Madrid (Spain), 26 December 2025 (SPS) – Students from Seville (Spain) returned to their city after a nine-day educational visit to the Sahrawi refugee camps, an experience that revealed the suffering of the Sahrawi people under Moroccan occupation and the importance of strengthening international awareness of the just Sahrawi cause.
During this visit, which took place within the framework of the project “School Journalists 2030: For a School that Instills a Culture of Peace,” according to the Spanish website “El Pespunte,” the students lived with Sahrawi families in the Wilaya of Boujdour and learned about the daily situation of Sahrawi children—from the impact of the Moroccan occupation on education to the difficulties of preserving identity and culture—highlighting the urgent need to enhance international awareness of the Sahrawi cause and its justice.
During their visit to the wilayas of Boujdour, Auserd, Smara, and Shaheed El-Hafed, the students visited local schools, resistance museums, Sahrawi media outlets, and artistic projects aimed at preserving the cultural heritage of the Sahrawi people.
This experience, the website added, enabled these students “to understand that the Moroccan occupation is not limited to political and military control, but also involves attempts to marginalize education and culture and impose an alternative narrative to Sahrawi reality.”
In the same context, the students participated in producing journalistic and audiovisual content, including the podcast “From the Refuge,” where they discussed with their Sahrawi peers topics such as education, daily life, and the future from a child’s perspective—highlighting the impact of occupation on Sahrawi childhood and the need for the international community to support the right to learn and to freedom.
They also met with the President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, who presented them with certificates of appreciation for their contribution to promoting a culture of peace and awareness of the Sahrawi cause.
The mission also resulted in the signing of three new twinning agreements between Andalusian and Sahrawi schools, as well as the renewal of a previous agreement, reflecting “the strength of educational and cultural ties in the face of Moroccan policies aimed at marginalizing the Sahrawi people.”
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