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Italy - Call for Regions 2020 - € 350,000

14 May 2020

Italy

solidarity

Call for the Regions to support projects for children through the UniCredit Regions

In 2020, the UniCredit Foundation launched the second edition of "Call for the Regions" to support local initiatives for children throughout the Italian territory.

The Board of Directors of the UniCredit Foundation also allocated € 350,000 to launch the second edition of Call for Regions, aimed at supporting projects mainly presented by local associations and identified in collaboration with what are termed Regions (North West, Lombardy, North East, Centre North, Central, South and Sicily regions), the organizational structures of UniCredit.

Thanks to their presence on the territory, they are the entities best placed to understand the needs and sensitivities of the local communities in which the Group operates.

Indeed, the seven Regions played a fundamental role for the success of the initiative: they identified and proposed a shortlist of projects dedicated to children and adolescents (up to 18 years) to the UniCredit Foundation, paying particular attention to projects that represent the social priorities of the territories of reference most effectively and showing a greater capability to generate positive impact in the medium and long term. The Evaluation Commission appointed by the Foundation selected three/four initiatives for each Region, awarding them up to € 50,000 each.

The winning projects touch on different areas of intervention, but mainly focus on combating educational poverty, disability and social inclusion, as well as on supporting children living in the community.

Here below can be found a short description of each project, grouped by Region, supported by the UniCredit Foundation.

For further information contact UniCredit Foundation at the following email: info@unicreditfoundation.org

the North west


Un Sogno per Tutti Social Cooperative	Turin	The social cooperative Un Sogno per tutti (A dream for all), inspired by Salesian ideals, offers educational services to young people in difficulty. The “Tutto ok!” (“Everything is ok!”) project, related to the educational emergency caused by lockdown, responds to the need for the inclusion of minors with disabilities. The activities, carried out by support educators in 10 institutes for about 60 children (aged 6 to 16 year), include: distance learning, home education, support and information for the family, coaching in the use of social tools as a means to fight loneliness.
ANFFAS Casale Monferrato NGO	Casale Monferrato (Alessandria)	ANFFAS (National association for families with people with relational and intellectual disabilities) promotes and provides services that can give concrete answers to the needs of children with disabilities and their families. The Casale Monferrato section was founded in 1968. The “PercepiAMO” project provides for the supply of basal stimulation therapies for users with different types of disabilities (adolescents and adults with severe disabilities, grade 3 autism, medium severe and severe mental disease, severe spasticity). The goal is the development and maintenance of existing skills and the reduction of stress levels leading to dysfunctional behaviors, acutely accentuated by lockdown, through the enhancement of self-determination and intersubjective skills, sensory integration, posture control and muscle toning.
La Comunità	Genoa	La Comunità is a social enterprise that since 1979 has been operating in the sector of educational activities designed to combat and prevent juvenile distress and to support fragile families through the management of socio-educational, entertainment and cultural services. The “Home-visiting: accompanying the birth of a family” project provides support in the neonatal phase to families that show critical issues in terms of parenting. The project is based on a home visiting program through which educators, taking charge of the parent/child relationship, help to prevent situations of neglect and mistreatment and consequent child removal measures.

Lombardy


La Rondine Social Cooperative	Mazzano (Brescia)	GiocAbile is the only service aimed at children aged 2 to 18 years with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Brescia area of the Garda region. It is an outpatient service aimed at users from 69 municipalities, totally dependent on families, and for this reason strongly in crisis due to Covid19. The “GiocAbile - A territorial center dedicated to children with autism and their families” project aims to guarantee the continuity of services (specialized treatments, counseling for families and life contexts) in support of children with autism spectrum disorder.
Buzzi Foundation	Milan	In recent years, the Buzzi Foundation has been committed to providing the city of Milan with the Nuovo e Grande (New and Big) Buzzi Hospital: a new 7-story pavilion dedicated to emergency and urgency cases, with high intensity of care, which will be connected to the existing hospital. The new 107,639 square feet pavilion will be built in three years and will allow the Buzzi hospital to double the numberof beds and the number of children treated. The works for the construction of the new pavilion began in April 2019. The “Pediatric Surgery at the Buzzi Children’s Hospital” project aims to purchase ophthalmological diagnostic equipment.
FATA NGO	Cesano Boscone (Milan)	The non-profit association FATA. - Families Temporary Reception, was founded in 1999 by a group of families promoting and making their direct experience in foster care available to children and adolescents in difficulty. The “Let their eyes smile again” project aims to create a therapeutic rehabilitation to manage psychological distress,pschiatric disorders, even when subacute (for example immediately after the phase of decompensation culminating in hospitalization), with innovative methodologies and techniques. It is a multidisciplinary intervention (neuropsychiatric, psychological, and psychotherapeutic and educational support), timely yet capable of respecting the time required by each child, and providing complete assistance to the child in need.

