing
the families for the children’s
rights as they are noted in the
Convention on the Rights of the
Child and about the dangers
related with the worst forms of
child labor.
Fam ilial Integration Marrakech
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
In the urgent cases, the
team visits the families up to three
times a week, in the so-called
“normal” cases, they are visited
once a week.
The families are followed
during all the way of the
reintegration, either for following
Familial
Integration
Integration
into the
inMarrakech children's
home
Boys
Girls
Social Integration Safi
2007
Social Integration Safi 2007
12
Familial Integration:
Familial Integration:
Girls
Boys
Girls
Boys
10
8
Social Integration Marrakech
2007
11
10
31
23
6
4
2
0
Boys
Gir ls
Integration into the
children’s home:
Integration into the children’s
home:
Boys
Girls
Boys
1
Number of children integrated into their families
1
4
Number of children integrated into the children's home
Professional placement
Academic Reintegration
T
he academic (re)integration concerns children between 7 and
15 years of age. They are – depending on their former
education – enrolled in formal or nonformal education in order
to avoid a further lack of education.
The objective is to assure the complete integration, consisting of regular school
attendance, successful studying and particularly the detection of pleasure in
learning.
The children receive free material such as books and pens and they are freed
from the inscription fee. Children not having attended school for less then
three months are due to a partnership with the delegation of inscription and
the directors of the schools inscribed directly to the formal education, children
not having attended school for more than one year are proposed to inscribe to
the nonformal education in order to reach a sufficient level for reinscription
for formal education.
he association contacted the
delegations of several public
organisms in order to
establish a cooperation and
a
strategy
for
the
professional introduction,
education and integration of the
adolescents.
T
Certain
children
whose
educational level reached or
exceeded the level of the 6th year
primary school could benefit
from a professional education
during 2 years.
Key Numbers 2007 Marrakech
Educational system
Numbers
Formal educational system:
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Girls
Boys
Total
25
26
51
Nonformal educational system:
Formal
education
girls
Formal
education
boys
Nonformal
education
girls
Activities
Key Numbers 2007 Safi
Formal educational system:
Girls
Boys
Total
06
15
21
Nonformal educational system:
Nonformal
education
boys
Girls
Boys
Total
05
77
82
systém e scolaire Safi 2007
20
18
16
14
12
NFE
10
8
6
4
FE
2
0
Boys
Girls
The projects realized or running in order to eliminate the
worst forms of exploitation of street children in Safi and
Marrakech in 2007
The elimination of the worst forms of exploitation of the street children in Safi
and Marrakech in cooperation with the International Labour Organisation (IPEC)
a) The activities objectives and
placement:
This program aims at two
principal objectives, depending on
the child’s age:
Taking
the
isolated
children younger than 14 years
living in/on the streets off the
labor market by sensitizing the
child’s
social
surroundings,
supporting a familial reunification,
accommodating the child and
integrating him/her into school.
Taking
the
minor
adolescents off the most dangerous
forms
of
exploitation
and
integrating them into qualifying
professional educations in a
protected environment in order to
make them economically stable.
into their family and accompanied
in this often difficult process of
reintegration.
b) The activities results:
At the end of the project, 300
children in Safi and Marrakech
have been taken off a dangerous
work. 80% of them have been
sensitized,
i.e.
240
children
younger than 14 years have been
integrated into a formal or
nonformal education. 20% of the
children, i.e. 60 adolescents older
than 14 years have been supported
in professional integration
At the end of the project, the
association AL KARAM will have
worked out a general strategy for
the fight against the exploitation
and the social marginalization of
the abandoned children in Safi and
Marrakech.
Safi’s and Marrakech’s population
will be informed and sensitized
about child labor, especially about
the
most
dangerous
forms
concerning
the
abandoned
children.
At the project’s end, 10 families
received psychological support on
the occasion of the child’s
reintegration.
75% of the children, i.e. 180
children, have been reintegrated
Achievements by the end of 2007
930 children have been contacted
by the association, among them
- 170 working under bad
conditions
- 356 exploited in different
professions
- due to several campaigns of
information effected by the
association (on the radio, in school,
in several quarters, on TV) and our
partnership with justice, 400
children have been orientated
towards the association before
being exploited in any form.
