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The group of architecture students want to raise €10,000 to build new housing for the irregular migrants who lost their homes through a fire in Nijar, Almeria.
Following last month’s fire which destroyed around 100 homes at an irregular migrant camp in Nijar, Almeria, a group of architecture students is raising money to provide shelter for the migrants.
The campaign on GoFundMe has raised almost €2,000 of its €10,000 target after the architecture students from the University of Granada put together the plan to provide a shelter for the almost 800 migrants affected by the fire.
The students had been working in the Nijar migrant camp as part of their degree until it was totally destroyed in a fire police say may have been set deliberately in a racist crime.
According to the students, Nijar council and local businesses have so far failed to help the migrants, leaving the young architects to work together to provide new housing. The group is now calling on companies who may want to get involved in their plans to join forces with them to either provide materials or get involved with the construction.
The fire in the settlement on May 22 destroyed around 100 homes and left a 45-year-old man with burn injuries. Police have now arrested two people accused of having set the fire on suspicion of arson in Almeria.
The project is called: Proyecto Asentamientos Capalu
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