Memoria RESCATE 2009 - ingles

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Staff

Director: Nora Avés

Accounts and Finance DepartmentCoordinator: David PalomoFunds Accounts for international projects: César López de LarrínzarFunds Accounts for national projects: Annick Delepine y JaouadDebdoubi

Social Action DepartmentLegal Area Officer: María GutiérrezLegal Assistant: Berta MuñozPsychosocial Area Officer: Mª Ángeles VegaPsychologists: Mara García y Ana Prado

International Cooperation DepartmentCoordinator: Cristina BermejoTracking and Evaluation Officer: Encarnación GuiraoTracking and Evaluation Assistant: Ana Pérez y Lola Frigols

Expatriates: Antonio Ventura, Bernardo Vigderovich and SilviaPérez (Colombia), Santiago Santos (Ethiopia), José Carlos Heríasand Constanza Gómez (Jordan and Syria), Patricia Maté (Angola),Arsene Masumbuko, Ana Palao (D.R. of Congo).

Delegate in the Balkans: Fernando MazarroOffice Coordinator: Aida OmanovicFinance Officer: Klaudija BabicVolunteer Officer: Svjetlan MihicEngineers: Miroslav Kovacevic and Esved Dugalic

External Relations DepartmentPublic Awareness Officer: Mª Eugenia de la HozCommunication and Fundraising Officer: Inés Vélez

Projects Officer in Comunitat Valenciana: Azahara MonteroProjects Officer in Castilla-La Mancha: Dori Cañadas

Offices of International RESCATE NGO

Madrid (Head Office)C/ Luchana 36. 4º dcha. 28010 Madrid (Spain)Tels. +34 91 447 29 60

+34 91 447 28 72Fax. +34 91 447 23 21Email: [email protected]

Comunitat ValencianaC/ Rodrigo de Pertegás, 36. 1º46023 Valencia (Spain)Tel. +34 96 344 55 00Fax. +34 96 344 55 47Email: [email protected]

Castilla-La ManchaC/ La Zona 22. 2º dcha.45600 Talavera de la Reina (Toledo). SpainTel. +34 680 175 625Email: [email protected]

BalkansC/ Onescukova, 3988000 Mostar (Bosnia-Herzegovina)Email: [email protected]

www.ongrescate.orgDesign: más!gráfica • Printed on

The logo of our NGO is composed of two elements: the arrowand the word “RESCATE”:

• The arrow symbolizes “The Circle of Return”, a metaphor that describes the situations where refugees are involved: flight, stay in the country of transit, resettlement, shelter, return to country of origin. A “circle” in motion, always changing, unexpected.

• The word “RESCATE“ describes the mandate of the association:to rescue refugees. The word is placed under the arrow, to indicate that our NGO wants to be the place where refugees findsupport during their transit through the “circle of return“.

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W I T H R E F U G E S S S I N C E 1 9 6 0

ContentsLetter form the Director 3

Who we are? History of RESCATE 4

Mission and Action Lines 5

Where we work? 6

Social Action 7

New Asylum Law in Spain. Information campaign 11

International Cooperation 13

External Relations 22

Economic Information 26

Audit Report 28

Acknowledgements 29

M E M O R I A 2 0 0 9 • O N G R E S C A T E

Photos of Secundary School“Gimnazija”, building at the timeof the Austro-Hungarian Empire,located in the Spain Square inMostar (Bosnia i Herzegovina),destroyed during the war of 1992-1995. RESCATE has completed itsreconstruction in 2009.

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Dear friends,

Introducing this Activity Report that RESCATE has developed in 2009, I would like to underline thefulfilment of some of the marked objectives in years before that has been finished successfully thisyear.

Example for this is the complete rebuilding of the Secondary School in Mostar (Gimnazija),destroyed mostly during war, and for which RESCATE, thanks to the finance of AECID, has been contributing for many years in order to support herewith the building for peace through the meetingof pupils coming from the different cultures existing in the country, in a single educational space.

I would also remark in 2009, the develop of projects that enable the access to water of villages affected by drought in Ethiopia, financed by an award of Fundación José Entrecanales Ibarra, and bywars, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, financed by the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha.

Also in the same way, in countries like Jordan, Syria, Colombia and the D.R. of Congo, some projectshave been developed specially addressed to women, and in Albania, Kosovo and Afghanistan, the mainbeneficiaries have been children.

Another activity during 2009 in which RESCATE, from its Social Action Department, specially got involved was the working party that, together with other NGOs working for refugees, proposed improvements to the draft of the new Asylum Act and supported the approval of a ResettlementProgram for refugees in Spain, that was finally effective last January 29th 2010.

Likewise, the Information Campaign about the new Asylum Act has been considered as an importantwork in 2009, due to its impact in our main attention group at national level. This campaign was partof a project financed by the Ministry of Work and Immigration.

The areas of Awareness, Education for Development and Communications and Fundraising was markedby the practice of a new strategy that promoted the external relations strengthening and facilitatingthe fulfillment of the general objectives of the entity action in the field of International Cooperationand Social Action.

In Comuntat Valenciana, in Castilla La Mancha and in Madrid, the projects and activities of these areasbegan in 2009 to show a common action line that we hope will make the work of RESCATE visible andwill aware the society about the objectives of the Mission to which we answer.

I invite you to share with this Activity Report our experience in 2009.

Nora Avés | Director

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A N N U A L R E P O R T 2 0 0 9 • O N G R E S C A T E

• 1933. Albert Einstein establishes a support net-work for europeans seeking to escape the naziregime. This marks the birth of the InternationalRescue Committee (IRC).

• 1960. IRC opens an office in Spain: IRC-Spain.This office is initially dedicated to the resettle-ment of refugees to the United States, Canadaand Australia, for refugees who came to our coun-try.

