In 2007 a group of 9 people (5 women and 4 men), accompanied by a friend of the Polisario, began the experience leading to Tindouf, from Madrid:
4 Vehicles: 3 Land Rover Mod 109 long and 1 truck isothermal chamber Ebro
1 Pallet of medical bandages, dressings, bandages ... 1 Pallet
Guilis coffee. 1 Pallet of sugar
Lisbon. 1 Pallet
1 Pallet of medical bandages, dressings, bandages ... 1 Pallet
Guilis coffee. 1 Pallet of sugar
Lisbon. 1 Pallet
school supplies audiovisual equipment, computer programs and manuals
design and layout, Quark, Indesign, Photoshop, etc.
Gifts for children in the camps, games, candy, marbles
, etc.
design and layout, Quark, Indesign, Photoshop, etc.
Gifts for children in the camps, games, candy, marbles
, etc.
This is what I wrote one of the travelers on their return to Madrid:
The project for which I traveled was to lead a caravan of 3 land-rovers and a truckload of humanitarian aid from Oran, Algeria to the north, to refugee camps in Western Sahara, and leave the vehicles there, too useful on tracks and wilderness.
From the beginning of the journey, accompanied us a Saharawi Polisario Front without whom we would not have advanced not one kilometer. It is a first experience to be repeated in the future, see the failures, strengths and needs (guinea pigs, come on)
(...)
Miraculously we arrived after about 2,000 kms, several faults, many boats and more noise the land-rover the first refugee camp in Algerian territory. Hosted by the Saharawi people and everything was different: in one hand inhospitable environment, a desert hell, but in the other a rare courtesy and hospitality. We
Saharan course with three more to reach our destination: the March 27 party that was held in Tifariti on the 31st anniversary of the Saharawi Republic. A day and a half journey through the desert: nothing sandy sleeping outside, drinking lots of tea and some camel, someone loses, unexpected ... Bedouin law means that if you find someone with problems by desert, even your enemy, you have to help, this law works even though the camels are changed Toyotas and Land Rovers (have you seen Mad Max?).
The party we had the opportunity to see and listen to endless lectures about the conflict organized by NGO's, Associations friends, Polisario ... Saharawi army parade, the explosion of thousands of Moroccan anti-personnel bombs very close to the wall shame "where we were (an NGO is being devoted to disable them), a meal of three hundred people, an evening concert with musicians from different African countries, Sahrawi poets, dancers ... then again with our friends to live Saharan the real life of the nomad, make a fire, drink tea (ie a ritual that can last from 1 to 5 hours ... prisamata) to conclude our meeting by killing a sheep (in this fusion of the Bedouin experience with nature, although there was like eating bug) in the tent in the desert shepherds. .. always the desert.
Saharan We have lived with their tents, protected from the sun, in a horizontal position for hours, chatting and drinking tea. Pa children here already, women superseducturas tissues beneath the mask, men are less attractive (well, some more than others, lol), communication with the look ... surrounded by Hassani, his mother tongue, and, of course, the English- is the second language of "country" ... mmm rich omelette can be made in the Sahara ...
Finally, the intensity is the word that can define this trip. Then we caught a plane back ...
images have been recorded to make a documentary of the trip ...
... I no longer miss them and hopefully we can come back with something to offer, I've received streams of people.
a hug
SAHARA LIBRE!
The project for which I traveled was to lead a caravan of 3 land-rovers and a truckload of humanitarian aid from Oran, Algeria to the north, to refugee camps in Western Sahara, and leave the vehicles there, too useful on tracks and wilderness.
From the beginning of the journey, accompanied us a Saharawi Polisario Front without whom we would not have advanced not one kilometer. It is a first experience to be repeated in the future, see the failures, strengths and needs (guinea pigs, come on)
(...)
Miraculously we arrived after about 2,000 kms, several faults, many boats and more noise the land-rover the first refugee camp in Algerian territory. Hosted by the Saharawi people and everything was different: in one hand inhospitable environment, a desert hell, but in the other a rare courtesy and hospitality. We
Saharan course with three more to reach our destination: the March 27 party that was held in Tifariti on the 31st anniversary of the Saharawi Republic. A day and a half journey through the desert: nothing sandy sleeping outside, drinking lots of tea and some camel, someone loses, unexpected ... Bedouin law means that if you find someone with problems by desert, even your enemy, you have to help, this law works even though the camels are changed Toyotas and Land Rovers (have you seen Mad Max?).
The party we had the opportunity to see and listen to endless lectures about the conflict organized by NGO's, Associations friends, Polisario ... Saharawi army parade, the explosion of thousands of Moroccan anti-personnel bombs very close to the wall shame "where we were (an NGO is being devoted to disable them), a meal of three hundred people, an evening concert with musicians from different African countries, Sahrawi poets, dancers ... then again with our friends to live Saharan the real life of the nomad, make a fire, drink tea (ie a ritual that can last from 1 to 5 hours ... prisamata) to conclude our meeting by killing a sheep (in this fusion of the Bedouin experience with nature, although there was like eating bug) in the tent in the desert shepherds. .. always the desert.
Saharan We have lived with their tents, protected from the sun, in a horizontal position for hours, chatting and drinking tea. Pa children here already, women superseducturas tissues beneath the mask, men are less attractive (well, some more than others, lol), communication with the look ... surrounded by Hassani, his mother tongue, and, of course, the English- is the second language of "country" ... mmm rich omelette can be made in the Sahara ...
Finally, the intensity is the word that can define this trip. Then we caught a plane back ...
images have been recorded to make a documentary of the trip ...
... I no longer miss them and hopefully we can come back with something to offer, I've received streams of people.
a hug
SAHARA LIBRE!
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