Twenty thousand child volunteers in Milan help other children.

BABY VOLUNTEERS MILAN –

It's an extraordinary charge of 20. Twenty thousand children in Milan are involved in a major volunteer project in schools and prisons.The municipality of the Lombard capital has just launched the new edition of "light up! ", a program that illuminates Milan to promote new forms of volunteering among children at schoolLast year, 20 young people from 52 associations and 40 schools took part.

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THE NEW EDITION OF LIGHT UP –

What is it about? The little ones help their peers who are having difficulty doing their homework at school, finding playmates, and getting out of loneliness.Some also participate in a reintegration program for the children of ex-convict mothers recently released from prison. And still others help clean up the city's parks and green spaces. Or they organize musical performances in retirement homes.

Collaboration between children and young people, associations, and schools works very well in a city where volunteering has a long tradition and represents a strength in citizens' active participation in public life. Solidarity, sharing, civic sense: these are things we learn at a young age.. And “Light Up!” is the right project to try.

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