Brazilians repatriated from the Gaza Strip arrive this Wednesday (15) at a shelter in the interior of São Paulo. There will be five families, totaling 14 people received in a house located in a municipality close to Campinas.
The information was confirmed by CNN by Fernando Brandão, executive director of the missionary agency of the Brazilian Baptist Convention, who will receive them.
“I received the official list this morning from the government that 14 returnees will arrive for lunch. There are 14 people from 5 families. Two of them are Palestinians and the rest are Brazilians,” said the director.
The agency has several assistance projects throughout Brazil, from the resocialization of drug addicts to the reception of refugees, in a project called “Refugee Relocation Program”.
The program is developed in partnership with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Brazilian Air Force (FAB), which are responsible with the government for legalization and transfer.
From then on, all management is carried out by the organization, which lives off donations and has no agreements with governments. The entity’s annual cost is R$1 million.
The work proposal starts from the offer of institutional reception in the form of a shelter, where they begin to take Portuguese language classes, notions of citizenship, guidance on Brazilian culture and other opportunities for the insertion of refugees into the Brazilian job market, according to the institution website.
The site is located in a rural area and has administrative space, classrooms, leisure areas and accommodation.
The space functioned as a kind of farm hotel, but was renovated to receive refugees. Currently, there are 119 Afghans at the site, which has spaces for 160 people. Venezuelans and Haitians have also passed through there.
Source: CNN Brasil
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