From former chapel to pizzeria: in Naples project on prisoner recovery

La Church di Napoli, for the social recovery of detainees, offers free loan for use of a space no longer used for worship.

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 be a pizzeria. The award, according to a statement, "It is aimed at implementing the "Brigata Caterina" social project, which has the mission of promoting the social rehabilitation and job promotion of serving time inmates, as well as ex-offenders, through the profession of pizza chef."

"A project aimed at enhancing the process of returning to free social life and community life by addressing the personal and environmental issues that are the main factors of recidivism, and by creating a space for reflection to provide resources and self-assessment tools for building a new life plan."

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 the selected inmates, 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, Dell '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 archbishop's wishes Don Mimmo Battaglia to allocate the assets of the Church of Naples to the development of projects that, on the one hand, can regenerate and recover decaying sites, and on the other, create opportunities for social and employment redemption for disadvantaged individuals."