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Six associations working to improve the quality of life of people who need more social attention today have received the approval of the Governing Board to develop their solidarity projects.
These are the proposals presented by the Association Hogares Nuevo Futuro, Habito, Viudas Salzillo, Traperos de Emmaus, ACCEM and Murcia Neri Association for Immigrants.
The agreement approved to develop with the Hogares Nuevo Futuro Association is intended for the education of minors deprived of a normal family environment.
The objective is to provide an environment with the ideal conditions where they can live and fully develop, maintaining the homes economically, with assistance to beneficiaries and sustaining a social morality of coexistence and encouragement of the sense of responsibility.
To do this, they have two homes in Murcia, for long-term residential care for children and adolescents between 6 and 17 years.
The grant awarded, which amounts to 30,000 euros, will benefit 15 children who will remain stable in the two floors of reception that the association has in Murcia.
Among the objectives of this New Future program is to encourage the integration and adaptation of newcomers to the center, its emotional openness and facilitate tolerance and acceptance of children towards their peers, especially towards those who belong to other ethnic groups or cultures.
Relocation of families
The subsidy of 15,000 euros approved today by the Governing Board for the Habitus Association of Murcia is intended for the development of the project "Intervention for the Accompaniment, Follow-up and Incorporation of Normalized Houses of Families in Situations of Under-housing or Shantytowns" and contemplates actions aimed at monitoring of families that have already been relocated in order to guarantee the continuity of their social inclusion process.
Seven relocated families and the follow-up of 30 others living in slums or slums are the first beneficiaries of this agreement with Habito, which works on the personal and social promotion and integration of families, children, youth, women, seniors and other adult groups in situation of risk and social precariousness, through the attainment of accommodations;
the development of plans for the eradication of slum situations or poor living conditions.
Rights of widows
The Salzillo Widow's Association is also the object of a collaboration agreement, which will benefit nearly 180 women who participate in its programs.
Established in 1982, this group dedicates its work to defending the rights of widowed women and developing programs for the social integration of its members and social volunteering.
The main objective to be achieved with the project activities for which they will have a municipal subsidy of € 3,500 to carry out their support, assistance and counseling activities for the widowed woman in their headquarters.
Accompaniment to refugees
The City of Murcia has signed a collaboration agreement with the Association Catholic Commission on Migration (ACCEM), and under it is granted a grant to develop in Murcia the "Program of support and accompaniment for the integration of refugees" , oriented to the social labor insertion and social integration of applicants and beneficiaries of international protection.
For this, it is necessary to equip them with social skills and the precise tools for coexistence and autonomous social life, through the development of a series of actions that contemplate from the teaching of the language of the host society to the development of individualized insertion itineraries.
ACCEM has started its activity in the city of Murcia recently and is one of the entities responsible for the refugee reception program.
It is expected that in the next few days new Syrian families will be incorporated into this program, which will be added to those previously received from other countries by this same entity.
The aid approved by the City Council, amounting to 10,000 euros, will be used for care in a shelter with 18 places and a center for refugees.
Collective housing for immigrants
For its part, the Murcia NERI Association for Immigrants will receive a grant of 32,500 euros for its project "Infrastructure, Activities and Basic Services of the NERI Center and Collective Housing for Immigrants", aimed at immigrants without domicile, through which aims to guarantee the coverage of their basic needs, through a shelter.
The number of direct users in the NERI Day Center, during the year 2017 exceeded 1,200, in addition to 24 in the host housing.
Training of volunteers
Also the Traperos de Emaús Association will have a municipal aid of 50,000 euros for its program of Integral Care for Social and Labor Insertion in Employment.
Specifically, to develop the project of "Psychotherapeutic Care and Promotion of Volunteering" that since 2005 has remained in force.
As for volunteering, it aims to get 45 volunteers in the program, its main objective being to promote awareness, encouragement and training of volunteers, as well as the coordination of actions with other organizations, collectives and institutions that allow the planning and multiplication of the activities carried out with the collective of social exclusion.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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