In everything 500 children aged 3 to 10 years involved in the proposed activities, 120 parents, 20 teachers, 15 educators and experts, 10 sports instructors. And then. the opening of a completely renovated educational space for families. These are the main results of “You can!”the project selected by Social enterprise with children as part of the fund to combat child educational poverty, operational since 2021 and which comes to an end today.
The final event “Our story” will be held on June 4th from 9am to 3pmIc Bovio-Colletta in Via Carbonara 31, in Naples. A total of three years, in which “It’s possible!” has built a strong educational community in Borgo Sant’Antonio Abate of Naples, increasing the educational and cultural offer for children and their families. The aim was to build an innovative intervention that could start and continue an action to accompany the good growth of childhood which involves families, the school and the territory. The operational development of the project unfolded along two fundamental lines.
The first concerned the promotion of the participation of children residing in an urban context characterized by serious social exclusion, for example educational and recreational activitieswhile the second involved activities aimed at supporting families. The project’s leader is the IF-ImparareFare Ets association, while the partners involved were Kodokan Napoli Aps, Gomitoli Ets, the Campania Cultural Association of Pediatricians – ACP, the Municipality of Naples, the Salesian University Institute of Turin Rebaudengo (IUSTO). To these were then added the Parish of Sant’Anna a Capuana and the Associazione Teatro Stabile of the city of Naples, which already in the Covid period was willing to start activities with children at its theater premises San Ferdinando and who subsequently activated theater workshops with mothers.
Of particular importance is the presence of the Bovio-Colletta IC with which a memorandum of understanding was drawn up to give life to a real “educational pact”, which materialized not only in the identification of the children and the most fragile” but also in the Institute’s willingness to provide classrooms and spaces, in a continuous collaboration between teachers, educators, psychologists and mediators. The IC Bovio-Colletta, in particular, hosted various actions of the project. Starting from alongside primary school, with afternoon school support activities to strengthen basic skills and with laboratory activities that have an impact on children’s basic skills and life skills; the active citizenship desk, with direct support actions for families for support activities for services.
To support parenting, discussion groups have been activated between parents to develop topics relating to the education and support of their children and a psychological help desk for minors and families. Then there is the space of stories, reading workshops for nursery school children (3-6 years) to facilitate the approach to books from an early age, which also included reading meetings with the Born to read and families. Growing up with music, however, included interactive workshops that involved teachers and children through rhythmic, melodic and motor coordination exercises, to improve the development of skills relating to the musical and cognitive sphere of the little ones.
Added to these actions are the summer camps, with days at the seaside or discovering the city, the free sporting activities for children and mothers held at the Kodokan Napoli Aps and the Women’s Theater Workshop (two editions), at the Teatro San Ferdinando, with two final shows, scheduled by the Teatro Stabile of Naples and related to the “I Sud” series directed by Alessandra Cutolo, in which 20 women (mothers of different nationalities) went on stage creating a path of personal growth and, at the same time , functional to building and strengthening their social ties in the area.
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