There were initial efforts to repair and protect them in the 2000s, including from the World Monuments Fund, but they then suffered from further vandalism.[1] In particular, serious damage was done to the Sba'iyyin Madrasa in 2009 when looters removed two carved wooden beams and some of the marble columns that held up the gallery balcony, causing the second floor of the gallery to collapse.[4][6] The two madrasas were more recently repaired and restored by the local heritage agency ADER-Fès and reopened in 2017, as part of a wider program of rehabilitation for Fes el-Bali which started in 2013.[7][8]