C O M U N E D I R I A C EVillage of Hospitality

PROTECTION BODIES

COMUNE DI RIACE

Local authority

Associazione Città Futura “G. Puglisi”

Associazione “Riace a sud di

Lampedusa”

Associazione “Real Riace”

Associazione “Riace Accoglie”

Cooperativa “Eurocoop Camini”

Cooperativa “Il Girasole”

Settore Politiche

Sociali

PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS

Projects in the Year 2011 Hospitality - Assistance - Protection - Integration

•Protection System for Asylum Seekers and Refugees

SPRAR

•Immigrants from North Africa because of the wars

Emergenza Nord Africa North Africa Emergency

•Immigrants who are received because of the agreement with the Prefecture

Landing emergency

•Foreign minors who have a special protection program

Unaccompanied foreign minors

•Migrants who have completed the projects of hospitality

Integrated

SPRARProtection System for Asylum Seekers and Refugees

•Financed places: 15

•Members received: 28

Beneficiaries received in the project in 2011

•Single: 1

•Families: 3

•Single-parent families: 4

Type of beneficiaries received

•Eritrea, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Somalia, Nigeria

Countries of origin

Emergenza Nord Africa Immigrants applying forInternational Protection

Associazione Città Futura

Beneficiaries: 20

Ciad, Libia, Marocco

Associazione Riace a sud

di Lampedusa

Beneficiaries: 25

Ghana, Mali

Associazione Riace

Accoglie

Beneficiaries: 27

Ghana, Nigeria

Associazione Real Riace

Beneficiaries: 9

Bangladesh, Benin

Cooperativa Eurocoop

Beneficiaries: 11

Costa d’Avorio

Cooperativa “Il Girasole”

Beneficiaries: 2

Somalia

Landing Emergency Immigrants who have been received because of the agreement with the

Prefecture

• Date of last landingSeptember 21, 2011

• People housed as a result of the last landing68

• Age of Mrs. Adla who arrived with the latest landing; she is the oldest person ever hosted in Riace

119

• Countries of origin of the latest arrivals of refugeesKurdistan, Syria, Turkey

Periodically, from 1998 until today, refugees arrive on the Ionian coast of Calabria in search of hope. Riace regularly provides immediate hospitality to these people.

• people accommodated

14

• Place of Reception

Borgo Carmine house

Unaccompanied foreign minors

• Mauritania1• Burkina Faso4• Côte d'Ivoire9

State of origin

Years1998-2000

• 300 refugees from Kurdistan

Years2001-2007

• For each year, about 1.000 political refugees and/or holders of International Protection

Refugees passed in Riace

Number of beneficiaries Reason for exit

3 Inserting in the territory

7 Inserting out of territory

- Voluntary repatriation

2 Leaving without explanation

Beneficiaries leaving in 2009

Beneficiaries leaving in 2010

Number of beneficiaries Reason for exit

5 Inserting in the territory

3 Inserting out of territory

- Voluntary repatriation

7 Leaving without explanation

Beneficiaries leaving in 2011Number

of beneficiaries Reason for exit15 Inserting in the territory- Inserting out of territory- Voluntary repatriation- Leaving without explanation

Integrated beneficiaries

Number of beneficiaries Reason for stay

15 Work grant13 Work

Beneficiaries integrated

Workshops activatedLaboratories have a function of relational

exchange, because they allow women with children, refugees or women with International Protection, to

spend their time constructively. The activities also promote a greater ease in learning the italian language

Final objectiveWork integration, independence, social integration

Intermediate situation

Moments of relief resulting from keeping the mind and body engaged in constructive activities

Initial situationDramatic problems in their country of origin (social uprooting, torture, neglect, persecution, insecurity)

Laboratories

Weaving handicraft laboratory

Ceramics workshop

Laboratory of the glass

Laboratory of embroidery and dolls with

traditional costumes

Chocolate Laboratory

Laboratory of wood and ethnic

statues

Knitwear handicraft

Workshops

Workshop of artistic glass

Ethnic bazaar

Shop of fair trade

“Donna Rosa” restaurant

Riace Superiore• Associazione Città Futura → 20• Associazione Real Riace → 7

Riace Marina• Associazione Riace a sud di Lampedusa → 13• Associazione Riace Accoglie → 9• Cooperativa Il Girasole → 5

Camini• Cooperativa Eurocoop → 6

Total• 60 operators

Operators in the projects of reception, care, protection and social and work integration of immigrants and/or holders of International Protection