The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Jose Luis Escrivaand the president of the “la Caixa” Foundation, Isidro Fainetoday presented the Ukraine Family Reception Project to organize and coordinate the network of refugee host families, with the aim of joining forces before the arrival of people affected by the war.
Specifically, the “la Caixa” Foundation will be added to the circuit deployed by the Ministry in the phase after the first emergency reception received by refugees upon arrival in the country. This first reception is of short duration, in hostels, hostels or hotels, and allows an assessment of the state of the family and the diagnosis of needs.
After this first reception, the Foundation will implement a project that will enable it to activate, receive and manage foster care requests from Spanish families for a period of between six months and one year. The “la Caixa” Foundation will assess the number of people they can accommodate, the characteristics of the home and the time period in which they can commit to maintaining the reception, among other parameters. The validated applications will be forwarded to the Ministry itself and will be connected with the reception requests received.
Spanish families interested in hosting Ukrainian refugee families can call 900 67 09 09, which will be operational starting tomorrow, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., Monday to Sunday. At the same time, the “la Caixa” Foundation will launch the information campaign Family needs a family to mobilize citizens.
“The Ministry has trusted us to collaborate in one of the most necessary tasks in the face of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine: the reception of people affected by the armed conflict. With this project, for which the Foundation is firmly committed, we want to help refugees find the best possible home in Spain, while channeling the solidarity of citizens”, explained Isidro Fainé, president of the ”la Caixa” Foundation. .
Minister José Luis Escrivá has underlined how “fundamental” it is to launch a project like this and has emphasized the responsibilities and obligations of hosting refugees. Therefore, “we have to ensure that the people who are going to be welcomed have support and guidance, as well as legal and psychological assistance, and access to financial aid for accommodation and maintenance.”
Specialists in family intervention
This project will be deployed in four of the provinces that are registering a higher volume of arrivals: Madrid, Barcelona, Murcia and Malaga.
To this end, Technical Welcome Offices of the “la Caixa” Foundation will be created (six in Madrid, six in Barcelona, three in Malaga and three in Murcia) with the aim of assessing the suitability of the host family and facilitating the connection with the different official territorial reception devices. The management of these offices will be carried out by different professional teams, specialists in family intervention from the network of social entities of the CaixaProinfancia program, which each year provides support to more than 60,000 boys and girls from all over Spain and their families.
The “la Caixa” Foundation plans to allocate an investment of 2.5 million euros to the start-up and development of the initiative during the next year.
I speak English and Polish. I am looking for a Ukrainian couple in their thirties to help keep my house. I will provide excellent accommodation for free for the work they carry out. Richard R