La Church di Napoli, for the social recovery of detainees, offers free loan for use of a space no longer used for worship.
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The former chapel of Santa Caterina at Pallonetto di Santa Chiara
It was signed at the Archbishop's Curia di Napoli the free loan for use with which it is granted to the social enterprise Consul Service Soc. Coop. the former chapel of Santa Caterina al Lob di Santa Chiara, reduced to a profane state in 1968 by the Archbishop of that time, Cardinal Corrado Ursi.
A former chapel that will now become a pizzeria. The assignment, as stated in a note, “it is aimed at the realization of the social project “Brigata Caterina” which has the mission of promoting the social recovery and job promotion of prisoners serving a sentence, as well as ex-prisoners, through the profession of pizza chef”.
“A project aimed at enhancing the process of returning to free social life and community by addressing the personal and environmental critical issues that constitute the main factors of recidivism, and activating a space for reflection in order to acquire resources and self-assessment tools for the construction of a new life project”.
In the former chapel a pizzeria for the inmates of Poggioreale
In fact, a new space will be created in the premises pizzeria where, with a rotation mechanism, to encourage job placement in other companies in the sector, professional training courses will be promoted for selected prisoners, with particular attention to those who, in prison di Poggioreale, will have acquired the qualification of pizza chef.
The project involves the synergic collaboration of the associations of the pizzaioli, from the Common di Napoli,Federico II University and other actors, both institutional and non-institutional, who wish to join the project.
The initiative, it is underlined in a note, “it is within the will of the archbishop Don Mimmo Battaglia to allocate the assets of the church of Naples to the valorization of projects that on the one hand can regenerate and recover sites in decline, and on the other create opportunities for social and work redemption for disadvantaged subjects".
Article published on 11 February 2023 - 11:00
