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Helping children and young women living
on the streets of CASABLANCA
No definite assessment exists concerning exactly how many
children and young women are currently living on the streets
of Casablanca. It would be all the more difficult to conduct
such a study in that children and young women on the street
are very mobile, in particular because of police raids and since
new people are constantly finding themselves on the street.
These two population groups are very vulnerable to the dangers
of the street; children lack survival skills and are highly
exposed to epidemiological risks, assaults and sexual and/or
commercial exploitation; young women suffer a high degree of
violence (battery, rape, rackets, sequestration, etc.).
The samusocialCasablanca project,
currently being developed, is based on several missions:
Guaranteeing a regular
mobile assistance on the streets
In order to provide medical and social emergency aid that
is adapted to children and young women on the street, a
mobile assistance team will go to meet with these groups several
times per week, both during the day and at night. It will be
composed of a nurse executive, a social worker and a driver/social
assistant.
Opening a daytime drop-in
centre
Daytime services will be provided five days a week in
the drop-in centre of samusocialCasablanca.
The children and young women who are met by the mobile team
will be able to visit the centre to benefit from medical consultations,
nursing care, social help, talks with a psychologist, hygiene
services, etc..
Building the capacities
of partner structures
In order to optimise the assistance given to these children
and young women, samusocialCasablanca
will collaborate with a Moroccan partners’ network,
which it will animate. In addition, it will provide medical
support to those structures that need it and will organise coordination
meetings with all partners.
Running analysis and
advocacy activities
Thanks to the work carried out by teams, data will be collected
concerning children and young women on the street. This information,
gathered in a database, will make it possible to draft publications
that will be distributed to inform and increase public awareness
about the situation of these populations. These documents will
also be used as tools for advocacy with institutional
partners, so as to better take into account the children and
young women on the street within the definition of social policies. |
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