Recently, a friend of mine saw this article on Al Jazeera English and asked me if that’s really what I saw in Morocco - and the answer was, unfortunately, yes.  Homeless or street children are just unbearably commonplace in Morocco, and there are precious few programs to help them.  Most Moroccans I’ve spoken to about this issue say that there are simply other issues to deal with, including their own or those of their families.  Although Moroccans are very generous and often philanthropic people (though not in the Western sense, necessarily), most of their zakat (charity, a pillar of Islam) tends to go to the mosque, or feeding people in their neighborhood, or buying a sheep for a family for Aid El Kabir (which I personally find far less important than say, getting kids off the streets, but to each their own).

Anyhow, an excellent article that shows where the problems truly lie for the newly elected parliamentarians.  If only more journalists would dare to draw attention to this issue.