Italy – 15 refugees find work thanks to AVSI's ‘Mi integro’ project, in collaboration with the Don Bosco 2000 association

10 September 2025

(ANS - Rome) - There are 15 jobs for refugees made possible by the ‘Mi integro’ project promoted by the AVSI Foundation (Association of Volunteers for International Service) and financed with 8×1000 funds managed by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. New opportunities for growth and inclusion that find full realisation in the property confiscated from the mafia and in the social enterprises of the Salesian-inspired Don Bosco 2000 Association in Piazza Armerina, a partner in the project.

The project, the Don Bosco 2000 association explained, finds full realisation in the association's social enterprises: the Museum of Legality and the aquaponics greenhouse in Villarosa, both assets confiscated from the mafia and now regenerated, and the Colonia Don Bosco, places that have become places of formation, work and social redemption.

Over the past few days Don Bosco 2000 has welcomed a visit from the AVSI Foundation, during which the foundation's representatives were able to see the pathway of inclusion of the beneficiaries for themselves, accompanied by the multi-ethnic staff of Don Bosco 2000, who testify on a daily basis how ‘those who have been welcomed, today are offering welcome’.

Dr Roberta La Cara, director of the Research and Development department of Don Bosco 2000, led the visit, emphasising: ‘We hope to be able to give continuity to this path even beyond the conclusion of the project, strengthening the collaboration with AVSI and promoting together new initiatives to support the most vulnerable people’. The ‘Mi integro’ project thus confirms itself as ‘a concrete step towards a more inclusive future, in which work becomes a tool for dignity and integration.’ 

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