\n Urban Stories videopill \u2013 Fondazione Arch\u00e9 <\/span>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\nMilan is no exception. Porta Nuova and CityLife, with their icons and green spaces, hubs for large companies and symbols of a high-energy city coveted by tourists and investors, but also Brera, Duomo or the Navigli, are surrounded in every direction by areas that need more opportunities to integrate themselves <\/strong>better into the system and emerge within the urban fabric. Quarto Oggiaro is one of the best-known examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAreas that are distant not only geographically, but sometimes also socially, that need to communicate and relate to each other in order to both be part of an inclusive, interconnected and virtuous community definitively overcoming the twentieth-century distinction between centre and suburbs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\n See also: Connected and inclusive: the features of future cities \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n\nAccording to Manfredi Catella<\/strong>, CEO of COIMA, \u201cthis is where the need to connect Milan\u2019s neighbourhoods by creating social bridges capable of generating new opportunities and benefits for the city stems from.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n
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People are the only ones able to create these connections, which can also prove fruitful from other points of view, such as the environment and production. \u201cDeveloping the human dimension is at the heart of the partnership with COIMA,\u201d <\/em>the words of Father Giuseppe Bettoni<\/strong>, the president and founder of, as well as driving force behind, the Fondazione Arch\u00e9, a foundation that for more than thirty years has been dealing with complex situations related to offering support to women with children who have experienced the drama of gender violence or endured the trauma of migration. \u201cTogether we have chosen to create a social platform that connects two apparently distant settings in Milan, with the aim of mapping out shared trajectories between private, public and third sectors, involving companies that have a social vocation and building the common good together.<\/em><\/p>\n\nA protocol has actually been signed between COIMA and Fondazione Arch\u00e9 in an attempt to define an integrated model to offer women in the care of Fondazione Arch\u00e9 the opportunity to learn a trade<\/strong>, training while working in contact with professionals who are prepared and available for mentoring and coaching.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n \n\n\n\n\nA project that is social and at the same time urban, that focuses on work as an opportunity for personal and social redemption for people with a difficult past<\/strong> and who often imagine that their future is already written without too many ambitions and aspirations. \u201cThese women are much more than their mistakes, which often only translate into having trusted the wrong people,\u201d <\/em>comments Father Bettoni<\/strong>, \u201cand that is why at Fondazione Arch\u00e9 we are committed to ensuring that these mothers learn to discover potential that they often do not even imagine they have and to believe in themselves. Within this context, the partnership with COIMA is crucial in order to enable these women to enhance their quality of life.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u201cIn addition to providing women with a roof over their heads via social housing projects, what is important to us is to accompany them on a path towards autonomy and in planning their future<\/strong>, and we are happy to have found a partner to count on in an entity that was immediately attentive and willing to welcome mothers and help them grow professionally, providing them with the skills and tools to do so and offering job opportunities in Porta Nuova,\u201d<\/em> adds Father Bettoni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n