At the moment there are 52 foreign citizens with political refugee status hosted in Cesena. This was announced by the municipal administration on the occasion of the celebration of World Refugee Day, an annual event established in 2001 by the United Nations General Assembly, to commemorate the approval in 1951 in Geneva of the Convention relating to the status of refugees. This important anniversary has the main purpose of putting the person at the center and raising public awareness of the condition of millions of refugees and asylum seekers who, forced to flee wars and violence, abandon their loved ones, their homes and everything that is part of their life.
There are 60 places available for the reception of refugees in Cesena and in the other municipalities of the Union of Savio as part of the SAI (Reception and Integration System) project. There are currently 52 guests (9 minors) coming from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Central West Africa, Syria and Burma. At a territorial level, local authorities, supported by third sector entities, guarantee integrated reception interventions that go beyond just hospitality in structures and the distribution of food, providing information, tutoring, assistance, orientation and job placement measures, through the construction of individual integration paths aimed at re-conquering the autonomy of the beneficiaries.
Asp Cesena Valle Savio and the Sai project of the Valle Savio Union propose some initiatives on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd June. We start on Friday, at 9pm, with an evening at the Eliseo cinema, with “Il Secolo Mobile”, a live show that tells of a multimedia journey through words and images, with the journalist Gabriele del Grande. Saturday at 7pm dinner at Cucine Popolari. The evening will be enriched by the musical accompaniment of Jabel Kanuteh, poet, musician and storyteller from Gambia, who will play with his Kora, a traditional stringed instrument of the Griot from central-west Africa.
