More than 800 Timorese living in Portugal in a vulnerable situation identified – News
In an interview with the Lusa agency, Isabel Almeida Rodrigues, who coordinates the working group created in early September by the Government to monitor the flow of Timorese who arrived in the country in recent months, stated that the 825 people identified in a vulnerable situation were not all in a homeless situation.
“The degrees of vulnerability are all response functions and this distinction is important in the specific situation of each one,” he said.
As an example, he mentioned that there may be a person who has resolved an accommodation situation, but who is not integrated into the labor market and this constitutes a vulnerability since he is deprived of income.
According to the official, 493 East Timorese were relocated and food support is being provided.
“We have relocated 493 people and we have 252 people in collective accommodation. responses were obtained, as is normal in these situations, in correspondence with these social emergency responses and with local authorities. In fact, it is also that there has also been a level of involvement, because for the territory it is important to have these situations taken care of”, he said.
ACM was identified within the framework of the working group that has representatives of several people, internal and solidary administration, social security, housing, agricultural situation, governmental and governmental areas, territorial agricultural situation.
According to the information sharing, the working group was constituted by all the different services and together the consistency of the various necessary shares.
The group created by has worked in several dimensions, namely the identification and recognition of situations of vulnerability, the government of support to the social, real power of attorney.
The Secretary of State and that the Timorese arrive in Portugal are mainly young, with few and specific and without dominating the Portuguese.
In this sense, he added that as answers are also being given within the scope of the work group is the learning of the Portuguese language and capacity building and training to improve the Timorese’s programs for integration in the labor market and in the community.
Another dimension of this work with the Timorese in Portugal is the support for voluntary return, but, according to Isabel Almeida Rodrigues, there are few who want to return to Timor-Leste.
“The vast majority of these people intend to stay in Portugal and I can advance that 720 have already expressed their interest, with a view to regulating their legal situation”, he said.
Timor-Leste is causing an exodus of workers, with Portugal becoming one of the main ones, as there is no shortage of work seen for a period of 90 days.
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Without work and without accommodation, many of these young people became homeless Martim, namely at Almeida Rodrigues, in Lisbon, where ACM has, according to every night.
“I cannot guarantee that we, at this moment, have identified all citizens in a situation of shelter, because I can receive an alert that there is a group in a locality determination”, he highlighted.
The Secretary of State for the Timorese said that they mobilize within the country and that they were not presented as entities.
“Of all the situations that we have identified, it is the services that go in search of the situations and not the people who request the services to obtain the support they appreciated”, he added.
From March to October 11, 4,721 Timorese entered Portugal and 4,406 left, according to the SEF.
A source from the SEF told Lusa that he participated in 11 suspects of East Timorese suspected of aiding the protection of persons and trafficking in persons to the Public Prosecutor’s Office.