The urban garden “S.Caterina” was born as an excuse for gathering people and make them aware of the work of La Cometa ONLUS. The organisation work with distance adoptions and fights against poverty in Africa, Asia and South America, the garden was thought as a means of funding the activities of the organisation.
Each gardener become a member of La Cometa and he pays a fee of 200€ per year, the 90% of this amount is given to the activities of La Cometa.
Thanks to the existence of the garden, the contribution has a concrete return for each person involved in the experience. Moreover it promotes socialization among the gardeners, indeed the fee paid is not only a charity action but it’s part of something bigger, like a community if person.
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Aplicación
Evaluación
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To have a urban garden and at the same time helping someone poorer than you.
The clime of sociability among the gardeners.
The economical support to the La Cometa activities.
The growing interest for the situation of people far from us and poorer.
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The fact that the gardeners are not active members of the La Cometa, it means that most of us stands outside of the work of the organization and they are not deeply involved. Sometimes feelings of only economical support, pure charity.
Consejos
Aims
The practice of funding cooperation activities in other countries can be considered as a joint production of useful things: for the gardeners because they can have a garden and at the same time they help people far from them and in difficulties, for the organization because the fee gives resources and concrete help to its work and for the nuns because, probably, it helps them to have a less isolated life and they can promote the La Cometa’s activities
Outcomes
The economical results of S. Caterina Garden and La Cometa is not so transferable because it implies that the owner of the land is not interested in a direct valorization or personal profit. Even so, maybe in some context the model can be replied: for example a public administration that decides to rent plots for gardening to citizens and in exchange of a fee, it can give economical support to families in difficulties.