• 1980. IRC-Spain collaborates with UNHCR as animplementing agency for projects. This partner-ship continues until december 1995.

• 1985. Thanks to the first spanish Asylum Act(1984), IRC-Spain begins to provide legal coun-seling to asylum seekers in Spain, and alsobegins to work in the areas of family reunifica-tion and return.

• 1992. IRC-Spain reconstitutes itself as a legallyautonomous, spanish NGO, giving birth to thecurrent organization. The entity continues withits work in legal counseling, and begin integra-tion programs for asylum seekers and refugees.

• 1996. RESCATE launches an International Pro-

grams which operates in the areas of relief, reha-bilitation and development, supporting popula-tions and communities affected by conflicts andnatural disasters.

• 2002. RESCATE is declared an Association ofPublic Utility.

• 2005. RESCATE fulfils all the principles of Trans-parency and Good Practices set out by the Fun-dación Lealtad.

• 2007. RESCATE obtained the status of qualifiedNGO by the AECID, necessary to sign Coopera-tion Agreements with the Agency.

• 2008. RESCATE changes its previous name“Comité Internacional de Rescate España -RESCATE” to the current name: NGO RESCATEInternational.

• 2009. RESCATE obtains the Development Coop-eration Award of the Foundation José Entre-canales Ibarra, for a project to improve thehealth and living conditions in the region of Oro-mia (Ethiopia).

The association is formed by 170 members, ofwhich 38 are donor members. The Board of Direc-tors consists of the following members, electedby a General Asammbly:

President: Juan Ángel López Romero. AccountAuditor and Fiscal Consultant. Treasure and Secretary: Nicolás Ramo Kalkus.Financial Director of Grupo Dima. Members: Michaela Kalkus Pokorna, Enrique

Ramo Ramo, Araceli García del Soto, MercedesDorado Gutiérrez, Gordana Marjanovic Kruzik,Elisa Salvador Zuloaga, Alfonso Cavallé Sesé,Nancy Heine e Isabel Pardo Martínez.

The members are persons of different national-ities who share the mission of RESCATE anddecide to join the association and collaboratein the task. More information:

[email protected]

Who we are? NGO RESCATE International is a spanish association, non political and secular,that works since 1960 on behalf of refugees and displaced people, takingspecial attention to the most vulnerable, children and women.

HistoryRESCATE began its activity in 1960, in Madrid, as the delegation of the northamerican organization IRC in Spain. After 50 years in operation, RESCATE hasevolved to adapt the changes.

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Our vision is:

To cooperate for the rebuilding and strength-ening of developing countries where groups ofdisplaced people and refugees live, that togetherwith local population will need protection andhelp for attending its needs.

To keep the attention over displaced people andrefugees during the whole process of internaldisplacement and / or exit and possible reset-tlement in another country, until they fit in ordecide to return to their origin countries whereconditions for their integration and security arepossible.

To aware and raise consciousness to the soci-ety about national and international work,essential activity for granting the sustainabilityof working results.

The basic values for our work are: solidarity,responsibility, respect, dignity, equality, justiceand peace promotion.

Action Lines

To carry out this mission, NGO RESCATE rely ona professional managing team (employed per-sonnel) that nowadays develops three actionlines or projects:

1 Social Action or Direct Attention for per-sons demanding International Protection orthat have already obtained such protectionin Spain.

2 International Cooperation in countries thatsuffer and / or have suffered wars and / orwith refugees and displaced population, and/ or affected by conflicts.

3 Awareness and Education for Developmentfor the Spanish society.

Also, RESCATE belongs to the following NGO net-works: European Council on Refugees and Exiles.www.ecre.org; Federación de ONG de Desarrollode la Comunidad de Madrid. www.fongdcam.org;Federación de Entidades de Voluntariado de laComunidad de Madrid. www.fevocam.org; Fun-dación para la Solidaridad y el Voluntariado dela Comunidad Valenciana. www.fundar.es; RedEspañola contra la Trata de Personas. www.red-contralatrata.org; Coordinadora Valenciana deONGD. www.cvongd.org; and to the Plataformacontra la Pobreza de Valencia.

In 2009, RESCATE´s projects have benefited745.000 persons, in 11 countries, of 4 conti-nents.

Mission and Action LinesRESCATE’s Mission is to work in favour of refugees and communities victimsof oppression, armed conflicts and big political and social crisis, helpingthem to find a lasting solution for their situations and facilitating them theaccess to their basic rights.

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Where we work?

RESCATE’s mission is to work in favour of refugees and communities victims of oppression,armed conflicts and big political and social crisis, helping them to find a lasting solution fortheir situations and facilitating them the access to their basic rights.

The values on which our work is based are: solidarity, responsibility, respect, dignity, equality,justice and peace promotion.

Spain (Head office)

Colombia Angola

Jordan

D.R. of Congo

Ethiopia

Afghanistan

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Kosovo

Albania

Syria

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The Social Action Department implements DirectServices programs for our target group that livesin Spain: persons demanding for asylum, nomatter in which phase of the proceeding, dis-placed persons, beneficiaries of any type of in-ternational protection (refugees, subsidiaryprotection and stateless) and immigrants.

Social Action is constituted by two workingfields: Legal Area and Psychosocial Area, builtby a multidisciplinary team of two psycholo-gists, one social educator and two lawyers.

The department’s main action line is to facili-

tate the adaptation and integration process inthe Spanish society of the attention group, andto promote the course of their basic rights.

In every activity, special attention is given togender inequality (identification of discriminatorysituations and their effects, assumption of lessegalitarian gender roles, gender violence, etc.).

In order to professionalize and update its act-ing, the working team attends forums, work-shops and courses, and takes part in European,national and local working parties related to thegroup’s reality.

