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The Plenary Hall of the City of Murcia has welcomed this morning's reception every year makes Saharawi children who come to Murcia to spend the summer holidays.
This time, 156 children are spending their holidays in the Region of Murcia, of which 23 will stay with host families in the municipality of Murcia.
Councilwoman Equality Policy and Development Cooperation, Alice Waterman, has been this morning with the children in the Plenary Hall, where he has been able to share impressions and the preferences that these children have of Murcia.
This project is called 'Holidays in Peace', an initiative under temporary host Sahrawi been developing since 1996, sponsored by the Friends of the Saharawi people and Peace Tourism Association.
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 been contributing for years with the Sahrawi people through the financing of development cooperation projects of the Department of Political Equality and Development Cooperation.
The objectives of this project are:
- Zoom to children under the harsh living 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 situation of refuge to which they are subjected.
- Provide them during their stay, as far as possible, overcoming the shortcomings of health and power with which they arrive.
- Enrich your knowledge of Spanish, which is the second official language of the people where they live.
- Let them know about the lifestyle of a developed country.
- Invite them to live and become aware of learning in books, such as the sea, mountains, etc..
- Take advantage of your stay with us to raise awareness of the extremely precarious situation in which families live and the Saharawi population in general.
- To increase mutual understanding and enhance traditional and historical friendship between the Saharawi people and the Spanish people.
- Maintain and strengthen cultural ties between both peoples.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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