RefuCoru PROJECT

For more than a year and a half now, starting in spring 2017 until now, we have been to 31 places around the Peninsula:

 

A Coruña- Santiago – Lugo - Sarria – O Barco de Valdeorras - Sevilla – Córdoba – Granada – Motril – Murcia – Alicante – Valencia – Tarragona – Barcelona – Berga – Madrid – Toledo – Salamanca – Cáceres - Mérida – Badajoz – Plasencia – Zamora - Gijón - Llanes - Torrelavega - Santander - Bilbao - Pamplona - Zaragoza - Huesca - Málaga.

What do we do there?

 

We explore the reception and integration process of asylum seekers and refugees in Spain obtaining information from:

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a) Asylum Seekers and Refugees (any nationality), inside and outside of the national reception program.

b) Activists, informal groups, civil movements, platforms, (etc.) that are related to refugee support.

c) NGOs, foundations, associations and other third sector initiatives, related directly and indirectly to the national reception program.

d) Institutions related to reception (municipality, regional government, central government, etc.).

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Even though we are always open and happy to talk to each of these agents, we are specially interested about the first two (a and b).

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Normally, we first spend from 1 to 2-3 days at each place interviewing people. When we find initiatives that catch our hearts, we come back to stay for a longer period (7-10 days) to be able to learn from it and deepen in the situation of that specific place. 

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Why do we do it?

 

For two main reasons:

• Because we believe information is power and it is poorly provided.

• Because we want to learn cool community-based reception initiatives and try to implement them at the city we live. 

 

We receive the rumours, frequently asked questions, doubts, etc. and we try to transform them into useful infograms. 

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We try to put people with similar initiatives in contact, to let them know eachother, share and get stronger.

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Sometimes we had also contributed (for free) to write recommendations to policy makers or people responsible for certain reception services.

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How do we do it?
 

This initiative is 101% volunteer. Nobody gets paid here!

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When we raise enough money (donations) and we find the time, we spend it to travel by bus and stay with friends, friends of friends or couchsurfers. We usually trade a syrian homemade dinner for accomodation.

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Our funding comes out from donations and from our own savings.

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