Proyect Donor

INTEGRATION LINE

Grant Beneficiaries

Information, Orientation andAdvice Program (PIOA)

Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.Secretaría de Estado de Inmigración yEmigración. DGII – Régimen General

30,000 € 82

Familiar Regrouping

Ministerio de Sanidad y Política Social.Secretaría de Estado de SS, Familia yDiscapacidad. Dirección General Polí-tica Social, Familias e Infancia - IRPF

28,560 € 85

Support Familiar Regrouping process Obra Social Caja Madrid 6,000 € 19

Integration Support

Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.Secretaría de Estado de Inmigración yEmigración. DGII – Fondo Europeopara los Refugiados (FER)

44,352.15 € 31

Voluntary Return for foreign persons in vulnerable situation(RTEV)

Ministerio de Sanidad y Política Social.Secretaría de Estado de SS, Familia yDiscapacidad. Dirección General PolíticaSocial, Familias e Infancia - IRPF

41,000 €Attended people: 345

Returnees: 20

Voluntary Return for foreignworkers (APRE)

Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.Secretaría de Estado de Inmigración yEmigración. DGII – Retorno Voluntario

55,000 €Attended people: 317

Returnees: 52

VOLUNTARY RETURN LINE

Direct Services: 2009 projects table

Social ActionIntroduction


1 INFORMATION, ORIENTATION AND ADVICE PROGRAM (PIOA): Legal and psychosocial attentionin order to facilitate and promote the integration process of international protection applicants. Totalapplications: 202. Total attended persons: 82.

Integration line

DIRECT SERVICES

Male

GENDER NATIONALITY LEGAL STATUS

Female Africa America Asia Asylum status Inmmigration status

47 35 38 39 5 50 32

2 FAMILIAR REGROUPING: Information, orientation and advice about requirements and proceedingsfor familiar regrouping: processing, travel management and follow-up of cases. Total attended persons:85.

Male


Female Africa America Asia Europe Asylum status Inmmigration status

39 46 12 60 2 11 2 83


PROJECTS IN SPAIN

3 SUPPORT DURING FAMILIAR REGROUPING PROCESS: Individual and/or familiar psychological atten-tion for persons to be regrouped and/or regrouped along the familiar regrouping process. Total attendedpersons: 19.

Male


Male Africa America Europe Asylum status Inmmigration status

8 11 2 11 6 0 19

4 INTEGRATION SUPPORT: Psychosocial intervention and legal attention in order to facilitate theintegration process of persons with refugee statute, stateless and beneficiaries of another kind of inter-national protection. Total attended persons: 31.

Male


Female Africa America Asia Asylum status Inmmigration status

24 7 7 7 16 24 0


1 VOLUNTARY RETURN FOR FOREIGN PERSONS IN VULNERABLE SITUATION (RTEV): Informationand guidance about voluntary return and management of the selected cases. Total applications: 345.Total returnees: 20.

Voluntary return line

2 VOLUNTARY RETURN PROGRAM BY ACCUMULATED AND ANTICIPATED PAYMENT OF THE UNEM-PLOYMENT CONTRIBUTE BENEFIT FOR FOREIGN WORKERS (APRE): Management of the complementarybenefits foreseen in the Voluntary Returning Plan of General Director for Immigrants Integrations (MTIN).Total applications: 317. Total returnees: 52.

Male


Female Colombia Bolivia Paraguay Argentina Asylum status Inmmigration status

11 9 7 6 4 3 6 14

Male


Female Ecuador Perú Colombia Argentina Asylum status Inmmigration status

37 15 24 12 7 6

Brasil

3 6 14

Premise of these projects is that the person obtains all the information regarding the decision toreturn, the alternatives to it and the situation in his origin country in order to avoid rushed decisions.The applications have been attended by the RESCATE offices in Madrid, Valencia and Talavera de laReina (Toledo).

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The Chamber of Deputies approved on October,15th 2009 the Law Project that regulate the Asy-lum Right and the Subsidiary Protection, whichadapts the Spanish legislation to the EuropeanFramework regarding Asylum.

In order to inform about the new legislation,RESCATE has organized in 2009 an informationcampaign with different activities in the frame-

work of the program “Information, Orientationand Advice (PIOA)”.

To mark the celebration of the World RefugeeDay, June 20th, two parallel activities werearranged:

• Round Table about “Practical Implications ofthe Asylum Act project. Psychosocial perspec-

New Asylum Act in SpainInformation Campaign

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tive”, on June 23rd 2009 at the Círculo BellasArtes (Madrid), in order to create a space forthe opinion interchanges between profession-als of different matters (legal, social, psycho-logical, labour, etc.) which work with the asy-lum group.

• Solidarity concert “With the refugees: for theAsylum Right”, on June 25th 2009, at the barZanzíbar (Madrid); addressed to the benefici-aries of the Direct Services projects and to thesociety in general, in order to make the asy-lum group visible and to aware about theproblems they face, in their origin countriesas in Spain.

Once the new act was approved, last October15th 2009, the second part of the informationcampaign was developed:

• Online campaign: on RESCATE’s website(www.ongrescate.org) a specific place hasbeen created for questions and answers inorder to inform in an easy and informative wayabout the reality of the refugees and asylumapplicants and the legal and social frameworkat a worldwide and national level.

Likewise, two mailings were sent to specific en-tities and institutions, and the campaign wasdistributed through the facebook space ofRESCATE, in order to generate traffic to thewebsite.

• Edition and production of bookmarks, stickersand information leaflets addressed to publicin general in order to explain the reality of theasylum applicants and refugees. This informa-tion has been divided into four parts: BasicConcepts; Asylum Right in Spain, New AsylumAct in Spain and Asylum Procedure in Spain.More information and copies:

[email protected].

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The Department of International Cooperationcarries out projects in countries that have suf-fered and/or affected by conflict or natural dis-asters that have populations of refugees, dis-placed persons or victims of conflict in general,with particular attention to the most vulnerable:women, children and minorities, indigenous peo-ples and Afro-descendant communities in LatinAmerica.

