We are a group of people committed to create assistance and social protection programmes. We create individual and familiar paths in order to promote integration within our own territory. Moreover, we draft stable-over-time project guidelines. Professional are put in place, such as educators, psychologist, cultural mediator and legal counsel. All these positions form a multidisciplinary staff that keeps going to evolve and train.
Now, let’s talk about the present. We are a development community agent in the territory. We promote individual and social resources in order to support personal initiative through subsidiarity principle. Communication is facilitated. We try to remove socio-cultural barriers and make diversity a strength and evolution tool inside the society. Listening and understanding is underlined creating a network of human connections. We support people in a temporary discomfort situation to rebuild their own identity.
Each active project has this mission that is realized:
Supporting community is our goal. A community that can give value to multiplicity and meeting new needs. We try to find rendezvous point between people’s life, individual dignity and respect for everyone. We don’t want to leave distinct cultural entities by themselves. Exchange, inclusion and awareness of being part of a patchy society are promoted. Traditions, virtues and different rules characterise this society. The concept of mutual aid is used for supporting people and families in need. We help them to overcome a possible isolation caused by temporary suffering situation. Inside pain and difficulties, they can find resources to get out of this. Not least, finding a job for everyone is a goal that keeps Progetto Itaca committed in labour policies.
Individual is central and important even for the organization level. In this way, employees and collaborators become ambassador for the Cooperative vision.
“Make a difference for you and for others.
Your own village means that you’re not alone.”
Dublin Regulation mainly determines the States’ authority for asylum requests, it entered into force in 1999 and has been reformed three times. The fundamental point in Dublin Regulation III, now into force, is the principle establishing that the first-entry Country must take on the responsibility of the new arrivals’ application of international protection: a law that weight on border Country in particular (such as Italy and Greece).
The main principle that regulates asylum seekers’ access to reception measures is that they must prove to have “no livelihoods sufficient to ensure an appropriate quality of life for them and their family” (art. 14, par. 1 LD 142/15).
The evaluation of insufficient livelihood is realised by Prefecture-T (art. 14, par. 3 LD 142/15) “with reference to annual amount of social allowance”.