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News 11 Nov 2012 3 min read

Solidarity, from the Gironde to the Gharb

- As part of their integration project, a group of 7 young French people aged 18 to 24 lent a helping hand to the "Al Karama" association dedicated to the disabled in the Gharb region.
- Painting and renovation work was carried out in various areas of the centre.
Solidarity, from the Gironde to the Gharb

Achieving social and professional integration by consolidating the values of solidarity and otherness is the mission that the Association Jeunesse des Hauts de Garonne (AJHAG) is undertaking. Recently, it enabled a group of seven young boys and girls aged 18 to 24 to carry out a refreshing action on various spaces of the "Al Karama" centre dedicated to the disabled of the Gharb. Accompanied by a supervisor, a videographer and a team of educators, young French people, including Moroccans living in France, carried out painting work in the centre, which provides services for rehabilitation, physiotherapy, orthopaedics, vocational training and the manufacture of prostheses for the disabled. This operation, as highlighted by Hakim Kebaili and Nassima Chaouchi, members of the delegation, is part of a process of self-realisation and empowerment in order to extend the potential for social inclusion and integration of young people from working-class neighbourhoods. It is defined in accordance with the principles of popular education and is exercised mainly through the practice of street work, which gives a specific and singular character to this mode of intervention called "Specialised Prevention". According to Mohamed Boulahoual, the solidarity project, which allowed seven young people to go to Morocco (Kénitra) to live a unique experience both in its content and its implications, is part of this approach. The stay in Kénitra by the young people and educators of the AJHAG was widely praised by the members of the "Al Karama" centre for the disabled of the Gharb. Its president, Dr Toufik Lahlou, even proposed the conclusion of a partnership with this Gironde association with a view to including this kind of action in the long term. Moreover, a climate of friendship and conviviality was established between the young people of the two associations. Sami Louimi, a young Frenchman of Moroccan origin living in Bordeaux, found the right words to describe this experience: "I have very good memories of this stay in Kénitra. It allowed me to forge new friendships and to look to the future with a look full of hope." This solidarity project was organised in collaboration with the local mission of Hauts de Garonne, the Association for Development and Cultural Exchanges of Floirac in Gironde and the financial support of the Aquitaine Regional Council as part of the "Humaquitaine" programme and the General Council (Youth Aid Fund: collective FAJ). The individual contribution of Lahcen Ennadi, a retired volunteer, made it possible to establish contact between the AJHAG and the "Al Karama" Association. In each of these selected communes, the interventions are carried out by teams of six social workers who act under the authority of a department head. The decoding and analysis of the issues and professional practices are provided by a sociologist and a psychologist. The annual budget granted by the Gironde General Council to carry out this mission amounts to 1.6 million euros.


The "Al Karama" association

The Al Karama association for the disabled of the Gharb was created in 1995. It works for the social integration and improvement of the living conditions of the disabled, notably children in the Gharb-Chrarda-Beni Hssen region. The association provides its members with services in the cultural, social and sporting fields. It organises adapted training (ceramics, sewing, knitting, hairdressing, etc.), and regularly collects and distributes wheelchairs, crutches and other equipment for the destitute disabled. It manages a rehabilitation and readaptation centre created within the framework of the INDH. This pilot centre at the regional level is intended for any destitute person, adult or child, suffering from functional limitation.

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