The Department is composed of a team of pro-fessionals in Spain and expatriates who workin the field along with our local partners(counterparts). During 2009, RESCATE hasworked in eleven countries in Europe, Africa,Latin America and Asia, benefiting over 740,000people.

In 2009, we continued to work in the four mul-ti-year agreements signed with the SpanishAgency for International Development Cooper-ation (AECID), in Colombia, with populationsof African descendant; in Syria and Jordan,with Palestinian and Iraqi refugee women andlocal women; in Ethiopia, with Somali agro-pastoralists communities; and in Bosnia-Herze-govina and Kosovo, with the disabled popula-tion.

On the other hand, we have carried out 29 proj-ects for Development Cooperation, HumanitarianAssistance and Emergency emphasis on physicalreconstruction, social and economic situation inpost-conflict countries. And the basic needs ofcivilian populations as access to clean water,education, health, decent work, etc.

Through these projects, it has been that therefugee populations displaced in the process ofreturn or simply local people whose livelihoodshave been affected by conflict, are to bereturned and/or adapted in dignity to the newcontext created after an armed incident.

International Cooperation Introduction


ANGOLA. RESCATE is still present in the province of Bié, one of theareas hardest hit by 30 years of armed conflict. In 2009, it has expandedthe presence of RESCATE with the start of a project to improve the sanitaryconditions of Cuemba. By meeting the basic needs: education, health andagriculture together with gender mainstreaming and governance is gettinga more active and associative fundamental values in the effective develop-ment of Angola.

ETHIOPIA. In 2009 we continued to work in the regions of Somali, Oromiaand Sidamo with projects of food sovereignty, basically. Have been constructedwater points for human consumption and animal such as a haffir dam with anaverage capacity of 45,000 m3 of water that will provide 20,000 people. Inaddition, the Foundation José Entrecanales Ibarra has granted an award toRESCATE, to build a well in depth which will give more than 5,000 families,access to water.

D.R. OF CONGO. RESCATE´s work continues in North Kivu, and hasbegun working in the South Kivu region, two of the areas hardest hit by thewar which has caused displacement and humanitarian emergencies. Throughprojects access to drinking water and basic sanitation, health (primary careand HIV) and education (literacy, teacher training, school construction), it isintended that civil society access to basic social services.

Africa

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Proyect Donor

ANGOLA

Grant Direct beneficiaries

Promotion of sustainable agricultural productionsystems and access to education in the municipality of Cuemba, Bié Province

AECID

Local Partners

People in Need (PIN)

512,917 € 7,000 people

Improvement of health conditions in Cuemba by building sanitation infrastructures andhygiene education

AECIDPeople in Need (PIN)

458,070 € 10,000 people

Comprehensive Development in Harte Sheik(Kebri Beyah district) by strengthening healthsystems and food sovereignty

Junta de Castillay LeónHFH/HAVOYOCO 558,000 € 70,000 people

Food Sovereignty, diversification of incomesources, improvement of the production andstrengthening of the association network andthe marketing systems, incorporatingenvironmental sustainability and gender equalityin Somali

AECIDHCS 1,760,000 € 42,184 people

Food Sovereignty in Alaba Special Woreda andSidamo

AECIDHCS 420,000 € 9,000 people

Access to safe water and basic sanitation forthe rural population, hardly affected by droughtin Boke Woreda

AECID-CAPHCS 170,460 € 35,000 people

Access to safe water and basic sanitation forthe rural population in Boke (Oromia region)

Fundación J.Entrecanales

HCS 270,000 € 5,920 people

Construction, provision of equipment and startup of a Health Center in Walikale (North Kivu)

Comunidad deMadrid

Cáritas-Goma 154,000 € 120,000 people

Improvement of education quality through thereconstruction of two schools and training ofteachers in Walikale

AECIDCáritas-Goma 300,610 € 1,259 people

Support to the basic health services as well associal insertion of women victims of war inNorth Kivu

AECIDCáritas-Goma 409,653 € 189,918 people

Access to safe water and basic sanitation forthe displaced people and victims of war inKalehe (South Kivu)

AECID-CAPPeople in Need (PIN)

382,875 € 30,106 personas

Access to Primary Education of sheperdcommunities in five district of Somali regionalState

AECIDHFH/HAVOYOCO 243,324 € 14,000 people

Program of Comprehensive Development inKebri Beyah district

Obra Social LaCaixa

HFH/HCS 600,000 € 60,500 people

AFRICA: 2009 projects table

ETHIOPIA

D. R. OF CONGO

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COLOMBIA. According to UNHCR (United Nations High Commissionerfor Refugees), the number of displaced persons has now reached 4.3 millionin Colombia. RESCATE´s work focuses primarily on the Department of Cauca,one of the areas most affected by armed conflict and where the population ischaracterized by its ethnic variety, with large indigenous and black commu-nities.

The fundamental problem in this region is the lack of basic services; thereforeRESCATE´s projects are based on address these gaps by promoting food security,job training and improving health infrastructure, to strengthen civil societywhile respecting and protecting their human rights, economic, social and cul-tural rights.

