Social housing community named Filo Continuo located at Corso Mortara, former

factory land of Turin, today is a spacious residential area. It is a symbol of

transformation of Turin, from city of industry to the city of knowledge. The project Filo
Continuo and it’s activities open up a lot of questions linked to the better understanding
of different social movements within Italian society. How to deal with big skills gap, high
unemployment rate or conflicts caused by cultural differences?
ACMOS plays a crucial role in this community through its volunteers, who’s mission is to
enhance life quality through social activities, study groups, guidance and support in
various ways. Aim is to promote living diversity and empathy as core values. The project
leader Isabella Spezzano shared a couple of words on what the project initiatives are,
as well as the challenges they are facing at the moment. Living in 4 apartments spread
across the residential area, ACMOS’s volunteers dedicate minimum of 10 hours per
week to organize and coordinate various events, social gatherings or to support the
ones in need. According to Isabella, people that receive the most support are elderly,
families with small kids or babies and unemployed manual labour workers. With this
project, ACMOS aims to act as advisory and point of reference for all kind of social
assistance questions, procedures and forms linked to pensions, employment bureau
procedures, rights and obligations. I believe that the projects’ value for Italian society is
truly enormous, as it focuses towards lowering the tensions caused by different social,
economic and cultural realities present in Turin. If we dream about living in society of
equal rights for all, mutual respect, understanding and empathy, I believe initiatives as
such open the door for many other conversations on similar topic proving that
engagement of such kind is truly needed and should grow in engaging more volunteers
as change agents and active citizens of this society.