The asylum seekers in Pergusa have been waiting a year and a half for their asylum request to be examined

Last Friday we visited the CAS* in Enna within the district of Pergusa. The CAS is situated in the facilities of the former “Villaggio del Fanciullo” which was managed by the “Care centre for the elderly Santa Lucia of Enna”. About one hundred young asylum seekers of African origins live in the centre, mainly from Gambia and Mali, who are between 20 and 30 years old.

Almost all of them have been in this centre since last July 2^nd. Only twenty of them already had their hearing at the Commission, while the majority is still waiting after a year and a half to be convened by the local Commission. 

They are being taken for a ride – Part 1

The time has come for us to be much clearer with the words we choose to put down on the page, on blogs, on social networks. We always maintain that there is a massacre taking place, the cross hairs placed on those migrants travelling by sea, on those who are searching desperately for a moment of peace in their proper life, on those who want to provide their children with a better future.

Migrants‘ assistance workers without being paid for months. Palazzotto (Sel): "But Sol. Calatino has received the funds".

by Meridionews

No Salaries, in some cases for over a year, for workers who deal with migrants‘ 

assistance in the Catanese area. In one case, even so the cooperatives that manage the service have successfully received payments of local and national institutions. To report the case is the Parliamentary Sel Erasmus Palazzotto, with an interrogation of the Interior Minister Angelino Alfano. Two are the entities mentioned in the document: the Sprar* of Vizzini and the IPAB* of Catania.

We are stealing the hope – No welcoming in the area of Trapani.

La strada per arrivare al
Residence Marino.

"I find myself closed in this place, waiting for a document to get me a job that will give me the opportunity to send money home; I find myself thinking entire days about my family that I have disappointed and have not seen for more than a year; why do I have to wait all this time? Because in Italy, you are very slow to understand that we need freedom, work, and then, for eating and sleeping, we do take care by ourselves? You keep us all this time here, closed, like in a jail because you exploited us and earn a lot of money and us, we meanwhile die slowly, you are good, even at stealing our hope", David, Nigeria.