Latin America

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Proyect Donor

COLOMBIA


The improvement of social infrastructures throughthe construction of a water treatment plant inthe municipality of Sucre (Sucre)

Generalitat Valenciana

Local Partners

CINDAP 111,569.73� € 4,759 people

Comprehensive support for the african descendantpopulations, guaranteeing their human rights as wellas economic, social, and cultural rights (Cauca)

AECIDUOAFROC/FUNIC 800,000 € 5,000 people

The improvement of health and sanitationconditions of families displaced due to violenceas well as farm workers with limited resourcesthrough the construction of a water treatmentplant in Piendamo (Cauca)

GeneralitatValenciana

FundaciónIntercultural para laCooperación Norte-Sur

(FUNIC)

191,604 € 19,247 people

Afrocaucana ethno-education as an Ethnic andCultural Right (Cauca)

AECIDFUNIC 198,403 € 15,000 people

Humanitarian Aid provided to children, womenwho are lactating, and the elderly victimized bythe eruption of Volcano Huila (Cauca)

AECID-CAPFUNIC 190,942 € 700 people

Income generation and employment for womenand youth of african descendant and improvetheir health conditions and sanitation in themunicipalities of Guanaché, Suárez and Villarrica(Cauca)

Ayuntamiento de Madrid

FUNIC 270,000 € 600 people

Employment and incomes generation throughthe strengthening of the traditional farm andcocoa production for women and youth ofafrican descendant in the municipality ofVillarrica (Cauca)

Junta deComunidades de Castilla-LaMancha

FUNIC 244,513 € 1,100 people

Emergency Support to the displaced populationand victims of natural disasters by buildingtemporary shelters in the municipality of Argelia(Cauca)

AECID-CAPFUNIC 200,283 € 480 people

The strengthening of the organizations throughthe consolidation of four community councilsfor the Defense and Restitution of territorial Rights(Cauca)

AECID

Unidad de organizacionesAfrocaucanas (UOAFROC)

150,000 € 240 people

Comprehensive rural development for the africandescendant and indigenous communities affectedby the violence in the Indian reservation of LopezAdentro and Alto del Palo District, municipality ofCaloto (Cauca)

Ayuntamiento de Madrid

CINDAP 287,181 € 1,200 people

LATIN AMERICA: 2009 projects table


AFGHANISTAN. During 2009 we continued our restoration project ofthe school system, through rehabilitating infrastructure and the training ofteachers in Magzhar, Zare District (north), along with local counterparts Peoplein Need. The situation in the country remains very unstable and the level of illiteracyis very high. Moreover, lack of education infrastructure is clear, because ¾ ofthe facilities have been destroyed by decades of conflict.

MIDDLE EAST. We have made the actions envisaged in the Agreement,funded by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation(AECID), which was launched last year to cover the basic needs of vulnerablerefugee women from the Palestinian Territories and Iraq. This Agreement isexpected to last four years.

SYRIA. In 2009, launched the Center for Maternal and Child Health of Yarmukrefugee camp (on the outskirts of Damascus), whose refurbishment was completed in 2008. The HealthCenter is already providing care to women and children under five years, at low cost, offering gynecol-ogical care, prenatal, postnatal and family planning. El-Yarmouk camp is home to 100,000 refugees and400,000 Palestinians Syrians / low-income as in crowded conditions.

JORDAN. In 2009, opened the doors of the Centre for Assistance to Women in the suburb of Hashmi,one of the most deprived areas of East Amman, where there are thousands of Iraqi refugees, Palestiniansand Jordanians with low income. The Centre is already providing health care, education and vocationaltraining for vulnerable women to prevent unemployment and gender violence.Moreover, the mill Kufranjah (Ajloun district) for olive oil production, is virtually complete. Thanks tothis initiative will create jobs in the region.

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Proyect Donor

AFGHANISTAN


Recovering the Scholar System through therehabilitation of the infrastructure and theteacher staff training in Magzhar, ZareDistrict


Local Partners

People in Need (PIN)

239,764 € 4,130 people

Providing integral support to women in a vulnerable situation, refugees, ruralpeasant women, or in situations of poverty: access to primary education,professional training, employmentopportunities, health care and promotion of Human Rights, in Syria and Jordan

AECID

- Jordanian National Forum forWomen (JNFW)

- Women Federation for WorldPeace Jordan (WFWP)

- Jordan River Foundation(JRF)

- Asociación Cooperativistapara la Capacitación de laMujer en Jordania

- Fund for Integrated RuralDevelopment (FIRDOS), enSiria

- Asociación Bissan para elDesarrollo Social (Siria)

- Ousrat Al Ikha As Souriya(Tierra de Hombres-Siria)

2,000,000 € 27,390 people

Providing services for mother-infant healthand the prevention of thalassemia in Yarmuk(Damascus, Syria)

AECIDAsociación Bissanpara el Desarrollo

Social202,974 € 2,800 people

Supporting the Cooperative of Kurfranjahproducing olive oil and bringing in alternativeenergies in Ajloun (Jordan)


Jordan RiverFoundation (JRF)

265,020 € 800 people

Access to employment for low-income womenin Jordan and Palestinian and Iraqi refugees inEast Amman (Jordan)


JNFW 231,130 € 13,770 people

ASIA: 2009 projects table

MIDDLE EAST

Strategic Planning for the Certification ofOrganic Agriculture products in Jordan

AECID-CAPJordan River

Foundation (JRF)99,485 € 350 people

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BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA. In 2009, our projects have continuedto promote the conditions necessary to achieve a stable, peaceful and multi-ethnic society in this country who starred the last great European war. In BiH,RESCATE has an office in the city of Mostar, which employs five people. After five years of hard work in 2009 has completed the reconstruction of thebuilding “Gimnazija” (Bosnian Institute), the time of the Austro-HungarianEmpire, which after the Mostar bridge is the landmark of the city. Already,

1,000 pupils Bosniaks and Croats have returned to take classes and live together as they did beforethe war. The project, undertaken in coordination with the OSCE, OHR, local authorities and supported by AECID,aims to ensure the school becomes a multicultural meeting place for reconciliation between the twowarring factions during the war. This project also involved the “United World Colleges”, an international organization that aims topromote understanding among various nations through education and interaction among youth fromdifferent countries.

