via Carducci, 2
20123 Milano
Italy
- Arts
- Democracy and community development
- International/Cultural relations
- Research
- Youth and education
Vitality onlus aims to contribute to more open, inclusive and integrated communities in which differences are considered resources for their ongoing and balanced development. The ‘Vitality approach’ consists in creating a virtuous circle amongst people, ideas, projects, training methods, technologies and networks by providing a connected space where everyone con contribute:
1. Those who needs help to ‘start afresh’, wherever they have found their progress ‘stopped’.
2. Volunteers who have expertise in coaching, counseling, mentoring, business management, career consulting, information technology, language teaching.
3. NGOs, Government agencies, educational, academic or research institutions, job centers and businesses, with the same vision.
- Educational programs included 14 programs: training for trainers; intercultural learning for psychologists, teachers and families; exhibitions for the public at large. This phase involved 20 institutions, 500 teachers and educators, 7.000 children and captured the attention of more than 100.000 visitors.
- Adult programs included: ExtraTime Support Helpdesks (in collaboration with ARCI), that provided assistance to 30 migrants in order to increase their employability and entrepreneurship through an innovative approach that combined personal development, training and technical assistance. Sportello Abitare Lavoro (‘Work and Living’ help desk), in conjunction with Architects Without Borders Italy, that helped 24 adult immigrants in improving their conditions and those of their families by providing an integrated service to job and housing. YEBI (youth employment and business incubation) in collaboration with EXPO School and Éupolis lombardia that supported 13 foreign university students in Lombardy.
- Cultural programs includes: RABAB west east dialogue through music.
Vitality onlus would like to contribute to the Italian network sharing knowledge, approaches, methodologies and capacities with other members.
We are currently running local programmes in Milan, Rimini, Ragusa that can be duplicated elsewhere.
We would macth our collective and individual experiences and skills with other members' ones.
After having gained experiences with internationals in domestic operations, the next logical step is to roll out our programs internationally.
Most of the people, organizations and associations we've met in our work come from countries belonging to the ALF network, so it is incredibli interesting for us and our primary network to connect at a largest level.
Our most wanted undeveloped program is called - Community to Community - and it is based on the idea that etchinc communities that have succesfully extablished in Italy can be protagonist of an effective cooperation with communities in the countries of origin. To this extent it is important to have access to a wide network of potential partners.