In a society where reading and writing skills are often taken for granted because they are considered elementary, one must realise that access to education is a privilege, not the entire world population can afford. The inability to read or write is referred to as illiteracy. According to the UNESCO’s Institute for Statistics, even if…
Mr. Caia is a Professor of Italian Sign Language at Ca’ Foscari University, in Venice. He was born in 1976 in Siracuse (Sicily) from deaf parents and he is deaf himself. In his family, they all use Italian Sign Language to communicate with each other. They found out about his deafness when he was attending…
Since 2017, Vicolo Bolognetti 2, in Bologna, has been the home of Làbas, a well-known community centre in the city, which houses several projects: after-school for children, work desk, legal desk, music workshop, bicycle workshop, Italian school, and many others. In this article, we will focus on the Italian language school Newén and the differences between…
During the pandemic, lockdown people are forced to stay home to prevent any risk of spreading or contracting the Coronavirus. Thus, many stores are closed, including libraries and bookstores, and a lot of workers stayed home, doing their job remotely if possible, as well as many children, which cannot go to school. But what about…
Oxford Omnia is a transnational NGO born in 2017 thanks to Oxford University student Elena Bernini, who wished to give something back to the Vietnamese village where she was born and raised before being adopted by an Italian family. That is how the “Matteo Bertero English Centre” came into existence. This is an English school…
At the beginning of September, many students were finally able to go back to school, meet their classmates, and enjoy their company. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for children who live in countries where income differences persist. The UNESCO’s 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report: Inclusion and education estimated that during the COVID-19 pandemic about…
From today we officially reopen the beautiful project in Greece. Do you want to teach English? Do you have a few weeks to volunteer? In Athens, there are many refugees and immigrants, who need to learn and/or improve English, to then look for a good job opportunity and thus offer a dignified life to their family. What are…
Since we always care about children from all over the world, and since we cannot travel at the moment, go and find and assist them, we thought of taking a trip with the mind and dreams with them. We started publishing two months ago videos in which we will read books, in Italian and in…
Education gives us a knowledge of the world around us and changes it into something better. It develops in us a perspective of looking at life. It helps us build opinions and have points of view on things in life. People debate over the subject of whether education is the only thing that gives knowledge.…