The team has inscribed 396
children into school and provided
them the necessary material. The
inscription into the formal system
is difficult, but the association has
found alternatives. The team
managed to inscribe 73 children,
among them 30 without education
adequate the 6th year of primary
school, into the education at the
“Rabitat llhirafyn” (organization of
artisans) and other cooperating
artisans. 43 children have been
Children contacted by AL KARAM
930
Child work under bad conditions
170
Economically exploited children
356
Academic integration
396
Familial integration
192
Professional education
73
a) The activity’s objective:
The general objective was to offer
the children living in the center in
Safi (an old palace of a pasha,
provided
by
the
local
administration)
better
living
conditions, especially by:
Creating an acceptable
area for outdoor-activities in the
palmery, the orchard and the
garden, that had to be cleaned and
restructured.
Constructing a terrace
behind the house, useful for games
and meals.
Improving access to the
pool and the daily ways of the
children.
Recultivating 600m² of idle
field and constructing an area for
sensitizing the senses (sight, sense of
smell, savor) in four sections: local
plants, eatable and cactus plants,
odorous plants, medical plants and
spices.
Regiving a use and an
interest to the orchard and the
vegetables garden and producing
fruit and vegetables for the center.
This project made it possible to
unite 12 French adolescents
attending the horticultural and
landscaping “Lycée Notre Dame
des jardins” and being in great
difficulties
(familial,
social,
academic and/or affective) and 11
Moroccan adolescents, excluded
from their families and their social
surroundings and parented by the
association AL KARAM.
b) The activity’s realization:
inscribed with the help of the
OFPTT (office for professional
education and promotion of work)
and the association ADIA, the
artisans’ chamber.
The project PCM (Programme
Concerté Maroc) has started with
AL KARAM in April in order to
help the adolescents with their
inscription in a professional
education, taking 3 years.
International solidarity construc
International and the horticul
Supervised by three French
teachers and four Moroccan
educators the project was realized.
The adolescents were motivated,
interested and proud of their work.
Pride that found its peak in the
official inauguration by the town’s
prefect in the presence of about 30
people, representing the local
authorities and the partners of the
project.
Furthermore, all the members of
the
French-Moroccan
Group
received certificates from Auteil
International, handed over by the
officials.
Coevally with constructing, the
group turned a movie about the
progress of the field. It shows the
different states, starting with the
first day and finishing with the
inauguration. The video-diary was
moderated by the adolescents
themselves.
At the same time, AL KARAM
organized
activities
in
the
afternoon: Soccer matches, walks,
beach-activities, workshops of
pottery, visit of the tree nursery,
etc.
During three weekend trips the
adolescents discovered the country
and its traditions:
In Safi, they visited the ancient
medina, the Souk, the Portuguese
monuments, the potters’ hill, etc.
In Marrakech, they toured the
“Jardin Majorelle”, the ancient
medina and several other gardens.
Finally Essaouira, former Modagor,
a little bathing resort 30 km north
of Safi on the Atlantic Coast, was
visited.
In the evenings there were group
activities as well, e.g. festive
moments with a traditional
Moroccan music group and the
collective viewing of the World
Cup in an associational ambience.
Finally, there is another project
intended within the two following
years, in order to terminate the
works
of
overhauling
the
basement of the house and
transform it into a room for group
activities. This project is also going
to be executed in cooperation with
Auteuil International.
Holiday camp aided by the “Fondation d’Auteuil”
a) The project’s objectives:
Offering 40 boys and girls of 7 to 17 years of age the
possibility of:
Leaving their daily isolation and taking part in
the provided collective activities,
Sharing moments of the conviviality of games,
Strengthening the mutual trust with the
educators,
Sharing everyday life with the group (washing
clothes, dishes...) by respecting common rules and
the other participants,
Discovering other cultures,
Working with different educators with another
cultural background,
Changing the rhythm of life and leaving for
holidays,
Helping with the organization of group activities
and everyday life.
