For the reintegration of children in precarious situations

The time was for celebration, this Saturday, at the Shems'y Sidi Moumen Centre under the Moroccan Association for Aid to Children in Precarious Situations (AMESIP), located at the Oum Kaltoum Complex in Sidi Moumen. A dozen children were celebrating their birthday against a backdrop of music and various entertainment, with a clown and a magician on the program. "At the Shems'y Centre, we take care of children who hang around in the streets or live in a situation of precariousness and poverty and whose parents are separated. Our work is to recover them, to ensure they have a school catch-up, and to put them back into state schools," indicates Malika Sahimi, director of the Shems'y Sidi Moumen Centre. Today, some 170 children, aged 4 to 18, are taken care of by this centre. Some of them are in preschool (4/5 years old) while others follow non-formal education courses. Some children who ha…