ACTIVITIES SINCE 1999

1. At once after its creation, CAFEM has developed, educational as well as social activities, in a district in the suburbs of Rabat, known under the name of "Akreuch".

It is a big shantytown, formed around the dump of Rabat-Salé and occupied by approximatively 10 000 people, is that about 4000 families.

The establishment of a CAFEM Centre in this district and the activities developed there (Literacy, Hygiene, Health, etc. …), the visits paid by the volunteers and the various foreign delegations to the site of the project, pushed the Moroccan authorities to reconsider their methods of management of the Dumps by entrusting it to a foreign company, and to respect the standards of hygiene and environment. As for the cleansing of the district, whose sewers were with open sky, it was carried out after the arrival of CAFEM on the site; as well as for the electricity. We should quote that CAFEM is the first NGO to integrate the district, and its plea in favour of the families and the children bore its fruits. These 4000 families will be accommodated before the end of 2004 under better conditions.

2. In parallel with its activities with Akreuch, CAFEM was associated an international program desenclavement of the rural populations in the northern zone of Morocco (Province of Chefchaouen). The action consisted to frame women and families for the safeguarding of the two forest solid masses and to devote them to agricultural and craft activities, alternative to the culture of the cannabis. Thus, CAFEM opened 3 centres in 3 groupings of housing, counting more than 300 families each. These centres still function by exempting courses of literacy and training in practical activities and developing the already existing systems of solidarity around the installation of tracks, the exploitation of collective furnaces, creation of cooperatives, etc … We should precise that these actions are undertaken in the framework of an International program of Cooperation (Morocco/ European Union) named “GEFRIF” and ended two years ago. CAFEM continues to support its perenniality.

3. Construction of a socio educative centre in “Akreuch” of a surface of 500 square meters which can accommodate 1000 people per annum and employing 6 people full-time. The activities of this centre comprise elimination of illiteracy, health and hygiene, training of manual trades and sensitizing on environmental issues.

4. Program of integration of women, in the forest stock management, in the Moroccan Rif (northern Morocco), object of convention of partnership between Morocco and the European Union to eradicate, in the long run, the culture of cannabis.