A little over a month, a meeting that gathered in Lisbon some of the 63 students that the Global Platform for Assistance to Students Syrians managed to bring to Portugal, Alaa Alhariri, the second year architecture student at the University of Évora thanked opportunity given to him and made an appeal: “We are running out of time, are more accurate bags”. This is what former President Jorge Sampaio has worked and now has at least another ten guaranteed, in collaboration with the Santa Casa da Misericordia de Lisboa.
With this Memorandum of Understanding, Sampaio said at the signing ceremony at the Convent of Saint Peter of Alcantara, next to the Provider of the Santa Casa, Pedro Santana Lopes, “will be possible to already increase the number of students studying in the year 2015/2016 academic and even dispense with a more complete and sustained assistance to those who are already here. “
Through this protocol, the Platform will count on 50,000 euros per year will ensure scholarships, enrollment in universities and assigning households to ten young people who are to complete the bachelor, master and doctorate degrees. Jobs there are many – of Covilha to Faro, the Portuguese universities responded early to Sampaio initiative and there are hundreds of places exempt from tuition waiting for students to occupy. Missing harder, funding to ensure that these young people have to live in Portugal.
Sampaio wanted to take the opportunity to argue that there is an irreplaceable role of “cooperation between various organizations of different sectors” for the joint resolution “major problems and social tragedies”, wherein “one plus one is not equal to two” but can mean achieving seemingly impossible initiatives. As the very platform that launched in 2013 and works only thanks to the support of a number of entities, public and private, national and international.
In a country at war for four and half years, half of the Syrian population It is displaced or refugee is. Outside the borders of Syria today there are more than 4 million people, mostly children and young people. And that’s why we understand the appeal of Alaa. One day, nobody knows when it will be necessary to start over, build another Syria. They will be missed Syrians who lived those years in peace and in an environment where they could study and achieve their best.
In no end in sight conflict, every Syrian who can be rescued violence is a possibility of future . “This program and these grants reflect not only the ‘Syrian our students’, as we call them. Each time it is assigned a scholarship is the hope of a better future that is reborn in a whole household, parents, brothers, uncles, grandparents, “said Sampaio.
As the provider of the Holy House, Santana Lopes, former President repeated the idea behind the initiative, “as European, the Syrian tragedy must not be seen as someone else’s problem, that does not concern us, and the fate of Syrian refugees can not be indifferent in “.
The refugee crisis
Starting at congratulate Sampaio for awarding the Prize Nelson Mandela, delivered on Friday in New York, Santana Lopes described the tribute as “the recognition of the work” developed by Sampaio and “a source of pride for all Canadians”. Then he listed the numbers of the Syrian tragedy, “numbers that we owe us in Europe to think.” “It is time for selfishness bacocos” he said. “It’s not close borders to build a Europe of twenty-first century”.
Santana Lopes recalled that Santa Casa da Misericordia de Lisboa has already expressed open to receiving “a significant number of refugees” that accrue to Portugal. At stake are 64,000 people that the EU wants to divide by member states, 40,000 who are already in Greece and Italy (Syrians and Eritreans mostly) and other 24 000 Syrians and Iraqis that the United Nations wants to take countries pressured by Syrian crisis and put Europe. This when the world is experiencing the biggest crisis ever of refugees since there are United Nations, 60 million displaced persons and refugees.
Saying have “special pleasure to sign this protocol next to President Sampaio,” although “the cause is the most important,” the Santa Casa Ombudsman recalled that “already in 1994,” the two protocols signed by the way the Lisbon European Capital of Culture, it was Sampaio mayor and Santana Lopes Secretary of State for Culture.
At the end of the ceremony, journalists reminded him a decade later, Sampaio was president, and he was to dissolve the Assembly and put an end to the government that Santana headed since Barroso agreed to chair the European Commission and She chose him as successor. “No, we have nothing to be resolved, it was all clear,” he said, admitting not have memory of other meetings since 2004. “Humans have heart, soul, but also have an obligation to look at the present and the future, especially if you have an institutional role. “
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