Sintra and Cape Verde … the five minutes away – The Luso-Cape Verdean Association of Experience (ACAS) today inaugurated a tour of the Cape Verde Citizen’s Shop in Sierra de las Minas, Rio de Moor, who will move to make online and fast connection between the Cape Verde community and the public administration of the country.
“In the past, to ask a simple birth certificate, a Cape Verdean living abroad came to wait six months. Sometimes, when the received up was already out of date. In cases of great urgency, a person had to go to Cape Verde to take a simple certificate. It is not justified by the Government of Cape Verde, the accelerated restructuring and modernization has made agreements with countries such as Portugal and offers from associations like this quick connection platform and direct the public service “, commented, satisfied, the Secretary of State for Public Administration of the Government of Cape Verde, Romeu Modesto, president at the ceremony.
Mayor applauds
And the test was done soon after the official act, with a request for certificate it took three minutes to be issued. Of all certificates, only the criminal record will take some time. The rest is in order.
Basilio Horta, the Mayor of Sintra, was keen to join this inauguration. “Two 31 000 immigrants in the county, eight thousand are Cape Verdeans. A perfectly integrated community, worker and an asset to Sintra and Portugal, “he said, stressing the” pleasure of the local authority in the help he gave to the creation of this Citizen’s counter, allowing for greater quality of life to Verdean community Verde “, joined.
Emigrants, no. Community, yes!
BALL, Romeu Modesto said the “huge investment of the Government in the modernization of public administration”, the policy of ‘approximation of communities to their country of origin’ and the policy of ‘proliferation agreements to open citizen stores worldwide where there is Cape Verdeans’.
The secretary of state evoked a sui generis reality of Cape Verde has 500 thousand and a million people around the world. That are never treated as emigrants before as a community. That is, seen as a country extension for other territories, many of them well distant. So there is even a ministry of the Government Communities.
“The Cape Verdean maintains a strong connection to their country, to their roots. Proof of this, the fact that remittances communities represent a very significant percentage of the Cape Verde GDP. “Even in deep time of international crisis, remittances not resented, ‘says Romeu Modesto.
On the other hand, reminds the Secretary of State, Cape Verde is also a host country of its citizens around the world, that ‘time is better positioned so that citizens in the diaspora to invest, return and are setting up in Cape Verde. ”
‘In respect of remittances, for example, our philosophy goes beyond simply sending money to family support or savings. We seek that many of these remittances are translated into productive investment for development of the country. Today, in the face of such modernization of public administration, it is possible to create a company at a time, for example “, said Romeu Modesto.
World Kickboxing Champion manages Association
The Luso-Cape Verdean Association of Sintra is run by John Reis, a former world kickboxing champion, retired in 2010. An association, set in Rio de Moor, makes a social work that will greatly besides having a shop counter the citizen.
The ACAS is a partner in Project Healthy Choices and employability programs and support in three areas: psychosocial, educational and immigrant. Given the scarcity of own revenues, is up for programs that have government funding, particularly in terms of EU funds, receiving also helps direct the City of Sintra House and parish councils, or other indirect associations, school groups, etc.
“Our intervention in support of the community is multidisciplinary support. Since structured programs to emergency help, legal advice or legalization, etc. And, despite its name, does not think that just provide support to the Cape Verdean community. We support the community in which we operate. When you ask us not help wonder what nationality are the people. All have the doors open, the grace and emergency situations have no nationality ‘, said John Reis.
Photo Carla Sedge / ASF
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