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Women & Youth Led Project for Environment, Art, History Preservation in Rome, Italy

RetakeRome from Graffiti 

La prima iniziativa del progetto Retake Rome

The first initiative of the project Retake Rome

An initiative headed by Rebecca Spitzmiller with the support of Giuseppe Garibaldi ONLUS Foundation that aims to help our young people to improve the knowledge of English and at the same time to optimize the quality of the environment in our cities, starting from Rome, neighborhood to neighborhood, school for school. 

The project

 Often our young people have a brilliant academic preparation, and other items essential to achieve success in the professional world, (including self-confidence, knowledge of English and experience the world of work). This project promotes the acquisition of such elements, in particular:

-Improving knowledge of English

-Acquire work experience

-Increase the ability to work in Group

-Increase self-confidence to face the world of work to which it is increasingly difficult to access

-Analyse the environmental issues that plague the capital and provide innovative solutions to solve it.

Methods and tools

It is considered appropriate to use teamwork, organized and directed by a group leader mother-English, which will process a course of studies and activities aimed at achieving results in both the vocational training of students both in improving environmental conditions of our neighborhoods. The goal is to educate our young people to respect for the environment and at the same time, favouring the realization construction of concrete experiences and useful for us and for our community. The project is aimed at all age groups: primary, secondary, higher and University, also in adult volunteers can join the group leaders area.

You organise meetings aimed at:

-Discuss – in Italiano! – current environmental concerns, (especially the lack of decorum urban) possible causes and potential solutions.

-View and comment on educational films in English that encourage such constructive participation to urban redevelopment, valuing civil ideals that characterize a good citizen.

-To offer any type of educational strategy, music pieces, historical pages, reflections on art and events news, may be useful to us.

-Select small and large projects to promote and encourage respect for the common good.

-Performing searches on the Web in order to have suggestions about the implementation of such projects in other States.

-Working together – expressing themselves in English – and improve the ability to meet others and the joint property, optimizing the conditions of our city: starting in the same schools, and then the streets, churches, and parks.

-Disseminating the project through promotion.

-Learn how to interact with local institutions in properly.

-Build a network of networking that can endure and facilitating University and professional choice.

The idea of involving young people is given by the belief that: "to build the world of tomorrow, we must involve young people today."

PROPOSALS

The organizers of the project "RETAKE ROMEspeak up and clean up."seek the collaboration of partner institutions, such as non-governmental organizations and governmental, educational institutions, foundations and associations who share the same objectives and encourage realization. The intention is to introduce the program to start with Capital Rome and extended later to all cities of Italy [1].

It is hoped the participation of the municipality of Rome and municipal offices; provincial and regional; and offices concerned ministries of youth; education, universities and research and the environment, protection of the land and the Sea which can facilitate the establishment and, where appropriate, the adoption of the draft as extra-curricular programme for schools.

It is important to stress that this initiative provides maintenance costs, because it assumes a voluntary collective action and will offer an annual premium per mile project carried out by Giuseppe Garibaldi ONLUS.





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