جمعية المهندسين الصحراوية من أجل التنمية
Association of
Saharawi Engineers for Development (ASED)
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The locality of Bir Lehlu, in the liberated territories of the SADR, hosted in 15 March the constitutive act of the Association of Saharawi Engineers for Development (ASED), according to a press release published by the UPES. The organisation, indicates the press release, “will constitute a new framework in which the engineers could express their concerns and combine their efforts in view of the important role that they play in the development of the infrastructure of society.”
The body involves hundreds of young Saharawis who, during the past thirty years of the independence struggle, have graduated in different engineering specialties, but many of them have lost contact with the profession due to the precarious conditions of exile caused by the Moroccan invasion of the Saharawi territory and lack of resources. Therefore, the organisation seeks to be a forum to draw up programmes and strategies aimed at alleviating, as much as possible, such a situation and contributing by means of unifying the labour forces and the technique to make better use of them for the development of society.
Dozens of Saharawi engineers of several specialties and representatives of different formations of the Saharawi civil society took part in the inauguration ceremony. In the press release, the ASED underlines its main objectives including:
- To unite the Saharawi engineers in the framework of an organisation that unites them and be a forum for their concerns.
- To consolidate the relationships of friendship and respect among the fellow members.
- To contribute to the development of society
- To improve the life conditions of the citizens through productive works.
- To involve the engineers in the struggle for national liberation.
The establishment of the social organisation, preceded by others such as AFAPREDESA, UJS, UPES or Victims of Landmines, will reinforce the construction of the Saharawi civil society, which fights to achieve the objectives of our people: freedom and national independence.
The ASED salutes “the struggle of our brothers and sisters in the occupied territories and expresses its solidarity and full support for its fellows (Saharawi engineers) in the occupied zones who are victims of repression and marginalisation by the Moroccan authorities.”
Furthermore, it calls on “all international actors to urgently intervene to protect the Saharawi population and to pressure the Moroccan authorities to ensure the release of the Saharawi political prisoners and the accounting for the disappeared and to grant free access to the region by observers and international press.”