With a small group of 4 we arrived at the immigrant centre in Almeria. The centre is a place where immigrants, legal or illegal, can come for different things. There are showers for them to wash themselves. They can get clothes from a room full of donated clothes. Then there is also internet for them to use and a television. The last thing is that they can get breakfast and lunch. For breakfast they can choose between milk, chocolate milk and coffee. The lunch was cheese and turkey sandwiches and juice made and served by Mayssam. All these things are free, they just have to show a card with a personal number, their name, country of origin and date of birth so that the Red Cross can keep track of them.
Joep and Odette started out sorting some donated clothes, while Mayssam was handing out the breakfast and talking to some of the people. Afterwards we kept track of the things the immigrants were coming in for, then we prepared and served lunch. The centre is an important facility for the immigrants as it allows them to eat and shower for free and get advice and help with finding a job, and we enjoyed finding out how it worked.
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