Education grants · Morocco
€100,000 grants for education in High Atlas (Al Haouz), Morocco.
Mountain villages rebuilding after the September 2023 Al Haouz earthquake. Many primary schools collapsed; classes still run in tents.
Context
On 8 September 2023 a magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck Al Haouz province, south of Marrakesh, killing nearly 3,000 people and damaging more than 500 schools across the High Atlas. Two years on, many of those schools are still operating from prefabricated cabins and tents while permanent reconstruction works through ministry timelines.
Education in the Atlas was already fragile before the earthquake. Children in many villages speak Tamazight at home and encounter classroom instruction in Modern Standard Arabic — a gap that widens through the early grades. Add altitude, snow, distance to the nearest collège, and the result is a high drop-out rate, especially among girls.
The Foundation funds local organisations doing the patient work of keeping children in school through the rebuild — bilingual literacy support, after-school programmes, transport, and learning materials.
Funding priorities
What we'd fund in Morocco.
A non-exhaustive list. Bring us what your community needs and we will read the application carefully.
- Bilingual Tamazight–Arabic literacy programmes for early-grade children.
- After-school support and reading kits in earthquake-affected villages.
- Transport and boarding for girls continuing to lower-secondary school.
- Teacher training for educators working in temporary classrooms.
Eligibility
We fund registered organisations only — NGOs, schools, and social enterprises — whose work is education-focused, broadly defined, and whose project operates in High Atlas (Al Haouz), Morocco.
Applicants need to be able to submit a short monthly progress report in English or French. We do not fund religious instruction, political campaigning, or for-profit ventures.
Apply when the first round opens.
Applications open in early 2027. Read the full criteria and join the waitlist now — we will email you the day applications open with a direct link to the form.
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