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Progetto Tenda s.c.s.

BIOGRAPHY

Since 1999, we have been working with asylum seekers and refugees, people experiencing homelessness, and victims of sexual and labor exploitation, supporting their socio-economic reintegration. We do this by ensuring their right to access public and private services, safeguarding their rights to health, work, and housing. We are one of the main players in the Reception and Integration System (SAI) in the City of Turin. Each year, we host over a thousand people (unaccompanied foreign minors, asylum seekers, refugees, and individuals under protection). Our goal is to help them achieve autonomy, so that they can become active and recognized participants in the country’s social and economic fabric. To strengthen Turin’s reception system, we established the Turin Reception and Refuge Network (RART). For more than 10 years, we have applied the Housing First methodology to ensure the right to housing for over 350 people experiencing homelessness or precarious housing conditions. For the former, having a home is the first step in rebuilding a dignified life. For the latter, preventing the loss of housing means avoiding a spiral of marginalization that can be extremely difficult to escape. We are members of fio.PSD (the Italian Federation of Organizations for the Homeless), a national network that promotes the Housing First approach. We were among the first cooperatives in Italy to work with women who are victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation. Today, this includes women, men, and transgender individuals, to whom we offer protection services and guidance for social and economic inclusion through complex reintegration processes. More recently, we have been selected to combat labor exploitation within a multi-regional project led by the Piedmont Region. We are part of the Piedmontese anti-trafficking network Anello Forte, which in turn belongs to the National Anti-Trafficking System.

COUNTRY

Italy