EMERGENCY Opens Socio-Medical Help Desk for Migrants in Trieste
A new socio-medical help desk to support migrants arriving along the Balkan route.
People arriving in Trieste after long and complicated journeys need not only healthcare but also help accessing the services to which they are entitled.
In collaboration with Donk Humanitarian Medicine ODV, EMERGENCY has launched a new project to provide administrative assistance and map the wider needs of migrants in the region.
Through a cultural mediator, the new Help Desk provides administrative assistance to promote awareness of rights and increase the ability to navigate the Italian bureaucratic system, offers accompaniment services to those with greater needs, and conducts outreach activities in informal housing communities and other reception centres.
"EMERGENCY's intervention in Trieste is crucial to support people arriving along the Balkan route, and to understand their needs once they arrive in Italy. They are men, women and children who have faced long journeys and violence, just to save themselves and survive, often escaping from meaningless conflicts or economies of misery. People on the move have the right to be welcomed, cared for and listened to, because they are the real testament to what is happening in this age of land and sea routes, where respect for fundamental human rights is too often forgotten.”
Andrea Bellardinelli, Director of EMERGENCY's Italy Programme
The organisation San Martino al Campo has donated the use of its space within the First Reception Centre in Via Udine 19, where EMERGENCY will carry out its activities:
Mondays 9:00-12:00, 14:00-19:00
Tuesdays 14:00-19:00
Wednesdays 9:00-12:00, 14:00-19:00
Thursdays 9:00-12:00
Fridays 9:00-12:00, 14:00-16:00