Art
festival in Rabat
Rabat
March 20 - March 27, 2011
Rabat
October 21 - October 30, 2011
Volunteer project: The project is organized in
collaboration with the local delegation of the Ministry of youth and
sport in Rabat. This is going to be the second art festival in Rabat,
where many young people and teenagers will show their talents in
drawing, singing, dancing, etc.
The international volunteers participating in this project are expected
to work actively in the preparation and running of the festival. The
volunteers will also help in the organisation of the different shows and
sessions.
At the same time, many activities will be organised for the
participants, such as visiting the city, the monuments and learning
Arabic language during their stay.
Language: English or French
Accommodation: The participants will be accommodated in a shared apartment or in host families (depending on availability).
Location: Rabat is the capital of Morocco. It's situated on the Atlantic Ocean.
Terminal: Rabat or Casablanca airport
Age range: 18 - 49 years old
Easter
in the Desert
Zagora
April 17 - April 25, 2011
Volunteer project: The participants in this project will learn about the Moroccan artisan techniques of making pottery and about Arabic language. They will get knowledge about how to make pottery articles, from working and preparing the earth to decorating the articles. This activity doesn't require individual skills but it demands your motivation to overcome the difficulties. All the materials needed for this activity will be provided.
One of the aims of this project is to discover the Moroccan culture and history and compare it to yours. Some cultural visits will be organised during the project. An excursion to the Sahara Desert will be also organised on April 23 for the volunteers to celebrate Easter in the Desert.
Language: English or French
Accommodation: The accommodation will be in the local youth centre.
Location: Zagora is a beautiful town in the south of
Morocco, near the Algerian border. It
is well known for its large desert. Zagora is about 750 km from Rabat,
about 250 km south of Ouarzazate and 400 km from Marrakech.
Terminal: Rabat, Marrakech, Ouarzazate or Casablanca airport
Age range: 18 and over
Clown
Theatre Workshop
Rabat
April 22 - May 2, 2011
Volunteer project: Playing with the clown character does not only mean to create laughter or to laugh at oneself, it means to attribute sense to everything. It means to face fundamental values of every human being. This is a five day workshop in clown theatre.
The aims:
1) To glue the team together and to generate new relationships between
the participants by using different games: "To play life and to live the
game"
2) To improve communication among decision-makers and their public by
extending the set of interpersonal skills: To develop the non-verbal,
the body feeling, the relation to time and space, to reconsider the way
of perceiving and living reality through humour, discrepancy,
transition, etc.
3) To achieve skills to better manage stressful situations and
conflicts, like situations in the working surroundings
4) To develop new motivations that are at the same time basic,
effective, related to games, educational and comprehensive for everybody
without discrimination against age, culture, religion and language.
The educational process:
The arrangement. The backstage where the actors can change. A choice of costumes and red noses. A leader who suggests the topics for the improvisations and the game structure. The other participants as spectators.
The improvisation as a basis of clowning. It is about playing alone or in a group a meaningful story about a given topic. The participants enter the stage without preconceived ideas, without scenes that had been prepared beforehand. They develop their play by considering all the elements that are present at that specific moment, feelings, emotions, sensations, perceptions, ideas… The improvisations exist around certain topics. The topic is the subject of a story. It is decided according to what the participants want to explore.
The sequence of a session. Games and exercises for physical and emotional warming-up, improvisations, feedback of improvisations and analysis of the actors’ play, individual and collective evaluation.
Thematic improvisations according to the « game structure ». The “game structures” are the modalities given for a specific improvisation. Example: Single or group improvisation (alone, duo, trio…); Improvisation exclusively based on gestures without words; The “gromelo” (deformed language); To play characters who do not know each other or, on the contrary, to act in a certain hierarchical relationship with one’s partner, etc. The improviser uses all the opportunities that the specific art of clowning offers to him: To dare to replunge into childhood, naivety, impertinence, to allow oneself eccentric behaviour, to play with the “social correctness”, but he always improvises in respect to himself, his partners and the audience.
