The new municipal greenhouse for the disabled is growing, acquiring new spaces for gardening activities. This was announced by Public Works Commissioner Alessandro Villarini at the City Council in response to a question from LiberaIlFuturo. The expansion is part of a project called “Happy Gardens”: “It is a social rehabilitation project – as the commissioner says – being implemented in the greenhouse for which we received a request to increase the areas in which it will be used. Agricultural activities. The request was gladly accepted and approved with the grant of a new plot of land. owned by the municipality.

“This is land that will be operated for greenhouse farming activities by equipping it with a fence and a new irrigation system. The interventions, costing 9,000 euros, will start in the first months of 2022,” explains Villarini. The municipal greenhouse, an important social and welfare service located in the former Draga district a few steps from the Tiber, has been granted a concession from the municipality to Usl Umbria 1. The guests, all young people from the Arcobaleno Center who work for them in agriculture, rehabilitation and socialization job, are made Supported by educators and volunteers. The new greenhouse was handed over to ASL and the associations in October 2020. Activities began in May 2021. “The results achieved by the service in these first months and the complete satisfaction of the subjects involved – concluded Villarini – ensured that” the management encourages and supports the project, as well as to involve more people People with disabilities at work and in different tracks.

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