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Nearly 150 million euro have been dedicated to hundreds of projects that have affected half a million individuals: children and older students, their families, teachers and educators. The appointment is at the Rome Città Educativa for an overview of the main tool available in Italy to implement the International Convention on Children’s Rights. A Report will be presented reviewing the activities implemented over 15 years since the legislation of Bill 285/97 and two papers on the condition of minors in Italy’s capital city, along with an exhibition and a debate amongst implementing authorities and institutions.
If a city takes care of its minors, even adults will live better. This is the slogan of the event promoted by the team at the Rome Department for the Promotion of Social and Health Services coordinating the implementation of Bill 285/97 in collaboration with the Fondazione Mondo Digitale. The event entitled “New Generation Protagonists – Bill 285/97 in Rome” will be held on October 16, 2013 (9:30 am – 5:00 pm) at the Rome Città educativa in Via del Quadraro 102.
Over the course of 15 years, Bill 285/97 has injected nearly 150 million euro into Rome that have been used to develop more than 300 projects that have affected 250,000 children, 130,000 parents and 50,000 teachres, educators and social workers. More than 90% of the projects were assigned to over 300 external organizations operating in the Third Sector.
The event will host both a convention and an exhibition area. The works will be opened by Mirta Michilli, Director General of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, the organization that manages the Città Educativa since its creation in 2004.
The objective of the convention is to promote knowledge of the processes and results obtained through the implementation of Bill 285/97 and provide concrete answers to a series of questions: how were the funds used? Who decided which and where activities should be implemented? What obstacles hindered the optimal operation of such complex planning?
Martino Rebonato from the team coordinating Bill 285, Andrea De Dominicis (Dossier on Minor Issues) and Valentina Fabbri (Dossier on Foreign Minors) will review the situation in Rome.
What does the future hold? Institutions, Third Sector organizations, operators and citizens will confront their ideas and experiences to identify strategic guidelines for the implementation of future events. The discussion on projects will be divided into two macro areas: promoting the well being of infancy and adolescence (coordinated by Luisa Massimiani, Manager at the Department for Social and Educational Services) and contrasting fighting discomfort and promoting children and adolescents (coordinated by Gabriella Saracino, Manager at the Department for Social and Health Services). Francesco Alvaro, Guarantor for Infancy and Adolescence in Lazio, will conclude the works.
The exhibition area will showcase no less than 20 project stands with the various actors involved in the activities funded by the bill.
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