Kafala

Articles

• Morocco Pushes to Streamline Kafala Adoption Process for Abandoned Children
  26 February 2021, by Ginette

  Several officials participated, on Thursday in Rabat, in a study day on the promotion of Kafala. The participants pleaded for the facilitation of adoption procedures for the best interests of abandoned children.
  "We must activate the laws relating to Kafala and further facilitate its procedures, because the ordinary place of abandoned children is within the family," said the Minister of Solidarity, Social Development, Equality and Family, Jamila El Moussali, on the sidelines of this (…)

• Belgian Adoption Practices in Morocco Raise Ethical Concerns, Official Reports
  24 November 2022, by Prince

  The president of the Flemish Youth Council, Amir Bachrouri, was on a business trip to Fez, Morocco during the autumn holidays. On this occasion, he made a surprising discovery in an orphanage.
  During his visit, Bachrouri went to an orphanage and discovered that a large part of the children placed in this center are not orphans, but rather children in extreme poverty or conceived out of wedlock, he writes in his biweekly column in Knack.
  The director of the orphanage confides that he (…)