Color one red bench which stood grey and silent outside their school was the final action of a journey experienced by the 40 students from two classes of the Fiorenzuola Tutor with the anti-violence center of Piacenza. Now that bench no longer goes unnoticed and has become a sign, on campus, next to the professional training center that does not just teach a job (in the case of these 33 students and 7 students on the hairdressing and beauty treatments operator courses) but also to relate.
The course “Against violence against women”, the result of the collaboration between Tutor and the Piacenza Anti-Violence Center – La Città delle Donne ODV, like all well-made projects, worked like a seed that bears fruit. Students dedicated a photographic portfolio to the theme to participate in the Region’s visual contest “Clic – Capture the Image. Identify the Change”.
The photographs that won the honorable mention in this competition promoted in the European Year of Skills speak of change. A before and after is represented; in the first image Edoardo and Flora are distant and do not look at each other, on a gray bench. “Because differences and diversity – the young people explain to us – if they are not welcomed always and in any case generate forms of violence”. In the second image the two are close and smile on the bench that now shines a beautiful bright red.
A few days ago the president of Tutor was in Bologna Andrea Capellini and the Fiorenzuola office contact Grazia Marchetta collected the prize obtained by the students of the Tutor course at Bologna Fiere. “Our mission is to guide and train – said Capellini – Which translates not only into the good transmission of technical-professional skills but also of all those key to personal development as an aware citizen”. The regional competition had “the objective of making people protagonists in demonstrating the value of skills for change”. “Our intervention – explain the lawyer Donatella Scardi, president of the Anti-Violence Center and the psychologist Marica Corbetti – was part of the regional Petra 2.0 project which acts for the prevention and fight against the phenomena of gender violence and discrimination , to which women living in specific conditions of fragility are or may be subject, at risk of social marginalization, discrimination or violence due to their condition as migrants.” “The course lasted 10 hours – explains Marchetta, who opened the doors to the project, in agreement with the coordinator of the Tutor courses Stella Chiussi – Our girls and boys had the opportunity to listen in face-to-face moments with the operators of the Anti-Violence Centre, but also to share personal thoughts and experiences. The inauguration of the bench, in the presence of deputy mayor Paola Pizzelli, was only the final moment of an incisive and precious journey”.
