Social inclusion festival, the first edition in Pomezia on 6-7 November 2021
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The Social Inclusion Festival makes its debut in Pomezia (Rome). 'Social doing business' is the theme to which the meetings are dedicated, on 6 and 7 November 2021, in the shopping center The Sixteen Pines in Via del Mare, km 18.600. Organic and local agricultural market, stands and debates with the network of associations.
The event - organized by Roma Open Lab, sister association of Égalité, together with UNOE (National Union of Events Organization) and EPL (Ente Pro Loco) Lazio - brings together associations, cooperatives and companies engaged in social promotion, voluntary work, agriculture and services.
Il network of the social in Lazio
Target of the Festival of social inclusion is to bring together the realities that can provide services and job opportunities to people with disabilities or otherwise disadvantaged. 'The event is an opportunity to discuss, share projects in progress and those in progress, networking at the regional level'explains Luca Zarfati, the president of Roma Open Lab who coordinates the event.
'Social inclusion means giving the same opportunities to every human being. People with a disability or in a condition of fragility due to seniority, pregnancy, economic and social disadvantage, want to be able to work, love and live like everyone else. They do not seek compassion, they want to express their human and economic potential. Therefore they need equal opportunities. And where these are lacking, the state and institutions must intervene in support ' (Luca Zarfati).
All together for the Smart Chair
The first edition of the Festival of social inclusion is also dedicated to the presentation and fundraising for the project of the Smart Chair. A suspension wheelchair with electric traction, which our Égalité Onlus has developed and intends to produce without profit objectives, to offer an effective and accessible autonomy tool to all those who cannot or otherwise have difficulty walking.
The Sedici Pini shopping center in Pomezia
The mall Sedici Pini, thanks to the sensitivity expressed by its director Modestino Meoli, offers its structures and resources at the service of a project that aspires to demonstrate how social inclusion is a virtuous path to be developed in synergy. By involving associations and cooperatives but also commercial enterprises, in the name of common objectives that relate to solidarity and the meaning of living together. The Third Sector, in practice.
Agricultural market e gadgets solidarity
In the two days of the festival the Sedici Pini shopping center becomes a square. So the cost organizations alternate with food and gift stalls.
Fruit vegetables, extra virgin olive oil and other delights are offered for direct sale by organic and local farmers gathered in Altragricoltura, Rete per la Terra, Social Alliance and food sovereignty.
They participate also the protagonists of the prison economy of rebirth, with T-shirt, diaries and other items that value reintegration and goodwill. And the Food bank, together with Living joy.
Speakers e streaming
Numerous speakers alternate in the two days of Pomezia. The interventions are available in streaming on IAFUE radio, radio Ponte Radio and sites website of the organizers. They confirmed their presence
- Rosario De Caro, ENS Lazio, spoke on 'Knowing deafness',
- Francesca Amadori of CSV presents the trailer of the multimedia exhibition on volunteering,
- Gabriele Nardini, AGCI Umbria, introduces 'Community cooperatives and their social function',
- Antonio Lucidi, AGCI Abruzzo, holds a report on 'Social Housing',
- Paola Loreti and Gianmarco Nebbiai, aCapo Cooperative, on the inclusion of disadvantaged people as an engine of social innovation.
It's still, participate in the first Festival of social inclusion
- Francesca Danese of the Lazio Third Sector Forum
- Carlo Giacobini, Explaining,
- Carlo Rossetti, AISA (Italian association of ataxic syndromes),
- Andrea Venuto, ex disability manager of the Municipality of Rome,
- Enrico Ricci, expert architect of PEBA,
- Walter La Rosa, administrator of Prison Economics,
- Gianni Fabbris, Spokesperson of the Food Sovereignty Social Alliance,
- Dario Dongo, president of Ègalitè Onlus, creator of the Intelligent Chair.
Workshops and seminars
Entertainment it is guaranteed by the artistic craft workshop organized by Mauro Silani, curator of the Oxford Collective and vice president of Roma Open Lab.
Scheduled also the training sessions by the non-profit of Anima Verde on herbal medicine on
- introduction to herbal medicine,
- seminar on reading the karmic aura,
- collection and use of herbs. How and when to take them,
tribal dance,
gym yoga.
Weather permitting, lessons of fitness outdoor music, with the machines and instructors of the Fit Express gym, located in the Sedici Pini center.
Sponsorships and supports
The Festival of Social Inclusion it is sponsored free of charge by the Lazio Region and the Municipality of Pomezia. The hospitality of the Sedici Pini shopping center is free of charge. The logistics and equipment are offered by UNOE, the national event organization union.
For information: [email protected] – 347 69 05 136.
