Author: ACI

04 Jun

Posted at 06:36h in Social economy by

The Community of Sevilla has been collaborating with Bio-Alverde, since 2020. Bio-Alverde is a non-profit social employment agency promoted by Caritas of the Diocese of Sevilla.More than 50% of their workforce is comprised of people socially excluded from the labor force(long-term unemployed, immigrants, problems with...

24 May

Posted at 10:37h in Movilidad by

During the month of April my 4th year social studies students in Ituzaingó and I embarked on an ABP (project-based learning) on immigrants who arrived in our country at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginnings of the twentieth century. Our guiding question...

24 May

Posted at 10:34h in Movilidad by

On Easter Sunday we had the most beautiful Easter dinner ever in the garden of Palmela. The communities in the south of Portugal (Fonte da Prata, Lisboa and Palmela) joined with the Ukrainian families who have been living here for some weeks. There was a family...

26 Apr

Posted at 08:20h in Migration news by

On March 25 Lisbeth Carmona and her 11 year old son Eduardo came to our Handmaid community in Montevideo, Uruguay. Lisbeth was pregnant ,and they had travelled from Lima, Peru, arriving in Uruguay via Paysandú, a city in the west of Uruguay. And on Sunday...

26 Apr

Posted at 08:17h in Migration news by

We would like to tell you about how we came to welcome nineteen Ukrainians into our community. When the war broke out over a month ago, our community immediately looked for a way to respond to a request for help from our neighbors, the Friars Minor;...

26 Apr

Posted at 07:40h in Migration news by

The community of Benirredrá/Gandía want to let you know that to our great joy we have “neighbors” on our property. In other times that little house that faces the Spiritual Center has been of house of hospitality, welcoming migrant families, but the pandemic left it...

27 Mar

Posted at 14:22h in Migration news by

On March 8, after a long journey from Ukraine, a mother with two daughters arrived: a good way to celebrate the Day of the Woman. They come from the western part, and they had not experienced the horror of the war, the sirens, the bomb shelters,...

27 Mar

Posted at 14:13h in Migration news by

Their names are Alexander and Halina. They are uncle and niece. They arrived yesterday from Ukraine after 7 days on a bus. Alexander is 82 years old and did not want to leave his mother land, he was willing to wait for death, in peace...

27 Mar

Posted at 14:02h in Migration news by

On Sunday, March 20, the Campolara School welcomed a group of 54 refugees from Ukraine and 25 volunteers whose goal was to accompany these persons to Portugal. The school asked us if we could collaborate with them. The decision of the Sisters was unanimous: yes, we...

27 Mar

Posted at 13:56h in Migration news by

We are writing to you from the border in Rumania, in a place called Galati, which is one of the points of entry for the Ukrainian people. The border between the two countries is separated by the Danube, and there is a ferry that goes...