Giving the French and the Moroccan educators the
possibility of:
Exchanging experiences,
Reflecting educational practices,
Improving their relations,
Taking part in a theoretical training on the
acquaintance of the child and pedagogical
activities.
b) The activities:
Overseen by six French educators, six educators of AL
KARAM, a French instructor and two chiefs of the camp
(one Moroccan, one French), the 40 children, split in 3
groups, took part in the following activities:
Sports: tournaments of soccer, swimming,
ball games,
Arts: kite flying, painting, drawing,
decoration, cooking, handworks,
Exp
ressi
on:
thea
ter,
stor
ytell
ing,
sing
ing,
dancing.
Group of the Oldest
Group of the Middle-aged
MOGADOUR
ATANMIYA
Group of the Youngest
ALIBTISAMA
Campaign of sexual education in cooperation with the
“Association de Lutte Contre le SIDA” (ALCS)
Beginning: October 2006
End: October 2007
O
ur association provided sex education
for children between 7 and 18 years of
age and their families, in order to
break the taboo on the relation of men and women,
which
is unfortunately still very strong in
Morocco. We want to minimize the risks for the
teenagers (infection with sexually transmitted
diseases, HIV, unwanted pregnancy) on the
occasion of their first sexual relations.
This campaign has taken place in schools in social
hot spot areas in Marrakech, but also in the centers
of AL KARAM. In order to continue the education
after the projects closing, there was, coeval with the
education, a program mounted for the formation of
“contact-children” and “contact-teachers”, who
were supposed to organize sessions of sex
education in their particular institutions.
Sensitized children in the schools
School
Number
Elbadiâ
Emoukef
Ben youssef
Sidi jaber
Oumlmoeminin
Ibn âachir
90
100
113
133
113
87
In the families
97
EU - commission’s initiative for democracy and human rights:
« Promotion des droits des enfants en situation précaire dans les rues de Marrakech »
“Promotion of the deprived children’s rights in the streets of Marrakech”
Beginning: October 2006
Direct beneficiaries of the
initiative:
Approximately 33800 people:
More than 6660 boys and girls
between 5 and 18 years of age
in precarious situation in
Marrakech:
- 2260 children living in/on
the streets, being informed of
their rights
End: October 2009
- 3000 children attending
schools in poor areas informed
of their rights
- More than 1400 minors
seized by the police seeing an
improved appliance of their
rights
More than 27156 adults having
regular contact with those
children are informed of the
children’s rights :
- More than 2000 families
- More than 100 teachers
- 56 associations
111 actors of justice and
police :
- 77 officers of the tourist
and the minors’ police
8 judges of the juvenile
and family court
26 persons responsible of
the children’s home and the
public Center of Safeguard
Anticipated
activities:
results
The adults are sensitized for
their responsibility for the
children.
The police and the other
juridical
authorities
are
sensitized for the importance
of respecting the rights of the
child in the performance of
their function.
and
The children are informed of
their rights and contacts in
case of their nonobservance.
25000 tourists
Anticipated results up to end of 2007
their rights (school, attendance,
health, free time, protection, etc.)
666 families have been sensitized
to the importance of conserving
the rights of their children, there
from 215 in group sessions and
The project, concerning the
numbers of sensitized children,
looks set to become a success,
told by today’s state. Hence, 769
children have been sensitized to
415 by accompanying the
educators on the different
errands (administrative, juridical,
medical,
academic
and
professional inscription, etc.),
q.v. the following chart.
Sensitizing of children in Marrakech 2007
Children sensitized in the streets
15%
45%
40%
Children sensitized in
the streets
Children cared for and
sensitized in the
advisory center
Children accomodated
and sensitized in the
centers of accomodation
Children cared for and sensitized in the
advisory center
Children accommodated and sensitized in
the centers of accommodation
351
311
117
Families sensitized in group sessions
215
Families sensitized during daily work on
the occasions of errands
451
Informally sensitized teachers
39
Aid to the professional placement of teenagers between 15 and 20 years of age
T
his subsidization has us been accorded by
the Programme Concerté Maroc (PCM), a
network
of
French
and
Moroccan
organizations and the French Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, and was possible due to the partnership and cafinancing of Auteuil International.
