Through the EDU project, the Andrea Bocelli foundation has achieved the construction of 3 Guest Houses to host staff, volunteers and supporters of the ABF and Fondation St. Luc team during missions and stays on location.
ABF has covered the costs of recovery and renovation of a building located in Soleil 17, one of the largest slums in Port-au-Prince, in order to provide free basic literacy, catechesis, art and civics, to all those who do not have access to education and vocational training in this community.
After inaugurating the new “E. De Amicis” school complex, the Andrea Bocelli Foundation opened the first ABF Summer Camp in the facility, in order to immediately make it a place for meeting, research and discovery, where children – but also adults, teachers and parents – were able to share the pleasure of learning as a time for mutual growth, opportunity for self-care, care for the other people and for what surrounds us.
The G. Leopardi Comprehensive Middle School in Sarnano and the Andrea Bocelli Foundation, one year after inaugurating the school that was restored to the community of Marche, featured on a special day that brought together 11 educational concerns of the area. Over 500 children, students coming from comprehensive music middle schools and from dance high schools in the Marche region, met at the educational building donated by ABF and by the “Only the Brave Foundation” (where the training building stood before being damaged by the 2016 earthquake) and then at the local sports hall, on Wednesday 29th, and they made music together by using the variety of instruments in the educational spaces dedicated to music and multimedia, which the school – thanks to the contribution of the SIAE – is equipped with. The schools that participated were honoured with a symbolic “Gold Record”.
ERCI-Edu is a pilot migrant and refugee integration project housed by Elpida and implemented by E.R.C.I. The project is part of the school education programme for refugee children who get to grips with the new culture of the host Country and the new reality they are sharing through subjects such as mathematics, English and Arabic, to promote dialogue and integration.
Since 2013, the Foundation has supported a tanker truck that distributes water in the slums of Cité Soleil every day, three times a day, 6 days a week. Having ascertained the effectiveness and the real need for the project, since 2014 the Foundation has doubled its commitment with a second truck.
The St. Raphael school is located in De Varenne Grand Riviere, in Jacmel in the south Haiti. It takes 3 hours driving from Port-au-Prince and 2 hours and half of walking to get there.
After reaching the objective of stabilization of the number of students and recognition of the school as point of reference for the communities, the Foundation has decided to convert the basic structures of the 3 schools in adequate facilities to accommodate students and put them in the best conditions to live the school experience.
The project will cover all students from 2 to 24 years, divided by category of age and classes and will cover also the teachers and other people who work in ABF schools and in the communities.
After reaching the objective of stabilization of the number of students and recognition of the school as point of reference for the communities, the Foundation has decided to convert the basic structures of the 3 schools in adequate facilities to accommodate students and put them in the best conditions to live the school experience.