Centro Enea

Internet Café al Centro Enea

Centro Enea

Centro Enea
2 min.

ICT courses with Internet Café, structured paths, facilitated manuals, innovative educational proposals on Italian law and local activities with schools

The “double code” of social inclusion: functional literacy and digital literacy for foreign residents.
 
The experimental Centro Enea Project was developed with the City of Rome in synergy with the Ministry of the Interior in order to help the many different people obliged to flee their nations of origin in hope of better lives in Italy who often, however, only encounter alienation, rejection, and exploitation.
First opened in Rome in October 2007, Centro Enea, located in the 18th Municipal District, Casalotti area (via Boccea 530) is a “secondary” reception center structure offering the continuation and development of the integration process begun in Italy thanks to the network of emergency or first immigrant reception centers already established. The objective of this project is to reinforce this network at municipal and national level through the creation of a “laboratory”: a place where refugees and people requesting political asylum and subsidiary protection may benefit from practical support along their fragile path to autonomy. Centro Enea can host up to 400 guests, and is staffed by social workers, linguistic mediators, Italian language teachers, psychologists, and lawyers.
 
At Centro Enea, Fondazione Mondo Digitale manages and organizes the Internet café, according to an intervention model that envisions four levels of interaction, each of which brings different benefits to the refugee’s integration and cultural identity.

 

The four levels of interaction are:
  • The role of the Internet Café (e-Café) at the Boccea Refugee Center. The e-Café offers refugees pc connected to Internet, professional courses, guides to the attendance of multimedia Italian courses; courses in becoming “digital communicators”.
  • The role of the e-Café in the integration with the Rome community performed by the Refugee Center with its offer of services to the local public.
  • The role of the Internet Café (e-Café) in the relationships cultivated by the Boccea Refugee Center with other refugee assistance organizations and communities in Italy. Refugees can communicate with other refugees from the same country who have come to Italy and vice-versa through the e-mail, chat, and Skype services provided by the e-Café.
  • The role of the Internet Café (e-Café) in relationships between refugees and the communities and family in the nation from which they have fled.
 
Courses will continue at Centro Enea through 2013. The courses last 16 hours; attendance is twice weekly.

 

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Zakaria Mohamed

Zakaria Mohamed 35 anni Formatore Roma

Abbiamo incontrato Zakaria Mohamed Ali al Centro Enea di Roma nel 2008. Era un rifugiato politico. "Sono arrivato in Italia con il barcone e i miei titoli di studio legati e nascosti con il nastro adesivo intorno al torace. Non sapevo come ricominciare a vivere, contattare i miei familiari e cercare un lavoro. L’Internet Cafè mi ha aiutato tantissimo", ci raccontava allora. Per le sue spiccate capacità comunicative Zak prima ci ha aiutati con il ruolo di facilitatore, poi è diventato docente di informatica presso il Centro di prima accoglienza di Pietralata. Oggi Zak è un giornalista e documentarista freelance. Ha scritto una lettera aperta a noi tutti, cittadini del mondo, richiamandoci a non "vivere vigliaccamente una vita normale", mentre il mondo è cambiato.

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