A collaboration protocol was signed that re-establishes the public-private consortium to finance and guarantee the activity of the Local Support Center for the Integration of Migrants (CLAIM) in Odemira, for the triennium 2022-2024.
The document joins the Municipality of Odemira, TAIPA – Cooperative Organization for the Integrated Development of the Municipality of Odemira, six business entities, three Parish Councils and two associations.
The protocol, signed on the day 24 March, aims to ensure the continuity of the Odemira CLAIM, as reception office, information and decentralized support for immigrants who flock to the county, under the reception and integration, in compliance with the strategies defined at national and local level.
Helder Warrior, Mayor of Odemira stated that this is a pioneering project that has become a local response, which was able to bring together various entities of different natures to find answers to the problems of the migrant community in its integration”, considering that “it is essential to create conditions for all citizens to want to live in the territory of Odemira”. To Dora Guerreiro, President of the Board of TAIPA, this CLAIM “has three strong points: promotes close relationships, adjustable timetables and its itinerant nature. It is a response that is not dependent on community funding and obtains its funding through private entities and the Municipality.. It is unique and a national example for public-private partnerships to work.”
In activity since 1 July 2016, the Odemira CLAIM has already carried out 15.586 assistance and has registered greater proximity to migrant citizens and greater collaboration with companies and public services. Its operation has been guaranteed through the public-private consortium constituted exclusively for its financing and all partners consider that the continuity of this response is an added value for migrant citizens and for the entities that work with these communities..
The public-private consortium joins TAIPA – Cooperative Organization for the Integrated Development of the Municipality of Odemira Crl, as an entity promoting and executing CLAIM and, as funding bodies, the municipality of Odemira, Lusomorango – Organization of Small Fruit Producers SA, Multitempo – Temporary Work Company Lda, Sudoberry SA, Vitacress SA, The Summer Berry Company Portugal and ACMR – Empresa de Trabalho Temporário e Formação Unipessoal Lda. The Parish Councils of São Teotónio are part of the consortium as non-financing entities, Longueira / Almograve, Vila Nova de Milfontes and Boavista dos Pinheiros, AHSA – Horticulturists Association, Fruit and Flower Growers of the Municipalities of Odemira and Aljezur and Casas Brancas – Quality Tourism Association of the Alentejo Coast and Vicentina Coast.
The protocol establishes the financing of €193,009.93 for the period 2022-2024. The contribution from the Municipality of Odemira amounts to €99,982.82 and from Lusomorango to €28,908.36, while the other entities assume the global amount of €64,118.75, distributed in equal parts to each other.
This local response is part of the CLAIM Network, coordinated by the High Commissioner for Migration. CLAIM are offices that help to respond to the needs of immigrant citizens in the regularization of their migratory situation., nationality, family reunification, housing, Work, social Security, voluntary return, Cheers, education, professional qualification, entrepreneurship or support for associations.
