Ten years of Humanitarian Corridors: anniversary celebrated in Trieste

"Humanitarian Corridors create not only hospitality but above all integration". With these words today, at the Naval League of Trieste, ten years of the project launched by the Community of Sant'Egidio which allowed the entry into Europe of over 10 thousand people fleeing from wars and persecution were celebrated. An anniversary that will also be celebrated at the Barcolana, the great regatta scheduled for Sunday 11 October, with a boat presented today by the president of the Lega Navale, Trieste Section, Roberto Benedetti, and by the president of the Barcola and Grignano Sailing Society, Mitja Gialuz.

"As the Italian Naval League, we are always close to fragile people and those in difficulty. So this initiative is part of our spirit - said Benedetti - and solidarity, welcome and inclusion are always part of our actions". Benedetti also recalled that in the Lega Navale's moorings there are "also four legal boats, seized from the underworld, used for human trafficking: we have fixed them and use them for social purposes". Gialuz underlined that "Humanitarian corridors are an institution created with great imagination and courage, also from a legal point of view, by the community of Sant'Egidio, exactly 10 years ago, to govern immigration by taking people away from human traffickers and ensuring dignity for people and migrants. In Barcolana we try to tell this very positive story for everyone".