Harraga is the Arabic term defining young people who risk everything to emigrate, burning the borders to build new paths of life.
Hence the name of the Ragazzi Harraga project that aims to support them through professional and personal opportunities highlighting their courage and their fundamental contribution in the society where they live in.
On Thursday 28th September from 17,00 at Santa Chiara Association – Piazza Santa Chiara, 11, Palermo – we will introduce Ragazzi Harraga workshops. They intend to increase the socio-cultural inclusion of unaccompanied minors in the city of Palermo.
Young people, guardians and social workers implied in communities are all invited.
RAGAZZI HARRAGA
Launch event of the workshops providing social inclusion processes for unaccompanied minors in the city of Palermo
28th SEPTEMBER 2017 | h.17.00
Santa Chiara Association, Piazza Santa Chiara, 11 – Palermo
The workshops will start on 17th October 2017 and they will be repeated in several cycles during the project. They are addressed to all young people aged 15-20 in the city of Palermo, which are interested in living an extraordinary experience of experimentation. During the workshops they will be able to meet other young people and spread their skills.
Ragazzi Harraga is born to strengthen the reception system of unaccompanied minors, enhancing their enormous resources and consolidating operational models to protect the children and young people rights in Italian territory. It includes several tools – such as the shared social folder – which enhances the dialogue between all the social actors involved in the inclusion paths of these boys and girls.
The project offers training and orientation courses, employment opportunities through work grants, housing solutions for the youngsters – just over the age of majority, the ones who are leaving the receiving communities – and the creation of a guesthouse where some of them will work. The project aims accompanying young people towards autonomy.
Thanks to the workshops, about 240 children and young welcomed at the first and second reception centres of Palermo are expected to be involved in, increasing the interaction of all the young people living in the city. For this reason, the planned workshops will work toward cultural and gender heterogeneity, involving girls and boys living in the territory of Palermo without any distinction regarding the country of origin.
Thanks to all the actions of the project, we espect to involve about 400 minors alone in Palermo.
The project is funded through Never Alone, per un domani possibile. Reception and welcome of unaccompanied minors and young people arriving alone to Italy [promoted by Fondazione Cariplo, Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione con il Sud, Enel Cuore, Fondazione CRT, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo, Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena and supported by Posteinsieme Onlus, Sodalitas Social Innovation and Altran.
The partners carring out all the activities of the project are:
- CIAI – Centro Italiano Aiuti all’Infanzia Onlus (coordinator);
- Comune di Palermo – Assessorato alla Cittadinanza Sociale;
- Associazione Santa Chiara;
- Cooperativa Libera…mente;
- CPIA Palermo 1;
- Libera Palermo;
- Nottedoro;
- SEND;
- CESIE.
For further information:
Ragazzi Harraga project contact person: Alessandra Sciurba, alessandra.sciurba@ciai.it.
Ragazzi Harraga workshops contact migration@cesie.org.
