The year 2024 was very busy, considering the fact that the Laviosa Foundation, consolidated its structure with legal recognition as an ETS ( Third Sector Entity), officially registered with the RUNTS

The projects that animated 2024, subscribed to the Foundation’s statutory mission in the areas of WORK, TRAINING, INCLUSION.

Continued membership in the non-profit “Talent at Work” Foundation by supporting for the third year a scholarship for a young student of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna at the Faculty of Engineering. https://www.iltalentoallopera.it/

Second year of the three-year agreement signed with the Arpa Foundation of Pisa, in which we sponsored residencies in Pisa training Peruvian and Pakistani doctors in the cancer surgery department. https://fondazionearpa.it/

With Tuscan Cancer Association, we funded a nurse’s fellowship to provide medical care at the homes of elderly cancer patients who are not self-sufficient. https://associazionetumoritoscana.it/

Two civic education projects dedicated to Livorno schools ( primary and secondary), the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians School Pole and the Borsi and Benci schools, respectively, dedicated to Don Milani’s inclusive school and biographical memory, with the book “Breadcrumbs.”

In the area of inclusion, we tripled the number of summer dinghy outings with the Assonautica association compared to last year, taking children from 3 associations on an excursion to explore the Labronica coast: Thisintegra and Eppur si muove ( disability) and Associazione Progetto Strada (socio-economic and cultural disadvantage)

In Sardinia, where one of our offices is located, we supported the Villaspeciosa Sports Association to provide outfits for children involved in the soccer team and enable them to be able to participate in the championship.

Summer activities promoted to support working families during the school break and to support children with educational initiatives were: the summer sailing school at the Livorno Sailing Club and an ecological week, within the framework of the now historic “Nature Camp” at Laviosa Farm, with the involvement of economically disadvantaged children from the Progetto Strada Association.

The Foundation sponsored 13 language training scholarships for young teenage students from France, Turkey, Italy allowing them to spend two weeks at Twin College London hosted by native families and have their first immersive English language experience in a city full of opportunities.

In collaboration with the Trossi Uberti Foundation of Livorno, the Laviosa Foundation supported the sewing project for foreign women and awarded 1,000 to a young under-35, 16-year-old novice sculptor as part of the 2024 edition of the Rotunda Prize 2024, Europe’s longest-running art prize.

The Foundation supported the artistic training of two tenors belonging to the Monterotondo Chapel Association and won a call for social work issued by the Livorno Foundation, with the project Livorno.in. waiting in which an exhibition and guide of significant people and places in the city was created. The users of the project were former drug addicts in rehabilitation at a day care center.

Together with the University of Pisa and the Port Authority, it took part in the 2024 edition of the ROBOTICS FESTIVAL, funding an exhibition to visually interconnect artificial intelligence and the world of work.

Finally, the Foundation, within the activities he has been carrying out for years for prison realities, funded: a choir course for prisoners and civilians, who performed together on Gorgona Island in a concert open to the public, creating the Liberamente Coro; the second edition of the Gorgona Camp which gave 15 Livorno students the opportunity to have an immersive experience on the prison island and to work with inmates on the redevelopment of the island’s school and interview area and on a creative writing course aimed at an upcoming publication; l‘purchase of a printing machine on fabric to give inmates the opportunity to produce graphic materials, and finally, the gift of copies of the book “Raebenson’s Syndrome” for a writing and visual arts competition for inmates of the Livorno and Rimini prisons, entitled Free books.

A very busy and emotionally charged year that saw the Laviosa family and President Giovanni Laviosa (Cavaliere del Lavoro) at the forefront of supporting activities that promote well-being and good practices in the area.