Mediterranean Hope Newsletter January 2021
| Plain of Gioia Tauro (Calabria, southern Italy), the Need for “Lights on Rosarno” rises more and more Drawing – Francesco Piobbichi Rome (NEV), January 8th, 2012 – the need to light the streets of Rosarno rises. Unfortunately, these last days some road accidents happened, its victims were day laborers that move around the streets of Gioia Tauro’s plain by bike. The past 18th of December a day laborer was hit by a car and lost… Read more |
| Rosarno (Calabria, southern Italy) – Mediterranean Hope: “Not a bare judicial challenge, also an ethical and cultural one” Rome (NEV), January 18th 2021- “What is arising in Rosarno and elsewhere, thanks to operation “Faust” of the District Antimafia Directorate (Dda) of Reggio Calabria leading to the arrest of 49 people, also hits the civil society and the humanitarian organizations that work in Calabria”. These are the words of Paolo Naso, coordinator of Mediterranean Hope, migrants and refugees… Read more |
| How serious is it? The “Lo sguardo dalle frontiere” (A Look from the Border) editorial is written by operators of Mediterranean Hope (MH), the migrant project of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI). This week’s “Look” comes from Marta Barabino, a student and researcher in medical anthropology. Lampedusa (NEV), January 13th, 2021 – Lampedusa is a place that pushes one to relativize … Read more |
| Challenges and Thoughts on Humanitarian Corridors Roma (NEV), December 22nd 2020 – yesterday the conclusive meeting of the PPI project took place, the participants were the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy and Oxfam. Financed by the AMIF program of the European Commission, the Private Sponsorship for Integration Project (PPI) aims at granting that migrants arriving in Italy and France through humanitarian corridors are accompanied… Read More |