Lebanon, 51 Syrian refugees arrived from the Center Jap nation via humanitarian corridors

ROMA – Just a few days in the past, 51 Syrian refugees landed in Fiumicino on a flight from Beirut. They’ve lived for a very long time in refugee camps within the Akkar area, within the Bekaa Valley and in precarious lodging on the outskirts of Beirut. Their arrival in Italy – at a really troublesome time for Lebanon as a result of close by battle between Israel and Hamas – was made potential because of the Humanitarian Corridors promoted by Group of Sant’Egidio, Federation of Evangelical Church buildings in Italy e Waldensian deskin settlement with the Ministries of the Inside and International Affairs, which since February 2016 have introduced virtually 3,000 folks to security in Italy, from this nation alone.

In whole, 7,500 refugees have arrived in Europe. Total in Europe with the Humanitarian Corridors 7,500 refugees have arrived. The households who arrived this morning, a few of whom are very quite a few, might be welcomed in numerous Italian areas (Calabria, Emilia-Romagna, Liguria, Lombardy, Molise, Piedmont, Sicily, Tuscany), partly because of their relations, who arrived beforehand with the Humanitarian Corridors and are actually properly built-in in our nation, partly in properties made obtainable by Italian households, associations, the Waldensian Diaconia and the Group of Sant’Egidio. The latter will accompany them on their integration journey, because of studying the Italian language and, as soon as they’ve obtained refugee standing, to their entry into the world of labor.

The Humanitarian Corridors. They’re completely self-financed, they’re a civil society initiative that reveals how it’s potential to mix salvation from sea voyages – and subsequently from human traffickers – with reception and integration. An internationally acknowledged greatest observe that may turn into a mannequin for the complete European Union. On this time, marked by the multiplication of wars, they’re a concrete response for susceptible folks and households, who’ve the fitting to be protected and who should be supplied life and hope for the longer term.