CONTRADA VALLONE ROSSO BIANCAVILLA (CT)

The project is in collaboration with the the Cooperative A.R.A. Born from the experience of the Association Casa di Maria in Biancavilla with which IBO Italy collaborated with workcamps for a long time.The project is born from an idea of a group of person and professionists, engaged in the social services sector, with the purpouse of creating a reality that can answer to the actual problems.The cooperative counts 9 members of an average age between 23-63 years old, motivated for different reason to give service to people. In 2017 was found a shared space to gather the experiences and to transform in true projects: then, the Cooperative A.R.A. was born.The acronym A.R.A. stands for agriculture, catering and hospitality, areas that inter exchanging with each other allow a completely new view of the welcome: create a reality that can constitute a virtuous circle that starts from the reception of minors , and succeeds in offering them concrete possibilities of job insertion, social reintegration and valid accompaniment to autonomy, through the cultivation of raw materials and the use of them in the catering Sector. The cooperative has in fact a private legacy consisting of a rural building and a plot of farmland of about 2 hectares, necessary for the implementation of the agricultural strand and of a rural tourism: about one hectare of cultivated vineyard, Palmento as future restaurant, professional and local kitchen necessary for the activation of the food strand.