In the few years prior to 1996, the founding members of A.M.E.S.I.P. Found the ever-increasing number of children riding the streets of Rabat during school hours, indulging in multiple parallel activities … Many of them had begun to engage in various forms of drug abuse: inhalation Hallucinogens, psychotropic consumption. Most were covered with vermin and often sick.
A survey to determine their geographical origin was carried out, all had left school prematurely or had never attended school. Since the founding of the A.M.E.S.I.P. we have organized a survey, the results of which showed us how to act effectively against this phenomenon of “precarious children”.
Very succinctly, this survey revealed the following points:
The vast majority of these children came mainly from Salé and partly from certain peripheral districts of Rabat. All these children had a family of close relatives but the family ties were loose or almost non-existent.
The percentage of girls compared to boys was very low (about 6%).
The range of ages ranged from 6-16 years with a “peak” around 11-14 years.
These findings led us to set up reception centers and training centers for these children in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods