Through its Corporate Social Responsibility in Morocco, Unitours Maroc is proud to have set up with some clients several social projects to help local associations improving the daily life of disabled persons, and of school children in Marrakech itself but also in the Atlas mountains and in the South.

Here are some actions we could take before, during and after your event:

• Painting and repairs in homes of elderly people,
• Give baby diapers and baby milk to orphanages,
• Refurbishment of a reading & library project for challenged young children,
• Use the bike as a mode of transport for one of the groups tours rather than using a coach,
• Have your guests bring a toy from their local area and have this donated to a local school or children’s hospital,
• Use more environmentally friendly lighting for your events ie. LED lights,
• Set up an App / Website for your event rather than sending a lot of paperwork to your guests will all of the information on the App or Website,
• On the return journey to the airport collect your guests remaining Dirhams and donate the Dirhams to a nominated charity.

We will be happy to work with anyone wanting to include responsible tourism during his stay in Morocco.

Restore a local school

Public schools in Morocco lack resources; they have problems that make it hard for students to excel. Low participation rates in education persist in all parts of the country, although they are slowly improving, rising from 49.7 per cent in 2007-2008 to 56 per cent in 2010-2011. This project aims to increase young boy and girls attendance in a school.

Building dreams in a berber village: creating a Playground

This picture of these teenagers building a playground in a poor rural village is helpful to make the kids dream come true. Your work will involve manual labor in order to create a playground for the villages’s children or for a school’s children. You will also work on preparing a courtyard space by removing the rocky uneven ground, laying a cement floor and then creating and equipping a beautiful, fun and safe place for children or students to play. It is not necessary that you have any experience in construction work.

An exciting element of a construction project like this is that you, your group members and the people of your host village will see a playground come into being before your eyes !

Provide solar-panel driven water pumps

Support a project to provide solar-panel driven water pumps in a berber village in the Atlas Mountains, a zone that is facing extreme poverty but also has a development potential. It is a mountainous, rangelands with poor productivity and rain-fed agricultural zone in hinterland near Marrakech.

Solar energy could enable the water tower to provide water to all the houses of this village. This project is designed to achieve sustainable improvement in the quality of villager’s life through cleaner water to drink and to help agriculture through more irrigation.