Solidarity wave is gaining strength in Portugal
The Lisbon City Council will open the municipal cafeteria of Monsanto to select stranded Ukrainians in the capital and create an emergency reception center for the country in a Municipal Police pavilion.
The Lisbon solidarity plan, by Mayor Carlos Moedas, is divided into two phases, the first being “immediate support of food, accommodation, medicine and psychosocial support” to Ukrainians stranded in the Portuguese capital, which is estimated to be about fifty. The second phase will be the coordination with the Ukrainian embassy, which provides for the construction of the emergency reception center for the Lisbon Municipal Police headquarters, in the Praça da Espanha area, and which, like the Praça da Espanha square, and so will be designated. whatever is needed will be ready in 72 hours.
The municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia will also make available “total and immediately” the hostel of the Biological Park, with a capacity for about 50 people, to welcome Ukrainian families “who arrive in the municipality in the near future”. The chamber added that “all educational, food and psychosocial support will be provided to displaced families and children”.
The municipality of Vagos was available for “100 to 200 Ukrainian refugees”, being made available “as school sports beds, in the Municipal Pavilion, where they will be housed in a more complete solution”, clarifying the mayor Silvério Regalado. The second phase will involve creating conditions for refugees to access the local labor market.
The Chamber of four lodgings advanced with the availability of goods for three next immediate and adds that it will make available other primary schools of active assets of the three people – recovering and adapting former primary schools of active assets of the – as well as creating a collection bank of three people and food. The municipality of Guarda created a crisis office to support Ukrainians and will immediately provide a capacity to accommodate 125 people.
Nurses with disaster experience
More than 700 Portuguese lawyers – available within 24 hours to offer help pro bono Ukrainian citizens who met in Portugal, as well as coming to our country, revealed the Bar Association. During the afternoon of this Monday we went and the names online a list with the names of the lawyers who volunteered.
Since Friday, the Notary Society has also been offering a free service for Ukrainians who are authorized to send in Portugal and need departures for minors who are in Ukraine.
Nurses’ safety announced an availability for their organs and “only those for now, and for the safety of Portuguese nurses, sheltered in remaining rescue areas”, that in this group there are several nurses with remnants in catastrophe and “that could , immediately integrate an official mission in a regime pro bono“, says the individual commented by Ana Rita Cavaco.
Caritas Portugal kicks off campaign
Caritas Ukraine will launch a fundraising campaign until the end of the March war month to help Caritas Ukraine continue its national war with Russia. Rita Valadas, Emergency of the Portugal institution, said the donation advanced with the introduction of own funds – the president evaluated the donation of 20 thousand euros to the introduction of conflict of own funds – if that “is not enough”. 7.30 of March 30th campaign, but it will take as a measure, as events evolve, a money campaign is published to raise money.
PAR predict large number of refugees
The Refugee Platform (PAR) warned that Portugal must receive from Ukraine a relocation procedure compared to the latest recruitment programs for the latest localization programs and urged the government of Ukraine. The immigration coordinator Jorge, remembered by PAR, André Costa received 500 Afghan refugees, following the seizure of power by Ukrainian immigrants in August 2021, while Portugal had a community of 100,000 people. “It is very likely that these people have these thousand people in the family”, he underlined.
Madeira awaiting response from the Russian embassy
The Government of Madeiraseguro is today as “determined” as the closest to 200 Ukrainian tourists who are still in the region, stating that the Russian embassy remains unanswered about this situation. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and airspace due to the conflict took 189 tourists heading to Madeira by surprise and 220 Russian tourists. About 80 Ukrainians. The flight that was supposed to transport the 220 Russians back to Moscow on Sunday did not materialise.
with Lusa