Mohammed VI national center for people with special needs

Pursuant to instructions by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity built, in Salé, the Mohammed VI national center for people with special needs.

The center is meant to be a multifunctional facility designed to serve people with special needs. It is a cooperative project involving the Ministry of Health, the department in charge of people with special needs as well as the institutional and civil society actors concerned.

The Mohammed VI national center for people with special needs is a medical, educational and social institution which aims to:

• Provide medical, educational and social services to children and teenagers with special needs
• Provide services to adults and families of children and teenagers with special needs
• Work jointly with institutions targeting similar objectives
• Offer advice, assistance and management services with respect to disease detection and prevention, observation, reception, checkups, education, vocational training, employment and educational initiatives in a favorable environment for children and teenagers with special needs
• Promote services for the benefit of children and teenagers with special needs, as well as research activities
• Take part in initiatives and activities seeking similar objectives, namely in partnership with like-minded NGOs and institutions
• Foster solidarity with children and teenagers with special needs, particularly through the promotion of social work
• Participate in actions targeting social, educational, economic, professional and cultural objectives likely to contribute to the integration and empowerment of people with special needs;
• Contribute to the training and in-service-training of the center’s staff.

The center’s activities concern four main axes revolving around a central administration :

• Social and educational sector
• Medical and social sector
• Training sector
• Sports sector

On November 1, 2008, His Majesty King Mohammed VI, may God be with him, inaugurated, in Safi, the “Mohammed Karim Lamrani” regional branch of the Mohammed VI national center for people with special needs

The Safi center, built by the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity, falls within the framework of the decentralized actions carried out by the Mohammed VI national center for people with special needs. The center is part of a network of similar institutions all over the country that are designed to be close to citizens’ needs.

The Safi center, “Mohammed Karim Lamrani” regional branch, is meant to serve as a regional medical, educational, social and professional center. It is designed to rally NGOs seeking to achieve the integration of people with special needs.

The center contributes to expertise and capacity building to guarantee socio-educational and professional integration through partnership among different actors and openness to the outside environment.