ROME (ITALPRESS) – Reinserting young ex-convicts into the workforce, offering them a new opportunity that also contributes to the growth of artisanal businesses: this is the goal of the memorandum of understanding signed today by CNA and the Sant’Egidio Community. For CNA national president Dario Costantini, “it is an honor and a pride to sign this protocol” with which “an ambition of both is realized, which is to recover young people who may have made mistakes and who want to recover with the dignity of work,” with the goal of “building together with them the future of our businesses.” In the next five years, “our entrepreneurs will need 400,000 workers for their companies,” which are “currently struggling to find employees.” The demographic winter “also touches our world, 55 percent of Italian small business owners are over 50 years old, 10 percent of Italian small business owners are over 70 years old, and only in one case out of 3 are their children carrying on the family business.” As CNA, “we are talking to young people, we continue to do training in the territories, we have signed an agreement with the Community of San Patrignano, a project with the Ministry of Education is practically ready,” to which “we are devoting ourselves to explaining to young people that work is dignity,” and then “we are engaged in a European project on professional corridors, which is really very complicated. We shared it with the ministries of Interior, Foreign Affairs and Labor, we went to present it in Europe and to Cairo to sign an agreement with the Don Bosco Salesian School and the Dante Alighieri Cultural Institute, and we signed an agreement with the Egyptian workers’ union in Italy: the goal is to teach Italian to these young people and bring them to Italy, with safe housing. CNA wants to be a social force that understands the value of integration. “For the representative for Italy of the Community of Sant’Egidio, Cesare Giacomo Zucconi, “it is improtant that young people find their place in the world. Sant’Egidio has been working for years in prisons to support many people in difficulty and help them reintegrate into society, especially the youngest.Working together with the CNA means finding a common way so that these young people can get out of this negative circle in which they have found themselves.” On the work corridors mentioned by Costantini, he added, “It’s about finding avenues for a legal and safe reception of immigrants who come from countries where there are often no prospects. Sant’Egidio has been doing this since 2015 with the humanitarian corridors, working on integration,” which is “the decisive point” and which “is done by the community. It is civil society that has to integrate.”
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