The social development and preservation of the Italian artistic heritage have always been a key priority for the OTB Group and its founder Renzo Rosso, who, through the OTB Foundation, enhance the cultural heritage of our country and support the most fragile with social-oriented projects. These convictions led, on September 7, to the inauguration of a fully restored Rialto bridge.
The financial support granted by OTB to Venice has involved an investment of 5 million euros, and the OTB Group has directly followed the process of restoration, which began in 2014, supporting the experts of the City of Venice and the workers to obtain the best result. Thanks to the excellent collaboration between the public and private sectors, the works ended six months earlier than expected allowing, thanks to the careful management of the budget, also the restoration of the paving of the Rialto galleries
The restoration has seen the involvement of more than 130 people among restorers, workers, and technicians who, in about 80,000 hours of work and thanks to the installation of 5,500 square meters of scaffolding, have brought back to their ancient splendor a total area of 5 thousand square meters.
OTB Foundation immediately takes action to support UNHCR, which has chosen to stay in Afghanistan to keep providing humanitarian assistance to the civilian population that has lost everything escaping: emergency housing, direct economic support, sanitation, and health kits are necessary, as well as life-saving goods.
Thanks to the significant donation received from our Foundation, UNHCR will ensure that more than 300 families can have first-aid accommodation finding themselves safe, under the protection of the UN Refugee Agency. Considering an average of 5 people per family, over 1,500 people will have a place to sleep and be with their loved ones.
The commitment of the OTB Foundation continues: We won’t allow them to be invisible again #Saveafghanlives
The brave ladies, who drove the “pink shuttles” in Kabul – women-driven buses used to transport other women that would not be allowed to travel and move in cars with men – have now been welcomed in Italy.
Girls who, when the political emergency made things harder, organized – again thanks to the shuttles they had learned to drive – a social service for those who were more in need.
OTB Foundation is now willing to not give up these women and their children but to make them the protagonists of integration projects that can guarantee them a future
Thanks also to the collaboration with the local authorities, OTB Foundation supports several “Empori Solidali” (‘solidarity emporiums’), such as the Corte del Forner in Venice and the Casa dell’Ospitalità in Mestre.
The Foundation is now committing to open two new emporiums in the province of Vicenza, with the ambition to extend the intervention to other regions of Italy in the future, and the idea of opening OTB Foundation solidarity stores. These emporiums are multifunctional spaces that provide the distribution of basic necessities organized as a real supermarket, within which the beneficiaries can find free food and other products. There is a reception area where beneficiaries are followed by professionals and addressed, according to needs, to the various competent offices in the territory with the ultimate aim to facilitate their reintegration in society through a multi-faceted support.
For the second year in a row, the Gardaland amusement park and the OTB Foundation join forces to give a day of delight to some of the Foundation’s little friends
Thanks also to Melissa Satta, the creator of the idea, 140 guests of associations supported by the OTB Foundation joined the initiative and enjoyed all the magical attractions that the park can offer. Admission will continue in the coming weeks!
In the Covid-19 emergency, OTB Foundation donated almost one million units of PPE and specialized equipment to hospitals, homes for the elderly and associations of various kinds, throughout Italy. OTB Foundation supported the conversion work of hospital wards into Covid areas, and incurred the costs born by asymptomatic positives during their fiduciary isolation outside of home. It has also supplied basic food and pharmaceuticals to many families facing serious economic problems. And finally, with the continued closure of schools, it provided technical support to distance learning, donating hundreds of tablets to several educational institutions in the country. The Foundation has also supported the redevelopment of the largest local anti-Covid vaccine center in the area of Bassano del Grappa (VI), with 14 active stations for a potential catchment area of about 120,000 people. Thanks to the proven collaboration between the ULSS 7 Pedemontana, OTB Foundation and the Pengo Company, the building in just 10 working days has been restored and opened on 13 May.
BYE BULLY, l’iniziativa creata due anni fa per sensibilizzare i giovani contro bullismo, cyberbullismo e violenza di genere, non si ferma ma passa dal web. Attraverso webinar online la Fondazione racconta ad adolescenti, genitori ed educatori come si evolvono queste problematiche sociali ai tempi dei Covid-19. Il progetto – reso possibile grazie alla collaborazione con FARE X BENE Onlus – si è sviluppato in una serie di incontri online nella forma di webinar. Tutti gli incontri vedono la partecipazione di ospiti esperti e amici della Fondazione, che condividono la loro esperienza professionale e consigli utili su come riconoscere i segnali
From the long-standing collaboration between OTB Foundation and San Patrignano, and part of the prevention project Wefree, a new tool is born to reach young students all over Italy. It is a documentary that aims to prevent addictions and to give continuity to the Wefree project even in the time of Covid. “#Chiaroscuro, a reportage on the struggle to grow” is a film in which three boys, who have completed their recovery in the community and have re-entered society, tell their story, their mistakes, the exhaustion of getting up and the joy of a rediscovered life
