Monday, October 01, 2007

Avanços do NETWORK portugues de cooperaçao pro imigrante




Inti/Ipuel Immigrant’s Network Summit
27th September, Red Cross building

Last 27th September on the headquarters of the Portuguese Red Cross, in Lisbon a special meeting and working lunch took place within the developments of the INTI project, under the responsibility of IPUEL- Instituto Pro União Europeia em Lisboa.

The three main objectives of this summit were:

- The constitution of a Portuguese operative network able to give answers and respond to the demands of European cooperation in the aim of migrant organisations,
- The preparation of the Portuguese participation on the INTI international seminar to be held in Malta, early next November within the Eunet/Inti project,
- The establishment of a Portuguese cooperation platform to launch in the near future new projects, and to candidate their members on further developments of INTI follow up developments

This summit was attended by:

- Luis Nandin de Carvalho, IPUEL President
- Joana Rodrigues Villers, Red Cross represenative
- Maria João, Unidos de Cabo Verde, Association (Cap Vert)
- António Leite, idem
- Jorge Carvalho, idem
- José Furtado, idem
- Eduardo Monteiro, AGAIST, Association (Guinea)
- Fernanda Cardoso. AMMA. Association, Angola
- Jorge Vilela de Cravalho, AGUIPA, Association (diverse)

The lunch was hosted by Dr. Luis Barbosa, the President of the Portuguese Red Cross wich promoted a wide exchange of opinions and suggestions to enlighten for future cooperation.

The main findings of the summit were the following:
- The five associations, together with IPUEL: Red Cross, Unidos de Cabo Verde, Agaist, AMMA and AGUIPA will maintain in the near future the study of opportunities for an effective cooperation in what regards immigrant’s needs
- The needs in first priority are:
. Field support to immigrant’s needs for legal documentation, both before Portuguese authorities and their national consulates
. Support for young mothers, pregnant young ones, children and old people care, and also for prevention of diseases, children and women abuse, prostitution, domestic brutality, HIV etc,
. Creation of a pool of volunteer workers, and prepared to be integrated in specific missions, including red cross activities,
. Development of candidatures to new projects, both at national level, or international to obtain proper financing,
. Support to school teaching and advanced studies in order to qualify the immigrants for local job opportunities, and also entrepreneurship abilities
. Teaching values for responsible citizenship, and structured families, gender respect, within a full lobbying active concept to assure identification and identity consideration of the different foreign communities.

This Portuguese network group will try to attend the Malta Seminar to learn from other ´s experiences, and to profound their common interests, capabilities and needs.

LNC
Lisbon, 27th September, 2007

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