Final grant update: 5 new clubs and 25 new volunteers!!!

Last month I closed out the Developing Sports and Games Club Grant with the Peace Corps. This will be my last grant update as I will be closing my service in April. I am proud to say that grant goals and objectives were achieved! Before the Developing Sports and Games Club Grant, the youth of…

Establishing a library!

Last Friday the director of the youth center, the library club, the new Peace Corps volunteer at my site, Liz, and I held the grand opening of the new library at the youth center! The library is one of the projects that I am most proud of. As the Peace Corps librarian M’hamed said, “a…

Dar shebab and markaz update and Supporting People with Special Needs workshop

It’s been a while since I’ve posted! I was on vacation most of August and September in Spain. The village was dead with the intense summer heat. I didn’t see anyone out and about until 6pm. Lots of people traveled to see family in duars (farming villages), Marrakesh, or coastal towns (Agadir, Casablanca, and Rabat).…

Library workshop

Peace Corps Morocco (PC-M) organizes trainings led by Peace Corps (PC) staff and other professionals over the course of the year for Peace Corps volunteers (PCVs) and their Moroccan counterparts, like the Life skills and leadership training I went to last October with Souhaib. The trainings help to start new programs and projects in dar…

Grant update since January

Thank you again to everyone who donated in December and January to the grant/project to help build the capacity of the clubs at the youth center! Before we finished fundraising, in early January, my counterpart Souhaib started the Peace Corps and USAID Life Skills and Leadership program (we had attended a facilitator’s training in October)…