For the last 65 years la Fondazione La Stampa – Specchio dei tempi has always worked in order to concretely help those in need. The Foundation, born from a column of La Stampa, has always intervened in different areas such as poverty, the elderly, education, healthcare and natural disasters. The ability of Specchio dei tempi to immediately take action is its major strength. In Italy we are in the middle of an emergency due to the Covid-19 that is rapidly spreading throughout the territory. Specchio dei tempi is present with a subscription to help our hospitals and our schools in this delicate time.
Last week we’ve took action with the “Safe kids” project, where we, together with Reale Foundation donated free sanitizing kits to the schools that requested them. Over than 100 primary and secondary schools (inside and outside Turin) have joined our initiative. The first kits have already been delivered with the help of La Cooperativa Crescere 1979. The next ones are scheduled to be sent out this week depending on the supplies, which have become very hard to find.
Today the project “Long-distance teaching” #stayinschool, was launched in collaboration with the Agnelli Foundation, Reale Mutua and La Stampa. The program offers the schools the possibility to freely access an online platform for e-learning, by Schoolr.
This gives the teachers the opportunity to conduct their lessons and the students not to miss out on school. The program also gives the possibility to have up to 100 hours of personalized tutoring classes that can be dedicated to help those students that have major difficulties. This platform is open to all schools and teachers, putting them in direct contact with their students.
When it comes to healthcare, together with Reale Mutua, we’ve decided to provide the Amedeo di Savoia Hospital in Turin, with avantgarde machineries from the United States. This will help them to accelerate the testing procedures and give out results in a fast a secure way.
All of our strengths go to the intensive care units. Specchio dei tempi is donating professional equipments to the Molinette, such as: lung ventilators, monitoring systems, multi-parameters modules, trays and furniture. Specchio dei tempi is giving € 100.000, on top of the incoming donations.
The president of the Foundation, Lodovico Passerin d’Entreves has explained that “we have always been used to take action in case of natural disasters, and this has to be considered a sanitary disasters. This is why we need to support our citizens and the ill by intervening to help the hospitals and the emergency structures. We also feel that it is important to help the schools, because they will have the task to bring the children’s lives back to normality, within all the security measures”.
You can all be part of this project and help by securely donating online in favor of “Coronavirus Emergency – Fund 112”. You can also donate by credit card on our website www.specchiodeitempi.
Follow our website and social media pages (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter), for daily updates on the progress the subscription, together with all of our activities that can help to obstruct Covid-19.
