Services
Internships
The Center for Cross Cultural Learning in collaboration with Thaqafat Association is providing virtual and in-person internships in various fields in Morocco as follows:
Contact us on cccl@cccl.ma for more information.
Topic: Children’s Education
Required languages: Intermediate level of Arabic and/or French.
Internship overview:
You will gain an international experience in working with children. You will provide assistance in a different range of environments; community NGOs, schools, day care centers, orphanages, autistic children and many more. You will work with children from underprivileged neighbourhoods through organizing and engaging in activities to entertain them and help develop their cognitive skills. Duties vary depending on the projects but in general, they involve giving important attention, provide educational support, teaching basic English, physical development activities (music, dance, toys, and games), and arts and craft (painting and drawing) and assisting with daily operations.
Possible tasks:
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Design and facilitate workshops in drawing, manual work activities, educational gamification etc.
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Offering academic support, and occasional childcare.
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You can also assist in summer camps, during the school holidays.
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Have at least an intermediate level of Arabic and/or French.
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Other tasks will be assigned in relation to what you will do
Topic: Medical and Health care
Required languages: French & English
Internship overview:
This internship program offers a wide range of opportunities for students and recent graduates with health educational background to gain insight into the technical and administrative programmes of NGOs and heath care organizations and enrich their knowledge and experience in various areas, and contributing in supporting humanitarian programs that serves directly the Moroccan population in distress. One of the primary duties is to help your experienced physician or supervisor who work closely with the patients to serve their needs. During this period, the intern must rotate in various fields of specialties or departments to gain more experience, observe and learn through it
Possible tasks:
• Support medical professionals who serve Health Rights
• Assist where needed and keep an open mind. Help proofread English documents
• Interns shadow and assist local staff and may have scope to rotate through a range of departments.
• Assist and help organize events and workshops
• Interns should not expect to work “hands on” with patients.
Topic: Tourism and hospitality
Required languages: French and English
Internship overview:
This internship will make you gain a unique international work experience and enriching opportunity if you are passionate about exploring diverse cultures while gaining practical experience in the dynamic field of travel and hospitality. You will be working in once of various features tourism industry like hotel management, event planning, reservations, customer service, developing marketing used by businesses, rental services and cultural exchange. As an intern you will collaborate with tourism organizations, hotels, restaurants, and travel agencies
Possible tasks:
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Working closely with vendors on event planning tasks
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organizing marketing projects.
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Creating and developing itineraries based on customer request
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Managing the agency's website, running social media accounts
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Providing customer service when booking reservations and researching itineraries for customers
Topic: Women Empowerment
Required languages: French and English
Internship overview:
Ultimately this internship helps to improve women’s standard of living, self-confidence, and encourages them to be independent and to generate income of their own. There are many projects that encourage women’s education and financial independence. Such projects aim to educate women and girls who are otherwise deprived of education and training. This is a great project to learn about women’s lifestyles, promote sexual and reproductive health, social implementation, rights and the laws concerning women in Morocco. You will feel as if you can make a difference in this project as you will be helping the association protecting their rights by helping them in a variety of daily tasks.
Possible assigned tasks:
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Working on Marketing and Social medial of their host organizations.
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Proofreading English documents
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Writing and editing articles in English.
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Possibly teach English classes for the staff
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Get involved with the local NGOs on the management and administrative side of the project.
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Assist in organizing events
Topic: Human Rights
Required languages: French and English
Internship overview:
Intern with one of the organizations and NGOs that strive to promote gender equality through education with human rights values; monitoring and condemning all violations of human rights as well as carrying out advocacy and solidarity acts with their victims.
You will learn from those organizations that protect human rights through recognition of equality, freedom of expression, and more. As an intern you will support professional advocates in their provision of services such as social assistance, education, vocational training, support and more. Gain an understanding of how to support and advocate for vulnerable communities. You will learn about human rights issues in Morocco and how strategies are put in place to make a difference, and develop practical NGO experience for career development.
Possible assigned tasks:
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Work on projects suggested by the host organization
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Write articles in English and proofread documents
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Organizing and/or teaching workshops and English lessons (possibly)
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Produce content both on and offline to raise awareness and support.
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Assisting with content creation and digital communications for social media platforms and newsletters.
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Development of outreach strategies for seeking grants, funding, and other support.
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Planning and designing community events, according to organizational priorities.
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Administrative support including logistics preparation for the campaign
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Marketing and advertising
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IT support / help in technical preparations of meetings
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Contribute in the assistance of the team preparations
Topic: Social Entrepreneurship
Required languages: French & English
Internship overview:
As an intern you will help the entrepreneurs who contribute in reducing and generating social problems, through capacity building and mentorship, focusing on youth and sensibilize them. The goal is to increase youth employability and economic inclusion in the society and give a path out of poverty for less fortunate societies with limited job opportunities for youth and increased the rate immigration. In Morocco entrepreneurship is a way to increase youth employability and economic participation in the society. It gives them new hope in building their lifestyle and becoming more stable and dependent. You will gain deep knowledge in the work of social enterprises in Morocco and understand the social needs.
