The European Commission has mentioned it can present €14 million ($15.7 million) to enhance reception situations for migrants arriving on the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Increased numbers of migrants arriving by sea because the starting of the 12 months have led to “frequent overcrowding situations” on the island, in line with the fee press launch.
The monetary assist is to go the United Nation’s International Organization of Migration which is to work with Italian authorities and the European Union’s asylum company.
“Priority will be given to vulnerable migrants, in particular unaccompanied minors, pregnant women, single women with small children, and persons with disabilities,” the assertion mentioned.
The cash is for use for non permanent lodging, clothes, meals and first medical help in addition to secure transfers from Lampedusa to different reception amenities in Italy.
More than 72,300 folks have reached Italy on boats already this 12 months, in line with the Interior Ministry in Rome. Around this time final 12 months, the determine was round 30,900.
The excessive variety of arrivals pose a giant logistical problem for Lampedusa.
In late June, greater than 3,250 folks stayed on the island’s reception centre which is designed to accommodate solely 400 folks, Italian news company ANSA reported on the time.
Lampedusa is the southernmost island of Italy, with Tunisia being the closest landfall 113 kilometres away.
Many folks attempt repeatedly to achieve the islands of Lampedusa, Malta, Sicily or the Italian mainland from northern Africa by way of the central Mediterranean Sea.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
