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Andrea Petrothe eldest daughter of the Colombian president, Gustavo Petropresented this Thursday the Colombian Organization for Migrants (OCM), a foundation that will seek to provide support and assistance to migrants in several countries, in cooperation with government entities.
The aim of the foundation is “reduce the number of migrants in an irregular situation in the different receiving countries”, Petro explained at a press conference, in which he assured that the idea is “attack the root problem.
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For this reason, for the moment they will focus their work on joint work with the Colombian consulates in France and Spainbut also in the Andean country to reach people who want to migrate and explain the reality of the migration.
“Migrating is not easy for anyone (…) We experience many hardships when we migrate irregularly”, alleged Petro, who had the idea for the foundation precisely when he was left in an irregular situation in France and all the difficulties he had to go through in that year and a half.
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The organization will dedicate itself to the orientation and accompaniment of the migrant, considering it as a “subject of value generation and social and economic wealth, fundamental within the different dynamics and economic, social, family and cultural circuits”, as explained by the CMO.
Among its strategies, the first thing that this organization, launched by the president’s eldest daughter, who has spent several years in Europeis to carry out a demographic study of Colombians abroad to identify needs, expectations and difficulties.
Petro said in this sense that, for example, in France there are 27,000 Colombians, but the organization believes that there are just over 400,000. And the same thing happens in Spain, where they consider that there are more than a million Colombians, “but the migration figures do not show it that way”.
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Then, together with the consulates, it is intended to carry out actions so that migrants regain confidence in the institutional framework and work together so that the State offers better programs for the “improvement” of the quality of life of Colombians abroad.
And also work so that migrants can return to Colombia because “leaving the country is difficult but returning to the country is just as difficult”, so this non-profit foundation, which seeks to finance itself with donations, wants to give counseling and psychosocial support to those who decide to return.
Source: Elcomercio
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