The project “Inventing the Future in Ballarò” is a project of 24 months (June 2008 – June 2010 – Call for proposals of the Foundation of the South) at its second phase of activity. Last year a vocational training programme was conducted for young women (Italian and immigrant) aged between 17 and 21 years, unemployed, who have not graduated high school and are residents in the district Albergheria – Ballarò Palermo . The aim was to overcome the effects of early school dropout and assure the equality and social inclusion, through a training program targeted on the workers, operators in the services of childcare and children support. In this second implementation phase, Multipurpose Educational Centre was activated with an objective to create direct employment for girls that have been trained and to offer baby-sitting services, toy library, after-school and remedial teaching, parenting community workshops through the strong volunteer involvement. The Multipurpose Educational Centre opened within a school structure had a significant impact in the district because the synergy between school and project partners offered to families in the neighbourhood a lot of support on the educational and relational levels. The project also foresees the creation of a website and a communication platform that will be following the different stages of organization and realisation of the project.
Aims and objectives are: Provide young people (Target 1) specific professional skills for the integration in the world of work; allowing the recovery school and give a profession, that can be applied on the certain territory; create the conditions, so the target 1 would be able to realize their personal “attitudes” and personal life projects; create instruments of policy social, cultural the environment in the territory in response to socio-economic difficulties; provide opportunities for academic success for children and young people (Target 2) of the district; provide skills in parenting and to support the concept of the family; encourage the intercultural dialogue and understanding between different cultures; Encourage intergenerational relationships (between children and adult-targeted); enhance the Albergheria district through the workshops that are involving and have an impact on communities and that create a positive identity in people and territory.
