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Murcia City Council contributes a further year to Saharawi children spend the summer in Murcia away from the harsh desert conditions.
More than 25 children who this year come to spend the months of July and August with families in the municipality.
Councilmember Employment, Civil Protection and Development Cooperation, Beatriz Hontoria, has welcomed the children and their foster families.
This project is called 'Holidays in Peace', an initiative of Saharawi children temporary shelter that has been developing since 1996, sponsored by the Friends of the Saharawi people and the Association Holiday Peace.
The children come from the Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria), and the goal is to spend the summer with families, living as a member, away from the harsh conditions of the camps where they live in the desert, reaching reach temperatures above 50 degrees.
The City of Murcia has contributed for years with the Sahrawi people through the financing of development cooperation projects of the Department of Employment, Civil Protection and Development Cooperation.
Murcia's cooperation has been articulated through the promotion of more than 30 projects worth almost 600,000 euros.
Most of these actions relate to the educational, social services, health, humanitarian and infrastructure.
In recent years, aid has been provided in a unique way for the construction and maintenance of water wells and the program "Holiday in peace" for children.
Also, last year the Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, received a Saharawi delegation led by its president.
Project objectives are:
- Keep away from children under the harsh conditions in refugee camps during the summer (high temperatures, water shortages, food and medicine).
- Provide the opportunity to enjoy and live for two months in a different environment to that of permanent tension arising from the refugee situation to which they are subjected.
- Provide them during their stay, as far as possible, overcoming the shortcomings of health and power bring with them.
- Enrich your knowledge of Spanish, which is the second official language of the people where they live.
- Provide know the lifestyle of a developed country.
- Invite them to live and become aware of learning in books, such as the sea, mountains, etc.
- Making your stay with us to publicize the situation of extreme insecurity in which families live and the Saharawi population in general.
- To increase mutual understanding and strengthen the traditional and historical friendship between the people of Western Sahara and the Spanish people.
Maintain and strengthen cultural ties between both peoples.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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