A carpentry workshop to build the future

In the Ro' la Formichina Social Cooperative of the Pope John XXIII Community, for more than twenty years young people coming from prison and young people with disabilities have been learning a trade, an indispensable tool to start a new life. We have planned a larger carpentry workshop to give work and opportunities to even more people. Help us build it and together let's give a different future to our young people.

A carpentry workshop to build the future

In the Ro' la Formichina Social Cooperative of the Pope John XXIII Community, for more than twenty years young people coming from prison and young people with disabilities have been learning a trade, an indispensable tool to start a new life. We have planned a larger carpentry workshop to give work and opportunities to even more people. Help us build it and together let's give a different future to our young people.

For almost two decades in the Ro' la Formichina Social Cooperative of the Pope John XXIII Community, between the carpentry workshop, the honey workshop, the workshop for the recovery of used clothes and in the day care center for disabled youngsters, people whom the world of work considers disadvantaged are employed every day: young people coming from prison and youngsters with disabilities excluded from the world of work. Like rough timbers discarded by everyone, here they are welcomed, worked, their surface is filed to bring out their full potential. In the carpentry workshop, as they build custom-made furniture, musical instruments, sacred objects, wine boxes or beehives, they also reconstruct a different image of themselves. First of all, thanks to the trust they received from those who gave them an opportunity.
There are many young people who ask us for work and help, but in the small carpentry workshop now based in Santa Venerina (CT) we cannot accommodate them. The Sicilian territory suffers from poverty and lack of opportunities, which fuel crime, and so many of our boys soon stop imagining their future. Instead, in our workshop we can help them see a new landscape. That is why we want to build a big new workshop.
The land has already been purchased but now we need the support of many people to make this project a reality.

Help us with a donation now and let's start today to build a different future for our young people.

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For almost two decades in the Ro' la Formichina Social Cooperative of the Pope John XXIII Community, between the carpentry workshop, the honey workshop, the workshop for the recovery of used clothes and in the day care center for disabled youngsters, people whom the world of work considers disadvantaged are employed every day: young people coming from prison and youngsters with disabilities excluded from the world of work. Like rough timbers discarded by everyone, here they are welcomed, worked, their surface is filed to bring out their full potential. In the carpentry workshop, as they build custom-made furniture, musical instruments, sacred objects, wine boxes or beehives, they also reconstruct a different image of themselves. First of all, thanks to the trust they received from those who gave them an opportunity.
There are many young people who ask us for work and help, but in the small carpentry workshop now based in Santa Venerina (CT) we cannot accommodate them. The Sicilian territory suffers from poverty and lack of opportunities, which fuel crime, and so many of our boys soon stop imagining their future. Instead, in our workshop we can help them see a new landscape. That is why we want to build a big new workshop.
The land has already been purchased but now we need the support of many people to make this project a reality.

Help us with a donation now and let's start today to build a different future for our young people.
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