Help the kids affected by the eartquake in Norcia

Beside the urgent reconstruction projects that allowed the children of five communities to go back to school in safe and welcoming buildings, an important commitment of the Rava Foundation in the territories affected by the earthquake is to promote projects and activities in favor of communities.

In Pieve Torina the works for the community center and gymnasium will start soon. The village is one of the most severely affected by the earthquake, to create an aggregation point for the families taht still dwell in temporary woodden houses.

In Cascia the Foundation is promoting a revaluation and revitalization project of the city through a number of initiatives of urban regeneration. Next September in the main square a brand new playgarden for the kids will be inugurated, and the whole area will be revived by flower beds of roses, the flower symbol of the city and of Saint Rita, the patron saint of Cascia. A few areas of the town will be repainted and decorated. The goal is to revive tourism in the town, a destination of pilgrims devoted to the Saint. 

Than you to help our unwavering efforts in supporting the families in Central Italy. 

• The rose garden (PDF)
  

The first school year in the schools built by the Rava Foundation in Arquata del Tronto, Norcia, Cascia, Eggi and Pieve Torina, has been exciting for all the students, from kindergarden to middle school.

We are flanking the families and teachers by organizing and partecipating in several educational workshops for the classes. In Pieve Torina we sponsored the construction of a vegetable garden. The children from 3 years of age this spring seeded the seeds, and are following the growth of their little plants.

In April we delivered tech blackboards for the classrooms of the Middle School  in Cascia and a science lab is in the making.

For high school students, we are collaborating with Italian Universities. Up to now we have given 6 grants for three year college courses in Milano to students from the area.

We also believe that it is important to disseminate the experience of the children that lived through the eartquake among their peers. We have developed a program of presentations of the book AICRON and workshops in primary schools across Italy.

AICRON stands for Norcia and is a book created and proposed by the Rava Foundation to raise public awareness of the situation of children after the earthquake in Central Italy and show the projects completed by the Foundation in the earthquake-stricken countries. It's composed of the materials of the art laboratories led in the primary school of Norcia  and merges with the creative work of famous authors. The book intends to be a testimony of the Foundation's commitment to children, especially in the reconstruction of their schools, but not only this: it is also a book of stories to read to other children like them, to symbolically unite them in this work of reconstruction.

The concept of the worshops we are leading in the schools is to create a new village, where every child creates his or her own building. Everyone decides at the beginning which building to create, using his imagination and the proposed materials and following the indications provided. The new village is then hung in the classroom.

GRAZIE DI CUORE for your attention and help!