​155 Syrian refugees arrive on Tuesday from Lebanon

2016.7.26

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155 Syrian refugees arrived in Spain from Lebanon on Tuesday, under the National Resettlement Programme. This is the third group of asylum-seekers to arrive from Lebanon, in addition to the two previous groups, totalling 61 people, that arrived on 28 and 29 June, a figure which, when added to the numbers that arrived on Tuesday, brings the total number of asylum-seekers to arrive in Spain from Lebanon to 216.

Following the arrival on Tuesday of these 155 refugees, Spain has now received a total number of 470 asylum-seekers, of which 197 have come under the relocation programme and 273 under the resettlement programme.

The group of Syrian refugees who arrived at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport on Tuesday is made up of 36 men, 37 women and 82 children, who will be taken in in Murcia (21), Lugo (11), Cantabria (4), Valencia (8), Barcelona (7), Madrid (13), Leon (8), Valladolid (5), Soria (4), Palencia (5), Ávila (6), Zamora (4), Biscay (4), Zaragoza (29), Teruel (6), Malaga (7), Huelva (6) and Cordoba (7).

The Spanish System for the Reception and Integration of applicants/beneficiaries of international protection offers its beneficiaries a stay at a reception centre of the Ministry of Employment and Social Security or of an NGO (subsidised by the government) at which they are guaranteed lodging, meals, legal advice, psychological assistance, social care and advice, accompaniment to education centres, public health and social centres, language learning and basic social skills, guidance and intermediation for vocational training and job reinsertion, cultural activities and economic aid.