From 15 – 22 of October, participants from CET Platform Skopje attended the seminar as the first mobility activity of the project “Together Stronger for Inclusive Europe” which took part in Casapesenna, Italy, organized and implemented by CET Platform Italy.
The participants together with the ESC volunteers of Il Paguro hostel, tackled the topics of inclusion, diversity, citizenship, discrimination and participation. Through the activities and through the wonderful approach of the trainers, Andrea and Bojan, they got acquainted with the Iceberg model of culture, learned about “Hart’s ladder of participation”, the “RMSOS”(Right, means, space, opportunity, support) framework, the different steps of Intercultural learning and many, many more materials, frameworks and means of inclusion and discrimination. Participants on this seminar also got to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, sharing each other’s countries realities regarding the topic of minority groups.
Whilst on this project, they also got the chance to visit “Casa don Diana” which is a confiscated asset from the Camorra, it stands as a memorial house for don Pepe Diana and many innocent victims of the Camorra. It is also a museum of resistance against organized crime and it is the center of series of activities aiming to promote the social reusing of confiscated assets of the Mafia.
Their second experience with confiscated assets was at NCO (Nuova Cucina Organizzata). NCO gives opportunity to disadvantaged people, incorporating them back into the society, giving them job placements, a place to stay and a place to grow. It functions as a pizzeria, a restaurant, they also are catering but most importantly they represent a laboratory which permanently researches and develops methods of transformation and sale of local products, as well as products that come directly or are manufactured from/at confiscated assets in the area.
As a product from this seminar, a “Together Stronger Network” came to life, the participants were eager to work together into establishing the Network whilst brainstorming and writing the network’s Statute.
Every story comes to an end, but for us this was just a beginning. Keep being safe and read more about our continuing activities on www.ts4ie.wordpress.com.
– Summary written by Andrea Arsova
