The building is a small villa with exposed red bricks and travertine finishes dating back to the early twentieth century. It is located in Viale Carducci, overlooking the parallel Viale Nicolò Biondo, inserted between the Art Nouveau homes, now hidden by the construction site that the Claudio Boccaletti company opened there, after the Pia Fondazione Casa della Divina Provvidenza purchased it to create a new Agape house. It will be named after “Mamma Teresa”, the nun, who passed away in 2019, who continued Mamma Nina’s mission for 62 years. The reception facility for mothers with children will be added to those already active in Carpi (there are three, in Via Matteotti, Via De Sanctis and Via Puccini) and the one in Modena. The project, which will be completed within this year, was illustrated this morning by the President of the Fondazione Casa della Divina Provvidenza, Don Massimo Dotti, from the Director of the Agape Houses, Rossella Pianawith Monsignor Ermenegildo Manicardi and to the President of the CR Carpi Foundation, Mario Arturo Ascari. Among the guests were, in addition to the Director of Bper Banca di Carpi, Andrea Galdo and to company technicians and accountant consultants, the mayor Richard Righi and the Councilor for Social Services, Tamara Shoemaker. He led the meeting Stephen Strongboard member of the Pia Foundation. segue
Providence, beyond the presence of President Ascari who somewhat personified it with the disbursement of 150 thousand euros, was evoked several times during the press conference, as it is an operation with a total cost of 905 thousand euros, faced, in addition to the contribution of Palazzo Brusati, also with the transfer to Bper of the 110 percent Bonus and with 467 thousand euros from the Pia Foundation itself, 385 thousand of which obtained with the sale of a former colony owned in Riccione, already used for the first phase of the works. 82 thousand euros are missing, which we hope to collect from the generous benefactors who have never failed to help from Casa di Mamma Nina. Providence, precisely.
Agape has been operating in the city since 2003, explained Rossella Piana, to meet one of the most pressing fragilities of our time: that of mothers left alone, for the most varied reasons, with one or more children. It is a non-pitying, but structured welcome: single-parent families with high autonomy are hosted and the women welcomed – currently there are 21 in the three homes with 28 children – are experimented with daily activities, with simple educational supervision. The project prepared by the architect Irene Torreggianiof Studio Enerplan, represented by its president, Corrado Faglioni, reflects this criterion: common spaces (collective kitchen, living area and office) on the mezzanine floor, rooms with private bathroom on the first floor and in the attic and a tavern for shared recreational moments in the basement. “It is a welcome updated for our time and adapted to the future”, summarized the meaning of the operation by Don Massimo Dotti, who with his determination (“stubbornness in a benevolent sense” Monsignor Manicardi would later define it) led to completion of an initiative that had to face all the difficulties of managing the 110 Bonus, as well as increased costs and unavailability of companies. President Ascari framed the disbursement in the guiding principles of the CR Carpi Foundation, recalling how, despite having financed in 2023 with 4 million euros 120 projects relating to social issues, only 60 percent of the requests could be responded to. For his part, Monsignor Manicardi intended to bring the operation back to the bicyclic metaphor of the vineyard which is life and whose branches extend hardened. from the sun. The story of Mamma Nina can be assimilated to one of these life-bearing branches, he said, if we consider the love that the Carpi people have poured, for many years, on the institution desired by the blessed who after having given mothers, personified by nuns, to girls and boys who didn’t have one, now sees his work continuing, just like his brother, Don Zeno, did, inventing mothers for little ones who didn’t have one.