Peace building and protection for disabled persons. After the war, the increase of children and adultswith physical and psychological aftermath of the conflict, has become apparent, and adds to the disabledpopulation by birth or by accident or sickness. In this context and with the support of AECID and theBosnian Ministry of Health, RESCATE has continued the construction of a residential and inter-ethnicassistance (up to 365 patients) in Stolac (BiH).

Central Europe

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Proyect Donor

ALBANIA


Improving the quality of education andreducing absenteeism in the Berdice com-mune (Shkodra)

AECID

Local Partners

Fundación FEMIJET TE PARET 250,000 € 2,503 people

Reducing failure rates in schools in Bushat (Shkodra)

AECIDFundación FEMIJET TE PARET 184,906 € 5,191 people

Providing support for the peace process,assisting the most vulnerable groups,especially handicapped or disabledmembers of the population, who arevictims of the conflicts in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo

AECIDRESCATE Mostar (BIH) y

Fundación FEMIJET TE PARET(Kosovo)

1,200,000 € 40,928 people

Supporting the reconciliation in Mostarby renovating the outside of the SecondaryEducation School (Phase II). BIH

AECIDRESCATE Mostar y UWC 308,866 € 671 people

Peacebuilding and conflict prevention bysupporting the disabled population victimsof the war (BiH)

AECIDRESCATE Mostar 265,704 € 365 people

Central Europe: 2009 project table

BALKANS

KOSOVO. Under the Agreement, which RESCATE develops in the Balkanswith AECID, we have worked in Kosovo in order to serve children and adoles-cents with special needs to ensure their right to education. It has built a play-room that is currently providing assistance to children of all ethnic groups inthe area.

In an environment of peaceful coexistence, the playroom provides a wide varietyof services, from treatment to children with learning disabilities to activities promoting human rights,parental education and training for social agents.

ALBANIA. In 2009, RESCATE has continued his work in Shkodra, one ofthe poorest regions in Albania, with a view to supporting the education systemand to prevent child trafficking, one of the most serious problems in the area.To this end, two schools have been repaired, have taught courses for teachersand have conducted an awareness campaign against trafficking in children inschools across the region (122 schools and 37 elementary schools) with thetitle “Yes to the laws. No to exploitation“.

The External Relations Department develops theAwareness and Education for Development proj-ects, and informs about general activity of theentity, in order to aware the Spanish societyabout the reality of the refugees and displacedpersons, with the objective of being consciousand get engaged in favor of this group by sup-porting RESCATE’s projects.

External Relations is divided into two fields:Awareness and Education for DevelopmentArea and Communication and Own CapitalRaising Area. In this task, four professionalsare involved located in the three offices ofRESCATE in Spain: Madrid (head office), Valenciaand Talavera de la Reina (Toledo).

For the Awareness and Education for Develop-ment Area, 2009 has been a year of transitionfor the introduction of the new strategy that pre-tends to make the situation of our attentiongroup more efficiently visible, by increasing the

thematic lines, the objective publics and the useof new awareness tools (TIC).

Regarding the Communication and Own CapitalRaising Area, they have focused on the promotionof the information Campaign about the New AsylumAct in Spain, the arrangement of different trainingactions about the reality of the refugees and dis-placed persons, and the strengthening of the com-munication channels with members, donors, enti-ties, communication media and society in general.

World Refugee Day. As usually, RESCATE cele-brated World Refugee Day (June, 20th) togetherwith other organizations that work in the sameline. In Madrid, we participated in the “RainbowParty”, organized by the Centro de Ayuda a Refu-giados (CAR – Refugees Help Center) of Alcoben-das. In Valencia, RESCATE took part togetherwith Cruz Roja (Red Cross), CEAR, CAR of Mislataand ACNUR in the playful week organized inorder to commemorate this date.

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Proyect Donor

LÍNEA DE INTEGRACIÓN

Grant Beneficiaries

Good Practices and Politics of No Discrimination regarding racial and ethnic origin at labour sphere

Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.DGII – Fondo Social Europeo

30,000 € 2,500 people

Documentary video “From Inside”

Generalitat Valenciana

Caja Navarra

24,651.25 €

43.50 €1,000 people

Videogame “Teu RESCATE”Generalitat Valenciana

OHLCaja Navarra

22,386.46 €1,500 €43.50 €

1,100 people

Awareness and Education for Development: 2009 projects table

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1 Good Practices and Politics ofNo Discrimination regardingracial and ethnic origin atlabour sphere

RESCATE has identified the necessity of promot-ing politics and good practices of no discrimi-nation between social agents involved atemployment sphere, in order to avoid difficul-ties in social and labour integration suffered bythe asylum applicants in Spain due to its racialand ethnic origin.

The objective of this project has just been thatthese social agents (companies, trade unions,human resources professionals, etc.) start a re-

flection process that favour the protection ofthe treatment equality concept at laboursphere, and the social and labour integration ofpersons with different origins.

Therefore the study “One step more in RSE:Good practice of no discrimination regardingracial and ethnic origin at labour sphere” hasbeen published. It analyses the situation ofGood Practice in the fields of Employer’s SocialResponsibility of the private sector in Spain.

In addition, working parties have been devel-oped together with several companies, in orderto discuss and think about the need of knowingand complying with the existing international,European and national legislations, encouragingthem to participate more actively in the devel-opment and promotion of these politics.

2 Documentary video

“From Inside” is the name of the documentaryvideo produced by RESCATE in 2009, about theinsertion and urban coexistence of immigrantswith the native population in the city of Valen-cia, specifically, in the neighborhood of Orriols.

The video crosses life histories and expertsopinions in order to review the sense of the dis-courses that, sometimes, stigmatizes the neigh-borhoods with a high percentage of foreignpopulation. Actually, the main objective of thedocumentary is to show the benefits and diffi-culties of the coexistence between persons of

Awareness and Education for Development Projects in SpainIn 2009, the projects and activities developed by the Awareness andEducation for Development Area in Spain have been:

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different nationalities, and how diversity andintegration are key values for development.

