Sefrou and Moulay Yacoub concerned: Local volunteer rescuers take the first step

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has just completed the first phase of its Local Volunteer Rescuers (SVP) project, covering the provinces of Sefrou and Moulay Yaâcoub. A closing ceremony was held on Wednesday at the respective headquarters of the provinces of Sefrou and Moulay Yaâcoub, in the presence of SDC Director Fabrizio Poritti, who highlighted the interest and importance of this type of project from a humanitarian perspective. "Our intervention in Morocco focuses in particular on risk and disaster management as well as transitional migration, concerning both Moroccans and sub-Saharan Africans," he explained in a speech delivered during the two ceremonies.In fact, the project, initiated three years ago, consists of training volunteer rescuers capable of intervening at the "zero hour" of a risk—that is, the time between the onset of a disaster or risk and the…