FARE INSIEME CHARITY is the spin-off of the FARE
INSIEME project dedicated to the presentation of some onlus and non-profit
associations with roots in the area around Bologna, Ferrara and Modena and that
carry out extraordinarily important and crucial work for the entire community.
Here are some of their stories.
by Lucrezia Lanzani*
There are about eight billion people in the
world and counting. Each one is the result of a physical and mental
evolutionary process that began millions of years ago and is still continuing.
As animals, the main goal of humans is to survive.
"Survival of the fittest", they say. We speak of Social Darwinism
when this 'struggle for survival' applies to the human species, when the
'strongest' should prevail over the 'weakest'. Being selfish beings, humans
thus have as their only instinct to gain the upper hand over everything and
everyone.
In his attempt to describe the State of Nature, Thomas Hobbes takes
us to a reality where man is not yet part of a community, where there are no
real differences between individuals. In practice, this only applies on paper,
since, basically, human beings are social animals: "in order to survive
they need to join a complex community, in which there is cooperation among
equals, and whoever lives outside of it is evil", as Aristotle put it.
Society needs the individual as much as the individual needs society, which
changes and evolves every day. To facilitate this metamorphosis, codes of
conduct are imposed on us to create a 'better' world, but the reality is that
one person alone cannot change anything. That is why we go in search of groups,
with which to emerge and do what we can to achieve better conditions and reach
our goals, always together.
This is what I want to tell you about, groups of
people who devote their lives to caring for others. In an ongoing struggle to
combat situations of difficulty and hardship. Their stories, their reasons.
Onlus organisations have deep roots in the Bologna, Modena and Ferrara area.
FARE Insieme Charity, the spin-off of the 'FARE Insieme' project, is not just a
podcast about non-profit organisations. It is about all of us, about what we
are driven to do for change, about the important work we do for the love of our
territory. I want to tell stories about groups of people and the good they do
for the whole community. Because alone you can save no one, not even yourself.
*Lucrezia
Lanzani is a student at the Steam Emilia High School. She is sixteen years old
and has always been interested in social issues. She has been volunteering for
three years in different organisations in her community.
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