This project allows AL KARAM to assist teenagers
between 15 and 20 years of age with the definition of the
“project of their life”, with their errands of inscription
and education. One responsable for the project and all
the educators assist the teenagers until they found their
professional integration by moral support and training
in presenting themselves. The office of attendance
simplyfies the teenagers’ placement due to the relations
AL KARAM maintains with potential employers.
February 2007 – February 2009
I
n the context of a new project, the association
AL KARAM launches the professional
placement of young Moroccans between 15
and 25 years of age in difficult situation. It is, according
to our conception, about accompanying these
adolescents from Safi and Marrakech in precarious
situation to an employment. Our ambition is to
contribute to their development as autonomic agitating
human beings, conscious of their fundamental rights
and making them applied. The adolescents and young
adults attending this project of human development
benefit also from an accompaniment by the social
workers during their education.
The essential aim of our actions in this project is to
integrate the adolescents and young adults into a solidly
and social economic surrounding. They are
accompanied in searching or creating a job by our office
of placement.
Our work consists of the following bricks:
Attendance with the search for internships in
order to acquire further professional experience
Aid with professional placement by inscription
into different centers of professional education
Attendance with the search for employments
Children in formation
at the OFPPT
Participants in
professional
initiation in the
centers of AL
KARAM
Aftercare and regular contacts with the
adolescents and their employers
Children in formation Children in formation Children in formation
at an artisan
at the “Entraide
at the association
Nationale”
BAYTI
Girls
Boys
Girls
Boys
Girls
Boys
Girls
Boys
Girls
Boys
2
14
10
15
0
4
9
1
0
1
16
25
4
10
1
Campaign against child labour in artisanry
A
cooperation with the chamber of artisanry,
the
International
Labour
Organisation
(program IPEC), UNICEF and a network of
Moroccan organization for the protection of children
based in Marrakech.
The projects objectives are:
Taking children minor than 12 years off the work in
artisanry:
By sensitizing the parents and the artisans for
the children’s rights of education, protection
and formation ,
By inscribing them into the formal or
nonformal education,
By aftercare in order to avoid a new
exploitation
Integrating the children between 12 and 15 years of
age into specialized centers of nonformal education,
making up the academic level and initiating the
professional integration and education in compliance
with the Convention on the Rights of the Child
concerning the right of education.
Offering teenagers between 15 and 18 years better
working conditions:
By decreasing their working hours
By insisting on access to protective
clothing
By giving them access to regular medical
observance and sports
Rehabilitation and reintegration of children
victims of exploitation
Project : UNICEF, the Prefecture of Marrakech
and the association AL KARAM cooperate for
the period from June 2006 to December 2007
The program’s title: Rehabilitation and
reintegration of children victims of
exploitation
The project’s title: Strategic project of
prevention of and fight against the
maltreatment and the exploitation of children
in Marrakech
The objective
Preventing and protecting 200 children from the
risks of exploitation they face
145 children are supported in claiming their
fundamental rights (right of identity, right of
health)
100 children are rehabilitated in their right of
socio-economic development
Local plan for child protection in Marrakech from every kind of violence, abuse and exploitation
Plan of action 2007
Prevention of every kind of
violence, abuse and
exploitation of children in
Marrakech
Axis of intervention:
Strengthening and
amelioration of the
capacities of the
associations working in the
domain of childhood
Intended activities:
Organization of three
training-sessions for the
persons responsible on
organization and
management of the
associations
of the development of
children and teenagers
Objectives:
Giving the key to
understanding the
different occurred troubles
by understanding the steps
General knowledge of the
development and the
needs of children and the
problems of teenagers,
aided by a form of analysis
Becoming aware of the
troubles and deviant
behavior in connection
with life on the streets and
obtaining clear definitions
of this behavior and its
manifestation
Installation of structures of accompaniment of deprived
children’s parents
Why this project?
