Since the end of August, The Good Kitchen, thanks to close cooperation with our long-time partners Strauss, has become part of the large project “Approdo del Sé” by the Municipality of Mussomeli.
We participated in its implementation and received a grant for our work. This became a new stage, an impetus in the development of community kitchen, an opportunity to improve and expand its activities. This showed us that the local community sees the importance and meaning of our work, trusts us, believes that we can make qualitative changes.

The grant has a social purpose and is aimed at encouraging individuals to become an active part of the change process, uniting people, inclusion, building bridges among different groups of the people, integrating various vulnerable groups into the community, supporting the psycho-social well-being of the population. It has a global vision aimed at a network of paths that lead to a new local remodeling of Community Building.
The grant covers 3 microspheres:
Support activities for economic difficulties in the food and social fields (the objective is to systematize community-building processes to offer concrete responses to those segments of the population mostly in difficulty, enhancing the good practices already in place).
Community empowerment activities for families, young people and residents (the objective is to offer growth and integration tools to individuals, families and groups who, for various reasons, experience conditions of fragility).
Training activities (the objective is to encourage an approach based on the acquisition of skills, abilities and abilities that can be used in personal, social and professional growth paths).
And Good kitchen is involved and responsible for implementing the first goal of this project. After all, Good Kitchen is a space for sociality and sharing through food. Within the scope of the project, we have planned a number of activities aimed at the inclusion of vulnerable parts of the population into the community, self-development of children and adolescents, the formation of a space where they can express themselves, be heard, accepted, and establish connections between different population groups in Mussomeli. And we believe that food in general, sharing food, cooking together plays a significant role in this process.

Also, thanks to the grant, we were able to provide jobs to two employees who deal with organizational and bureaucratic issues in Good kitchen, calculating statistical data, etc.
This is a very important part of the work, which records our actions and provides structure.
Thank you for the trust. We believe that only together we can improve life in Mussomeli for the better, make it comfortable, and in such a way that every resident of this town will feel comfortable, fulfilled, accepted, and understood by others.
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