“Clandestine” a theatre play on the risks of irregular migration

The information campaign on the risks of irregular migration of the project SafeJourney, carried out by the Italian NGO Progettomondo and co-financed by the European Union, continues with the presentation of a theatre play “Clandestine” on 28 January 2022 at 5pm at the Maison des Jeunes de Khouribga.

International Migrants Day: Music, dance and games to celebrate diversity!

On 18 December 2021, the non-governmental organisation Progettomondo, in collaboration with the “Alphas Attitude” club of the National School of Commerce and Management of the Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Béni Mellal, commemorated International Migrants Day in the university campus.

Over 12,000 migrants intercepted in Morocco in 2021

Since the beginning of 2021, Moroccan police have arrested more than 12,000 people trying to leave the country using irregular forms of migration. According to their own reports, they have also dismantled 150 smuggling networks.

Morocco’s Directorate General of National Security said in a statement carried by the country’s official MAP agency that it had detained “415 organisers and mediators and 12,231 candidates for illegal immigration.”

Spanish police rescue 105 migrants in tiny boat off West African coast

Spanish police said Tuesday that they rescued 105 migrants who were adrift at sea in a small boat between the Canary Islands and the West African coast.

They had been at sea for more than two weeks but were still 440 miles from the Spanish Canary Islands and 160 miles from Nouadhibou, Mauritania.

When Spanish police arrived, many people could not walk due to exhaustion and dehydration.

Artistic competition on migration

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Roundtables and Open days

A series of discussion and awareness-raising initiatives on concrete alternatives to irregular migration were organised by the Employment and Training network of the SafeJourney project.

More migrants taking dangerous maritime journey to Spain’s Canary Islands 4 babies, several others have died in recent weeks

The Spanish coast guard rescued 137 migrants who were attempting to reach the Canary Islands overnight, the emergency services said Thursday.

A pregnant woman was taken to a hospital, but the rest managed to survive the treacherous journey that has claimed hundreds of lives so far this year.

A football match, an exhibition and a film: three appointments to send a message about the risks of irregular migration in Morocco.

As part of an “Information Campaign on the Risks of Irregular Migration” within the project SafeJourney, three appointments were organised by Progettomondo in the town of Béni Mellal from the 20^th to 23^rd of September.

150 migrants storm border with Spain’s Melilla enclave

• 90 migrants managing to cross from Morocco into Melilla at a point where the border fence crosses the Nano river
• Melilla and Ceuta, another Spanish territory in North Africa, have the European Union’s only land borders with Africa

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Training cycle on the prevention of irregular migration among young people in the Casablanca-Settat region

Empowering the capabilities of institutional organizations and associations working in education by promoting inclusive and social development for the young generations.Lire la suite