T
he parents’ incapability of
fulfilling their economic,
educational
and
psychological role stays among the
most frequent reasons for children
being left on their own service in
big cities, the abandonment of
children by their families and their
elopement from their familial
milieu.
The achieved status pushes the
project’s actors for intensification
of the families’ accompaniment. It
is difficult to finally reintegrate
children without changing the
circumstances that led to their
elopement or the abandonment by
their parents, both abrupt and
step-by-step. For this reason the
project accompanies the parents
and helps them with recovering
their dignity by giving them the
instruments of recovering their
roles as mother and father.
Which results?
The anticipated results of
the project are:
Which objectives?
The general objectives are:
Contributing
to
the
abatement of the number of
children in difficult situation in
-urban milieus.
Advancing the child’s
rights in Morocco.
Contributing
to
the
reduction of urban poverty.
Installing
instruments
of
accompaniment for the parents
concerning
their
economic
engagement. These instruments
are:
The organization of units of
alphabetization
and
the
overhauling of education: eight
units of alphabetization and
overhauling of education per year
are going to be organized, with 12
attendants per unit and the
duration of 14 weeks, i.e. 288
beneficiaries will be reached.
The organization of units of
professional education: 24 units
over three years, each during
about
four
months.
288
beneficiaries are going to be
reached.
Structures of accompaniment for
the
parents
concerning
the
educative and affective dimension
of their relationship to their
children are introduced and
consists of:
Inscription to kindergartens: a
kindergarten with the capacity of
20 children is going to be created
in Safi. Every child is going to visit
the kindergarten about nine
months, i.e. 80 children in three
years. In Marrakech, 30 children
are going to be inscribed into
private or public kindergartens, i.e.
120 children in three years.
Organization of trips with children
and parents: eight trips per year to
Marrakech and Safi, i.e. 24 over the
entire project. With 18 participants
per trip, always during an entire
day, 432 persons (children and
parents) are going to be reached.
Schedules of recapitulation of the activities in Marrakech in 2007
Activities
Girls
Boys
Total
Street work
64
240
304
Workshops
111
261
372
Holiday camp
15
25
40
Homework help
28
39
67
Familial integration
31
23
54
Sessions of listening
118
238
356
Integration formal education
25
26
51
Integration nonformal education
05
77
82
Juridical and administrative assistance
39
28
67
Professional integration
11
16
27
Medical assistance
11
20
31
Familial aftercare
82
62
144
Familial research
68
59
145
Activities with boys in Marrakech in 2007
2% 6%
1%
3%
7%
2%
5%
22%
23%
21%
2% 4% 2%
Streetwork
Holiday camp
Familial integration
Integration formal education
Jurudical and administrative assistance
Medical assistance
Familial research
Workshops
Homework help
Sessions of listening
Integration nonformal education
Professional integration
Familial aftercare
Activities with girls in Marrakech in 2007
11%
11%
13%
18%
2%
2%
6%
1%
4%
2%
5%
5%
20%
Streetwork
Holiday camp
Familial integration
Integration formal education
Juridical and administrative assistance
Medical assistance
Familial research
Workshops
Homework help
Sessions of listening
Integration nonformal education
Professional integration
Familial aftercare
Schedules of recapitulation of the activities in Safi in 2007
Activities
Girls
Boys
Total
Street work
22
93
115
Intern children
13
22
35
Extern children
56
74
130
Homework help
23
29
52
Familial integration
11
10
21
Sessions of listening
25
39
64
Integration formal education
06
15
27
Integration nonformal education
18
36
54
Juridical and administrative education
07
07
17
Professional education
02
03
05
Beneficiaries from psychological sessions
33
54
87
Familial aftercare
34
45
79
Medical assistance
12
11
23
Academic aftercare
30
38
68
Activities w ith boys in Safi in 2007
8%
9%
Activities with girls in Safi in 2007
20%
10%
12%
11%
8% 4%
19%
5%
1%
2%
16%
1%
8%
3% 8% 2%6%
Streetw ork
Intern children
Extern children
Homew ork help
Familial integration
Sessions of listening
Integration formal education
Integration nonformal education
Juridical and administrative assistance
Medical assistance
Professional integration
Beneficiaries from psychological sessions
Familial aftercare
Academic aftercare
11%
1%
4%
2%6% 2%
9% 4%
8%
Streetw ork
Intern children
Extern children
Homew ork help
Familial integration
Sessions of listening
Integration formal education
Integration nonformal education
Juridical and administrative assistance
Medical assistance
Professional integration
Beneficiaries from psychological sessions
Familial aftercare
Academic aftercare
Participation of the national
coordinator
and
the
administrative coordinator
in the meeting of the
program INDH (National
Initiative
for
Human
Development), 10.04.2007.
