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Make Every Step Count! 2016 - 2018

Module 7 - Community Action, Volunteering and
working as part of a group

Upper Secondary School A local library can change a neighborhood
Aged 14-19 yrs

We have run various fundraising events before
Christmas and Easter holidays and on Mother’s Day
through the fund-raising campaign for Research
on Cancer and on Multiple Sclerosis, LILT, AIRC
and AISM. A lot of our students are blood donors
in AVIS. Our school is also active in collecting old
glasses for Africa.

An important project for the community action
module was “A local library can change a
neighbourhood” in coherence with the regional
policies in the library sector, aimed at guaranteeing
citizenship rights, cohesion and social inclusion. Drama sessions from books
The neighbourhood library was conceived as a
gateway to knowledge and culture, an instrument
of democracy and social inclusion. Through
meetings with writers, directors, voluntary
associations, municipal officials, publishing houses,
the students experimented the promotion of
reading and cultural services, aimed at even the
weakest segments of society, those at risk of social
exclusion. In a country where you read less and
less in the belief that the Internet has completely
superseded the book, the library, to survive,
must become a point of social gatherings and of
knowledge, frequented by people who, attracted
by the activities that take place in it, approach it
and, in this way, come into contact with the books;
therefore even a “non-reader” often finds himself
projected into the magical world of reading “.
Our students organized meetings, debates,
presentations and other initiatives in the S. Lucia
library to enhance the heritage, resources and
traditions of our city, with the aim of helping to
strengthen the cultural network of the territory.
autonomy and personal initiative.