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The name of the project synthetizes Mediation and Assistance; the activity concerns the Rom camps in the province of Turin and the surroundings. It is a project by Terra del Fuoco, Gruppo Abele and Pastorale Migranti (Caritas), funded by the Region Piedmont and by the Province of Torino.

The project is divided into two phases. In the first phase, we enter the camps in order to give basic assistance and to let the inhabitants know the operators. The staff will try and support the families, often forced to live in nomad camps in total lack of dignity (no toilets, no waste collection, complete ignorance of their rights and duties), through a network of subjects, retrieving food, clothes, etc., registering children in schools or evaluating chronic or emergential health needs.
In the second phase, a continuous monitoring of the situation will be done, and we will open paths of regularization, school integration, health monitoring, and support on specific themes. The objective is to build a database of resources to support the Roma people in the occupational and housing integration.

The staff is mixed: Terra del Fuoco workers, and Roma persons residing at the Die. The latter will help in the mediation with the users, as they know in first person the points of view of the Rom population on the territory; this makes it much easier to approach the persons, as well as to understand their real needs.
A natural development of the project will be of identifying the new residents of the Die, which path provides for temporary residentiality, and at the same time of giving the territory of Piedmont a deeper knowledge of the matter and then an improved possibility of integration for the Roma of the territory, beyond our projectuality.