Particular attention must be paid to the child and their rights in order to avoid them being victims of abuse, abandonment, and being deprived of schooling. At this level, efforts made were insufficient to resolve certain thorny problems that persist.

How could we in this case support and protect children, especially those in difficult situations?

The most edifying example is the worrying problem of the famous Mohammedia social complex located on Hassan II Boulevard in the lower city.

Indeed, this important structure, which covers 30,000 m2, housed 500 residents at the time; it was equipped with all the adequate infrastructure with a wing equipped for medical monitoring, a school, sports areas, and a pavilion for the elderly. This large-scale establishment, closed since 2005, is in a pitiful state.

The consequences of this closure have been disastrous for the residents, especially young children in difficult situations who meet the criteria required to benefit from the services of social protection establishments according to Law 14-05.

These young children, for lack of an adequate establishment, were housed on the floor of a building in the Errachidia III district in El Alia. This cramped space was made available to the young residents by the commune.

Only boys are admitted there, but they live in difficult conditions, without reception structures on the floor of a building; the young residents are deprived of educational, recreational, and sports spaces. The situation has hardly changed since 2005; the officials of the Mohammedia Children's Home are trying as best they can to occupy the young children by organising various activities for them.

Given the narrowness of the premises, “it is no longer possible to welcome other children; this deprives us of having real adherence and commitment to the respect of the rights of this category of children in search of love and affection,” stresses an official who preferred to remain anonymous. The children, 46 in total who live in this so-called space, are aged 7 to 22. Care is provided with medical and school monitoring, appropriate animation, as well as academic support.

“I am outraged,” stresses a mother who criticises the disinterest of the services concerned regarding the situation of the young residents housed on the floor of a building since 2005. Currently, and since that date, nothing has been done; we have forgotten that the Mohammedia social welfare complex was a space for survival and social protection for the most destitute and vulnerable.

Investing in the social domain

Public authorities, elected officials, civil society, and associations, specifies a teacher, must invest in the social domain to crystallise authentic traditions and great hopes in order to eradicate social dysfunctions to ensure a decent life for those whom destiny has not favoured.

The most urgent solution is dependent on the settlement of the final expropriation decree still pending signature at the Prime Minister's office for the Muslim Welfare Society.