A minibus to Kayrós with Canovalandia Onlus

Yuki and Canovalandia Onlus donated a minibus to allow the kids to play sports. Football as a tool for educating young people, accompanying them towards healthy growth, educating them about legality and fighting crime.

THE CONTEXT

San Siro is the youngest neighborhood in Milan (2 out of ten inhabitants are under 20 years old and 57% of them are of foreign origin).

In particular, the area of the Arab Aler houses is critical: one in four accommodations is occupied illegally or unusable, the others are rented at a very low rent, 150 euros, and inhabited by very difficult or clearly destitute cases.

The oratory and the numerous associations present have taken care of children and families but it is more difficult to attract teenagers. We are talking about hundreds of kids between 13 and 20 who neither go to school nor work and have often already had the experience of prison or the community.

Those teenagers educationally remained completely exposed. They find themselves in the building in Via Zamagna 4, the scene of drug dealing, where no outsider is welcome and the anger against institutions, law enforcement and peers from different neighborhoods is at explosive levels.

TEENAGERS

There is NOTHING in the neighborhood to re-educate these difficult teenagers. Both the places and the adult reference figures who can connect them are missing.

There are no capable street educators, there is no football field available for them, there is no youth community center led by capable adults who help them channel their anger and energy.

The kids, essentially abandoned to themselves, with parents who work twelve hours a day to support the family, grow up with the myth of football (with the San Siro stadium).

FOOTBALL in collaboration with Centro Sportivo Italiano

After the first football team started (Under 19) with around 25 members, Kayrós launched two other teams – all three will compete in the CSI Championship. The other two teams will have targets for 2009-2011 and 2005-2008 respectively. Football is the way to attract them and divert them from crime.

The project coordinated by Don Claudio Burgio, chaplain of the Beccaria prison and head of the community managed by the Kayrós association involves the operation of four expert educators in addition to the don.

We thank CANOVALANDIA ONLUS for their important contribution.