Intercultural exchange sessions will be organised during the training. These sessions are an occasion for all the participants to present, exchange and discuss together what they've learnt while sharing the life of the host families. Some activities will be also organised in the city of Rabat, such as visiting historical monuments and the most attractive cultural heritage sites in the city.
Language: English or French
Accommodation: The participants are accommodated in host families. Staying with a host family is an opportunity for the participants to discover the Moroccan way of life. All the participants are expected to respect the families’ environment and the local traditions; they are also expected to be sociable and open-minded so as to build good and fruitful communication with their hosts.
Location: Rabat is the capital of Morocco. It's situated on the Atlantic Ocean.
Terminal: Rabat or Casablanca airport
Age range: 18 and over
Forum
Theatre Workshop
Rabat
April 29 - May 9, 2011
Volunteer project: The participants in this program
will attend a five day workshop in Forum Theatre. The aims of the
program are:
1) To glue the participants together. To attach value to everybody’s
personality by placing all in a non-habitual context. To allow the
participants to dare to play with their strengths and weaknesses using
the specificity offered by theatrical games.
2) To manage stress on a collective and individual level by using the
game of “Forum Theatre”. This enables you to learn how to distance
yourself from problems and how to create space for breaks and
relaxation.
3) To achieve skills for coping with situations of bad-being and
conflicts that are due to miscommunication with children, family, boss
or different people one deals with.
4) To learn new animation skills. To be able to form small theatre
groups. To create forum theatre spectacles for performing outside of the
workshop structure. To develop expression, work with young people,
conflicts...
There will be 5 days of training with 2 sessions of 3 hours each per
day, and one additional hour of consultation at the end of the day.
Content of the training: Specific games and exercises for Forum Theatre; Experiencing Forum Theatre; Making up scenarios and realization of lived or feared situations; Discovering the Image Theatre; Creating scenes of the Image Theatre and staging of different situations; Exploitation; Spectacle of Image Theatre and Forum Theatre in front of an audience chosen by the participants in the training.
A word about Forum Theatre:
Theatre of change, the Forum Theatre is about difficulties, questions,
and conflicts that individuals who are at the centre of social issues of
our time have. It tackles those topics by using scenic games. Working
with the language of theatre enables the participants to discover in
themselves hidden skills which lead them to becoming actors of their own
lives.
Forum Theatre means first of all theatre. It is about being seen, heard
and understood. All the elements of theatrical language exist already in
everyday life: the body, the voice, movements, passions, ideas. Theatre
means being aware of that language. “Every individual is a potential
actor who just hasn’t fulfilled his vocation.”
Forum Theatre and Image Theatre: These two complementary techniques help
to stage chosen topics and to create spectacles. You can choose to
perform this spectacle in front of an audience from the outside. During
the training, however, it will be a part of the group which takes the
role of the audience.
Forum Theatre spectacle (with an audience from the inside or outside):
Forum Theatre and Image Theatre encourage collective solution finding.
After having performed a scenario once, it is replayed under the
direction of a leader who represents the link between the actors and the
audience. Then, the audience is invited to participate in the theatrical
game. They come and replace the character of whom they think he is in
difficulty concerning the play, take his place and improvise with the
other actors who haven’t been replaced. So they replay the scene
according to their characters’ personality. The audience try all
possible sorts of actions to change the situation. The gathered energy
leads to coming up with alternatives of which the isolated individuals
wouldn’t have thought themselves. Drawn away from their habitual
passivity, the audience transforms into “spect-actors” of an interactive
game. In this way, Forum Theatre is a specific tool for comprehension,
communication and animation. The approach of Forum Theatre highlights
the mechanisms of conflicts, incomprehension, rejection or fear.
Intercultural exchange sessions will be organised during the training. These sessions are an occasion for all the participants to present, exchange and discuss together what they've learnt while sharing the life of the host families. Some activities will be also organised in the city of Rabat, such as visiting historical monuments and the most attractive cultural heritage sites in the city.
Language: English or French
Accommodation: The participants are accommodated in host families. Staying with a host family is an opportunity for the participants to discover the Moroccan way of life. All the participants are expected to respect the families’ environment and the local traditions; they are also expected to be sociable and open-minded so as to build good and fruitful communication with their hosts.
