The Diplomat
The Council of Ministers yesterday approved four grants totaling 192.5 million Euros for the humanitarian organizations Spanish Red Cross, Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid (CEAR) and Spanish Catholic Migration Commission Association (ACCEM).
The three organizations -which manage 80% of the resources of the Government’s Humanitarian Attention and International Protection Programs- will receive an amount of 87.5, 47.5 and 30.5 million Euros, respectively, to attend to immigrants who are in a situation of vulnerability due to physical deterioration and lack of social, family and economic support, according to the Government spokesperson, María Jesús Montero, in the press conference after the Council of Ministers. Besides, in the case of people applying for International Protection, these subsidies will allow the development of individualized itineraries for both integration in Spain and labor insertion.
Together with these amounts, the Government has granted a fourth direct subsidy of 27 million Euros to the Spanish Red Cross to reinforce emergency actions in the reception, transfer and accompaniment of immigrants in a situation of vulnerability in the Canary Islands and Melilla.
