AlmaTerra Association

National Network
Italy
Address

VIA NORBERTO ROSA 13/A
10154 - TORINO
Italy

Telephone
011/2464330
Telephone (other)
011/2467002
Fax
011/2056133
E-Mail
alma@arpnet.it
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1994
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
General Information
1. Intercultural Women's Association, non-profit, with a Directive Council of 7 members elected by the Assembly (1,200 members), 3 dependents and 30 collaborators. 2. About 500,000.00 Euro. 3. Public institutions and foundations. 4. Projects, exchanges, research, publications, cultural mediation, legal counselling, intercultural activities in the schools, artistic (theatre) activities, international cooperation. 5. Local institutions (Region, Province, Common, Area), Sanitary Directions, Direction of the Turin Prison, Policy Head Quarters, associations and non government organizations (NGO)
Mission and Objectives

a) to structure a space where migrant and native women live and work together
b) to counteract conditions of exclusion and marginality
c) to promote migrant women’s autonomy and integration, in particular by supporting their access to the labor market
d) to accompany migrant women along a path of awareness of their rights and duties
e) to invert the stereotype of the migrant as a person needy of assistance
f) to promote - through cultural projects managed particularly from "AlmaTeatro" - the knowledge, the fight against the racism, organizing intercultural stages and shows, exchanging experiences with national and international realities

Main Projects / Activities

Welcoming (“accoglienza”), management of housing cohabitations, diurnal activities for re-socialization for the women victims of the trafficking in women, legal counseling, service of orientation to the labor-market, projects for the job placement, courses of socialization and formation to the care job and domestic collaboration, documentation center, Spazio Bimbi; a day-care for children 1-3 years, AlmaTeatro, AlmaSolidale: micro-credit for the association members, time bank, health and comfort, a tailoring/seamstress workshop, multiethnic kitchen, international cooperation, Hamm’am or Turkish Bath, cultural and linguistic mediation, training for cultural mediatory, training for public operators, workshop of intercultural animation in the schools and on the territory.

Contact (1) Full Name
LAURA SCAGLIOTTI
Head of the organisation
ARJANA CICAKO
Contact (2) Full Name
ROSANNA RABEZZANA