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Education for all! Empowerment, regeneration and constructive processes

soziales leben und arbeiten e.V.
A project from soziales leben und arbeiten e.V. in Cannobio, Italy
In an empty estate on the northern Italian edge of the Alps, we want to build a place free of exchange logic for political as well as social and ecological education, empowerment, regeneration and constructive processes for all.

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Jens Herrmann from soziales leben und arbeiten e.V. is responsible for this project
In a remote alpine village in northern Italy, we want to build a place free of exchange logic for political, social and ecological education as well as for empowerment, regeneration and constructive processes for all.  For this purpose, a vacant, over one hundred year old property with a solid natural stone house containing five living rooms, a barn, two outbuildings and a large plot of land with a very old stand of sweet chestnuts is to be acquired and filled with new life. The property is located in the mountain village of Valle Cannobina, with about 200 inhabitants, on the edge of the largest wilderness reserve in the Alps, the "Val Grande". The atmosphere is characterised by the timelessness of the mountains with their bare peaks and ridges, covered all around by natural forest. It is quiet here and the weather becomes perceptible and significant. An ideal place to study, meet, make plans, explore nature. Nevertheless, a bus runs to this village from the nearby and well-connected small town on Lake Maggiore.
This project will be a place for political and social education, preferably without financial barriers.
There, we will focus on the topics of intersectionality and discrimination-critical educational work, climate justice, environmental protection and sustainability. We also want to create space for the empowerment of people affected by discrimination and those who want support, a space for dialogue, networking, psychosocial support and activities, but also for socio-political engagement. Psychosocial support, empowerment and environmental education for migrant children and young people are particularly close to our hearts. 
(Educational) offers for groups and families to promote mindfulness, self-care, awareness, self-change and creativity should also find a place here.
In order to equalise different financial possibilities and the associated privileges or disadvantages and to create easy and uncommercial access, especially for people with multiple deprivations, we want to make this place free of the logic of exchange. This means that it will be financed by association funds and voluntary donations - the usage is independent of services in return.

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