Desks, blackboards, chairs, chairs, tables and many other materials and equipment, even for the little ones, no longer used in the schools of the Municipality of Vicenza will be donated to developing countries. This is what is foreseen by the project, promoted by the education department, aimed at supporting school activities in developing geographical areas through the recovery of school furniture owned by the municipality.
“Especially in rural areas of Africa – explains the education councilor Cristina Tolio – there are still many situations in which children, despite being lucky enough to go to school, carry out their school activities sitting on the ground in unsafe ruins, in abandoned buildings, in huts or simply under a tree without any teaching equipment or acceptable conditions for adequate learning. In recent months the Education Service has received requests for the free supply of disused school equipment to be sent to developing countries where some organizations have production sites or carry out international cooperation projects. This is an operation that I care about and which is good for those who donate and those who receive but also for the environment, given that we avoid disposing of materials that are still in good condition. I thank the "Burkinabè" association of Vicenza and the Safas spa company of Altavilla Vicentina who are committed to ensuring that the initiative is successful, supporting us with logistics and assuming the costs".
Following the modernization of a good part of the existing school furnishings, also due to the new space requirements linked to the epidemiological emergency, a survey is underway in the municipal warehouses of the equipment and furnishings lying around waiting for elimination and which are however still in good condition to be donated.
The furnishings and school materials will be made available to the "Burkinabè" association of Vicenza which operates in many villages of Burkina Faso and to the Safas spa company of Altavilla Vicentina which works with areas in southern Tunisia, on the border with Algeria, in which there are many rural villages without school structures and equipment that could allow even the slightest educational activity.
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