With the aim to help ex-convicts to integrate family, social and professional life, the new center includes job search and project elaboration workshops, led respectively by the National Agency for the Promotion of Employment and Skills (ANAPEC) and the Banque Populaire Foundation for micro-loans, in partnership with the Mohammed VI Foundation for the reintegration of prisoners.
Like the ones already set up in Salé, Casablanca, Agadir, Oujda and Marrakech, the center lends support to ex-prisoners willing to start their own project, developed according to a diagnosis made during the period of detention with the assistance of the reintegration preparation service.
This service ensures the implementation of an integrated program to provide prisoners with expertise, knowledge and the tools for an effective reintegration into society and the job market. This phase is a prerequisite for admission to post-prison services.
Post-prison centers across the nation in 2012, helped launch 604 self-employment projects, placed 1082 ex-convicts in partner companies, put another 700 in youth training centers of the Office for Vocational Training and Labor promotion (OFPPT), in addition to the integration of 400 children in school after their release.
On this occasion, HM the King handed over 675k-dirhams checks and various equipment to 26 ex-prisoners who identified projects after detention.
A budget of 2 million dirhams has been allocated with the support of the National Initiative for Human Development to set up projects aimed to help beneficiaries of the Fez post-prison support center to access the job market.