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The meaning of foster care: the story of Oriana and Enzo How did you get started in foster care? I am Oriana. My husband Enzo and I decided to become a foster family a few years ago. For us, fostering is welcoming, caring and giving. Our first experience of fostering was done in collaboration with […]

Roberta, what is one your experience within MetaCometa? I am an educator and for about two years I have been working within the MetaCometa Association in one of the foster homes aimed at hosting fragile single-parent households sent by the social services of the territory. What I have certainly learned from my experience so far

“Be with the boys, prevent sin with reason, religion and lovingkindness. Become saints, educators of saints. Let our boys realize that they are loved,” so said Don Bosco to his first collaborators, who over time became the great Salesian Family which aims at the salvation of youth, combating all poverty and making its own the

I continue to look with such admiration at our MetaCometa families, whose ability to provide their time, their hearts, their homes, in short, the putting everything on the line, to give serenity, love and a safe place for a stretch of life to those children who need it, has always fascinated me. Why do they

“It doesn’t matter how much you give but how much love you put into giving.” In this phrase from Mother Teresa of Calcutta is the whole meaning of giving to others: a deep feeling that enriches our lives because it creates more intimate and meaningful connections with the people around us. When we decide to

If you want to draw your furrow straight attach your plow to a star A well-known African proverb says, “If you want to draw your furrow straight, attach your plow to a star.” Farmers know well that to go straight in plowing a field, one must have a precise point of reference toward which to

The assembly of any association is always a delicate time, which has to fulfill bureaucratic principles laid down in statutes and regulations, but especially for the vitality of the association it can be a time for reflection and revitalization of activities. In MetaCometa over the past year we have been striving to make this second