Assistance and inclusion for frail children, discounts on the bill and a widespread culture that arrives in the suburbs by cycling. These are the three fronts on which the Municipality of Bra and the Egea Group team up for the world of education. The “aid package” of 75 thousand euros from the multiutility of Alba for the city’s schools was presented yesterday, which includes three items: an annual contribution of 20 thousand euros for 2022, 2023 and 2024 for autonomy school, 15 thousand euros of “bonus” on heating buildings and an e-bike as a gift to the civic library to promote reading among children by bringing the books home in the neighborhoods of the city.
«The Egea Group demonstrates a great sensitivity towards the school – said the mayor of Bra, Gianni Fogliato -. Despite the difficulties caused by the pandemic and now aggravated by the high bills, the administration confirmed also for this year all the services for families with unchanged prices and concessions. The will is to move forward in this direction, but times are not easy. Suffice it to say that from 2013 to 2022 alone the investment in self-help assistance, today dedicated to about 80 pupils with special needs, has increased by 300 thousand euros. We have never backed down and these contributions are very precious today ».
Assistance to autonomy in kindergartens, primary and middle schools in Bra is one of the cornerstones of the agreement signed yesterday by the mayor and the chairman of the Egea supervisory board, Giuseppe Rossetto, alongside the chairman of the management board, PierPaolo Carini. “The figure of the assistant to autonomy represents an added value for the pupil, the family and the school and supporting integration and teaching is fundamental to guarantee the permanence of all in the complete school timetable” specified the managers of the Institutes including Bra 1 and Bra 2, Claudia Camagna and Patrizia Donato La Vitola.
And if Egea’s intervention on the district heating bills of city institutions in the first two months of 2022 will relieve the Municipality of a task made more onerous by the increase in the cost of energy on the international markets, the gift of an electric pedal assisted bicycle is the most original contribution of the operation. Equipped with a mobile box designed and built by the students of the Salesian Cnos-Fap in Bra capable of holding up to 40 books, the bike will reach the most difficult contexts and the peripheral areas of the city. to bring stories and imagination to outdoor public spaces, thanks to a traveling project by Born to Read.
“The contribution to the Braidese institutes – said Rossetto – is part of a three-year course that has already involved the schools of Alba and which will allow better programming of student support, with a view to equality” at the starting blocks “which guarantees equal access to opportunities “.