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Doing Gods Work in Ghana
Action Child Mobilisation
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Happy New Year and God Bless you!
We at ACM Ghana want to take this time and wish you all a Happy New Year. May 2008 be a year of bountiful blessings from our Heavenly Father. Our prayer is that you will be blessed and filled with God's love, joy & peace.
We pray that you will grow in wisdom, knowledge and in understanding that you might be complete in Christ. May this new year be a time of personal growth as you spend time in the Word of God and in Prayer as you seek & find the Will of God for your lives.
At this time we want to say thank you for your faithful gifts to ACM Ghana. Because of the gifts that come in we are able to continue on in our work with providing for our Orphans, indeed God is supplying our every need and is making it possible for us to continue to house, clothe and feed our PAMA Kids.
This past year alone you have assisted ACM Ghana and provided financial assistance that sent Pastor Francis on several Missionary journeys and made it possible for Pastor Francis to attend both the Pastoral and Teacher Training seminars that were offered this past year.
On behalf of Pastor Francis Opoku and his family we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support and your sacrificial gifts to our ministry. It is faithful partners like you who assist us to continue on our journey to spread the Word of God to the people God directs us too.
We at ACM Ghana wish you God's Best throughout the year of 2008. Our thoughts and prayers go with you always.
In His Service,
Mama Akua, (Mama Judith Scott)
Communications Officer for ACM Ghana
Mama Akua (Mama Judith Scott)
Communitations Officer for ACM Ghana
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Canadian Office Telephone Number: 1-604-942-1289
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edited by Action Child Mobilisation on 1/1/2008
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topic:
Teaching in Morroco
Mufasa
Posts 2
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1.Cities:
Casa is a big, noisy, crowded city with a terrible traffic problem. Certainly it's not everybody's cup of tea but it does have some good, reputable language schools. In order of size: the ALC, then probably BPEC, Amideast, and the British Centre. Lots of smaller places, too, but you'd do well to avoid them.
Rabat is much more manageable in terms of size and a generally nicer place to live. It also has the ALC, British Council, and Amideast. These are pretty much the only three schools to even consider, but there are lots of other smaller operations. Proformation (advertising for teachers on this site) teaches businessmen in France on-line. It's sure not the same as teaching Moroccans in a classroom, but it's still a job.
Marrakesh, Fes, Agadir, Tangier, and Meknes all have pretty good-sized ALCs that hire native speaking teachers. For people interested in being in places that at least look more traditional, Marrakesh and Fes would lead the list. ALC Fes also has an Arabic language program.
In Ifrane, of course, there's the Akhawayne University with its language center. You'll need at least an MA to teach there and because Ifrane is isolated, way up in the Middle Atlas mountains, some people have gotten a little cabin fever working there. But it's a well-equipped place with trees and forests nearby and very clean air (kind of the opposite of Casa!)
2. Requirements: these are getting tighter and tighter because of the ever-growing pool of teachers out there and also Moroccan employment laws. To get a work permit to teach English from the Moroccan Ministry of Labor, you need at least a real BA or BS degree. Foreign applicants now have their dossiers submitted to a new office called ANAPEC which makes sure you're not taking a job that a Moroccan could do and that you have the right diplomas. Then the dossier goes to the MOL who issue you your work permit (which makes you legal and allows you to get residence card). Any reputable school in the country takes care of this process for its visiting teachers.
A new requirement for residence that I've heard about in some places is a police record showing that you are not a criminal. This is supposed to come from the last city where you lived in your home country. Americans can also get one from the FBI (if you really want to get involved with them).
Another thing is age: the official retirement age in Morocco is 60 and Morocco won't issue a work permit to foreigners who are that age or even 59.
3. Why Morroco? There's been a lot of talk in this forum about why in the world someone would want to teach in Morocco. Putting personal reasons aside, I would say that Moroccan students can be some of the best language learners in the world. So if you were new to teaching, for example, wanted international experience, and wanted to teach in a classroom where ---for the most part---the students were willing to make an effort, to participate, to take risks, and had a lot of motivation to acquire English, then Morocco would be, IMHO, a good place to teach for while. If, however, it's just about making as much money as you can in the shortest time possible, there are many other places to go in the world. And if it's about a particular kind of cultural experience, then that goes back to personal reasons which have made up the majority of postings on this Forum.
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