The Mirafiorisìcura project involves the participation of three social cooperatives: Cooperativa Sociale Mirafiori , the project leader, Cooperativa Sociale l’Arcobaleno and Cooperativa Sociale i Passi.

All three cooperatives work in the district of Mirafiori Sud for the prevention of social distress and for the creation of well-being for the weaker groups. The project aims to design, design and activate three proximity services responding to the needs of food, mobility, sociality and cultural entertainment of the citizens of the district.

A challenge that puts the community at the center, offering opportunities for participation and meeting able to value its resources by promoting solidarity and sense of care for their neighborhood.

Three proximity services to citizenship have been developed, such as:

• MiraBike service: a popular Cyclofficina to promote the use of bicycles between adults and children by offering citizens an effective and rooted assistance service;
• MiraSocial service: creation of a social oven available to citizens;
• MiraCulture service: a “cultural” bar, able to combine culture, entertainment and art in its aggregative offer.

The Cooperative is committed to promoting to the inhabitants of the neighborhood, the services proposed to make them increasingly accessible to all. The design of each service is in fact the result of a collaborative approach with well-defined target groups, the activation of events and laboratories aimed at workshops aimed at promoting the mobility of cycling home-school and home-work and through the realization of events for young people in the neighborhood.

In recent months, guidance and training courses have also been set up for the young citizens of the neighbourhood who have provided them with basic knowledge on specific issues such as: the profession of bartender, bread making, industrial cleaning, security and financial education.

At the end of the training course, three students were placed in training placements at the structures of the reality with which the cooperative collaborates in Turin.

Covid 19 impacted negatively on the project with a sharp halt in the spring and a hiccup restart. Despite this, Mirafiorisìcura managed to start and activate these services and ensure that they were a proactive presence in the neighborhood, at such a difficult time.

“For the future, we hope that these collaborations will become fixed and ongoing within the services and that the services themselves will become the drivers for the culture of well-being and sociality within the neighborhood, In short, to do what cooperatives have been doing for years, that is, to promote the participation and the development of the community.”says Massimiliano Giannelli (Miracultura service).

Watch the new video of the project to learn more.

Progetto Abito is part of the 15 generative welfare projects of Torino Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-funded by the National Metropolitan City Operational Program and the European Union, European Social Fund, made as part of Torino Social Impact.

For more information on the Torino Social Factory program and the other 14 projects that are part of it go to this link.