Annual report 2004 - Compagnia di San Paolo

Permanent Organisations
Ufficio Pio
The Ufficio Pio’s front office for foreigners
Delegati directly working with people experiencing difficulties. This allowed them to identify and
report truly critical cases with the utmost timeliness.
The Association awarded 2881 ordinary relief grants, totalling slightly less than 2.3 million euros,
while projects-related expenditure amounted to almost 1.7 million euros. The Ufficio Pio kept
providing its “social emergency service” through various activities: 6804 people were attended to
through the Ufficio’s help point, with 1434 first-time contacts.
With a view to overcoming mere welfarism and helping people regain their autonomy the Ufficio Pio
has also launched project planning and service-related initiatives, absorbing almost 1.7 million
euros.
As far as vocational training of youth belonging to vulnerable households is concerned, 44 new
vocational training grants were assigned, 15 of which to resident foreigners; when the vocational
training scheme was completed, about two thirds of the grants resulted in the beneficiaries being
employed with a permanent contract.
Five additional grants were awarded within the framework of the Logos project, targeting former
prison inmates with the aim of fostering their professional rehabilitation.
The Ufficio still supports traditional training courses and it has launched some initiatives targeted
at particular groups (women in difficult situations etc.) with specific training courses for various
professional sectors or expertises ( catering, craft workshops etc.)
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Youth at Risk
In the field of Youth at risk-targeted initiatives, including educational ones, the Ufficio reaffirmed its
commitment to “Provaci ancora Sam” (Try it Again Sam), a project carried out in cooperation with
the Social Services and Education Departments of Turin Municipality, and the regional office of the
Ministry of Education (MIUR). The project is centred on the phenomenon of school drop-outs and
aims at reintegrating 15 year old students who still haven’t obtained their Licenza Media (diploma
of lower secondary education): 196 boys and girls were involved in the initiative for the 2003/2004
school year, and they obtained the diploma.
Action towards youth rehabilitation was enhanced through the introduction of scheme modules