فاس نيوز ميديا جريدة الكترونية جهوية تعنى بشؤون و أخبار جهة فاس مكناس – متجددة على مدار الساعة
Fes – November 24, 2025
With temperatures dropping to record levels in the Fes-Meknes region, human rights and civil society activists have launched an urgent distress call to save hundreds of homeless people – children, youth, and elderly men and women – who have made streets, sidewalks, and parks their shelter in the cities of Fes, Meknes, Taza, Ifrane, Sefrou, and others.
This vulnerable group is living in deplorable humanitarian conditions, where many sleep on the ground or under bridges or in building entrances, without adequate blankets or regular food, exposing their lives to the risk of death from cold or diseases related to the harsh cold that characterizes this region every winter.
Human rights sources told the newspaper:
“The situation can no longer tolerate delay. We receive daily distress calls from citizens who see children and elderly people shivering from cold in the streets. There are people who have been sleeping in the open for weeks, and some are in critical health condition. If the authorities do not intervene immediately, we will record deaths, God forbid, within the next few days.”
Urgent Demands Raised by Human Rights Activists:
- Opening immediate emergency shelters in all provinces and prefectures of the region,
- Providing blankets, hot meals, and field medical services,
- Activating winter social support programs announced by the Ministry of Solidarity in recent years,
- Urgent coordination between the regional council, provinces, and associations to count homeless people and shelter them before the expected polar cold wave arrives.
The Fes-Meknes region is considered one of the coldest Moroccan regions in winter, where temperatures sometimes drop below zero, especially in Ifrane and Middle Atlas areas, making homelessness in the streets a direct threat to life.
The ball is now in the court of local authorities, the regional council, and the Regional Directorate of Solidarity and Social Integration to act quickly before a humanitarian catastrophe occurs.
