{"id":22625,"date":"2022-03-15T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highatlasfoundation.org\/?p=22625"},"modified":"2022-03-15T13:17:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T13:17:49","slug":"sharing-the-experience-of-the-legal-clinic-in-fez-with-the-trainees-of-the-legal-clinic-in-marrakech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/sharing-the-experience-of-the-legal-clinic-in-fez-with-the-trainees-of-the-legal-clinic-in-marrakech\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing the Experience of the Legal Clinic in Fez with the Trainees of the Legal Clinic in Marrakech"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Amina El Hajjami<\/span><\/i>
\nHAF Director of Programs<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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It has become a certainty that access to legal information is nowadays paramount, and with it, the idea of \u200b\u200ba legal clinic has become the right way to deliver this knowledge with the aim of promoting the rights of vulnerable and weak groups of individuals in our society.<\/span><\/p>\n

First of all, the concept of legal clinics as an experiment, dates back historically to American society, and then it began to appear in other societies. Moroccan society, like other societies, has adopted this experience as a modern and new one, and it has not yet been generalized in order to create a kind of interaction between theoretical and applied study in professions, especially those of a legal nature. Of course, the Moroccan university has adopted the experience of the legal clinic in order to open up to Moroccan society as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this context, Ms. Amina El Hajjami, High Atlas Foundation (HAF) Project Manager of the Legal Clinic in Marrakech (University of Cadi Ayyad, Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences) held a remote communication dialogue with members of HAF\u2019s Legal Clinic in Fez, in coordination with its Project Manager, Mrs. Basma Okbi, and including the Marrakech Legal Clinic\u2019s trainees. The aim of sharing the experience of the Fez clinic was to generalize the experiences and expertise of the trainees so they could gain various skills and learn how these clinics operate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. Okbi presented herself, explaining that she has been implementing HAF\u2019s Legal Clinic in Fez and that she and its members felt fortunate to attend this networking meeting in order to exchange knowledge and experiences with the Marrakesh clinic\u2019s trainees. She added that the one in Fez was launched in October 2019 by volunteer students from the <\/span>USMBA<\/span> in partnership with HAF and funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) between the U.S. and the Middle East (MEPI). It works on five axes: immigration, asylum, human trafficking, family mediation, and entrepreneurship. It also focuses on supervising students in strengthening their abilities through a variety of courses offered throughout their training period in the legal clinic. Its tasks are to provide free legal aid to families, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and victims of human trafficking. They have signed several partnership agreements with the various actors involved in its fields of operation, whether in the public or private sectors, and they also assist holders of entrepreneurial projects, improving the beneficiaries’ access to the labor market, within the framework of the participatory approach.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Fez Legal Clinic contributed to the training of 40 students in 2019\/2020, 41 students in 2020\/2021, and more than 90 students in 2022. It conducted more than 18 training courses dealing with different topics.<\/span><\/p>\n

With regard to the files and cases that were worked on in the clinic, 85 cases were opened, including the following:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n