BUCHAREST – A constant name in the world of social cooperation in support of urban poverty, Franco Aloisio is also our reference point for the project in the Romanian capital. Franco arrived in Romania with an Italian NGO at the end of the ‘90s after carrying out various missions around the world, starting his work with the Parada Association – which is set to become an Inter Campus partner – and then moving permanently to Bucharest in 2005.

“Since then a lot of things have changed in the country, which joined the European Union in 2007. Developments but also difficulties. If at the time of the opening of the Inter Campus Bucharest project centre in 2012, thanks to the meeting with President Massimo Moratti and the subsequent contact with the President of the project, Carlotta Moratti, the real problem was children on the street living in underground canals, today, the city is home to a marked divide between the centre, operational and modern, and the suburbs, which have transformed into veritable ghettos where social problems are amplified and where it is increasingly difficult to enter, reach, and help children and families.

Among the goals of Inter Campus Bucharest – in addition to the activities of the original project centre linked to Parada, which involves 42 children in training sessions and tournaments that restore not only the right to play but also and above all the chance to socialise and have fun, reinforcing their self-confidence and sense of identity – is the idea of opening a new project centre in the infamous ghettos… A dream in the pipeline – due to the current health crisis, which has been contained by the immediate and strict lockdown implemented by the government – conceived by PM Christian Valerio together with Franco Aloisio and waiting to get up and running once we return to normality…”