Participation of the president
and the administrative
coordinator in the congress
« La journée nationale de
l’enfant » (national day of
the child) with the topic
«Le plan d’action National
pour l’enfance 2006-2015,
Travaux d’une année» (the
action plan for the children
2006-2015, work of one
year), 24. to 26.05.2007.
Participation of 5 educators
in a training of animation
in Marrakech, 09. to
13.07.2007, organized by
Auteuil Internationale and
the center “Centre de
Savio”.
Participation of one educator
in a training in OUJDA, 02.
to 06.04.2007, organized by
the « Centre Français de
Protection de l’Enfance » as
part of the fourth session of
formation of social workers
in Morocco.
Participation
of
two
educators and one trainee
in a seminar of exchange
from 26.03. to 02.04.2007, in
cooperation with Auteuil
International
(foyer
Maximilien Kolbe), and the
association “Enfants du
Monde
–
Droits
de
l’Homme” (Children of the
world – Human Rights).
Participation of one educator
in a study on child laborers
with the “Chamber of
artisanat”
and
in
cooperation with UNICEF
and IPEC. of one educator
Participation
in a training for trainers in
Tanger from 19.10. to
26.10.2007 on the topic
“children in precarious
situation”, organized by
Auteuil Internationale.
Participation
of
four
educators in a formation in
Tanger from 21.10. to
26.10.2007 on the topic
“children in precarious
situation”, organized by
Auteuil Internationale.
Participation
in
two
formations
for
social
workers of the unit of
protection, organized by
UNICEF
and
the
Department of Youth and
Family in May and June.
Participation of the president
in a meeting organized by
the European Union in
Rabat the 22.06.2007.
Organization of a formation
for the social workers of
the chamber of artisans as
a part of a project in
cooperation with IPEC
Morocco and UNICEF
from 17. to 19.10.2007.
Participation
of
three
educators in a formation
on the tools of SCREAM,
organized
by
IPEC
Morocco, from 19. zo
23.10.2007.
Outings to the leisure parks ELDORADOR and
MARMARA.
Participation of one educator
in a study with the national
observatory of the child’s
rights on this topic on the
20.11.2007.
Participation of the president
and the administrative
coordinator in a annual
congregation in Casablanca
with the responsible of the
project PCM Maroc and
two responsible members
of its office, the association
“Heure Joyeuse” and the
responsible
of
Auteil
Internationale
charged
with the projects in
Organization
Morocco. of a solidarity
construction project with
Belgians from 13. to
27.08.2007 in order to
renovate
the
advisory
center in the ancient
medina in Marrakech.
Participation of the president
in a study day organized
by the Department of the
Interior concerning the
INDH (National Initiative
for Human Development)
on the 14.11.2007.
Intervention of the president
and one educator on the
topic of minors in familial
difficulties, organized with
Spaniards of the program
Katalounia
the
23./24.11.2007.
Participation of the president
and the coordinator from
Safi
in
the
second
anniversary of the INDH.
