At Ombre e Luci, we have long believed that access to meaningful work is essential for adolescents and adults with intellectual disabilities. We are equally convinced that such work requires careful preparation and some form of support or protection—so that the work itself bears fruit, and confers on the person who does it the dignity of being a worker.
We believe that today's social cooperatives of type B represent a valid response to these fundamental needs.
From this foundation come the two articles that follow.
Social Cooperatives
What they are and what they do. By Antonio Mazzarotto
A Cooperative by the Sea: Piccola Opera Caritas
We visited this small but remarkable enterprise to share its story