Annual report 2004 - Compagnia di San Paolo

Institutional activities in 2004
Assistance to socially deprived categories
Auxilium Foundation, Genoa. “La Casetta”(little house) hosting the homeless.
2004 grants were awarded to create accommodation centres for single mothers with children,
providing a shelter for single-women in conditions of severe social hardship, and offering them
gradual social reintegration to retrieve autonomy both at home and in the workplace.
As regards adolescents and young people, particular attention was attached to the creation of
meeting places, where ad hoc educational and youth personality development programmes are
carried out. The Compagnia has pursued its support to YEPP – Youth Empowerment Partnership
Programme and other programmes which, apart from involving young people, try to offer better
development opportunities, for example, in suburban areas affected by hardship. Grants have
also been resolved for projects of social integration of adolescents and young people at risk of
deviance.
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Pathways to social autonomy
The transition from a merely “welfare” logic to self-sufficiency and social-professional reintegration
programmes was at the crux of the Compagnia’s activities in 2004; these objectives are very
challenging as they require assets, resources and services (firstly home, work and social life),
usually hard to find. The complexity of the inherent issue calls for adequate synergies stemming
from a concerted action between stakeholders involved in the initiative.
In this field of interests the Compagnia has centred its efforts on:
- addiction, favouring interventions following community integration, focusing on rehabilitation
courses with training, occupational activities, internships or work scholarships;
- psychiatric disorder and distress, with two objectives: firstly, to encourage professional