The different participations of the responsible of
AL KARAM’s office of placement in seminars,
congregations and formations by the
« Programme Concerté Maroc » (PCM) in 2007
14./15.04.2007:
MOSAIC
OF
HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT, seminar of exchange and
dialogue between the actors of PCM
12./13.03.2007: First workshop of strengthening
the capacities of the members of PCM:
Identification of the needs of the Moroccan
Youth: which instruments are to install? (Centre
National des Sports Moulay Rachid)
20.05.2007, Safi: Exchange of ideas about FAIR
(Aid fund for regional initiative)
29.06. to 01.07.2007, Tétouan: Seminar on youth
and education
Congregation of exchange and dialogue
between the actors of PCM
Workshop on « How to articulate one’s aims in
the context of PCM »
13./14.07.2007, Safi: Workshop for a strategy of
the area « Centre Sud » of PCM
26. to 28.10.2007, Rabat: Participation of the
association AL KARAM with a stand in the
assembly of the associations organized in the
PCM
Animation of the forum of youth of PCM
Congregation on the access to jobs for
adolescents: Role of the social and solidly
economy in Morocco
Participation in the general assembly of PCM
Presentation
of AL KARAM’s project
« Professional placement of adolescents in
difficult situation » in front of the general
assembly of PCM
Earnings report 2007
PRODUCT
Productivity Bonus
TOTAL
Sale of goods
1 500,00
Subventions by the government
ALCS
Auteuil Internationale
AMADE
Other incomes
112 750,00
23 087,00
450 310,28
84 008,14
107 928,44
Incomes by paid debts
7 050,00
Donations by associations / companies
3 800,00
Donations by individuals
37 680,75
Donations in kind by associations / companies
19 106,00
Earmarked donations by associations / companies
327 955,35
Transfer of noncurrent charges
636 202,50
Remittance CNSS for the salaried
Transfer of funds from account to account
Transfer of funds from cash box to cash box
TOTAL OF PRUDUCTS
Earnings report 2007
6 464,00
70 167,32
5 174,31
1893 184,09
CHARGE
Purchase of material and accouterment
Purchase of water and current
Fuel
Purchase of cleaning supplies and sanitary products
Purchase of vehicles and spare parts
Purchase of little tools and equipment
Purchase of office equipment
Clothes
Purchase of nutrition
Purchase of material for studies
Gifts for the children
Purchase of medicine
Aid for families (rent, clothes…)
Purchase of material for earlier exercises
Other & extern charges
Rent for buildings
Rent for material and tools
Rent for means of transport
Maintenance and repair of buildings
Maintenance and repair of vehicles
Insurances
TOTAL
27 296,56
25 136,02
5 282,50
1 499,50
41 576,95
8 226,80
16 897,20
62 469,08
14 597,12
2 070,00
6 804,05
31 425,00
61 972,10
School fees
Transport of the staff
Transport of the children
Fees for juridical and medical dossiers
Other Transports
Individual journeys
Mission abroad
Outings and pleasures for the children
Drugs, Hammams for the children
Communication: Advertisement / Publication
Mail charges
Telephone
Telex / Internet
Different charges
Bank charges
Taxes
Taxes for earlier exercises
Personnel costs
Remuneration of staff
Social insurance contribution
Other social charges
Other charges of exploitation
Other charges of exploitation
Transfer of non current charges
Loans
Transfers of funds from account to account
Transfers of funds from cash box to cash box
Bail
39 294,00
18 892,50
18 262,60
1 763,50
13 165,12
1 320,00
18 310,36
3 408,65
2 055,00
23 909,00
2 922,11
59 375,85
5 371,22
16 500,00
502,62
TOTAL OF CHARGES
Ackknowledgements
to our partners
80 350,00
700,00
12 382,00
10 218,15
2 615,52
14 603,16
160,00
639 942,52
86 735,56
2 653,00
100,00
36 590,00
34 500,00
155 149,94
23 640,54
1 000,00
1631 645,80
Moroccan and foreign
associations:
The media:
The Moroccan authorities:
The association "Lutte Contre
le SIDA" (Fight against AIDS),
Association KeepSmiling,
Association Alkaramaide,
Associations Tadamone, Bayti,
Nakhil, Ahli, Darna, Angel.
