P.E.R.L.E.

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Educational Pathways to Respect for Legality and Excellence

The P.E.R.L.E. Project – Educational Pathways to Respect for Legality and Excellence, coordinated by MO.D.A.V.I. (Movement of Italian Volunteering Associations), is an initiative funded through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), aimed at combating educational poverty in Southern Italy. The project promotes educational pathways focused on active citizenship, respect for legality, and personal growth, addressed to students attending lower and upper secondary schools.
Launched in 2025 and scheduled to conclude in February 2027, the project includes the implementation of educational workshops in schools and extracurricular educational summer camps for young people aged between 11 and 17.
In the Vibo Valentia area, we collaborate with three local schools, developing activities centred around the value of peace, understood as an expression of positive legality and as a fundamental tool for promoting civic coexistence, mutual respect, and inclusion.

P.E.R.L.E. Summer Camps

The first summer camp of the project took place in June 2026 in Filogaso (VV), involving students from the lower secondary school of the Sant’Onofrio State Comprehensive School Institute, with particular attention given to those experiencing situations of hardship, social exclusion, or at risk of early school leaving.

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Voices from the First Edition

“During the summer camp, I discovered that there is humility among everyone, cooperation, and mutual support both among the kids I had not yet made friends with and with the people from the Foundation, especially the facilitators.”

“I will never forget the time we spent together and the games we played. I already knew Fondazione Augurusa; I think what it does is very educational and fun, helping people grow in the right way.”

“The summer camp became a whole ecosystem, where the activities were only one part of what we experienced. At the end of the camp, even the final clean-up moment was a shared activity, showing that a group of people had come together and learned to cooperate towards the same goal: living and sharing a space well together.”

“Sports activities were the true bridge between us and the young participants. Through play and movement, we were able to make concepts such as legality, cooperation, and respect for rules tangible ideas that might otherwise have remained abstract. Sport broke down distances, both between us and the young people and among the young people themselves, becoming the language through which relationships were built and, on a small scale, a piece of peace was created.”

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