Father Giuseppe “Bepi” Berton, an Italian Christian priest who has been living in Sierra Leone for over 40 years, is the founder of Family Homes Movement (FHM), a social Movement aiming to take care and educate children in particular need which, during the civil war, took care of about 3000 children soldiers.
In this interview he claims about the prejudices, stiffening the perception of the difference between “us” and “the others”, which are quite common even with NGOs and experts of Development, and gives his raccomandations in order to overcome them.
Read here his raccomandations, or watch the video of the interview (in Italian language)
Clotilde Pontecorvo is Professor at the University La Sapienza , Rome (Italy), and Researcher and Observer of the Chance project, an educational project allocated in the degraded areas of Naples (Italy) and finalized to the rehabilitation and reintegration of young drop outs into civil society.
Here you can read her interview: it has been taken during the Round Table on Chance, arranged in Naples, in July 2010, where researchers and educators have been met for three days in order to analyze good and bad practices related to the Chance Project, and it’s specifically focused on the replicability of the Chance educational model in the Institutional educational system, on the relationship between educators and drop outs, and on the priorities of Education.
Progetto Chance, aree degradate della città di Napoli: cosa significa educare in contesti difficili e violenti?
In data 13 gennaio se ne è parlato con Cesare Moreno a “Mentre”, trasmissione in onda dalle 15.00 alle 16.00 in diretta su TV2000 oppure in diretta streaming sul sito www.mentre.tv2000.it