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The mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo and the Councilor for Social Services, Estibaliza Masegosa received today at the City Council a group of seven Sahrawi children accompanied by the families that host them during the two summer months that will pass in the municipality.
The group from San Javier, which is part of the 77 children who have arrived this summer in the Region of Murcia, is made up of six girls and a boy between 11 and 12 years old.
Luengo highlighted the long tradition that exists in San Javier with this summer reception program through which children avoid the extreme temperatures of the desert, in addition to receiving another series of attentions and unusual or non-existent public services in the refugee camps where they live the rest of the year, explained Fuensanta Postigo, representative of the Association of Friendship and Solidarity with the Saharawi People, thanking the City of San Javier for the maintenance of this aid program.
Postigo encouraged families to welcome more children to next year with the intention of increasing the group that arrives in the region, which has been reduced in recent summers.
The mayor thanked the families for the effort they make to shelter the Sharauis children in their homes in San Javier from July 2 to September 2, involving all the members of the family and valued it as an enriching experience mutually.
In this sense, one of the foster mothers, Monica Pardo, pronounced, which she said, in the first days after the arrival of a child at home, her own children had left the consoles in their room and recovered the games in the street, also involved in the welcome that is already clear that will repeat next year.
The host families, who throughout the summer celebrate various events together, will visit the AGA this year to meet the Eagle Patrol, following a request from the families themselves, taking advantage of the 75th Anniversary celebration of the AGA from where they have been invited. to a guided tour.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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