What happens with saharawis?

• History • Current situation• Politics• Refugees Camps

• http://www.wsahara.net/morberm.html• Data Source: United Nations, CIA-The world factbook 2004, The Statesman

Yearbook 2005.

History• Original population

nomad tribes from Yemen, Berbers and Africans.

• Spanish colony along the coast from 1884. The colony was incorporated to Spain in 1958. The UN applies for decolonization in 1965.

• NOBODY has worried about the saharawi people since then.

• They have had to choose a life in exile, hundreds of miles from home.

• They’ve been waiting peacefully to go back home for more than 35 years.

The Refugee Camps in The Refugee Camps in the Hammadathe Hammada

(Tindouf)(Tindouf)

• The refugee camps are located in the south west of the Algerian desert, close to Tindouf.

• Each of the four camps were named after existing towns in Western Sahara: El Aaiun, Smara, Dhakla and Auserd.

• For twenty years the Saharawi refugees have been forced to live in tents. They were thinking that the situation was provisional…

Now they have built their “cities”.

•Climate: Hot, dry desert. Rain is rare. Cold nights and harsh winds during the winter. Sandstorms, called siroccos, most of the days.

They survive with the international help. They don’t have work, neither shops, nor agriculture, nor something to do…

My Saharawi family

My family’s house(only one room for all)

Our bedroom

(Better not to see the bathroom)

Our living room

Our dining room

The Hayma

Making tea!!

Hard like life

Sweet like love and

Soft like death…

The Melfa

(saharawi

women’s traditional dress)

The Darra (saharawi

men’s traditional

dress)

Their Jewels

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

Any help will be appreciated. Please contact:Cristina Sandín (EPO teacher in Educrea)