The Fondation Orient-Occident works to consolidate a social and cultural connection between the multiple realities of the Mediterranean region as well as between African cultures , and thus aims at mediating and promoting a point of encounter between them. The Foundation is also committed to the issues of unemployment and of migrants and refugees integration into Moroccan society. For this reason, it provides disadvantaged Moroccans, Sub-Saharan migrants and refugees with vocational training courses, social and psychological support but also a wide range of intercultural activities.
Interculturality is the transversal approach to most of our activities and projects, interventions and initiatives: from migration to education, from development to employability, to empowerment and protection. Diversity is the tool for the protection and defense of human rights.
In fact, we believe that the integration of migrants should pass through the valorization of their persona from an holistic point of view, which comprises the social, psychological, economic but also the cultural aspect. This is the model that the Fondation Orient-Occident proposes and that it aims at transposing to other, diverse social realities. This model is based on a work at a dual level: on the one hand a work of protection and safeguard, on the other a work of valorization and expression of cultural identity.
Interculturality also allows migrants and refugees to express skills that can represent an added value for the hosting society, highlighting the potentialities within people beyond categorizations, thus countering negative narratives. The Fondation Orient-Occident has as its objective the deconstruction of the prejudices associated to the image of “the other”: “the other” should in fact not be seen as a threat, but as a precious resource.
What we do
Migrants du Monde – Atelier of embroidery and couture
The Festival Rabat Africa
Cultural expression and the safeguard of cultural identity
