Via Matteo Dominici 18
90146 Palermo PA
Italy
- Environment/Sustainable development
ComeUnaMarea Onlus is a non-profit cultural association born in Palermo in 2005 that pursues purposes of social utility, implementing eco-compatible development models and social equity.
Our work, in the initial phase, had the cultural promotion as its objective (our first projects were supported by the Cultural Heritage Department of the Sicilian Region). Over the years, the association expanded its activity areas including Human Rights, social sustainability, environmental protection, non-formal education.
The expansion has produced other ways of collaborating (primary and secondary schools, universities, third sector entities, companies) and reaching new goals with different and increasingly prestigious interlocutors, especially international ones.
Our activity mainly consists in carrying forward an active and participatory citizenship.
People must become responsible for their own decisions, aware of their own value and rights and duties and of their own passions and needs as individuals.
To facilitate and support this participatory cultural growth, particular attention is paid to the involvement of young people.
We dedicate specific efforts to children to help them in their intellectual growth, alongside and supporting schools with non-formal and informal education projects on cultural and environmental issues. At the same time, our work cannot take place without interacting with and with the family.
LEGAL EDUCATION
Our commitment to education on legality combines a daily work of widespread education in the area with participation in demonstrations against the Mafia and with the implementation of active citizenship education activities.
A commitment whose recognition was such as to allow our association to move its new headquarters to a confiscated property assigned to us for this purpose.
INTEGRATION
In contrast to gender-based violence, we lead awareness-raising initiatives, combining different skills and different interlocutors (Schools, Public Administrations, NGOs, realities in the health sector and universities).
We are founding members and implementers of the COMMUNITY OF RESPECT project, an initiative which, in synergy with similar Italian and foreign realities aims to carry forward the concept of respect in a broad sense, both towards the individual and towards the environment, coining it through different themes and perspectives.
SUSTAINABILITY
In addition to our participation in the European Week for Sustainable Development promoted by UNESCO and the EWWW European Week for Waste Reduction, we support initiatives aimed at environmental, ecological and social sustainability.
In support of environmental sustainability we have carried out circular economy projects related to the recovery of textile waste and the reinvention of products starting from waste material, in order to promote the durability of clothing and accessories and the awareness of the polluting impact on the part of the participants of the fashion sector (Project RinF, Recycle in Fashion).
SHARING ECONOMY
One of the activities we are most proud of is our BANK OF TIME, born in Palermo in 2010.
It is an initiative that looks at social issues through a reciprocity project. A sort of society on the move in which the skills and competences of the individual are measured in terms of time "to be shared" and "shared".
The Time Bank is not a voluntary project, even if its members are all volunteers, but an indirect reciprocity. In fact, through the exchange, doing "something for" we end up "doing something with", that is, it is the relational and convivial aspect that prevails while the functional aspect remains extremely important.