30/12/2022
FSG Incidencia y Defensa de Derechos
Fundación Secretariado Gitano launches the audiovisual production Zero Slums in 2030 in order to demand a firm commitment from public administrations to achieve the definitive eradication of settlements.
In the audiovisual production, Ana Mª Requena, Santiago Barrul and Sara Fernández, who know what it is like to live in a slum, explain to us how this has a direct impact, not only on their day-to-day lives, but also on their future options and for their families.
The audiovisual production has been co-financed by the Secretary of State for the 2030 Agenda (Ministry of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda). Its translation into English has been co-financed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Economy, the European Social Fund and the "laCaixa" Foundation.
In Spain there are more than two hundred settlements spread over most of the regions, in which thousands of people live (including more than 11,000 Roma). In the words of Rocío García, regional director of FSG in Madrid, "We’re in the 21st century and even today, there are still settlements across the country and above all this affects the Roma population."
Slum living, although quantitatively is already a residual phenomenon, has a serious impact on the fundamental rights of people and on the values and principles that we defend as a society. The slums not only impacts the right to housing, but also the right to education, health, employment, social welfare, "we are talking about a denial of human rights," Rocío points out in the video.
Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) has produced the audiovisual Zero Slums in 2030 in order to demand a firm commitment from public administrations so that the Roma population that continues to live in substandard housing, gains access to decent housing that favors guarantee of their rights, their quality of life and their full economic and social inclusion and, above all, to promote the implementation of actions and plans for the eradication of settlements at a time when there are sufficient financing opportunities to achieve it.
Ana Mª Requena, Santiago Barrul and Sara Fernández know what it is like to live in a slum and how it directly impacts, not only on their day-to-day life, but also on their future options for themselves and their families. In Zero Slums in 2030 the three tell us their life stories, how the limitations they have in relation to their living conditions are not the worst; the worst is, above all, the prejudice they receive when they say they live in a settlement. Because, as Eva Vera (Regional Director of FSG Galicia) acknowledges, "In the end, we all associate slum living with poverty and social exclusion. "
It must be taken into account that many of the settlements that currently exist were born as a temporary solution, but have become chronic over time, which has caused several generations of the same family to reside in these settlements today. And that it is the absence of political decisions, of courage, the delay in decision-making and the search for solutions, which causes the suffering situations of many families to continue.
The FSG demands that, in order to achieve success in eradicating slums, it must be done from a comprehensive perspective in the medium and long term, with structural measures in the political, social, educational and employment spheres.
Settlements can be eradicated and the Fundación Secretariado Gitano demands that all available resources be activated and that all the necessary measures be put into operation so that the objective of “Zero Slums” is met before the year 2030.
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