“From Inside” has been introduced in severaluniversities of the Comunitat Valenciana, inorder to aware students and teachers about thisreality. In addition, a specific website has beencreated (www.desdedentro.org), where youcan watch the documentary entirely.

3 Videogame “Teu RESCATE”(Your RESCATE)

RESCATE has produced in 2009 the educationalvideogame “Teu RESCATE” (Your RESCATE) –inspanish and valentian language- with the ob-jective of making high school students and uni-versitaries of the Comunitat Valencianasensitive to the reality of the refugees.

“Teu RESCATE” is an example of the new strat-egy of the Awareness and Education for Devel-opment Area that has introduced the use of newtechnologies for making more efficiently visiblethe problems we worry about.

By means of the questions/answers logic, thevideogame transmits values and knowledgeabout complex themes like refuge, immigrationand climate change effects. The player has tochoose between different humanitarian actionsthat put his skills to the test, learning mean-while.

“Teu RESCATE” has been broadcast between stu-dents of several universities and high schools,through awareness and playing workshops. Inaddition, a website has been created,www.teurescate.org, where you can play forfree, through internet.

Conferences, workshops, forumsROUND TABLE“DESC in the Cauca Department(Colombia)”

RESCATE organized a round table in Talaverade la Reina (Toledo), last October, 26th 2009,about the reality of villages more affectedby the conflict in Colombia, ethnical mi-norities and how international cooperationtries to establish bases for the exercise oftheir economical, social and culture rights(DESC).

Two Colombian leaders, a woman afrodescen-dant and an indigenous man, together with theprojects coordinator of RESCATE in Colombia,explained first-hand the problems of their com-munities.

The round table was organized in the frameworkof the international cooperation project “Em-ployment and Incomes Creation through thestrengthening of the traditional farm and cocoaproduction for women and young people afrode-scendants in the municipality of Villarrica,North Cauca, Colombia”, financed by the Juntade Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha.

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CONFERENCE“Refugees: Ethnic, gender, environment and disability”

RESCATE coordinated the conference “Refugees.Ethnic, gender, environment and disability” inLa Casa Encendida (Madrid), last October, 22and 23th, 2009, about the reality of civilianpopulations affected by conflict from multipleperspectives.

The conference was inaugurated by the UNHCRRepresentative in Spain (United Nations HighCommissioner for Refugees), Maricela Daniel,and counted with the participation of person-alities from Colombia, the Middle East, Ethiopiaand Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The presenters explained, many of them in firstperson, the situation of civilians in a conflict,and what are the short, medium and long termeffects, according to the origins of violence andthe characteristics of the affected civilian pop-ulation or the geographical area where it grows.

In particular, we showed the problems of afrodescendants and indigenous communities inColombia, Palestinian and Iraqi women in theMiddle East, agro-shepherd somali populationsand the disabled people by the conflict in theBalkans.

WORKSHOP “Return to Exile”

In the “Space for seniors“ from Caja Madrid inTalavera de la Reina (Toledo), organized a work-shop on refugees in Spain using digital photo-graphic exhibition “Return to Exile: On thedignity of the refugees of yesterday and today”,the example of spanish republican refugees inthe civil war.

During the workshop, May 12, 2009, attendeesshared their own experiences and were close tothe reality of immigrants who arrive to ourcountry, and their feelings about uprootingtheir families.

Other Courses

As usual, RESCATE participates in several courses and tables at the invitation of other entities. InMadrid, we gave a workshop on “Conflict and women” in the Week of Solidarity at the UniversityCarlos III (Getafe) and another workshop on “Conflict and Environment” at the European Universityof Madrid (Villaviciosa de Odon).

In Comunitat Valenciana, we participated in the Conference “Solidarity 2009” of the GeneralitatValenciana with a presentation on Development Education and Awareness. And we gave a workshopon “Revitalisation of volunteerism” at the University of Valencia.

In Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), RESCATE participated in the workshop on Volunteer and Associ-ation in “program Alcazul“ of the local council. And, in the practical sessions of the Social Edu-cation students at the University CEU Talavera.

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Economic information

INCOME THROUGH THE ORGANIZATION´S OWN ACTIVITIES

INCOME2009 2008

Grants and donations 4,989,347.11 2,767,027.25

Public sources 4,852,440.03 2,543,622.02

Private sources 136,907.08 223,405.23

Reimbursments of grants -52,303.86 -20.462,75

Total income through the organization’s own activities 4,937,043.25 2,746,564.50

Other income 21,500.39 11,207.91

Financial incomes 27,768.59 59,692.37

Total income 4,986,312.23 2,817,464.78

PROGRAMS

EXPENDITURES2009 2008

Social Action 239,260.31 257,019.33

International Cooperation 3,787,725.98 2,199,352.38

Awareness and Education for Development 107,730.41 149,755.22

Subtotal 4,134,716.70 2,606,126.93

Administration and fundraising 243,288.43 208,469.14

Total expenditures 4,378,005.13 2,814,596.07

BALANCE 608,307.10 2,868.71

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Grants and donations managed in 2009

