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2021

Minors attended in 2020

57

Active centers for unaccompanied minors

400

Staff members working actively with minors

Why?

Inspired by our mission to save lives, we provide shelter and healthcare to unaccompanied foreign minors and other vulnerable populations, assist in humanitarian relief and disaster response, and train professionals to the highest standards. We rely on 40 years of experience in international crisis management to provide quality care based on order, discipline, and a human approach.

Experience

Our Family and Child Care branch has operated for 15 years pioneering projects for the accommodation of up to 25,000 children and teenagers. It has been awarded multiple grants by the Public Administration to manage emergencies substantially related to immigration. As a result, we have established over 40 shelters and facilities tailored to the different health, language, educational, and integration.

Our Values

Humanity in Care

Constantly innovating human solutions to contemporary challenges. Our guiding principles are excellence, kindness.

Outstanding logistical capacity

Relying on our ability provide and coordinate all the necessary assistance and supplies to assist the people we serve.

Rapid deployment

Deploying and operating fully functioning emergency shelters in record time, such as hosting over 250 minors in less than 24 hours after the need is presented.

Experienced and qualified staff

400 staff members working actively with minors and close to 500 professionals with vocation for the work with foreign minors being trained at our Emergency School and further facilities.

24 hour response team

Our Approach

Through a very diverse typology SAMU offers care to unaccompanied minors both in initial reception centers  and Long Stay centers. A majority of the centers established during 2020, due to the volume of people served, are located in the Canary Islands and Algeciras.

FORMER SHELTERED MINORS

In many cases, SAMU’s accompaniment does not end with assistance in juvenile centers but goes further, when they reach adulthood and must be incorporated into society and job market. Thus, one of the lines developed by SAMU is sheltered housing management, which seeks to promote autonomy of the people served and their professional development.

These are autonomy flats for young people from the protection system, once they have reached 18 years, who lack family support, housing and the necessary resources to have an independent life, and whose maximum stay is approximately one year.

These programs intend to provide assistance in legal situation and an educational, social and recreational environment, where young people can develop maturity in a comprehensive way and support them in their transition to adult life, with the aim of integrating themselves into society in a normalized.

There are three types of this housing:

– Flats for the Socio-Labour Skills Acquisition Program, with low occupancy (6-8 places).

– Resource for Former Sheltered Young Migrants, of high occupation.

– Legal Age flats .

A MORE EFFICIENT DONATION

Making a donation to SAMU First Response makes a difference. We keep structure costs to a strict minimum to maximize our resources on the ground. All our managers and responders volunteer with a very strong sense of purpose. Saving lives is our driving force.

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