Location: Rabat is the capital of Morocco. It's situated on the Atlantic Ocean.
Terminal: Rabat or Casablanca airport
Age range: 18 and over
Music
of the world
Rabat
May 21 - May 30, 2011
Volunteer project: This is a cultural project, providing opportunity for international participants to get to know Moroccan culture, through sharing the life of a host family, attending some Arabic classes, participating in cooking sessions, and also visiting cultural sites of Rabat.
The participants will also help at Mawazine, the international world music festival in Rabat. This festival is a very big event that the municipality of Rabat organises for more than 5 years already. Last year, the people of Rabat were invited to see the performances of Elton John, Amy Winehouse, Withney Houston, and many other famous international singers. This year, of course there will be many other international singers, and all the shows are for free… so, the project participants will be able to see one of the shows every night. The festival is organised from the 20th to the 28th of May.
The participants in this project are expected to be motivated to learn Arabic, to discover the aspects of Moroccan life, and to be ready to show some aspects of their cultures in the intercultural evening.
Language: English or French
Accommodation: The participants will be accommodated in a shared apartment or in host families (depending on availability).
Location: Rabat is the capital of Morocco and it's situated on the Atlantic Ocean.
Terminal: Rabat or Casablanca airport
Age range: 18 and over
Organizing animation activities and creating
better living conditions for orphans in south Morocco
Agadir
July 3 - July 16, 2011
Agadir
July 16 - July 30, 2011
Volunteer project: The volunteer project is organised in collaboration with the local delegation of social work in Agadir in the south of Morocco. The volunteers will be organizing and running animation sessions in a summer camp for children coming from different orphanages and houses for students in Morocco. The project also aims to give a new look to the children's center which will include cleaning, painting and some environmental work.
Language: English or French
Accommodation: The volunteers will be accommodated in the orphanage.
Location: Agadir is a very beautiful town situated on the Atlantic Ocean in the south of Morocco. It’s situated on a very nice and large beach of the Ocean. Many people come to spend their holidays in this area. During summer several cultural, sportive and artistic activities are organized. The climate is normally hot in summer.
Terminal: Agadir, Marrakech, Casablanca airport
Age range: 18 and over
Environmental protection and awareness work in a
charming little town in the Rif Mountains
Chefchaouen
July 5 - July 19, 2011
Chefchaouen
July 19 - August 2, 2011
Volunteer project: This volunteer project is organised in collaboration with the local municipality of Chefchaouen and it consists of contributing to the campaigns of cleaning and protecting the local environment. The volunteers will work with other young people and some local associations on this issue and for the mobilization of the local population so as to contribute to the local environment protection. During their work, the volunteers will be led by a technician who will also organize the work program.
Language: English or French
Accommodation: The accommodation will be in the local youth center.
Location: Chefchaouen is a city in northwest Morocco. It is the chief town of the province with the same name, and is noted for its buildings in shades of blue. Chefchaouen is situated in the Rif Mountains, just inland from Tangier and Tetouan. The city was founded in 1471, as a small fortress which still exists to this day, by Moorish exiles from Spain led by Moulay Ali Ben Moussa Ben Rached El Alami to fight the Portuguese invasions of northern Morocco.
Terminal: Casablanca, Tanger, or by boat from Aljeziras
Age range: 18 and over
Improving the living conditions and study
environment in a Home for poor children in Ifrane
Ifrane
July 5 - July 19, 2011
Ifrane
July 19 - August 2, 2011
Volunteer project: This project is organised in collaboration with the local delegation of social affairs in Ifrane. It consists at contributing to the campaigns of cleaning and painting a center for poor children. The volunteers will work with other young people and some local associations to give a new look to this educative establishment. During their work, the volunteers will be guided by a technician who will also organize the work program.
Language: English or French
Accommodation: The accommodation will be in the social centre.
Location: Ifrane (nicknamed Little Switzerland) is a
town and ski resort in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco (population
13,000 in December 2008). Ifrane is 1665 metres (5,460 ft) in altitude
and is part of the Meknès-Tafilalet region. In Tamazight, the regional
Berber language, "ifran" means caves.
