In the frame of the humanitarian actions carried out on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan, Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity, on a yearly basis, distributes food baskets to the deprived.

The “Ramadan” humanitarian action is a strong testimony of Foundation’s continuous close care of the deprived, translating generous acts of all Moroccans, which demonstrate their attachment to their religious, cultural and historical values.

The Ramadan action is meant to help deprived people, namely widows, old people and people with special needs.
Such action annually benefits about 2.34 million people within 467.000 households across 71 provinces partitioned as follows:

• 407.883 households in rural areas (more than 2 million beneficiaries)
• 59.177 households in urban areas (about 300.000 beneficiaries)

Such households receive one basket, for each, full of 10 kilos of flour, 2 sugar loaves, 5 liters of salad oil, 250 grams of tea, at a unity value estimated at 130 MAD per basket.

The total food supply distributed has reached 4670 tons of flour, 1868 tons of sugar, 116.75 tons of tea, and 467.000 5-liter cans of oil.

The global cost of the operation, every year, reaches about 60 million MAD, partitioned as follows:

• The General Directorate of Local Authorities: 30 million MAD
• The Ministry of Habous and Islamic Affairs: 12.5 million MAD

• Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity: 17.5 million MAD

More than 5.000 people have come together to carry out such operation in the best possible way.

They have come from different departments, support, as usual, by volunteers; students in the Foundation’s volunteering network, from:

Al Akhawayne University, l’Institut Supérieur du Commerce et de l’Administration des Entreprises (ISCAE), alongside members of Solidarity Clubs created within secondary and high schools in the Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaer region.

To better manage such operation, two committees have been made up at the provincial levels, namely:

Provincial committee:

• Delegate of National Mutual Aid organization, as President
• “Nadir” representative of the Ministry of Habous and Islamic Affairs 
• Delegate of the Ministry of Health
• Chairman of the economic and social division of the province or Wilaya [Governorate]
• Representative of the General Directorate of Social Services of the Royal Armed Forces
• Representative of the Royal National Guards
• A benefactor suggested by the President

Local Committee:

• The School principal, President
• Representative of the local authority
• Representative of the Royal National Guards
• The mosque Imam
• Representative of the Ministry of Health
• Representative of Agriculture and Rural Development or of the National Office of Drinking Water (ONEP)
• A benefactor

The whole operation is regularly subjected to internal and external control wherein participate the Professional Consortium of Banks in Morocco, National Treasury, and Bank Al Maghrib.