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Community Centers
for Afterschool Activities

Since its founding, ASAI has offered educational programs in synergy with schools and local stakeholders to promote the well-being of children, adolescents, and their families. Our community centers are located in different neighborhoods of the city and are attended by hundreds of minors, adults, and volunteers each day.

Our locations in San Salvario, Porta Palazzo-Aurora, and the Barriera di Milano are spaces for socialization and youth participation, where ASAI volunteers and staff from the Terremondo Cooperative contribute daily.

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The community centers provide:

  • individual or small group educational support activities for the development and remediation of gaps in different materials in the curriculum, in coordination with the relevant teachers in local schools
  • artistic, educational, and athletic workshops and entertainment
  • L2 Italian courses for adults and minors
  • personalized guidance for educational tracks: periodic monitoring, high school and post-graduation guidance in collaboration with the ASAI Employment Center, support for end-of-school term papers
  • local events: festivals that support and engage local communities, joint planning of initiatives, street fairs

People from restorative justice and MAP (“messa alla prova” or probation) programs, university interns, and School-to-Work students also actively participate in our community centers.

Our neighborhood centers

Via Sant’Anselmo 27/E
San Salvario
District 8

The association’s oldest community center is based in the heart of San Salvario, and has gone through several changes throughout its history.

Since the mid-1990s, it has been a constant forum for meeting and creating relations between new and existing citizens and between generations, and it provides a concrete opportunity to participate in local community life.

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The main activities include: Italian language classes for minors and adults, after-school programs for elementary, middle, and high school students, workshops in self-expression and music, capoeira, choir, entertainment of the pedestrian section of via Lombroso, and community engagement initiatives.

The center is open from Monday to Saturday, depending on the times of the various activities.

  • Elementary School After-school
    Saturdays 9:00-12:30 in Via Sant’Anselmo
  • Middle School After-school
    Tuesdays and Fridays 15:00-18:00
  • High School After-school
    Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 15:00-19:00

Contacts: 011 657114 – info@asai.it

Via Genè 12
Aurora
District 7

The community center is a short walk from the famous Porta Palazzo market, a symbol of the multiculturality of Turin’s Aurora district.

Since 2011, the “Cantiere Educativa” project has been active on the premises made available by the Municipality next to the I.C. Regio Parco, in collaboration with private and public bodies, including Social Services, District 7, schools, and local neighborhood associations and cooperatives.

There is an ongoing collaboration with the Italian-Chinese association Zhi Song, the Uniti per Crescere Insieme foundation, and the Afaq and Mondi in Città associations.

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In addition to elementary, middle, and high school after-school programs, Via Genè hosts Italian courses, theater courses for adults and adolescents, youth groups, reading groups, and the community library. The library named Tra le Righe (Between the Lines) was established in 2022 as an initiative by our volunteers.

Every year, at the beginning of June, the community center takes to the streets for a big party open to the city, organized and managed by the youths and adults who frequent Via Genè.

  • Elementary School After-school
    Wednesdays and Thursdays 16:30 – 18:30, Saturdays 9:30-12:00
  • Middle School After-school
    Mondays and Tuesdays 15:00-18:00, Fridays 14:30-18:00
  • High School After-school
    Tuesdays and Thursdays 15:00-18:00
  • Tra le Righe (Between the lines) Community Library
    Every afternoon from 15:00 to 18:00

Contacts – viagene@asai.it

Via Pinerolo 10
Aurora
District 7

Since 2020, the Via Pinerolo community center has been located on the border between the Aurora and Barriera di Milano neighborhoods. Right from the start it became a gathering space for dozens of teenagers, families, volunteers, and neighborhood citizens.

After-school activities with middle and high schoolers bring the afternoons at the headquarters to life, from homework assistance and workshops to area events held in cooperation with various local associations.

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The large courtyard also hosts RadioLinea4’s “little house.” The community internet radio was created and is supported by ASAI, and it hosts moments of discussion, exchange, and musical experimentation.

  • Middle School After-school
    Tuesdays 15:00-18:00, Fridays 15:00-18:00
  • High School After-school
    Mondays 15:00-19:00, Thursdays 15:00-19:00

Contacts – barriera@asai.it

Project
Youth Center

Intercultural Centerof the City of Turin
Corso Taranto 160, Barriera di Milano
Disctrict 6

Since 2009, ASAI has collaborated with the Intercultural Center to develop projects that foster youth participation through an inclusive approach.

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Educational support and entertainment activities for adolescents are offered alongside activities for children and their families, as well as a program for intercultural facilitators that has become a recognized tool for social workers in training. In addition, there are cultural events open to the local area and the city.

  • High School After-school
    Project Youth Center
    Tuesdays and Thursdays 15:30-19:30
  • Elementary Workshops
    Project Bimbi al Centro (Children in the Center)
    Saturdays 15.00-18.30

Contacts – valeria.sainato@asai.it

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