TRENTO. Sun, grace, flower, beauty, luminous. Saying your name when you meet someone you don’t know is the first rule you learn as a child, saying it as an adult and knowing the meaning of other people’s names brings new flavors and awareness. In reciprocal exchange, it brings one closer to understanding the world of others. And if you have the opportunity to talk for two hours about what is important to you, in a beautiful and welcoming environment like the first floor of the Cafè de la Paix, in via Passage Teatro Osele, 8, in Trento, the most gratifying comment is enclosed in being told “it was nice because I didn’t think of anything else”.
A thought that gives the idea of involvement and the pleasure of being together, getting to know each other, sharing ideas and already on Saturday 23 October, at the first meeting of the Caffè delle Donne there was a feeling of familiarity, also emerged from the words posted by Il Gioco degli Specchi on her facebook page: “We met, we decided together which topics we will discuss in the coming weeks”, while some volunteers guaranteed babysitting and homework help.
Starting from the names of the women who participated in the first meetings, the new project conceived by the Il Gioco degli Specchi association in collaboration with CIF-Italian Women’s Center of Trento, the Tridentine House of the young woman and Friends without a roof, started very well, and financed by the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies and the Autonomous Province of Trento: every Saturday, from 10 to 12, until June, Italian and foreign women will be able to meet in the historic center of Trento and talk about the topics chosen by themselves, and the proposals for things to do together are flocked.
Share recipes, idioms, songs, stories. Find out how to wear make-up in other countries of the world and the various techniques for decorating hands, but also take a guided tour of the city, exchange information on local services and schools, learning Italian as a “lived language”. Among the many ideas, even that of creating a bulletin board where each participant can put and find information in various languages, making the Caffè de la Paix a real point of reference for those who frequent the Casa della Giovane and Casa Paola, a dormitory for the homeless. female.
The initiative – registration: 328.1558771, [email protected] – was immediately welcomed by the Dulcamara Association, which has been managing the Cafè in Passage Osele for four years. “This will be an informal, inclusive, dynamic space, open to women of all backgrounds and ages, and to be built together with the contribution of all – confirmed the” hostess “Giulia Cutello -. The goal is to generate good relationships neighborhood and cope with situations of difficulty exacerbated by the pandemic, improving the socio-cultural offer and liveability of the area “. The choice of location was not accidental: Passage Osele and the Café de la paix club are, in fact, at the center of a new project – the Portineria de la Paix – which aims to regenerate the social fabric and promote new forms of active citizenship and care.
The first participants, Nasima, Aktar, and Nilima (Bangladesh), Rim (Tunisia) and Susanna (Pakistan), were immediately involved in the family atmosphere created by Cecilia Muscatella (The Game of Mirrors) and Veronica Gasperetti (Cif, at n .5 of Passage Osele), while on the ground floor daughters and daughters found volunteers ready to play with them and help them with their homework. Among them Kety di Mattarello, 17, of Brazilian origin, judo instructor for children aged 5 to 10 with the Judo San di Madonna Bianca sports association, and four second-year students of the Faculty of Law from outside the province.
Gaia (Puglia), Cecilia (Bassano del Grappa), Silvia (Rome), Zosima (Sicily) have chosen this activity through the SuXr project of the Trento University, which brings university students closer to the world of volunteering: “Last year we followed all the meetings of the online training course, from November to April, it is important for us to be able to help women and mothers with young children “. And there are also those who, like Rebecca, a social worker who is carrying out the year of civil service, have decided to “come and see to understand how I can help, spreading word of mouth in my association”.
The activity of the Café is foreseen as part of the Mirrors Game project “Will everything be okay? Actions and best practices to start over from the territory”, and is a concrete response to what is indicated in the “Action Plan for integration and the 2021-2027 inclusion “of the European Commission:” The combination of language training with accompanying measures such as childcare has proven particularly effective in improving access to language training and its results “.
It is also proposed as an action to combat the effects of the pandemic which has amplified the existing disparities, highlighting how much domestic work and childcare mainly fall on women and considering how negatively it has affected the achievement of “gender equality”, one of the objectives of the ‘Agenda 2030, as highlighted by the report “The Impact of Covid-19 on Women” published by the United Nations.
