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News 07 May 2012 3 min read

Humanitarian action for children in Safeguard Centres

Humanitarian action for children in Safeguard Centres

Nowadays, project-based pedagogy, which tends to be generalised at all levels of education, allows for the generation of multiple concrete actions and projects for the benefit of the community. And wherever they are, whether for the need of their studies or for professional reasons, our young people never forget their country and their roots. We had proof of this once again recently, in Agadir.

Indeed, a group of 9 first-year engineering students at Telecom Sudparis, a major French telecommunications school, who are required, as part of their university curriculum, to carry out a long-term project within an international team, became particularly interested in the case of young girls and boys in difficult situations at the Agadir Safeguard Centres for girls and children. They thus oriented their humanitarian action in this direction so that it could allow all these young people to benefit from free access to new communication technologies, and consequently to culture in the broad sense of the term.

This project began to take shape at the beginning of October 2011. The group then set out in search of sponsors likely to provide them with moral and/or material help. They also had to do bagging in several Monoprix stores in Paris where they tried to collect donations. And after several months of work, the team was happy to have finally succeeded in gathering 10 computers in France and 14 others in Agadir, in addition to some books and school supplies.

The initiators of this humanitarian project also succeeded in equipping the 2 centres with an Internet connection thanks to a router and WIFI cards.

And during a ceremony organised recently at the Girl's Safeguard Centre in the presence of 04 members of the Reintegrate team, which had previously installed the computer equipment, two groups of children from the two beneficiary centres were finally able to surf the Net under the admiring gaze of their directors and the Reintegrate team from Telecom Sudparis.

It should be specified that this humanitarian project was able to be carried out successfully thanks to the precious help provided to the group of engineering students by their establishment and the sponsors who were willing to accompany them in its realisation and the support they found from Mohamed Mir, director of the ENSA of Agadir.

Located in the industrial district and overlooking Abderrahim Bouabid Boulevard, the two centres benefiting from this humanitarian action, the Girl's Safeguard Centre and the Children's Safeguard Centre, bring together young girls and boys in difficult situations aged between 8 and 18. They provide their residents with literacy and formal and informal education courses to allow them better social reintegration.

Finally, it should be noted that the Reintegrate team was present in one of the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods of Sidi Othman in Casablanca for the opening of the premises of the Press Association for Social Insertion. It made 10 computers available to the latter to help it equip its media library.

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