The staff employed by the individual diocesan Caritas units who are charged with the duty of assisting the beneficiaries of the Humanitarian Corridors project, as well as all potential asylum seekers and refugees that the individual Caritas unit may be responsible for. According to the protocol of the Humanitarian Corridors project, the tasks of the social workers include legal assistance with the procedures related to requests for political asylum; the health care needs of refugees, in collaboration with the ASLs (the part of the Italian public administration responsible for the provision of health services) and outpatient clinics in a particular area; the provision of cultural interpreters and mediators; assistance with job searches; and enrollment in the national school system both for minors subject to compulsory education and for adults. For the latter, the social workers support the beneficiaries as they forge paths toward financial and work-related autonomy.
