Paris, Oct 20, 2012 (SPS) - A Humanitarian caravan left Friday at noon Paris heading to the Saharawi refugee camps to provide medical aids and surgeries for the benefit of some elderly people and children in particular, according to organizers of the initiative.
The medical caravan, which is called by The Algerian National Committee of Solidarity with the Sahrawi people (CNASPS), consists of 24 from Île-de-France and other regions and different disciplines.
The caravan will stay until current October 25th, where it will provide some medical treatment to the Saharawi refugees.
The initiative is the third of its kind after the one organized in 2009 and 2011, said President of CNASPS Mr. Mahrez Lamari.
The convoy left Friday Orly Airport in the presence of French elected, POLISARIO Representative to France Mr. Omar Mansour, President of The Algerian National Committee of Solidarity with the Sahrawi people (CNASPS) Mr. Mehrez Lamari and Algerian consul in Pontoise Mr. Tayeb Medkour.
The move comes within the framework of the Network of French citizens of African origin supporting the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, which was formed last Tuesday in Paris at the initiative of French local elected, associations’ officials and representatives of civil society.
The network works in favour of mobilizing municipality councils and French parliamentarians to support the just Saharawi cause, through calling them to visit the Saharawi Refugee Camps in order to see their conditions of living and aspirations to self-determination. (SPS)
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