XICS Senegal (Richard Toll)

XICS Senegal (Richard Toll)

• Location
  Richard Toll is a city with 120,000 inhabitants located in the province of Saint-Louis, in the Senegal Sahel, ten minuets from the border with Mauritania.
  Its source of income comes from the sugar industry, which provides approximately 5,000 jobs in the area. The region, which is separated from Mauritania only by a river, is a home to families that flew from the internal conflict in Mauritania to seek refuge in Senegal. Many of these families have members with public health problems such as malaria, malnutrition, diarrhea illnesses and HIV/AIDS.
  
• Beneficiaries
  El centro acoge 360 niños de entre 6 y 18 años. Los beneficiarios provienen de familias numerosas en las que los menores no tienen acceso a la mayoría de los servicios sociales y sanitarios. Además, el centro acoge a 30 niños ‘talibés’ de dos ‘daaras’ -escuelas coránicas- que están excluidos del sistema escolar y de los servicios públicos generales.
  
• Infrastructures and activities
  Among the activities developed are five vocational workshops on sewing, hairdressing, horticulture, mechanics, electronics and construction works. The centre has carried out literacy lessons in French and Arabic for youths participating in these workshops and school reinforcement session to prepare children at school for their exams. Every three months the centre organised sports tournaments involving other clubs from the region.
  
• Co-executing entity
  ASBEF
• Co-financing entities
  AECID
  Nike
• Collaborating entities
  Richard Toll City Council
  Foundation Barcelona Sida 2002