We continue with the distribution of the donations from Sahara Marathon among the Saharawi families. The Commission has already completed the delivery in Auserd and El Aaiun and will continue to the other four camps. More than 600 families will receive basic maintenance assistance thanks to the solidarity and effort of the athletes who participated …
The solidary race with the Saharawi refugees will be held in a virtual way -The participants will be able to run in their country while supporting the humanitarian project. -The event will push through to support Western Sahara in this very delicate moment. The Sahara needs us like never before. At a time when Covid19 has hit the …
The Sahara Marathon 2021, scheduled as every year for the last week of February, will not be held in the usual way due to the global COVID19 pandemic. The solidarity sport event that has brought together thousands of runners for more than twenty years in the Saharawi camps of Tindouf (Algeria) will not be able …
Lehsen Sidahmed repite triunfo en el Sahara Marathon, la prueba solidaria en los campamentos de refugiados de Tindouf EL ATLETISMO SAHARAUI SE REIVINDICA -Vigésima edición de la carrera de apoyo al pueblo saharaui. -Tindouf (Argelia).- Veinte años han pasado desde que un grupo de voluntarios de varios países puso en marcha una de las iniciativas …
Los suecos Fahlen y Edqvist se llevan la victoria en la decimonovena edición de la carrera solidaria EL SAHARA MARATHON CORRE CONTRA EL OLVIDO -Dos españoles en el podio, Leonor Maciá, segunda y Jon Salvador, tercero. -Meritxell Bonet logra el triunfo en el medio maratón. Campamentos Saharauis de Tindouf (Argelia).- La meta de la decimonovena …
For the 19th edition of SaharaMarathon we just launched two crowdfunding campaigns. One is aimed at giving direct help to the most needy families of the Saharawi camps, the other is sport related and is aimed at expanding the already running projects of Boxe gyms for the saharawi kids. Direct help to needy families https://www.migranodearena.org/reto/19730/el-sahara-marathon-con-las-familias-saharauis …
And once again, the adventure begins… February 23rd to March 2nd, registrations are open
The eighteenth edition of the solidarity race finally saw the triumph of a refugee athlete SAHARA MARATHON FOR LOCAL HEROES -Lehsen Sidahmed and Inma Zanoguera, two moving stories of the Saharawi people. -The Mallorcan basketball player triumphs in the desert, searching for her origins. Smara (Saharawi Camps of Tindouf-Algeria) .- The Sahara Marathon is the …
18 years of SaharaMarathon, and 42 years of exile for the Saharawi people. The 2018 edition of SaharaMarathon revolves around a number we all know: 42. The kilometers you need to run to complete a marathon, but also the number of years that the Saharawi spent away from their home, in this inhospitable desert. So …
A brief history of the SaharaMarathon Project The first edition of the Sahara Marathon was born as a simple marathon, to give visibility to the Saharawi cause and express solidarity with this people. It was attended by less than a hundred people, amateur runners, who reached the camps in small groups organized by associations of …