chantiers sociaux marocains zagora

CSM aims to:
- To promote volunteer activities for young people in their spare time and holidays;
- To promote community development and encourage participation of community members in activities for their own benefit;
- To create opportunities to exchange experiences between youth from different parts of the country and the rest of the world;
- To promote international understanding through voluntary services;
- To enable young people to encounter and understand different cultures;
- To encourage the concept of voluntary services as a force in search for peace equality, democracy and international understanding;

CSM works under the motto
“Your association opens to citizenship initiatives”


2- What is CSM workcamp conception?
A workcamp is a sort of voluntary service. The participants in this activity try to work together for a common aim. This means that all the participants must be actively involved in this service and be well motivated to do it.
A workcamp is also an opportunity for young people to exchange experiences and to achieve an intercultural learning process so as to build a word of peace and mutual understanding.
The work greatly varies from one project to the other. It normally involves Construction work in remote educative, social and cultural establishments, nature conservation work, and restoration of historical monuments, bricks molding, health and Aids awareness campaigns, sanitation projects such as digging water wells and erecting Blair toilets. The communities may ask us to perform other specific tasks outside the scope of our agreement. This is seen as a way of promoting intercultural understanding.
CSM organize sometime some special projects such:

- Arabic Language learning.
- Training camps ,
- Teaching French or English ,
- Teaching Drama and animation.
- Trekking / intercultural CSM .

CSM's camps don't require manual skills, but they need strong motivation and well understanding of the local culture and difficulties.
The people you are going to meet are open-minded and tolerant; they are ready to achieve with you a constructive dialogue about all the subjects you want to discuss with them.
3- Who can participate?
All the people between 18 and 40 years old can participate; some exception could be done for older motivated people.

4- The Lodging and Board
The participants in a workcamp live mostly in simple accommodation, school residences, youth of children centres, sometime in tents. Those places have in general basic equipments. In the beginning and in the end of the workcamps the participants are invited to clean the accommodation place and make some arrangements to make it more comfortable.
We recommend to all the volunteers to take their sleeping bag
5- Leisure time
Every locality has its characteristics, in the beginning of the workcamp the animator introduce the region to the volunteers and try to make a programme together. The participants are invited to contribute actively to elaborate and achieve this programme; they are also invited to bring with them musical materials, games and some information material about your home country.
In free time, the participants are free to organize their own activities, but they should inform the animators before.
6- Insurance
CSM provides all the participants with an insurance which covers only the work accidents. For other illness, the participants should have their own insurance.
C.S.M Zagora was founded on 18 January 2004
Objectives et principles:
-voluntary work and social and cultural development.
-Cultural Exchange between countries and promoting friendship and peace between nations.
-Respect and development of national and humanitarian principles.
-The openness to other civilizations.
-Awareness in the field of environmental protection.
- Organization of cultural and educational activities for youth and children.
-Provide social actions towards the poor of society

- English and French courses for child and youth.
- Arabic courses for foreigners volunteers.
- Children festivals: clown/marionette /theatre/painting competition.
- Painting and environments work camps.

* painting work camp school TAMEZMOUTE Agdez. (25/05/2004)
* Human gift for children in Zagora. (13/06/2004)
- painting work camp in school amezro in Zagora. (20/02/2005)
* painting work camp in ay Rachid in Zagora. (27/02/2005)
* Organization of the first offer for poor. (November 2004)
* Organization of the second offer for poor (October 2005)
* Screening a film for children ((spirit)) (05/11/2004)
* Projection films for high school students
(the glory of my father / / Antigone) (17/18mars 2005)
* theatre and dance Evening (06/11/2004).
* Traditional musical evening 22/10/2005)
* Summer work camp in collaboration with a French association (scout and guide France) renovation and forestation of .../20juillet 2005).
* International work camp in student house in Zagora. (15/..../30 July 2005)
* Organizing of medical operation. (23/11/2005)
* Painting workshop for children. (20/11/2005)
* First International languages camp (French / English) (01july to the 30july 2006).
* Participation in international projects in Morocco. (August 2006) .
* French courses (20novembre2006to 20march 2007).
* Second International languages camp (French / English) (01july2007 to 30july2007)
* English courses for beginners. (From 29October to 15 November 2007).
* Cleaning and gardening work camp in a school (3decembre2007 Sunday).
* French courses for college students (03Janury to 01march 2008).
* First children festival in Zagora (10/11/12/13janury2008).
* painting work camp in a school (20March2008).
* Arabic courses for foreigners (from 18 March to 30 May 2008).
*Third International languages camp (French / English) (01july2007 to 30july2007)
Programme 2008//2009
*Pottery courses and desert visit.(25 December 2008 to 01junury2009)
*Arabic courses for foreigners (march .April ,may ,June 2009),
*Second Children festival edition (07/08/09/10 March 2009).
* Pottery and animation summer camp. (25june to 10july2009).


