The Womanity Foundation, through its local partner – Institution Nationale de Solidarité avec les Femmes en Détresse (INSAF) – has been working in Chichaoua since 2005. This is one of the main poor rural regions from where many of Morocco’s ‘little maids’ are recruited, usually by brokers, to work in middle class urban households. The project has 3 key goals: Firstly, to help 100% of the ’little maids’ identified to return home and attend school. Material support for 90% of these girls is aimed at enabling them to graduate from secondary school.  The second goal is about ending child labour and discrimination against ’little maids’ by raising awareness about the dangers. This targets children, their families and local communities.  The project lobbies provincial, regional and national authorities to adopt a framework to protect children from falling into labour situations, especially domestic ones.

Through INSAF, Womanity currently supports 165 former ‘little maids’ as part of this project. These girls are enrolled to attend school and are being supported with scholarships, school materials or food.