Support Scalabrini House 634
A place to design one’s future
What does it mean to be nineteen years old and have to build your future from scratch?
It happens more often than you imagine. It happens when you have crossed deserts and seas to save yourself. When you find yourself in a new country. When you’ve been waiting for months, maybe years, for someone to decide if your story deserves protection. When you finally get permission to stay, but discover that “staying” is not enough if you have nowhere to build your tomorrow.
At Casa Scalabrini 634 we welcome refugees, young adults and families in semi-autonomy who have completed their journey in ministerial shelters.
From 2015 to the present , we have taken in about 400 people at that very fragile moment: the transition from institutional protection to real life. The one where you have to find a job, pay a rent, build relationships.
Casa Scalabrini 634 has thirty places available, but in a year there are about 60 people who come through here: each stays about six months, the time needed to build the foundations of their independence.
A future that starts with small things.
For many of the boys, Casa Scalabrini 634 is the first place they can call “Home” after years of centers, dormitories, temporary accommodations. This is where they start planning: a training course, a job interview, a room of their own.
But how do you start over?
With a pillow to rest your head on.
With clean sheets waiting for you at night.
With a towel that is yours alone.
Small things, right? Yet, they are the first tiles of dignity. They are what transforms a space into Home. They are the starting point from which to look to the future.
For each person who arrives, we prepare a Welcoming Kit. Simple, essential items that remain his forever-even when he leaves Scalabrini House 634, toward independent living.
2 sheets, 1 pillowcase, 1 pillow, 2 towels: cost is 50€.
Our goal
This year we want to guarantee, thanks to your help, 60 Reception Kits to accompany all the people who will pass through Casa Scalabrini 634. But your support doesn’t stop there: if we succeed in surpassing this first goal, every extra euro will help us meet the many day-to-day operating and maintenance expenses that make the reception possible-from utilities to space maintenance, from materials for training courses to educational support.