the North East


Fondazione Città della Speranza Onlus	Padova	The "*Servizio di psico-oncologia in oncoematologia pediatrica*" project for patients and families at the day-hospital of the Pediatric Oncohematology Clinic of Padua. It offers them constant and targeted psychological support throughout the various phases of illness and in off-therapy, through the recruitment of a psycho-oncologist in the day-hospital ward from Monday to Friday for six hours a day.
LILT - Lega Italiana Lotta Tumori	Treviso	The "*Giocare in corsia*" project includes an entertainment and game service for the young patients of the pediatric wards of the Treviso and Conegliano hospitals, with workshops and activities in the ward for children suffering from oncological diseases; such as the "biscuit factory in pyjamas”.
Carovana Soc. Coop. Soc.	Padova	The "*Ci Sto? Affare Fatica!*" project is an initiative that involves 200 children, in groups of around ten adolescents aged 14 to 19 years. Each group has a young volunteer (tutor) and some adult volunteers (handymen with technical and artisan skills) who carry out a voluntary community activity with the children every morning from Monday to Friday.

the Centre North


Progetto Arcobaleno Onlus	Firenze	The "*Vengo anch’io! Azioni per il supporto e il coinvolgimento attivo di minori in situazione di fragilità sociale e a rischio di drop out*" project aims to support informal coaching programmes for children and adolescents in situations of social fragility to prevent them dropping out of school, to keep/reintegrate them into structured educational courses and to make aware of services and opportunities offered by the territory.
TICE Coop. Soc	Piacenza	The "*CiciarAPP*" project is designed to help the elderly living alone and adolescents with special educational needs who often do not have activities to keep them occupied in the afternoons after school. It offers to train young people, already users of Tice services, to chat with the elderly in their local community who spend a lot of time alone.
Fiore Verde Soc. Coop. Soc.	Perugia	The "*Tra materia e digitale*" project aims to support girls and children 0-3 years (and their parents) in the use of new technologies and to understand their potential, by setting up immersive courses in which to gain direct experience and further develop their technical knowledge.

The Centre


Associazione S.O.S. Sostenitori Ospedale Santobono Onlus	Naples	The "*Sogni d'oro - Umanizzazione pittorica*" project offers a cheerful, colourful and adequately lit environment in the paediatric neuro-surgery and neuro-oncology department of the Santobono hospital, the most important hospital for children and adolescents in Southern Italy.
CIAI	Bari	“#tu6scuola” is a project implemented in 6 schools in 6 different cities with children most at risk of dropping out of school. It is heavily involved with the Manzoni Lucarelli Institute, located in one of Bari's most difficult areas. It proposes an educational model that strengthens the motivation to learn and develop a sense of belonging to the school, creating innovative and interactive workshops, educational activities and a network between the school and the community
Fondazione Soleterre - Strategie di pace Onlus	Taranto	The "Avvio del sostegno psicologico nel reparto di oncologia pediatrica dell'Ospedale di Taranto” project offers first class treatment to the families of the area, reducing forms of social inequality brought on families by health migration..

Associazione S.O.S.

Sostenitori Ospedale Santobono Onlus

Naples

The "Sogni d'oro - Umanizzazione pittorica" project offers a cheerful, colourful and adequately lit environment in the paediatric neuro-surgery and neuro-oncology department of the Santobono hospital, the most important hospital for children and adolescents in Southern Italy.

CIAI

Bari

“#tu6scuola” is a project implemented in 6 schools in 6 different cities with children most at risk of dropping out of school. It is heavily involved with the Manzoni Lucarelli Institute, located in one of Bari's most difficult areas. It proposes an educational model that strengthens the motivation to learn and develop a sense of belonging to the school, creating innovative and interactive workshops, educational activities and a network between the school and the community

Fondazione Soleterre - Strategie di pace Onlus

Taranto

The "Avvio del sostegno psicologico nel reparto di oncologia pediatrica dell'Ospedale di Taranto” project offers first class treatment to the families of the area, reducing forms of social inequality brought on families by health migration..

The South


Associazione S.O.S. Sostenitori Ospedale Santobono Onlus	Naples	The "*Sogni d'oro - Umanizzazione pittorica*" project offers a cheerful, colourful and adequately lit environment in the paediatric neuro-surgery and neuro-oncology department of the Santobono hospital, the most important hospital for children and adolescents in Southern Italy.
CIAI	Bari	“#tu6scuola” is a project implemented in 6 schools in 6 different cities with children most at risk of dropping out of school. It is heavily involved with the Manzoni Lucarelli Institute, located in one of Bari's most difficult areas. It proposes an educational model that strengthens the motivation to learn and develop a sense of belonging to the school, creating innovative and interactive workshops, educational activities and a network between the school and the community
Fondazione Soleterre - Strategie di pace Onlus	Taranto	The "Avvio del sostegno psicologico nel reparto di oncologia pediatrica dell'Ospedale di Taranto” project offers first class treatment to the families of the area, reducing forms of social inequality brought on families by health migration..