Former Youth Hostel, Giordano and Palomba: “Precious resource to be revalued”
Genoa. “We take note of the meeting that took place between the associations of the Oregina district and the mayor Marco Bucci regarding the 360-degree recovery of a structure capable of welcoming and at the same time being a resource for an area of rare beauty, being at the foot dei Forti and Righi “.
This was declared by the candidate president of the East Center Municipality I Stefano Giordano, who then adds: “We are aware of this dialogue that has been going on for some time between kindergarten, associations and institutions for the full recovery of the youth hostel and its return to after years in which the citizenship building had been used, improperly, by the Social Policy office and by the delegate councilor Baroni to host emerging social projects that are not very compatible with the presence of a preschool: the project for the reception of minors unaccompanied foreigners, for example, had hosted as many as 44 minors managed by only two educators in turn, with the foreseeable problems that, in fact, determined the February episode “
“As progressive forces we are absolutely in line, indeed we insist that the hostel be recovered and revitalized, also considering the commitment made by one of our advisers, Vincenzo Palomba, in this participatory planning process; we do not understand, however, given today’s proclamations, why it was not included in the PNRR as an accessory to the Forts, instead of wanting to spend 40 million euros for a cable car that at best will be highly impacting and touristically useless, contributing to damage to a neighborhood , the Lagaccio, already visibly abandoned. In any case, we will be guarantors and an active part of the implementation of this commitment made today by the institution ”Giordano commented
Vincenzo Palomba, former councilor of Linea Condivisa and municipal candidate of Europa Verde with Sansa / Linea Condivisa, was one of the most active players in this participatory process, having drawn up the first project draft on the basis of local requests.
“The development path of the youth hostel in Righi- tells il- was a participatory path that saw the involvement of all the associations and committees of citizens present in the territory of Oregina, mine and that of the current president Carratù”
“Everyone should be applauded – continues Vincenzo Palomba – but a special mention goes to the teachers of the” M.Bondi “nursery school who, supported by their parents, have kept their attention on the structure high and have been the driving force behind this change of perspective with respect to a reality that risked becoming an example of decay and abandonment “.
And with regard to the recent use of the Palomba hostel which, in working life, deals with social and socio-sanitary-reasoned “it is clear that none of us, belonging to the center-left, is opposed to welcoming fragile people and fighting to marginality; however, we have always questioned the compatibility of a social project of emergency reception alongside a kindergarten “.
“Today the mayor has made an important commitment from which there is no turning back – concludes Palomba – in front of the representatives of all the realities involved in this process of enhancing the hostel; we presented a project draft that is the result of everyone’s work that proposes a different project for each floor (from the reception project managed by boys and girls with dowm syndrome to the neighborhood library); first of all it will be fundamental to change the management of the theater – inside the hostel – to the “M. Bondi “. We want to return the hostel to the territory and its citizens “.