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
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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