Attendiamoci · ODV ETS

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With a regular donation to Attendiamoci you make it possible for us to carry through our work with young people, and to fight organised crime by building something better in its place.

About us
Attendiamoci at work
3 Active projects
7 Seized properties in our care
25+ Years of work
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What you make possible
with a donation

You make it possible

running programmes that help young people grow, before things go wrong

You make it possible

keeping the creative workshops running, where young people learn to work with their hands, and paying for the training that goes with them

You make it possible

restoring and equipping property seized from the mafia, so a community can live in it

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All donations are tax deductible under the Italian Third Sector Code.

Training project Project 01
Training

You make it possible to run programmes that help young people grow, before things go wrong

Workshops project Project 02
Workshops

You make it possible to keep the creative workshops running, where young people learn to work with their hands

Seized property project Project 03
Seized property

You make it possible to restore and equip property seized from the mafia, so a community can live in it

Before you decide, look at what has already happened

In the summer of 2026 we hosted 40 young people from Jerusalem and the West Bank in three groups. Everything regular donations have made possible, with the photographs, the dates and the names of those who were there.

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1. "Training"

You make it possible to run programmes that help young people grow, before things go wrong

Three things we work on before they become problems: for a life without direction, we teach what it is for; for a will that never gets exercised, how to choose and stand by it; for relationships that don't hold, how to build them.

Learning-to-learn camp

A residential week built so that learning happens through experience, giving young people back a "theory of mind" they can actually study with.

After-school orientation camp

A residential experience with decision making workshops, building skills that hold up at every fork in the road, not just this one.

WWW — Weekend Workshops for Wisdom

At the Bet Midrash, weekends for small groups where young adults learn to run their own lives, guided by peers only a few years older.

Your regular donation makes it possible to:

  • Run every programme young people need in order to grow
  • Make sure no one is left out of a camp because of money
  • Help cover what the WWW weekends cost
2. "Workshops"

You make it possible to keep the creative workshops running, where young people learn to work with their hands

Alongside thinking and making art, Attendiamoci gives young people the chance to build practical skills. Knowing how to do things with your hands teaches something no classroom does — and today's young people get fewer chances to learn it.

Print and graphics workshop

"Maria Rosaria Marcianò" Print and Graphics Workshop

A digital print shop making custom items through sublimation, direct printing and modelling.

Food research workshop

Food Research and Development Workshop

Drinks, confectionery and foods built on the flavours of this part of Italy.

Carpentry workshop

Carpentry Workshop

Making things from wood, and giving discarded objects a second use — designing within what a circular economy allows.

With your regular donation you make it possible to:

  • Buy the machines and tools the workshops need
  • Keep the spaces maintained
  • Run the courses where those practical skills are learned
3. "Seized property"

You make it possible to restore and equip property seized from the mafia, so a community can live in it

Attendiamoci runs a network of properties seized from organised crime, using them for work with young people who grew up where the mafia still decides a great deal.

Villaggio dei giovani

Villaggio dei Giovani

A residential centre for continuous, whole-person education. Reggio Calabria

Bet Midrash

Bet Midrash

A house for seeking wisdom, through residential paths shaped around each person. Reggio Calabria

Via Massena 4

Via Massena 4

A base in Milan for young people from areas where the mafia runs deep. Milan

Arca e Grotta

Arca e Grotta

Residential space for young people in the heart of the Aspromonte. Gambarie (RC)

La Scala

La Scala

A flat in a medieval Tuscan village, for slow life and thinking. Radda in Chianti (SI)

Officine 24

Officine 24

A co-working space that also experiments with collaborative co-living. Motta San Giovanni (RC)

With your regular donation you make it possible to:

  • Restore the properties in our care, and make them beautiful
  • Cover what it costs to run them, day to day and when something breaks
  • Give back to the community places that once served harm
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In case you were wondering

What is a non-profit?

An organisation that makes no profit and puts every resource back into its own mission. Attendiamoci is funded by fundraising, donations, membership fees, public grants and the Italian 5×1000 scheme.

What is Attendiamoci?

An Italian volunteer organisation (ODV ETS) working through peer education and continuous training. It runs property seized from organised crime and turns it into places where young people grow. More at attendiamoci.it.

What is Attendiamoci up against?

Young people struggling, lawlessness, dropping out of school, and the loss of what holds a life together in a digital age. What drives us, at attendiamoci.it/cosaciispira.

How can you help?

With your time, a donation, a charity gift, or your 5×1000. All the ways, at attendiamoci.it/cosapuoifare.

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