The third sector is faced with an important problem: while humanitarian crises are aggravated, organizations suffer from a radical reduction in financing. This was indicated by experts at the round table The third sector challenges the new international script, This happened within Festival of Ideas and Cultures Eldiario.esWhich began this Friday in Las -Palmas de Gran Canaria.
In this dialogue, modified by the journalist of the Canary Islands, Jennifer Jimenes, Marta Femia, the director of the financial sustainability of the Anavad Foundation; Eliza Bernal, head of the communication department in emergency actions against hunger; and Juan Carlos Lorenzo, coordinator of the Spanish Refugee Assistance Commission on the Canary Islands.
“The crises are exacerbated, hunger increases, forced displacements grow … We need more resources than when,” said Eliza Bernal. The head of action against hunger noted that another of the problems of the third sector is a crisis of values through which Europe is experiencing, where respect for international humanitarian law was noticed “exhausted”.
Juan Carlos Lorenzo pointed to the growth of extreme law and how he increased his fame in decision -making. “Despite the fact that the crisis goes beyond the third sector, the most affected people are those to whom we support,” said Cear’s coordinator on the Canary Islands.
In order to do not work exclusively on state funding, Marta Femia said that it was the key to finding new ways to receive funds, for example, through the private sector. In this line, both Bernal and Lorenzo emphasized the need to trust the population.
800 million people are hungry
The head of action against hunger recalled that 800 million people are starving in the world, 10% of the population. “These are people who do not know when they can eat where their food can come, mothers in the children’s period who cannot suck their children, because they are in conflict situations, forced displacement …”, by example.
Eliza Bernal insisted that financing to combat hunger was “investing in the world” and established a gas case. Answering the question of the safety of hunger workers participating in the conflict zones, Bernal confirmed that although they have evacuation protocols to guarantee staff safety, the use of them is becoming more and more complicated, because “international humanitarian law, which considers the protection of humanitarian workers, is dismantled. ”
The right to asylum
In this context, Juan Carlos Lorenzo also insisted on the need to have a refuge law that guarantees people’s rights. “Anti-immigration politicians are not alone in some matches, but are already in positions with the ability to make decisions,” he recalls.
The CEAR coordinator recalled the threat of VOX with violation of governments with PP in autonomous communities, where they regulate together if the region proposed to conduct minor minors transferred from the Canary Islands.
