From 'my house' to our house

One of the Unit’s close colleagues in North Africa, Najat M’jid, who runs the Casablanca-based charity Bayti (‘my house’) is in London, this week to launch a new collection of key articles about children’s services in the global South.

Najat founded Bayti in 1993 to improve the condition of working children in Casablanca. Among the first organisations of its kind in her country, it provides a refuge and temporary accommodation for young children, as well as apartments for adolescents and help with social reintegration and rehabilitation.
 
The collection of research insights she has co-edited with Unit researcher Dwan Kaoukji locates her experience in the wider context of activity from Sudan to El Salvador, and deals with the effects of catastrophe, disease, war and poverty on children's development. They will be talking about they found, this Wednesday evening, at a reception at the Commonwealth Club.
 
Dwan Kaoukji’s involvement with the Unit arose out of its connections with the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago. Her doctoral study-in-progress, of role of NGOs as innovators, is related to her links with another of the Unit’s collaborators, the social justice charity ChildHope.
 
Najat M’jid’s UNESCO-funded work in Morocco brought her a nomination for the Chevalier de La Legion d’Honneur in France. For more about their book, which is published in the UK by Ashgate, visit this link.