The FPSC participated last 27th May, in Valencia, in the awards ceremony of the XIX Tales Award Mainel Foundation that was celebrated in the events hall of the aforementioned Foundation.
During the ceremony, Carmen Seoane, Technician of projects of the FPSC, offered a speech on the water problem nowadays.
She also introduced the video under the tittle “The Right to Water in Palestine” in which are included several testimonies on how the water problem is affecting the farmers of the region, beneficiaries of the FPSC Agreement of Rural Development in the West Bank, and on good practices to mitigate this problem.
Five students from the Valencian Community and some others from Madrid, Catalonia, Aragon and Navarra, were the winners of this edition whose slogan was “The World you Want”.
The Tales Award Mainel Foundation is one of the most important activities of the Foundation, which is celebrating its XXV anniversary this year, since it links its two work areas, international cooperation for development and culture promotion. For this edition, the Award was carried out with the collaboration of the FPSC (Fundación Promoción Social de la Cultura) and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation.
Previously, on 6th May, Santa Mónica School (Madrid) invited the FPSC to give a raising awareness course about its work with Syrian and Iraqi refugees, as a part of a plan whose goal is that students, parents and teachers increase awareness about this reality and promote solidarity.
From the FPSC, Fernando Mazarro, technician in humanitarian aid, visited the school located in Rivas Vaciamadrid, in order to explain to a group of parents the current situation in the Middle East and the humanitarian action of the foundation in the area, that is aimed to the most vulnerable collectives since the beginning of the Syrian war in 2011: minors, disabled people, elderly, women and minorities, as they are who suffer the most the consequences of the armed conflicts.
The audience of the exhibition was not only really interested and participative in the discussion that was later celebrated, but they also contributed economically to the sustainability of the FPSC activity in the Za’atari refugees camp (Jordan) where, thanks to its physiotherapy and rehabilitation clinic, people with disabilities, most of them children, are attended, and in the Virgin Mary refugees camp, in Bagdad, the basic needs of the Christian refugees are covered.
Furthermore, the school has made the students get involved by encouraging them to draw pictures illustrating the situation of the refugees. The best picture made by a primary student has been awarded and the pictures made by secondary students will be sent to the field in order to be distributed among children living in the Jordan and Iraq refugees camps.
From the FPSC we would like to express our gratitude to the school for this great solidarity initiative and for their support to our work in Iraq and Syria, and give thanks to all the involved people for their active and generous participation.