LEGAMI PROJECT

The Etica e Scienza association as the leader, with the partnership of A.I.A.S. Acireale and the "Cooperativa Orizzonti" is making on the sicilian territory the Legami Project financed by the Regional Provincial Administration of Catania with the PUBLIC ADVERTISEMENT OF MARCH 20TH 2012 for making petitions to support projects with social purposes in territorial area characterized by social decay.

The "Legami" (Bonds) Project arise on two social priorities: disability and social distress, heading on two strategic importannce areas for the development of identificatiion, sociality, belonging feelings and the belonging community: local history and photographic art. The name of the projects reveals also the main concept about it: re-estabilish, enforce, grow and develop bonds with the belonging community and the territory, fiduciary and co-op bonds between the community members starting from a common history as a positive value to contrast isolations, deviance, abnegation, illegality, the bad competition. The projects addresses to 50 handicapped addressees, selected on the Catania territoy with a particular priority for them that from unpriviledged areas, referring also to the 80 disabiles that take advantages from the servirces of the AIAS Acireale ONLUS, project partner.
The project wants to realizes 3 workshops: 1) Photography Elements, 2) Catania City History (Art, Culture, Religion), 3) Lava paths: "U Mungibeddu" , stimulating interest upon about local history, culture and arts, as catalyst of identity and community feelings. It calculates also a transportation service using a minibus, disabile appropriate with the storage capacity of 10 seats, to bring the participants to guided visits in the historic centre of Catania and in some museus. It calculates, also, the presence of qualified staff from AIAS to assist and come along with the disabiles.