Taking care of others, the story of the murals

What does it mean to take care of others? For each it has a different meaning. The first of October tells many of these meanings a choral work of art. Is called I’m not a mural – Signs of community. It is an event widespread in 120 places in Italy, which involves various communities. Promoted by Acri together with foundations of banking origin, the event is held on the occasion of the ninth European Day of Foundations.

There are about a thousand children, teenagers, artists, teachers, prisoners, disabled people, migrants involved in guided tours to create a mural, reinterpreting in a personal way, a stencil created for the occasion by the street artist pistoiese LDB (in the gallery above with many of the other works there is his work in Ventotene).

The murals are in many different places: schools, playrooms, aggregation centers in difficult neighborhoods, assets confiscated from crime and converted into community activities, facilities for the employment of the disabled, parks and much more.

These are the places where, thanks to the “networking” of third sector organizations and institutions, the daily activities of Foundations: activate communities to take care of the territory, of young people and of the most fragile subjects, triggering paths of participation and solidarity that help to restart, all together.

The day aims to tell everyone the stories that come to life in these spaces: stories of redemption and creativity, of aggregation and solidarity, of those who take care of their city and its inhabitants. In Bologna the work is carried out by L’orto Cooperativa Sociale e Agricola, which for thirty years has been working in the field of organic agriculture and job placement for disadvantaged people. In Naples Mai più inside realizes the stencil on a building where the laboratories for offenders suffering from psychiatric pathologies take place. In Brindisi he is on the spinnaker sail of one of the boats that the GV3 Association uses for mini regattas for children who come from difficult families, victims of abuse and orphans. The boats come from seizures carried out by the Guardia di Finanza.

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