"invisible wounds" by: http://canali.libero.it/affaritaliani/cronache/violenze030508.htm
Immigration / Violence, trauma and torture here as those who arrive in our country suffers
hidden trauma that is not easy to identify, lacerations that do not heal. Among the foreigners in our country many have been victims of violence and torture which continue to bring on the signs, and not only from the physical point of view. And many others come to improve their economic conditions in Italy and are trapped in situations of great distress and suffering.
It is these people who does the project "Invisible Wounds" of the diocesan Caritas of Rome, of which Rome was presented an initial report. This is an initiative created in 2005 to give a media type therapeutic and social foreigners with serious injuries. They are not - as you might think - only asylum seekers and refugees, economic migrants but also for various and different reasons are unable to withstand the harshness of the experience of migration. The project, which has so far taken care of about 50 people, fits all "procedure in the health of Caritas, where from 1983 to the present have found support around 7 people per year (of half of them new) for a total of 90 000 individuals. 47 people are taken over by the 'invisible wounds, "including 34 men and 13 women from 26 different countries. And of these, 14 were Afghan nationals, but others come from Poland, China, Romania, Ukraine, and then it is not seeking political asylum.
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"The project began on an experimental basis and with no initial advertising - says the supervisor Mark Mazzetti. - Yes This is a new and difficult field and did not want to create expectations that then could not meet. " Because the objective is quite ambitious, and consists precisely in the care "of people with severe symptoms through an integrated psycho-social intervention." "At first we referred to our group homes where they live asylum seekers and refugees with residence permit," says Salvatore Geraci
, responsible for the health of Caritas Rome.
