Volunteering in Morocco

High Atlas Mountains - Education Support for Girls in Morocco

This project is working with a charity that builds and runs girls’ boarding houses near secondary colleges and lycées in the High Atlas Mountains, providing the opportunity for selected girls from villages across the region to continue their education.

Very few girls from rural communities in Morocco continue their education after primary school.

The secondary colleges are too far away from the villages for the girls to travel every day. Their parents are too poor to afford lodgings near to the colleges, and available accommodation is usually over stretched and inadequate. Parents do not have the confidence in any of the facilities to entrust their daughters to be away from their rural communities.

Through the project's provision of boarding houses, girls gain access to a secondary education and the chance to fulfil their potential in an environment that promotes academic study and social understanding. The goal is to make a difference to the lives of these girls now, and thus change many more in the future.

You will stay in a locally owned guesthouse.

Project type:
Education Development

 

Contact Tribes on 01728 685971 for further details