Ifrane is around 40 km from the city of Fes, and also the same to
Meknes, 2 imperial cities of Morocco.
Terminal: Fes, Casablanca airport.
Age range: 18 and over
Renovation and maintenance of a summer camp
centre for children
El Hajeb
July 5 - July 19, 2011
El Hajeb
July 19 - August 2, 2011
Volunteer project: This project is organised in
collaboration with the Children’s centre for summer camps in El Hajeb.
In this centre, around 800 children will be camping during the summer
2011 (around 200 children in 4 different periods, from July 1st to the
end of August).
The international volunteer team will be involved in the maintenance of
the summer camp centre, including cleaning and painting. The volunteers
will work with other young people and some local associations to give a
new look to the establishment. During their work, the volunteers will be
guided by a technician who will also organize the work program.
Language: English or French
Accommodation: The accommodation will be in the Centre for summer camps.
Location: El Hajeb is a province in the Moroccan economic region of Meknès-Tafilalet. Its population in 2004 was 216,388. It’s around 30 km from the imperial city Meknes, and 20 km from the beautiful little city Ifrane.
Terminal: Fes Airport, Casablanca Airport
Age range: 18 and over
Teaching
English and French to Moroccan youth
Rabat
July 7 - July 31, 2011
Casablanca
July 7 - July 31, 2011
Maaziz July 7 -
July 31, 2011
Salé July 7 - July
31, 2011
Rabat August 7 -
August 31, 2011
Casablanca August
7 - August 31, 2011
Salé August 7 -
August 31, 2011
Volunteer project: After the successful experience in
the last years, international volunteers are once again invited in
different Moroccan cities to organize English and French courses for
young people aged from 10 to 18 years old with less educational
opportunities. These courses aim to:
- give the opportunity to young people who have never been in touch or
who are in their first or second year of learning a foreign language, to
discover it or/and to overcome the difficulties they have in this
language.
- try to connect those children with friends from abroad to communicate
and correspond between themselves in English / French as a tool to
promote their foreign language knowledge and level, and establish new
friendships.
Language: English or French
Accommodation: The participants will be accommodated together in the same school or in different host families.
Location: The projects will take place in different cities in Morocco: Rabat, Salé, Casablanca, Maaziz.
Terminal: Casablanca Mohamed 5 international airport.
Age range: 18 and over
Painting a school in Casablanca
Casablanca
July 12 - July 26, 2011
Casablanca
July 22 - August 5, 2011
Volunteer project: The volunteer project will be organized in collaboration with the municipality of Casablanca, the commune of El Barnoussi. The volunteers will take part in the cleaning and painting of a school. They will also join local volunteers in Sidi El Barnoussi to help in different activities for the benefit of the region. The work activities will be led by a technician, who will be also responsible for organizing the work program.
Language: English or French
Accommodation: The volunteers’ accommodation will be in the school.
Location: Casablanca is the economic capital of Morocco, due to its large economic activity. It's also the town which encloses the biggest number of population (more than 2 million). In spite of this, Casablanca has also its monuments, cultural and artistic activities. Casablanca is about 100 km from Rabat and 30 km from its airport.
Terminal: Casablanca airport.
Age range: 18 and over
Raising environmental awareness in the Middle
Atlas region of Morocco
Maaziz
July 12 - July 26, 2011
Volunteer project: This project will be based in the village of Maaziz in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco. The volunteer activities will be coordinated with the local municipality and will mainly consists of organizing environmental campaigns for the local population. The volunteers will also work with local people in an effort to give a new look to one of the educative institutions in the village. The work activities will be led by a technician, who will be also responsible for organizing the work program.
Language: English or French
Accommodation: The volunteers will be accommodated in a local school.
Location: Maaziz is a small village situated between the cities of Khemissate, Roummani and Oulemes. It’s situated around 20 km from Khemissate which is the center of Mid Atlas (berber region).
Terminal: Casablanca airport, Rabat airport, or Fes Airport.
