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New partnership between Grupo VAPF and the Spanish Committee of UNHCR in the programme “TOGETHER for the refugees”

Grupo VAPF, in response to the refugees crisis that there is all over the world, and after 3 years supporting the programme “On the front line” of the Spanish Committee UNHCR, the UN´s agency for refugees, has started a new collaboration, “Together for the refugees”, over another 3 year period.

The programme “Together for the Refugees” is an initiative that rely on supporting and caring companies, which would like to contribute by sending urgent help to the refugees. Help in such areas like education, emergencies or nutritional therapy.

With more that 65 years’ experience, the UNHCR works in 134 countries, so that refugees, internally displaced persons, returnees, stateless people and asylum seekers, who have had to flee from their homes because of armed conflict, persecution or human rights violations, can receive assistance and protection in a host country, by defending and protecting their rights, wellbeing and basic needs.

UNHCR personnel work in different places, always striving to provide protection and minimize threats of violence, including sexual, which many refugees are exposed to, and aiming for long-lasting solutions, helping refugees to return to their places of origin, if the conditions of the place allow, that they integrate in the host countries or are resettled in third counties.

UNHCR was created after the Second World War, with the aim of responding to the needs of European refugees who had to flee from their countries because of the war. Ever since then, it has been protecting millions of refugees and displaced persons for 68 years.

For all this work, UNHCR has received twice the Nobel Peace Prize (1954 and 1981) and the Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Cooperación (Prince of Asturias Cooperation Prize) in 1991.