Amane Foundation for Child Protection in Taroudant (FAPE)

Located at the foot of the High Atlas mountains in Taroudant province, the Amane Foundation for Child Protection (FAPE, non-profit associative entity) answers acute challenges of rural poverty, child vulnerability, and geographic isolation across the Souss plain. The facility provides a loving, well-equipped residential environment for abandoned newborns and young children placed under protective court orders.

FAPE's hallmark lies in proactive community-based prevention. Rather than functioning solely as an orphanage, its teams conduct field missions into remote rural villages to identify isolated mothers in distress, prevent infant abandonment, and deliver material aid. Furthermore, the organization carefully oversees legal kafala placements to ensure children join loving, stable families.

Round-the-clock medical nursery providing residential care for infants and young children aged zero to six without parental support.
Daily pediatric monitoring, nutritional surveillance, psychomotor therapy, and early emotional nurturing.
Emergency maternal assistance and crisis counseling preventing infant abandonment among destitute rural mothers.
Distribution of infant formula, diapers, clothing, and staple food parcels to vulnerable mountain families.
Thorough social and legal processing for kafala adoptions and post-placement welfare follow-up visits.
Mobile rural medical and child health screening caravans reaching isolated mountain communities.
Psycho-educational support and specialized care for institutionalized children with physical or developmental challenges.

Infant residential admissions are ordered by the Public Prosecutor or juvenile court judges at the Taroudant Court of First Instance. Maternal relief and child support are granted following casework assessments at Bab Zorgane. All services are free.

The staff includes experienced round-the-clock infant nursery nurses, pediatric nurses, a licensed social worker, a clinical psychologist, and partner volunteer pediatricians.

Partner of the Taroudant Court of First Instance, Entraide Nationale, Provincial Health Directorate, INDH, Taroudant Provincial Administration, and international child welfare alliances.