Driving school, tailoring, Italian and English: these are the courses offered to more than 140 people who have come to register for classes starting in October in Rome. In the Milan office, English, Italian and yoga classes have also started. Thanks to the volunteers and female volunteers who have decided to give some of their time to put themselves at the service of others, we are able to offer migrants and communities in the two cities different courses to learn and be together in the name of relationship.

Work is proceeding on the Integrated Reception Network., promoted by the ASCS. The October meeting was important for the network because regulations were prepared here that will allow the network to take a more structured form. This was created to promote the development of best practices for the benefit of recipients, to facilitate the matching of demand and supply of services provided by the various entities in order to coordinate the practices and actions put in place and, among other things, to foster dialogue between the third sector and institutions by promoting advocacy actions on issues of interest to the network.

On Oct. 28 within the project Wasi-Home was held in Milan the “Writing of Experience” workshop led by journalist and essayist Lea Melandri. Twenty women project workers, users and project volunteers attended the meeting. was a very powerful and participatory moment in which women relying on fragments, thoughts and emotions told each other and recounted their experience.

Within the Afya project, health counter, the online meeting “Health Bureaucracy” was held in which more than 40 people participated. Afya (in swaihili salute) is a project that aims to offer health support to migrant people living in Italy who struggle to access services offered by the local area and hospital facilities. The project counts with a team of medical or health professional volunteers who conduct online group trainings, in-person workshops and customized consultations. To see Afya’s upcoming appointments, click here.

Cross-cultural animation

October was a month full of meeting and sharing with youth groups from many Italian cities.

Earlier this month, activists and activists in intercultural youth work met in Milan to begin to give concrete shape to the ideas that emerged during the long summer period of camps and activities. Follow us on our channels to find out what’s new coming up.

Following the August 24 meeting at the Bello Hostel in the city of Como where we talked about the Swiss-Italian border, a group of young people took action to learn more about human mobility and their own city, a border location. We then gathered at Casa Legami for playing The Game and, for some, prepare to go to Trieste, another border location, on the weekend.

In Lugano, we attended the 10th Human Rights Filmfestival to attend the screening of the film When the seedlings grow by Rêger Azad. Evening where with the Human Rights Foundation we discussed how to continue building together!

On October 26, we were invited and greeted by warm smiles and curiosity in the parish of San Fruttuoso in Monza. In October’s missionary month, we participated in parish activities, concluding the evening with T he Ga me and deep reflection in the three groups.

In the Chierese area, for the second year in a row, some events of the Festival of Welcoming., the result of a beautiful collaboration with theTurin Migrant Pastoral Office. The festival opened in Pino Torinese with the staging of the play The Choice of Marco and Mara, a lucid and sweeping account of the war in the former Yugoslavia, capable of moving and provoking the large audience in the auditorium. Two other appointments offered a lunge on the issues of climate and migration, including looking for connections between the two. Specifically, this included a meeting with an Iranian activist, conducted in collaboration with the Fridays for Future Chieri group, and a webinar from South Africa to address the issue of African migration dictated by climate change. On the latter occasion, Andrea Borgo, a University of Sassari doctoral student in agrometeorology and environmental engineer, moderated the talk by Father Filippo Ferraro, a Scalabrinian missionary from the Sihma study center in South Africa. These were opportunities for meeting and reflection, attended by a large and interested audience.

A Rome, the cross-cultural dinners with students from American universities in the city continue. After the presentation of Scalabrini House 634, the activity The Game and dinner with house residents, we reflected on migration around the world.

A Roma si sono realizzate le due prime giornate di Scalamusic Academy, gli workshop organizzati da Scalamusic. For this academic year, 11 full immersion appointments of all-around artistic training are planned: music, singing, acting and dance in the service of the themes of welcome, encounter with the other and interculturalism, rediscovering diversity as an asset and not as an obstacle and division. To find out about upcoming events click here.

Monthly meetings with volunteers to organize project evenings have resumed in Milan The World at Home which is reaching its 8th edition in 2024. During the months of May and June, at the Church of Carmel, four migrant communities will make their reality known through cultural, folkloric and gastronomic events. The project aims to stimulate and grow dialogue and sharing between migrant communities and the local Milanese community with the belief that knowledge cancels out fear of the other, especially when they are different from us in language, culture or religion. We will soon reveal the countries taking part in the 8th edition.

Development Cooperation

Senate speech “Lampedusa October 3, 2013: 10 years adrift.” ASCS was also present in Rome at the event to talk about denied relief, unspeakable deals, inhumanity made policy. The tale of a decade of failure and propaganda, to the Mediterranean to the land routes. Our two practitioners brought their research about the Swiss-Italian border, Como Chiasso.

Assembly ReVolved to the Balkans: exactly 4 years after the network’s inception, we gathered in Brescia to take stock of our activities and what is happening in different territories to people in transit both in Italy and in countries along the Balkan route.

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