More than 200 Saharawi girls and boys will spend the summer time with host households in Galicia


Around 232 Sahrawis will profit this summer time from the “Holidays in peace” program This Monday an expedition of 85 girls and boys arrived on the Vigo airport The little ones will return to their houses the primary week of September

This summer time, practically 200 Galician households will reside a really completely different expertise from the remainder, by with the ability to expertise first-hand how somewhat solidarity could make youngsters as needy as these of the Saharawi individuals really feel for some time because the luckiest on this planet and depart apart the miseries that occur of their each day.

And it’s that round 232 Saharawi girls and boys have arrived in Galicia this Monday as a part of the “Holidays in peace” program. The little ones will share the summer time with their host households till they return house within the first week of September.

After a protracted and onerous journey, this Monday 85 girls and boys anxiously arrived on the Vigo airport, from there to be transferred to Santiago de Compostela the place they’d be obtained by the Galician authorities, earlier than lastly reuniting with their foster households.

The president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, welcomes the Saharawi youngsters.David Cabezon @ Xunta

Reception of the Galician authorities

The president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, has obtained these Saharawi girls and boys who arrived in Galicia to spend the summer time with foster households on the Vigo airport.

Rueda has highlighted the dedication and solidarity of Galician households who exhibit, for yet one more yr, their contribution in order that youngsters can benefit from the Galician summer time.

In this regard, Rueda is dedicated to offering foster households with all of the assist they want. “We hope they’ve an expertise they’ll keep in mind ceaselessly”, added the president.

For her half, the Minister of Social Policy and Youth, Fabiola García, was a kind of answerable for welcoming them in Santiago de Compostela and wished them “a very good keep in Galicia”, whereas thanking the indispensable work of the households that resolve to “welcome these girls and boys into their houses and hearts” and who’re “the soul of this program”.

Holidays in Peace

This program is a short lived shelter undertaking for Sahrawi girls and boys in the course of the summer time months that’s organized in Galicia by the Solidariedade Galega co Pobo Sahrawi (Sogaps) community.

As reported by Sogaps, “Galicia has been taking part on this solidarity initiative since 1991.”

In this manner, it highlights the Saharawi households that supply the chance that their daughters and sons get pleasure from “a nice, humane and culturally wealthy keep.”

But additionally, to finish the circuit of this system, he has contemplated that that is doable due to “the supervision and care of Galician foster households”.

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