AMECE: (Association Maison d’Enfant pour la Culture et l’Education) is a social promotion NGO based since 2000 in Turin; its activities aim to understand and address the needs of children, teenagers and young adults with migrant background, most of them originally from north African countries. The organization seeks to foster the growth and education of the new generations, starting from their extracurricular and social education. In particular, AMECE works in order to raise awareness in migrant families about their children needs, offer targeted action in school support, promote opportunities for discussion and intergenerational dialogue and push for intercultural social education in the local community. In particular, AMECE has triggered a series of interventions supporting families and school administrations that aim towards the integration and socialization of all minors including those to be seemed “at risk”. The focus on intercultural education and migrants integration is carried out by offering a range of activities such as individual homework help, targeted training opportunities, cultural mediation, guidance, sport activities and linguistic support through Italian, English, French and Arabic courses. In addition, AMECE organizes intercultural events and summer camps targeting local and migrant communities; it is also a facilitator with consular services. Its activities are carried out thanks to a networking inclusive approach with public and private bodies working at a local level, AMECE being involved in a series of roundtables and projects both in the city districts in which it operates and at a national level through CoNNGI (New Italian Generations National Coordination).

We have 20 years’ experience in educational activities targeting second generations, young migrants, asylum seekers and refugees mainly from 6 to 18 years old but also over. Aiming to support families and school’s formative role, its activities are carried out through both formal and non-formal educational methods. In particular, always in an inclusive approach, given the importance of the linguistic learning for the migrant and religious identities and for the local and international labour market, AMECE organizes yearly and in the summer period linguistic courses in French, English, Italian and Arabic.