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President saw successful cases of support for immigrants

Importance of social integration of immigrants stressed by the President

On the second day of the 3rd Campaign of the Route to Inclusion, dedicated to Voluntary Work and Social Exclusion in Urban Environments, the President of the Republic visited School EB 2,3 António Sérgio in Cacém, Sintra, which has the widest diversity of origins of children of immigrants in Portugal and, after that, the project KCity, headed up by the Aga Khan Foundation and which does social work in the council neighbourhoods of Alta de Lisboa, going specifically to the Musgueira Social Centre.

Later on, the President and Dr.ª Maria Cavaco Silva met with immigrant doctors and nurses who, through grants given by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, achieved equivalent qualifications which allowed them to leave other professional activities they had taken up on arrival in Portugal, and to resume their own careers.