Repatriated migrants making good living

Immigrants who voluntarily returned to their country as part of the programme DAR are doing well and making a good living.

The 71 immigrants, who mostly hailed from Sudan and Ghana, have now set up a business in their own countries through assistance provided by the project. These businesses include a hair salon, brick laying, a taxi service, selling mobile phones, sheep rearing and selling car spares.

This was said by Foreign Minister Tonio Borg this morning during a seminar held at the Old University at the end of the first phase of the 18-month voluntary repatriation project.

Another 71 immigrants are to be repatriated in its second phase and Malta shall be requesting further EU funding for the purpose. The second group of 71 immigrants should be repatriated in two to three months.

Dr Borg described Dar as a partial solution to Malta’s enormous problem pointing out that repatriation was voluntary and not imposed. He said that Malta represented an unintended stopover for most migrants.