Supporting the "MediAction" project

Created in 2002, the "Réseau Mayage", or "Maillage Network", is a network of 52 youth associations based in poor areas of Casablanca and Rabat, that desire to take their destiny in their own hands and to improve their social condition. The Maillage Network is actively working in disadvantaged areas to launch social and cultural activities to the benefit of local excluded youth.

In February 2006, the Réseau Maillage has launched the "MediAction" project, aimed at establishing mediation centers in popular districts. Trained young leaders will offer general coaching and orientation to the disadvantaged youth, and will act as mediators, peace builders, and conflict resolution practitioners in the daily conflicts that are arising within the community, between neighbors, groups of children and youth, or with the local authorities.

At the request of the Réseau Maillage, SFCG-M has supported a pilot initiative through the delivering of a series of training workshops (3 two-day training workshops) for a group of 15 youth in Casablanca, on the techniques of community mediation, with the financial support of the Lions Club Casablanca Doyen. The workshops were held in April, May, and June 2006. The newly acquired skills can also help accompany implementation of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH), which was launched in May 2005 by King Mohammed VI, to create a Moroccan society without divisive conflicts, through integrative programs that fight exclusion and reduce social disparities. At the end of the training program in June 2006, fifteen young mediators, all members of the Réseau Maillage, have obtained certificates of "neighborhood social mediators" delivered by SFCG-M at the Casablanca Sheraton Hotel in the esteemed presence of the Moroccan Minister for youth, Mohammed El Ghas. The event was covered by the national press and national Television.

The first "MediAction centre" was inaugurated in Casablanca in May 18th 2006.

At this moment in time, SFCG-M is considering launching similar projects in Rabat as well as in other regions of Morocco.

Please click here to read: Lettres de noblesse pour la médiation sociale (Aujourd'hui le Maroc)