•Chantiers Sociaux Marocains a été fondée en 1963 à rabat, membre de l'union marocaine des associations des chantiers et travail bénévole.
•Le centrale de l'association ce trouve à rabat.
•C.S.M a plus de 60section dans tout le territoire marocain.
•La section C.S.M zagora a été fondée le 18 janvier2004.

•Objectives et principes :
-volontariat social et culturel.
-Echange culturel entre les payées et encouragement de l'amitié et la paix entre les nations.
-Respect et développement des principes nationaux et humanitaires.
-L'ouverture aux autres civilisations.
-Sensibilisation dans le domaine de la protection de l'environnement.
-Organisation des activités culturelles et éducatives pour les jeunes et les enfants.
-Fournir des actions sociales envers les démunies de la société.



7- General information
Organization : CHANTIERS SOCIAUX MAROCAINS
zagora section// maison des jeunes de zagora///0021262842613//email us here
or our site cliq here to visit

Contact person : YOUNES ZEKRI EMAIL/ ZEKRIPROF@YAHOO.FR///PHONE:00212662842613
I-Where the workcamp take place?
Zagora is a beautiful town in the south of Morocco, . It is well known by its large desert. Zagora is about 750 km from Rabat and about160 Km in the south of Ouarzazate.

What is about the project
CSM08: ZAGORA 25/12/2009 – 01/01/2010
Fees : 110 Euros +
Fees for the desert: 60 euros
Type:Training Camps/CULT Lodging : In a center. Participants : 20
.
The project which will be organized in collaboration between CSM and its local section,
CSM have started organizing this kind of camp seven years ago, in Sale and Fez and Rabat during the summer period. Every year we got positive feedback from the participants and from the partners.and the first experience in zagora was in decembre 2008 with 15 volunteers from all Europe.
The participants will learn and work deeply the Moroccan artisan techniques to work pottery. They will get knowledge about how to do 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 all difficulties. CSM will provide you all the materials needed in this activity. One of the aims of those camps is to discover the Moroccan culture and history and compare this to yours. The training course will be in the morning, if needed some courses could be given in the afternoon... See the Time Table.

Some others cultural visits will be organised during this period, and an Excursion to the desert to celebrate the new year will be organised from the 31 December to the 1st January 2009.
For the participants who want to join the Excursion to the desert, an Extra fee of 60 euros will be required to pay the excursion.

25December 2009 Arrival in Zagora Opening Ceremony
26December 2009 Pottery Training Visite of kasbah Tamegroute
27December 2009 Pottery Training Excursion in zagora mountain
28December 2009 Pottery Training free time
29December 2009 Pottery Training (Morning and Evening)
30December 2009 Pottery Training (Morning and Evening)
31December 2009 Excursion to the Desert
01 January 2010 Back to Zagora firewall party


III-Accommodation and Lodging
The full accommodation will be in a centre. The food will be prepared by the local section and foreigners volunteers' themselves
IV-Workcamp address
Maison de bienfaisance ,... Zagora
In arabic ... DAR ATTALIB.. Zagora
You can take a bus directly from Rabat or Casablanca bus station , you can also go to marakech or Ouarzazate and then take a bus to Zagora .Once arrived to Zagora go directly to the above address. If you have any difficulties telephone to: Zikri 0662842613

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Place / Date / Participants
zagora / On order of voluntary except july/august / 10max
Fees: 300 Euros per month to be paid at the arrival of the participant .



