Today, the President of the Regional Government of the Azores, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Bolieiro, considered that the Azorean society in general is xenophilic, \u201cthat is, it likes to welcome foreigners and has no traces of racist harassment\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is necessary to feed this culture by fighting against any manifestation of racism and to promote xenophilia instead of xenophobia\u201d, declared the President.<\/p>\n
Jos\u00e9 Manuel Bolieiro was speaking in Velas in an initiative of the Escola de Integra\u00e7\u00e3o<\/em> – School of Integration – project, a cycle of sessions on the life path of immigrants fully inserted in the Azorean society promoted by the Regional Directorate for the Communities.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is a citizenship project that helps to delineate our identity and that also includes immigrants who give their testimony of integration, with regard to each of our islands\u201d, highlighted the President of the Government, who was speaking to the press after the session that involved around 100 young people from S\u00e3o Jorge.<\/p>\n The Escola de Integra\u00e7\u00e3o<\/em> project consists of sharing first-person testimonies of citizens from other countries who are fully socially integrated into local communities and professionally linked to various areas, such as business, education, the arts, restaurants, sports. or the hotel industry.<\/p>\n Escola de Integra\u00e7\u00e3o<\/em>, which started at the end of 2021, has the collaboration of the Emigrants Association in the Azores – AIPA and with the participation of foreign citizens from Cape Verde, Spain, Brazil, Estonia, Italy, France and Ukraine.<\/p>\n Com a realiza\u00e7\u00e3o desta iniciativa, o Governo dos A\u00e7ores pretende dar a conhecer cidad\u00e3os naturais de outros pa\u00edses plenamente integrados na sociedade a\u00e7oriana e valorizar, em especial junto dos mais jovens, o contributo dos mesmos no desenvolvimento da regi\u00e3o.<\/p>\n With this initiative, the Government of the Azores intends to make known citizens born in \u00a0other countries fully integrated into the Azorean society and to value, especially among young people, their contribution to the development of the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, the President of the Regional Government of the Azores, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Bolieiro, considered that the Azorean society in general is xenophilic, \u201cthat is, it likes to welcome foreigners and has no traces of racist harassment\u201d. \u201cIt is necessary to feed this culture by fighting against any manifestation of racism and to promote xenophilia instead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n