Age range: 18 and over
Help create a better environment for orphans in
the biggest social centre in Marrakech
Marrakech
July 12 - July 26, 2011
Marrakech
July 26 - August 9, 2011
Volunteer project: This volunteer workcamp will be organised in collaboration with the orphanage house of Bab Ghmate. This orphanage house is the biggest social centre in Marrakech, and it’s one of the biggest centers taking care of children in difficult situation in Morocco. The international volunteer group will contribute to improving the living conditions for the orphans by cleaning, painting and some other maintenance works in the Bab Ghmat orphanage house. Different activities will be organised during the project, which are mainly proposed by the group leader or by the director of the center. The volunteers will be guided by a technician who will also organize the work program.
Language: English or French
Accommodation: The volunteers’ accommodation will be in the Center.
Location: Known as the "Red City", Marrakech is the most important former imperial city in Morocco's history. The city of Marrakesh is the capital of the mid-southwestern economic region of Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz, near the foothills of the snow-capped Atlas Mountains. Like many North African cities, the city of Marrakesh comprises both an old fortified city (the médina) and an adjacent modern city (called Gueliz) for a total population of 1,070,000. It is served by Ménara International Airport (RAK) and a rail link to Casablanca and the north. Marrakech has the largest traditional market (souk) in Morocco and also has one of the busiest squares in Africa and in the world, Djemaa el Fna. The square bustles with acrobats, story-tellers, water sellers, dancers and musicians.
Terminal: Marrakech Airport, Casablanca international airport
Age range: 18 and over
Painting and cleaning a center for poor children
in Essaouira
Essaouira
July 12 - July 26, 2011
Essaouira
July 26 - August 9, 2011
Volunteer project: This volunteer project will be organised in collaboration with the local delegation of social work in Essaouira. The international volunteers will help cleaning and painting a center for poor children in the town. The volunteers will work with some local people and associations to give a new look to this educative establishment. The volunteers will be supervised by a technical leader who will be also responsible for the work program.
Language: English or French
Accommodation: The accommodation will be in the social centre.
Location: Essaouira is a very beautiful town situated on the Atlantic Ocean between Safi and Agadir in the south of Morocco. It’s situated on a very nice and large ocean beach. Many people come to spend their holidays in this area. During summer, several cultural, sportive and artistic events are organized. The climate is normally hot in summer.
Terminal: Marrakech, Essaouira, Casablanca (train to Marrakech and bus from Marrakech to Essaouira)
Age range: 18 and over
Renovation and painting a wall mural in a school
in Rabat
Rabat
July 29 - August 12, 2011
Rabat
August 12 - August 26, 2011
Volunteer project: The volunteer project will be organized in collaboration with the local delegation of education. It will take place in a school in Rabat. The main tasks include painting and cleaning the classrooms and the surrounding area of the school. Some frescos are planned to be made on the school walls. During their work, the volunteers will be leaded by a technician who will also organize the work program.
Language: English or French
Accommodation: The accommodation will be in the local youth house.
Location: Rabat is the capital of Morocco. It's situated on the Atlantic Ocean. The climate is normally hot in summer.
Terminal: Rabat or Casablanca airport
Age range: 18 and over
New Year in the Desert
Zagora
December 26, 2011 - January 2, 2012
Volunteer project: The participants in this project will learn about the Moroccan artisan techniques of making pottery. They will get knowledge about how to make pottery articles, from working and preparing the earth to decorating the articles. This activity doesn't require individual skills but it demands your motivation to overcome the difficulties. All the materials needed for this activity will be provided.
One of the aims of this project is to discover the Moroccan culture and history and compare it to yours. Some cultural visits will be organised during the project. An excursion to the Sahara Desert will be also organised in the end of December for the volunteers to celebrate the New Year in the Desert.
Language: English or French
Accommodation: The accommodation will be in the local center.
Location: Zagora is a beautiful town in the south of Morocco, near the Algerian border. It is well known for its large desert. Zagora is about 750 km from Rabat and about 250 km in the south of Ouarzazate.
Terminal: Marrakech, Ouarzazate or Casablanca airport
Age range: 18 and over
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