The "Ligue Marocaine pour la
protection de l’Enfance" (Moroccan
league for child protection),
SOS children’s village, the Rotaract,
The Festival Trans-méditerranée
and the Forum of Grimaldi,
The French Center of child
protection,
The Institut Français.
The delegations of Health,
of Education, of National Help, of
Sports and Youth, of Justice, of
Artisanry, of the OFPPT, the
secretaries of the Family, of
Childhood, of the Handicapped,
the Wilaya (prefecture), the
municipalities of Marrakech and
Safi, its districts and the police of
the two
The
cities. INDH
(National
Initiative
for
Human
Development), the Chamber of
Artisanry.
The foundations:
The International Labour
Office (program IPEC), UNICEF,
the Commission of the EU for the
project of sensitization,
The Arab Office of Childhood,
The "Programme Concerté Maroc"
for the professional placement of
the adolescents, The Monegasque
Cooperation.
"Fondation
d’Auteuil",
"Fondation Orient-Occident",
"Fondation Jet Energy" (for the
marathon),
"Fondation Mohammed V" for the
solidarity, that kindly offered us a
car for the functioning of our
association,
the
"Observatoire
National des Droits de l’Enfant"
(National Inspection of the right of
the child).
The
international
organizations:
The following newspapers
for their articles: "Le Monde",
"Libération",
"Sayidati",
"M
Magazine",
"l’Opinion",
"Aujourd’hui Maroc", "Sahifa",
"Nissaa Maghrib", "Al Charq Al
The following channels: "RTM",
Aoussat".
"2M", "M6", "Arte",…
The following radio stations :
"Radio Marrakech", "Radio France
International"
The companies:
The
"Hypermarché
Marjane" and the supermarket
"Acima" for the collections and the
boxes at the cash desks, the
confectionery "AYMANE", the
hotels "Eldorador" and "Marmara".
The forwarder "ALSA", the Club
KACM, Méditel, McDonalds
The individuals, becoming more
and more, for their donations and
donations in kind (clothes, games,
school and office material, …),
especially
Mr. SAID NACIRI,
artist of the year chosen by the
children of AL KARAM, Mr. JEAN
PIERRE FABIENI from "Secours
Populaire"
and
the
master
KSSIKESS.
In the name of all the children, the members and the staff of the association, we
thank all the persons and organizations
organizations who helped us by reaching our today’s status.
The honorary president HRH the
princess Lalla Meriem
Member of the
office
Service
Salaried
Delegated by the
government
Salaried
Social Service
Project IPEC
Maroc
- Baha Zahra
- Kioukiou
Fatima
- Smili Hassna
- Zouine
Abderrahim
Social
Assistant
- Joumhand
Khadija
Salaried
Volunteers
Team of
animation
Logistic team
- Mkika Karima
- Mkika Soraya
- Taoufik Meryem
- Hadoud Rachida
- Guertaoui Fatima
ezzahra
Volunteers
Social Service
Educators by
projects
Administration
- Abid Ouidad
- Amina Ihenib
(projet AMAD)
- Nazha Agourya
- Ouadam Nadia
- Rafiâ Aziza
- Palamino Mohamed
- Lgabouchi Fatima
- Khadi Amina
- Ghanbouri Latifa
- Drif Tamo
- Bouchouir Mina
- Lmrini Lghlimi
EU-Project
- Abid Hind
- Aboukarim
Ahmed
- Jomhand
Khadija
Psychologist
- El harkaoui
Abdelhamid
Project Fight
against AIDS
- Elamri Abdelilah
Night
Watchmen
- Elhaitami
Azddine
- Salmani Fatna
- Sanae ouadjou
- Zine El abidine
Benaziz
- Smili Oumhani
- Aicha Zine
Project PCM
- Elamri
Abdelilah
- Zouine
Abderrahim
Project
Chamber of
Artisanry
- Baha Zahra
Educators
Al Karam
- Benchaib
monsef
- Belmadani
Hicham
Responsible
of the Office
of Placement
- Haddane
Nadia
- Molay
Mustapha Benisi
Current List
We thank very much all the members of the team of AL KARAM and appreciate
their engagement.