National programme of Vocational Training

The Foundation’s proximity policy towards concerned populations has shed light on the need to complete the solidarity chain to follow up economic actions to facilitate beneficiary integration.

As for people with special needs, the Foundation’s actions have no more been confined to basic training, given the degree of difficulties people with special needs undergo to integrate into the job market.

In partnership with all its partners, and particularly with the OFPPT, Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity has launched an ambitious programme of qualifying vocational training in a mixed environment as to activities economically accessible to people with special needs.

Such programme forecasts the creation of 10 regional rehabilitation centers in different regions of Morocco (Tangier, Rabat, Settat, Casablanca, Oujda, Laayoune, Fez, Agadir, Marrakech), whose budgeted cost has been estimated at 108 million MAD jointly financed by Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity and the OFPPT. Such center is Settat-based and already operational.

Center building and arranging :

People with special physical needs:

Building Ibn Baytar center in Khemissat:

• Such center has been operating for four years and its cost has been raised to 11.7 million MAD. It helps 138 children carry on their studies, all while benefiting from appropriate supervision, arrangements and equipments they need in their reeducation (swimming pools, prosthesis workshops, physiotherapy and orthotics rooms, etc).
• A new center in Safi has been created with a boarding capacity of 40 persons. It has been designed to both be in charge  resident people with special needs and provide them with appropriate treatments for reeducation, physiotherapy and psychomotor therapy for active people with special needs in the region.   Such center further includes a workshop of training on adapted branches, as well as a show-room to market produced material. The budgeted cost of such projected has been estimated at 11.9 million MAD.
• The Foundation has arranged and equipped a reeducation center for children and adults with special needs in Smara (cost: 0.77 million MAD).
• Within the (operational) complex of Hanane association to protect children with special needs in Tetouan, a new room has been built for sport, artistic and cultural activities (cost: 1.88 million MAD).

People with seeing problems:

• 3 operational centers have been created in Fez, Meknes and Troudant (Moulay Hassan center), benefitting 360 girls and boys, at a construction and equipment cost of 19.6 million MAD.
• The expansion and rearrangement of the center’s boarding capacity has cost 2 million MAD.
• Arranging and equipping the Temara center has cost 1.4 million MAD.

People with hearing and speaking problems:

• Enhancing the boarding capacity of Ouarzazate center by building dormitories, multidisciplinary rooms and other arrangements has cost 1.4 million MAD.
• Building Al Hoceima center has cost 2.2 million MAD.

Mentally impaired people:

• The Foundation has created a new center of accommodation and treatment of homeless people with special needs in Essaouira (50 beneficiaries). Such center has been medically supervised by the Ministry of Health and has cost 1.7 million MAD, jointly financed by MAMDA-MCMA and Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity with 300.000 MAD.

Improving the approach to reintegrate people with special needs and support to create income generating activities:

The assessment of the Foundation-driven actions up to now, serving people with special needs has demonstrated how useful it is to keep endeavoring for a better integration of such layer of the population. Training people with special needs has actually been designed in a way to take into account economic constraints, and eventually enhance job creation and low-investment small businesses.

In this context, the Foundation has launched, in Mrirt, the city of Khenifra, the construction and equipment of a center to train and qualify 20 people with special needs on clothing industry and marketing of local carpets (Mrabtia).