San Salvador, October 12, 2018 – The Missionaries of San Carlos Scalabrinianos Foundation, the Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN), Casas del Migrante Network and UNHCR held the third Regional Migration and Peace Forum on October 11, 2018. With the theme Building Durable Solutions for the Reintegration of Migrants and Refugees Into the Labor Market, the event focused on the government’s challenges to guarantee the economic stability of returned Salvadorans. 

Porto Alegre, October 2018 – In the last month of September the federal government and municipalities of Rio Grande do Sul began to welcome new Venezuelan migrants. CIBAI-Migrações and the COMIG of the Scalabrinian Sisters have visited the welcoming centers. In September and October, the Priests Gustot Lucien, James-son Mercure and Sister Egidia Muraro – all of them Scalabrinians – visited a day care center in the Sarandi neighborhood, north of Porto Alegre, as well