A tractor to keep dreaming
In Assisi, young people with disabilities and in difficulty find work at "La Fraternità", a social cooperative of the Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII. Here they learn how to produce oil, but today they need a new tractor to carry out all the operations necessary for production and to continue to educate themselves through working the land. Let's help them.
"La Fraternità", a social cooperative of the Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII, was born to give work to people who live in fragile contexts, to "put together" experiences, services and relationships, to be a big family for those who are left on the margins of society, which educates and educates itself, which works and gives work. One of the operating sites - our little focolare - was born here in Assisi with the name "Via del Monte Oliveto" and was born about twenty years ago, with olive trees and the production of oil.
These trees were the first response to work and employment for the disabled children who attended the Day Centre of the cooperative, for those coming from prison, for the young women victims of the street and for all the children of the Community Family Houses in the area, who at the time had no other opportunity to feel useful and integrated. Thousands of young people have learned a profession and found in work and care of the land, the concrete possibility to reintegrate into society and find their dignity.
Recently we have increased the activity of oil cultivation but, unfortunately, the small tractor that helped us in our daily work has broken down and in order to work better it is essential for us to have a suitable vehicle that allows us to perform all the work, from chopping to harvesting, from working the land to the treatment of trees, without having to resort to third parties or borrowed vehicles. We urgently need a wheeled orchard tractor by the end of September, so that we can be independent for the first olive harvest of this year.
The oil that comes from the work of young people in contact with the land is not only an excellent product - an ancient gift - it is much more, it is the demonstration that people in difficulty or with disabilities, those who are usually "discarded" from the world of work, can contribute, prove to be necessary, but only if they are recognized and valued in their skills and inclinations. Having this new tractor means a lot to us: not only improving the working process but above all growing to continue to stand by the weakest in respect and in symbiosis with the creation that freely gives us the earth and life.
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Iban code: IT 90 C 03069 09606 100000063176
Made out to: LA FRATERNITA' soc. coop. a r.l.
Causale: Liberal donation to Onlus for the purchase of a tractor for the Assisi headquarters.
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"La Fraternità", a social cooperative of the Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII, was born to give work to people who live in fragile contexts, to "put together" experiences, services and relationships, to be a big family for those who are left on the margins of society, which educates and educates itself, which works and gives work. One of the operating sites - our little focolare - was born here in Assisi with the name "Via del Monte Oliveto" and was born about twenty years ago, with olive trees and the production of oil.
These trees were the first response to work and employment for the disabled children who attended the Day Centre of the cooperative, for those coming from prison, for the young women victims of the street and for all the children of the Community Family Houses in the area, who at the time had no other opportunity to feel useful and integrated. Thousands of young people have learned a profession and found in work and care of the land, the concrete possibility to reintegrate into society and find their dignity.
Recently we have increased the activity of oil cultivation but, unfortunately, the small tractor that helped us in our daily work has broken down and in order to work better it is essential for us to have a suitable vehicle that allows us to perform all the work, from chopping to harvesting, from working the land to the treatment of trees, without having to resort to third parties or borrowed vehicles. We urgently need a wheeled orchard tractor by the end of September, so that we can be independent for the first olive harvest of this year.
The oil that comes from the work of young people in contact with the land is not only an excellent product - an ancient gift - it is much more, it is the demonstration that people in difficulty or with disabilities, those who are usually "discarded" from the world of work, can contribute, prove to be necessary, but only if they are recognized and valued in their skills and inclinations. Having this new tractor means a lot to us: not only improving the working process but above all growing to continue to stand by the weakest in respect and in symbiosis with the creation that freely gives us the earth and life.
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You can also donate through
BANK TRANSFER
Iban code: IT 90 C 03069 09606 100000063176
Made out to: LA FRATERNITA' soc. coop. a r.l.
Causale: Liberal donation to Onlus for the purchase of a tractor for the Assisi headquarters.
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