Day centre for poor children

 An important project which has been a huge success, undertaken and supported by Noiperloro is the day center.
 

Many of these children are neglected, they live in poor conditions with little food, very poor hygienic conditions and no education and are at risk of being abandoned.
It is preferred to keep the children in their family of origin, avoiding the trauma of a possible abandonment, but offering them the possibility of a better future, complete with an education that touches all aspects of life, looking from hygiene and nutritional aspects to schooling. We have recently employed a psychologist too.
 

At 12 o’clock when school finishes they all come to casa Bridget where an upstairs apartment was specifically designed for this project. Here, two "mothers" give them a hot meal, then they clean their teeth and twice a week each kid has a nice hot shower. Clothes and shoes are given to those who need them. Then the school activities start: help with the homework and computer classes, with the support of two teachers. After it’s time for free-play and taking it easy, before returning home, they are given a snack, so at least we are sure that children have had something to eat during the evening .

Despite the initial distrust of some parents, puzzled by the fact that their children were "abducted" by some foreigners, the project has taken off and is now greeted with great enthusiasm by all, including teachers of the school and local authorities.
 

Those who show the most enthusiasm of all are the children who love to come to the center. Many of them are also proud to return to school being able to now read and write for the first time, and with all their homework done. They are also happy to be properly dressed, with shoes on their feet, and not to be teased about being the “stinky kid” in the class anymore.
 

It is especially for these kids that we opened this project: to give opportunities to children who otherwise have none.