An Arabic language session is a special activity that CSM zagora will organize again this year after good experience last year. The objectives of this activity are:
- Giving to people the opportunity to get basic knowledge about Arabic language. That knowledge could be useful for him in their studies or in their daily life or in their travels in countries speaking this language.
- Giving the opportunity to people to get in touch with the Moroccan culture and its way of life, and in consequences achieve a fruitful cultural exchange.
- Giving the opportunity to people has some basic knowledge about this language to brush up it and be adapted to different ways to use it.
[s]the most important thing in our proposition that a professional Arabic teachers will teach u and after good manipulation of the Arabic words a professional calligrapher will teach different ways to write Arabic .
III-How the sessions are organized?

The courses are given by teachers' member of CSM zagora. Those teachers are flexible in managing those courses and are ready to cooperate with the participants so as to fulfil their expectations.
The courses are given under 3 ways: The general courses (GC), the practical courses (PRC) and the pronunciation courses (PNC), the weekly program is as following:
Morning from 9 to 12 Afternoon
Monday Arabic Classic Course
Tuesday Arabic Classic Course
Wednesday Arabic Classic Course
Thursday Arabic Classic Course
Friday Arabic Classic Course
Saturday + Sunday Free Free or pottery courses

In the afternoon, the participants are free, however , the local volunteers will suggest many activities , cultural activities ( visit a kasbah, visit the mountains, visit the pottery village, others cities Marrakech and atlas and the very big Moroccan desert )

At their arrival the participants will be given the CSM Arabic Language Guide, this pedagogical materiel is the one used in the lessons.
Some intercultural exchange sessions will be organised during the camp, those session are an occasion offered by CSM to all the participants so as to present, exchange and discuss together the knowledge they got from the families

IV-Accommodation and lodging

The participants lodge and eat in special house for girls or in families during the whole period. Staying with a family is a tool for CSM to give the occasion to the participants to use the Arabic language and also to discover the Moroccan way of life. All the participants are asked to respect the families' environment and don't behave against the local tradition; they are also asked to be sociable and are open mind so as to built good and fruitful communication with their members.

L espèce humaine revêt une place très importante dans une société. Elle participe activement et à son évolution et au développement de ses ressources.
Compte tenu de l importance que joue l enfant dans ce réseau associatif, et dans le but de stimuler au maximum ses compétences créatives, qui reste aussi parmi les soucis majeurs de
l initiative nationale pour le développement humain :
Les chantiers sociaux marocains section de ZAGORA a décidé d organiser son :
Cela concerne les enfants âgés entre 6-14 ans.
Parmi les buts de ce festival :
Ouvrir devant les enfants zagoris en particulier des compétitions dignes d intérêts et qui couvrent plusieurs domaines à savoir :
• Chants et musiques.
• Ateliers de théâtre et expression.
• Dessin.
• Atelier de sensibilisation aux droits des enfants.
Il est à noter que ces compétitions s ouvrent devant tous les élèves des établissements scolaires de Zagora a partir du mois de février jusqu' au mois de mai.
La clôture sera faite les (1_2_3 mai) et connaitra l organisation d un festival durant lequel les enfants exposeront le bilan de leurs travaux ainsi que leurs inventions.
Le public profitera également à travers les expositions et les soirées organisées à l occasion.
NB : l encadrement des ateliers sera fait par des professeurs experts en la matière.

Opération Humanitaire dans des écoles sud Maroc

Le 07juillet 2008 la section chantiers sociaux marocains a reçu à l'école Claude Bernard de casa le don collectée par l association des coopératives scolaires du Maroc(A.C.S.M).
Mr Joël dechonne, président de l'association a personnellement remis le don aux représentants des chantiers sociaux marocains, Younes zekri le délégué de la section C.S.M ZAGORA et Adil Rachidi membre du C.S.M Casablanca.
Premiere étape : triage selon le type des fourniture scolaire (stylo/cartable/ feutre crayon/couleront/ trousse/règle.......etc.
Deuxième étape : Remplissage des trousses par fourniture scolaire.
Remplissage des cartables et sacs plastiques par cahiers et trousses.
La section chantier Zagora a collaborée avec les directeurs et animateurs des écoles choisis pour bénéficier de cette action humanitaire.
En général 235 élèves on bénéficier de cette opération et encore 30 enfant d une garderie d'un quartier rural DE Zagora on eu des vêtements et cartable dans le mois novembre sans oublier le don des vêtements que recevra l hôpital de Zagora pour les bébés qui viennent de naître.
Nombre général des bénéficiers : plus de 300garçons et filles.