Salé, a small city opposite the kings city and capital of Morocco, Rabat acts as a commuter town made of high-rise flats and make shift houses that has fallen far behind its progressive neighbour just across the river. High unemployment and very limited options for support countless means kids and young adults are unable to be given the help they need to climb out of the cycle of poverty that has trapped so many who live here.
Many of the students came off of the streets or from families who are unable to care for them properly and have been at the school since they were young kids finding an important network of friends in the school who become their family and help take the steps to a normal adult life after many of them have had such turbulent childhoods.