Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 01:46 PM
Par Mohamed OUAZIZ
Sidi Slimane – The Sidi Slimane Youth Platform, set up as part of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH), provides a springboard for young women eager to see their ambitions become reality.
Its management is entrusted to two organizations: the training firm SFORHET responsible for administrative management and the reception, listening and guidance of young people, and the Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship ( MCISE) who is responsible for implementing the axis of support for the spirit of entrepreneurship among young people in its two components, pre and post business creation.
In this process, the reception of the candidate is an important first step because it makes it possible to evaluate his degree of motivation and his aptitude to embark on the entrepreneurial adventure, underlines the director of SFORHET, Abdellah Abdeljalil, in a statement to the MAP.
The firm provides the candidate with competent executives to assist him. On the basis of active listening and an objective assessment of his profile, the person concerned will be oriented either towards the creation of businesses, the search for a job opportunity or assistance in improving his income, if he is already an entrepreneur, he explains.
After the orientation phase, the MCISE intervenes to carefully study the young people’s projects and accompany them in the rest of the process, by offering two programs: the first concerns pre-creation and the second the post-creation of a business, namely, for his part, Abdelghani Raddad, a trainer from the center.
Regarding the pre-creation phase, according to Mr. Raddad, candidates follow training sessions to develop project ideas, before joining training workshops lasting three to six months, which will then be sanctioned by certificates.
For the post-creation phase, the center draws up a project plan and gathers the necessary documents for possible financing, the evaluation of which is the responsibility of a special committee which will decide on the eligibility of the projects, he specifies.
The MCISE will then support the funded projects over a period ranging from 12 months to 24 months, the objective being to guarantee the success of the projects and to develop the entrepreneurial spirit among their leaders, so that they continue to propose innovative ideas. and renewed.
Approached by the MAP, Meryam Al-Siraoui (24), initiator of a project in building architecture, confided that after obtaining a diploma in interior architecture, she decided to set up her own project.
Her ambition led her to the youth platform to propose her project. To her delight, she was granted the support and guidance necessary to make her childhood dream come true.
The idea behind this digital building modeling project that she is so passionate about is to offer her future clients three-dimensional (3D) plans, interior plans and building construction plans, while focusing on innovation and creation, she explains.
“At the beginning, I had scattered ideas, but after having benefited from training via the platform, the main lines of my project are beginning to take shape,” she rejoiced, noting that she had learned about certain projects. successful in the post-creation phase.
This ambitious young woman even invited the young people of Sidi Slimane to seize the support opportunity offered by the platform within the framework of the INDH in order to also try the experience of entrepreneurship.
For Rajaa Al-Chebba, owner of a start-up specializing in pastry, his secret lies in the natural ingredients in the making of cakes. Enough to whet the appetite of customers.
The support of the platform has been a great help for Rajaa, who now aspires to market his products in supermarkets, even abroad.
The Sidi Slimane youth platform remains a source of inspiration, innovation and initiative for these young women in the province, in order to create income-generating projects, particularly in areas that do not have a industrial fabric that can absorb young job seekers.