Via Garibaldi, 13. 10122 Turin
Corso Ciulio Cesare, 8. 10152 Turin
10152 Turin
Italy
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AMMI borns on the initiative of a group of intercultural mediators (of different nationalities) from different provinces of Piedmont by fusing their experiences, skills and life paths.
Sees together all the ethnic groups residing on the regional territory.
A.M.M.I’s key objective is to strengthen the inclusion devices and intercultural dialogue with the professional intercultural mediator as a major player.
Aims to encourage, facilitate, help and promote the interaction and integration of migrants on the territory through the intercultural mediation service (intended as cultural decoding, accompaniment, interpreting, facilitation the relationships between migrant and public/ private subjects and native citizens).
Creation of a multidisciplinary team (intercultural mediators, anthropologists, doctors, nurses, social assistants, educators, …) to manage the reception activities of refugies and asylum seekers in the Turin area, in collaboration with the Prefecture of Turin and the “Città di Torino” (Municipality of Turin).
Training of intercultural mediators on aspects concerning unaccompanied minors (funded by UNHCR).
In collaboration with CIFA and Amnesty International, AMMI has implemented the national project #IORispetto (“I respect everyone”), which aims to counter the Hate Speech phenomenon in Italian schools.
Partner of cooperazione internazionale (Tunisia, Ethiopia, Senegal). Creation of the bases for the training of intercultural mediators in Tunisia (Pinsec project - funded by AICS in collaboration with CIES di Roma). The project formed a group of 15 trainers in tunisia providing both theoretical and practical bases to teach the profession of intercultural mediator.
Construction and participation together with the Metropolitan City and Piedmont Region of a table concerning the professional training of Intercultural Mediators. Supported by the Table, AMMI has carried out concrete actions to allow the training agencies of the territory to train intercultural mediators from the emerging communities of migrants without this professional: Sub-Saharan Africa, Horn of Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia), Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China etc.
Training for institutional actors, third sector operators, return migrants and volunteers in Senegal and Ethiopia - PONTI Project, funded by the Ministry of the Interior in partnership with CIES.
In collaboration with local institutions, AMMI has made upgrade courses for intercultural mediators (INPS, Molinette Hospital, Passpartout Municipality of Turin, nurses training in the Emergency Unit).
AMMI contributed to the foundation of the GOMIV association which promotes voluntary activities within the Italian Civil Protection by making the figure of the intercultural mediator available when managing emergencies and natural disasters, with the specific role of facilitating communications in multicultural contexts (during the work of the Italian Civil Protection).
This year AMMI is an Information Point of the Regional Network against Discrimination.
MediaTO - supported by Compagnia di San Paolo, in partnership with IRES, the ASGI Association and the Medical Collaboration Committee (CCM). MediaTO is a network in support of intercultural mediators on the territory through the online website: www.piemonteimmigrazione.it.
RMI Piemonte (Piedmont Intercultural Mediation Network) - a project supported by the Compagnia di San Paolo within the 2014 Social Area Program, sees AMMI as a promoter of a network at the level regional that brings together institutions, bodies and organizations of the third sector and ethnic associations on the territory active in the immigration field with a wide employing of the intercultural mediator figure: http://www.piemonteimmigrazione.it/mediato/i-nostri-progetti/rmi-piemon…
Preparation courses to build large intercultural mediation devices in central areas:
- Intercultural communication
- Interreligious dialogue
- Preparation courses for stakeholders
- Art, culture, tradition (customs, uses, food)
- Contemporary art
Ability to respond to the various challenges that are continually changing
- Challenges on trafficking and the slavery of people
- Health field
- School life challenges.
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