The online magazine ‘Nuovi Sestesi’. CESPI, an Italian NGO, has created an online platform, where the citizens of Sesto, Italy – young Italians and foreigners – can submit articles on local problems, events, community, etc. This way they can share their opinion and open the dialogue every day, using the web as a tool to get closer and to get to know people they live with.


 

Every young person who wants to become an e-volunteer has got an opportunity to take part in training on online journalism prepared by CESPI. After the training, volunteer-to-be starts a weekly lab, where he or she learns how to write collectively and how to publish self-written articles. With that knowledge they are able to start their own blog on the CESPI website and make the world around them a better place!

Who are the e-volunteers?

As already outlined, e-volunteers are young people coming both from Italy and from foreign countries, including Algeria, Morocco, Syria, Poland, Romania, Mauritius. Many of them are members of international organizations and travel frequently in conflict areas around the world.

Whom do they address their  activity to? Who is the recipient?

“Nuovi Sestesi” targets a wide audience: the students of Sesto (secondary education and university), the Italian citizens more broadly, the people that usually contact CESPI and share/support its activities and a network of catholic and non religious associations that are partners of CESPI.

 

Name of organisation: CESPI Centro Studi Problemi Internazionali

Project title: Nobody is a stranger in my neighbourhood. Online dialogues Beyond the borders

Project website:http://www.cespi-ong.org/category/nuovi-sestesi/page/2/