The Saharawi children who have spent this summer in Cantabria.
After two months of summer holidays with their families host Sahrawi children who arrive each summer to Cantabria through the program ‘Holidays in Peace’ return to their homes in the Tindouf camps (Algeria).
What will this Monday from the car park of the Campos de Sport de El Sardinero. There has been summoned to their host families at 14.00 to move to small and fired them.
Around 15.00, the bus will head to the airport Aviles, where tonight, at 21.20 hours scheduled departure of the charter flight of Air Algerie that will take them to Algeria, and from there will be transferred to the camps with their families.
This year, after a call to increase their welcome, the two organizations responsible, Cantabria for the Sahara and Alouda Cantabria, have managed to bring 70 Saharawi children they have been reunited with their usual host families, while others have formed ties for the first time this summer.
During his stay in Cantabria, besides participating in various recreational and advocacy activities, children Sahrawis have undergone medical examinations thanks to the collaboration of the Directorate General of Public Health of the Government of Cantabria, the Cantabria Health Service , Muface, the College of dentists of Cantabria and the network of optical path of Light.
All children arrived in Cantabria two months ago, after overcoming bureaucratic hurdle that led to the late publication in the Official Gazette the agreement of the Cabinet with instructions for obtaining visas. This year, for the first time the request of the negative certificate sexual offenses of all adults who lived at the home of the host family is included. Something that the associations consider positive but criticized the delay in the bureaucracy that prevented this brake was resolved earlier.
The Holidays in Peace program has been recognized this year by the city of Santander and Intercultural Festival with Alberto Pico Award solidarity values. It started in Cantabria 1995, and at its twenty-first anniversary has managed to increase the received in Cantabria at a time when they are decreasing in the rest of Spain.
This program allows children spend the summer in Cantabria, away from the high temperatures of the desert, giving a respite for hard life of refugees. But it also serves to denounce the situation that is under the Saharawi people, 40 years after Spain left the ground, leaving you free to the Moroccan occupation.
Despite condemnation from the UN and 25 years ago the high was convened on fire in the war between the Polisario Front and Morocco to hold a referendum on self-determination, the Saharawi people continues to see violated their human rights in the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara and suffering the harsh conditions of exile in Algerian Hamada of Tindouf.
a difficult life in the camps and occupied territories in recent months must be added the natural disasters that have plagued the area with heavy rains, floods, windstorms and sand, which are now added the soaring summer temperatures in the desert.
are not the only ones who are living a precarious situation in the refugee camp. 25% of the Syrian population has fled their country after the war that leads to ravage the country for five years.
tribute to refugees died at sea in Castro Urdiales
Many of them, scattered camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Greece, living for months in poor conditions, exposed to diseases, organized crime and terrorism itself that is infiltrated the camps.
They are an expensive, but there is more in these conflicts. There are those who die along the way, trying to cross the Mediterranean seeking escape from the blood of war and finding only water in his lungs.
They have honored this Friday the organization ‘Community Solidarity Cantabria acts’ in Castro Urdiales, in a simultaneous ceremony held in six Spanish cities, Barcelona, Seville, Avila, Zaragoza and San Sebastian, and in the Greek cities of Thessaloniki and Mytilini.
and other side, those who can not even flee the country and are limited to endure the worst of the war in Syria under the bombings and killings, limited in the best case, to become . IDP conflict
they are looking for help send the event to be held on 18 September; a popular race organized by Amnesty International, Pasaje Cantabria Insurance Association and support the Syrian people whose objective is twofold:. awareness and raise funds
The race will start at 09.30 am from the Embarcadero Palace Paseo Pereda to the Palacio de la Magdalena, which will border to return by the same route.
the route will be approximately the distance of a league (between 7, 2 and 10 kms depending on the itinerary). The maximum time to complete the journey takes 1 hour and 20 minutes. After that, a party will be organized in the temple of the Jardines de Pereda, Spiked, music and activities for and smaller.
The race is aimed at all those people, over 16s who wish they are properly registered and have completed the registration fee, which will be online at a price of 10 euros, and in some authorized points that will be announced on the website of the race. For those who can not attend, there is also the option of paying a ‘dorsal zero’ to support the cause the price of 5 euros
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