Tag: Asti
Polentoni (people who eat a lot of polenta, disparaging for Norther Italians) and terroni (farmers, disparaging for Southern Italians). These classical epithets for an Italy divided in two parts from ancestral prejudices are difficult to explain. And them, at...
History, objectives and results of two projects able to connect tradition and social sustainability.
Villa Quaglina is the ex Priesthood Oblati of San Giuseppe in Asti. A beautiful last century villa immersed in the greenery, with a farmhouse and a...
Targets, history and numbers.
The widespread hosting starts in April 2014 following the arrival of hundreds of refugees in the area of Asti. Due to the lack of places available to reception, citizenship and the foreigners' associations present in the...
Piam, an onlus from Asti, has been the first in Italy to experience the inclusion of migrants in a family. Now examples of distribution in small groups, across different municipalities whit the support of associations, has increased. From Genoa...
On May 20th 2015, the Asti edition of the newspaper La Stampa reports: "There are landslides, but no money."
This situation poses a serious threat to the security of our territories and our road. It takes a step forward, it...
Another news on the national Italian television about the widespread hosting project made by PIAM.
The Protection System for Asylum Seekers and Refugees (SPRAR) of the Ministry of the Interior (Home Office) works in collaboration with the National Association...
In this report from Rai 1 News, the mayor of Chiusano d’Asti explains the Agape project, a network of villages that join the SPRAR (Protection System for Asylum Seekers and Refugees), in cooperation with Piam Onlus. All of...
Progetto Integrazione Accoglienza Migranti (PIAM) is a organization for migrants's rights and anti-trafficking located in Asti, a small town near Turin.
In 1999 Princess Okokon and her husband Alberto Mossino started their activity by trying to give a concrete answer to...
Taking of trade victims seekers for asylum in Piedmont.
The phenomenon.
In recent years, Nigerian traffickers have used Libyan routes to bring thousands of women into Europe for exploitation, such as prostitution. Potential victims are often hidden in the mass of...
African women seeking a better life in Europe face a long, perilous, often fatal journey across the Mediterranean. But when they do arrive, they confront yet another threatening prospect: conscription into sex slavery. Eighty percent of all Nigerian women...