“ENNIO’S HOME”: WELCOMING AND TEMPORARY ACCOMODATION FOR NEEDING PEOPLE
The association obtained the usufruct of the building located in Dolo by Padua’s CARITAS. Needing people have been hosted here for years.
While the owner of the house Ennio Baldan (who suffered from multiple sclerosis), was alive, the people hosted here used to help the volunteers in their activities of assistance. Later on, thanks to the increasing availability of space, the activity of welcoming new people started, and it still carries on.
Today in the house there are about ten people with different individual problems, hosted also on the basis of agreements with local municipalities. Furthermore, there are immigrants and refugees coming from various countries and other occasional presences embodied by homeless people. The Committee for the guests of “Ennio’s Home”, presided by the Responsible of “Ennio’s Home” and composed by social workers and professionally trained volunteers, organises the hospitality. Its main purpose is making guests much more responsible and sensitive, through individually-designed projects of assistance and social integration.
In order to guarantee a constant help also during the night hours, about 30 volunteers organised night shifts in order to sleep one day per month at the association.