How to valorize the courage of minors that burn the frontiers to build a new life?
How to support and provide them the opportunity of growing both personally and professionally?
RAGAZZI HARRAGA – Social Inclusion Processes for unaccompanied minors in the city of Palermo has foreseen 5 laboratory paths, started last October: Dance, Video, Expressive, Intercultural, Rights and Cohabitation.
The workshops have the aim to stimulate the young participants:
- to raise awareness of their own talents and learning desires;
- to develop soft skills;
- to provide them occasions to socialise and to get in relation with other young people living in Palermo.
The workshops are under way and will end in January- February 2018. Following this, the second cycle of workshops will begin.
However, the intercultural workshop is going to an end.
It has been an intensive path: participants discussed each other on important issues such as identities, religions, and cultures that meet and merge together to create a new, rich culture in which everyone can recognize each other.
They visited a mosque with an Imam and a church with Don Enzo – director of Santa Chiara – gave them the deep and collective meaning of religions. They reflected on what it means to move in a new country that has different cultural, civic and linguistic codes and what are the strategies to include themselves and become active citizens, protagonists of their choices.
Finally, the guys organized a party under the supervision of the facilitators, Ben and Numu, and want to share with other young people and anyone interested their cultural traditions, their learning path, music and food.
Amine, Md Razib, Salom Dabo Vieu, Mento, Khaossou, Nieves, Ebrima, Moro, Lamin, Mamadou, Justin, Aboul, Peter and Sabbir, participants of the intercultural workshop of the Ragazzi Harraga project, are glad to invite you at the final party that will be held on 15th December from 18:00 to 22:00.
Santa Chiara hosted all the workshops, and will also host the final party of the intercultural workshop.
Ragazzi Harraga
Closing Party of the Intercultural Workshop
15 Dicember 2017 | h. 18.00
Santa Chiara, Piazza Santa Chiara, 11, 90134 – Palermo
There will be dances, music from many countries and moments of sharing on the topics dealt with during the last months: identity, religion, culture, equality and diversity.
Finally, the participants prepared 4 messages that they consider fundamental to be addressed to civil society, to young Italians and foreigners living in Palermo.
Some young participants of the other workshops will present short performances.
A multi-ethnic refreshment prepared by Moltivolti restaurant will follow.
The event is open to everyone: we are waiting for you all!
About Ragazzi Harraga
Ragazzi Harraga has been financed through Bando Never Alone, per un domani possibile. Accoglienza e accompagnamento dei minori e giovani stranieri non accompagnati che arrivano in Italia soli [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] e sustained by Posteinsieme Onlus, Sodalitas Social Innovation e Altran.
The project partnership holds together 9 organisations:
- 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, please contact Alessandra Sciurba, alessandra.sciurba@ciai.it.
If you want to know more about the workshops, please contact migration@cesie.org.









