The project of labor integration and social inclusion for refugees of the Regional Service of Employment and Training of Murcia (SEF) is one of the five winners of RegioStars. It's the second consecutive year that the SEF gets one of these awards, in this case in the category of migratory challenges.
In the last edition, it was recognized for its project of labor insertion of women victims of gender violence.
With the current situation of migratory movement that lives the Iberian Peninsula and the whole of Europe, the jury highlighted in the award ceremony that "this project is an example for Europe." Javier Celdrán Lorente, Counselor of Universities, Companies and the Environment of the Region of Murcia, affirmed that "the impeccable example has to be done every day."
Although the protocol has been recognized with this award, from Murcia they want it to work much better and therefore, they ask for advice and ideas from the refugees themselves.
María Ángeles Rodríguez, Deputy Director of SEF, confessed that for this project with the refugees they have been inspired by several ways of working that they applied in their previous awarded project, like having a common methodology: "We learned that processes must be reduced, forces must be spread out, where everyone has their role and the different administrations have to collaborate to facilitate the process to the people affected."
For Severa González López, General Director of SEF, "the most important thing is that NGOs are not alone."
And to prove it, at the time of delivering this award, they connected live with Murcia, where Mohamad Tarek Gellawi, one of the refugees from Syria, shared his personal experience with this initiative, which helped him to learn Spanish and find a job: "My whole family is very grateful to Murcia and I hope that one day, my son will know everything they have done for us."
By María Trinidad Giner (Spain)
