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Jorge Ernesto and Flor del Carmen arrived in Spain in 2018. Together with Emerson and Eduardo, their children, they had to leave their country due to the extortion they suffered, even threatening their eldest son when he was still 15 years old. They had an event management company in El Salvador, but nothing was more important than their own safety.
Another family fled Venezuela two years ago. With his partner and his children, a Ministry of Education worker decides not to be complicit in the irregularities that he witnesses and starts a new life in Spain.Ali Sina, along with his parents, brothers and sisters, arrive in Phone Number Database Madrid in August , evacuated by the Spanish government after the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan. He was studying second year Economics at the university and would like to be able to resume his training.
Every day, thousands of people like Jorge Ernesto, Flor del Carmen or Ali Sina flee their country. Many times, driven by fear, and other times by the hope of finding a better life in a new country, even if it is far from their families and their city of origin.Spanish Red Cross is the entity with the greatest territorial implementation of the State Reception System (with 47 provinces) and the largest volume of reception places (approximately of the total). It has been part of this system for more than 30 years to provide comprehensive and multidisciplinary support to applicants and beneficiaries of international protection, temporary protection and/or stateless status.
In , the closure of borders and other restrictive measures to stop the coronavirus had a huge impact on migratory flows to our country. In , the same trend was followed, with requests being formalized whose main countries of origin were Venezuela and Colombia. The Red Cross assisted a total of refugees with the aim of guaranteeing their protection and social integration in Spain. In , the Red Cross has observed a growth in people from Afghanistan, Mali, and recently, Ukraine.
Currently, the Red Cross in Ciudad Real is caring for 167 people within the program for the Reception and Integration of Persons Applicants for International Protection: 64 of them in emergency reception, 83 in temporary reception and 20 in the second phase. 91 of them come from Ukraine.
According to data recorded by the Asylum and Refuge Office of the Ministry of the Interior as of March , applications for International Protection made in Spain since the beginning of the year amount to . According to data published by the Ministry of the Interior, in the period from March to May , requests for Temporary Protection from people fleeing the conflict in Ukraine have been processed of them are women and under years of age.
Refugees are those who have been forced to flee their country due to suffering persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinions, membership in a certain social group, gender or sexual orientation. These people embark on a new path, starting from scratch.
Two years after his arrival, Jorge Ernesto and his family obtained refugee status; After having trained and having worked in the care of dependent people, they are in the process of setting up two small businesses: a computer repair shop, and an event management company; They have already developed several shows: some are mere entertainment, but in others they work on the management of emotions, or gender equality. International protection also arrived for the Venezuelan family in 2020, where the Red Cross gives them the training that will open the doors to a new, more stable job. Meanwhile, Ali Sina's family is still waiting to move on to the second phase of the refugee reception system process.
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