Possible tasks:
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Marketing, creation of e-commerce website and development of a business model
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Help organize workshop
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Participate in practical workshops and follow-up activities
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Work with small business workers and help structure and accelerate their businesses, strengthen their communication and technological skills and create links with market opportunities.
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Work on social media
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Work on data base
Topic: Research Centers
Required languages: French & English
Internship overview:
Through this internship you will have the opportunity to work closely with a researcher or research team who work on different fields like sociology, social human behaviour, anthropology, political science, history, international relation, policy, women studies and disciplines. If you are looking for a way to make your experience in social science stand out, this is a great internship that will help you develop your sense of reflection, cross-cultural interpersonal abilities and multicultural awareness.
Possible tasks:
• Proof reading documents and research papers
• Summarizing books and reviews
• Preparing reports and briefings by using English documents and references
• IT support / help in technical preparations of meetings
• Oher tasks will be assigned by the supervisor depending on the needs
Topic: Social Media development
Required languages: French & English
Internship overview:
Internships in Media provide essential real-world experience, come prepared to challenge your mindset and cultural assumptions, as you learn from others who have diverse backgrounds and voices. You will contribute to the media scene through projects related to humanitarian and development.
The tasks or media projects can vary, depending on your internship placement and dynamic priorities. However, the key is to find information and present it creatively, through diverse platforms. Come prepared to take on different challenges. You may anticipate activities related to content creation, copywriting, digital marketing, graphic design, customer acquisition strategies, and more.
Possible tasks:
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Write and publish relevant content and produce illustrations for social media posts, website updates.
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Editing online articles and blogs for different NGOs, Social Enterprises and private companies in Morocco.
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Assist and learn from local marketers, media professionals in Morocco.
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Contribute your own original articles and videos for news publication.
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Gain a contemporary understanding of digital marketing strategies and implementation.
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Explore all the attractions of Rabat and the beauty of wider Morocco.
Topic: Journalism and Media
Required languages: English and some French
Internship overview:
Journalism is a dynamic and multi-layered field, where truth is reported in real-time. As an intern you will have the opportunity to report and write articles that will be published in the website and be immersed in a wide range of journalistic duties, including creating and editing content, curating social media posts, conducting interviews, sourcing photos, as well as researching and fact-checking. You will help your team to report on current events and news which will help you as an intern to gain first-hand experience and develop useful skills, your knowledge, experiencing new country culture and language.
The internship will be arranged based on the students’ skills and experience. You need to have some knowledge of French and a background in journalism and a good grasp of English.
Possible tasks:
• Write well-constructed articles based on reliable information
• Research materials and fact-checking data
• Show up at press releases and other related events
• Proofread and edit news pieces to improve its contents
• Suggest ideas for headlines
• Assist in research and verifying facts
• Able to meet daily deadlines
Topic: Computer science
Required languages: French and English
Internship overview:
This internship will offer you a valuable experience and skills while working with professional in the field and contribute in their work.
As an intern, you should have background in some technical skills such as programming language, project management, data analysis.
Possible tasks :
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Participating in meetings with supervisors, staff, and clients
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Testing softwares
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Contributing design to computer programs
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Troubleshooting problems with software and hardware
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Testing programs and apps
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Working with programming languages such as C++, Python, and Java
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Researching technology needs for clients
Topic: Environment
Required languages: French and English
Internship overview:
As an intern you will gain a positive experience and bring different skills and ideas into the organisation. You will have the opportunity to be provided with experience in sustainable development and contribute in the preservation of the well-being of human population and animals in relation to nature through the improvement of ecological knowledge, environmental education and public awareness, design and application of technical tools and reference systems, and environmental assessments.
Possible tasks:
• Work closely with colleagues and experts in Morocco and help in the projects and sensibilisation
• Work on data base
• Make research and write reports
• Precise details of projects and tasks would depend on the timing, and on the intern’s skills and interests.
Topic: Architecture
Required languages: French and English
Internship overview:
This internship provides the perfect opportunity to put into practice what you have learned in the classroom such as planification method, design and construction.
You will meat and support professionals who work on high quality projects for the clients. You will help in consulting a wide range of architecture projects, assist in all phases of design, preparation and submission of proposals
As an intern, you will have a variety of tasks that may include documentation, administrative support, research, client consultant, drafting designs and follow up.
Possible tasks:
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Performing project research
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Help creating designs and models with help of program
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Administrative support
Topic: Teaching languages
Required languages: Notions of French and English
Internship overview:
Teaching English, or French or Spanish to students with different levels from different social backgrounds. Interns will learn more about youth and the educational system of Morocco from this internship. This experience will help you grow personally and develop you soft skills. You will be a cultural ambassador. Share your traditions with your new community. You do NOT need to know Arabic to join this internship. You would be teaching children from 10-16 years old with basic to intermediate level of English, French, or Spanish. Working in this would allow you to understand the education system in Morocco and at the same time help out the children in need of a better education. You are open to teaching and do other activities. You will be placed in the community, NGO or schools, which do not have the manpower or resources to provide good English, French, or Spanish teachers to the students.
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Preparing lesson plans
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Implementation of new ideas and teaching methods
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Helping with general work, translations and proofreading documents
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Working on social media
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Helping in improving the vocabulary of the students