FROM PUBLIC SOURCES 2009 2008AECID 3,411,635.37 1,666,567.86

Ayuntamiento de Madrid 259,633.14 194,064.96

Generalitat Valenciana 493,386.82 285,222.27

Fondo Europeo para los Refugiados 5,700.02 95,936.97

Fondo Social Europeo 29,741.09

Dirección General de Integración de los Inmigrantes (MTIN) 124,059.26 130,354.76

Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha 197,683.19 56,332.77

Junta de Comunidades de Castilla y León 128,451.25 32,691.07

IRPF (Ministerio de Sanidad y Política Social) 69,528.12 59,000.00

Gobierno de Bosnia i Herzegovina 834.50 1,037.17

Comunidad de Madrid 79,569.32 1,951.44

Subtotal 4,800,222.08 2,523,159.27

FROM PRIVATE SOURCES 2009 2008

Member´s quotas 6,272.29 3,563.54

Obra Social Fundación La Caixa 9,844.61 127,352.46

Fundación José Entrecanales Ibarra 99,427.84

Obra Social Caja Madrid 11,914.09

Caja Navarra 87.60 1,809.03

Cityscope S.L. 1,695.92

Moebius Creativa 1,014.00

El Corte Inglés 1,000.00

Veterinaria Organización 928.00

Santander 82,173.00

Oficina La Caixa 1,000.00 700,00

Avannet Sistemas Informáticos, S.L. 184.61 167.92

ITM, S.L. 835.17 842.17

OHL 1,500.00

Wizard Computers 32.29 75.37

Gran Vía Musical de Ediciones, S.L. 42.00

Coronel Tapioca, S.A. 140.00

Taranna Club de viajes S.A 600.00

Movistar 66.50 236.58

Mundo Unido Cooperación 100.00 447.24

Other private income 4,774.17 1,400.00

Subtotal 136,821.17 223,405.23

TOTAL GRANTS AND DONATIONS MANAGED IN 2009 4,937,043.25 2,746,564.50

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MEMBERSThe RESCATE members, 170 people of variousnationalities, of which 38 are donor members, arethose persons who sharing RESCATE´s objectivesdecide to become members and participate in theGeneral Assembly.

Like last year, in 2009, one of the main objectivesof the association, has been to propose new people,

sensitized with our mission, to take part of RESCATEas members to increase civil society support whichis essential for our continuity. More information:

[email protected]

DONORSPublic institutions, companies and private peoplethat have supported economically the RESCATE´sprojects.

AcknowledgementsThe RESCATE activities to help asylum seekers, refugees, displaced persons,beneficiaries of certain types of international protection and immigrantscould be possible because the economical support, trust and collaborationof our:

PRIVATE SUPPORTERSObra Social Caja Madrid, Obra SocialFundación La Caixa, Fundación JoséEntrecanales Ibarra, Caja Navarra,OHL, Avannet Sistemas informáticos,Grupo Dima, Taranna Club de viajes,Gran Vía Musical de Ediciones, CoronelTapioca, etc.

PUBLIC SUPPORTERSAECID, Ayuntamiento de Madrid, GeneralitatValenciana, Fondo Europeo para los Refugiados(FER), Fondo Social Europeo, Dirección General deIntegración de los Inmigrantes (DGII.MTIN), Juntade Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, Ministeriode Sanidad y Política Social, Gobierno de Bosnia iHerzegovina, Comunidad de Madrid.

If you share our desire to support refugees and communities affected by armed conflicts,you can join the Association, become a member. Contact: [email protected]

Also, yo can make a donation: 0049 0001 55 2110035530Any donation to RESCATE allows a tax reduction.

For the development of our projects, RESCATE receives funds from various public and privatedonors, but we need the support of new members and donors to complete all of them. THANK YOU!

RESCATE fulfills the principles of Transparency and Good Practices of Fundación Lealtad since2005, and was declared Association of Public Utility in 2002.

I want to collaborate with RESCATE:

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ORGANIZATIONSCentros de Ayuda a los Refugiados (CAR) de Alco-bendas (Madrid) y Mislata (Valencia); FundaciónLuis Vives y Fundación Lealtad; Mundo UnidoCooperación; Fundación Ortega y Gasset; Accen-ture; Asociación AXA de Todo Corazón.

In Castilla-La Mancha: Asociación Socio CulturalSan Andrés y Sección Juvenil y Concejalía deBienestar Social del Ayuntamiento de Talavera.

In Comunitat Valenciana: IES “Marítimo”, FNAC.

Our local partners in the international field inColombia, África, Europa Central and Asia.

VOLUNTEERSPersons who disinterestedly have contributedwith their motivations, work and time to ourprojects. Without them it would be impossibleto develop all our activities.

Madrid: Blanca Vivancos, Marcela Lagunas, LolaFrigols, Elena Gómez, Victoria Sánchez, RebecaRubio, María J. Vallecillo, Javier G. Godoy, LeirePayo e Ignacio Corrales. Comunitat Valenciana: Patricia Moratalla, Bego-ña Temprado, Patricia Aparicio, Silvia García,Ainoa Cifo y Laura Alonso.

Castilla-La Mancha: Beatriz Aldana y ElisabetHernández.

PRACTISING STUDENTSRebeca Rubio Ortega, estudiante de 3º de Edu-cación Social (CLM) y Sa-Nguansin, Watcharab-horn, estudiante de prácticas internacionales enValencia y Alba Olivares Signes, estudiante dePedagogía.

COLLABORATORSMadrid: Encarna Dorrego, Sonsoles Morales,voluntarios del Grupo OHL, Nina Mosheni, MiguelPoza, Kristin Kjellgard y Ricardo Vélez.

Cristina Gil Hofmann y Lolylla, for the translationfrom spanish into english of this Annual Report,through www.microvoluntarios.org

MEDIATVE, Reuters AlertNet, Diario Levante, Canal 9,Radio Nou, Localia TV, Agencia EFE, boletínFONGCAM, RNE, Revista Miralls, www.revis-tateina.com, Periódico Xarxa Urbana, Pluralia TV,Cadena SER, ADN, El Mundo, Aula Intercultural,Humania TV, AU Agenda, Valencia City, Intere-conomía, Revista Corresponsables.

Memoria RESCATE 2009 - ingles

Education

finance officer

word rescate

evaluation officer

fundraising officer

orgprojects officer

history of rescate

psychosocial area officer

ins vlez projects officer