A note from the Regione Lazio has announced: “Following the earthquake in the Province of Rieti and the upcoming beginning of the school year, the Regione Lazio and the Civil Engineering Corps have begun to inspect school buildings throughout the province and verify their current state. Should any further damage caused by the earthquake be identified, the buildings will be reported to the DI.COMA.C Office for a further inspection.”
According to an initial review published by daily La Repubblica, there are "seven hundred students aged three to nineteen, who do not know where they will continue their studies when school begins on September 13-15" (Terremoto: scuole collassate, per 700 studenti il ritorno sui banchi è un'incognita).
"We will continue to work in constant contact with the Prime Minister’s Cabinet and the Civil Engineering Corps. The first and foremost catalyst to kick things back into action are schools,” explains Minister Stefania Giannini. [Terremoto, Giannini: “Al via task force Miur per avvio regolare anno scolastico”].
In the meantime, the Fondazione Mondo Digitale has been working to help L'Aquila, the city devastated by the 2009 earthquake, and is organizing the "Semana de la Sismología" (Sept. 26-30) in collaboration with the Chilean Embassy in Italy. Exactly one year ago an earthquake of magnitude 8.4 hit Santiago and a wide area of Chile, raising the fear of a Tsunami that luckily never occurred.
In the Fab Lab, makers are developing a device to explain earthquakes to young boys and girls. Moreover, following the review that took place after the violent earthquake that hit central Italy on August 24, we are ready to help and contribute, just as we did in Abruzzo, where we created multifunctional Internet points in the tents during the emergency phase and new multimedia labs in the rebuilt schools. And we stayed in Abruzzo. We continued to organized dedicated projects for the most disadvantaged population segments.
This is how we help.
