ONDS
National Observatory on poverty and solidarity
in the italian railway stations
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Osservatorio Nazionale sul Disagio e la Solidarietà
nelle stazioni italiane
Homelessness in public and private spaces: The Stations
Sta$on Stories Alessandro Radicchi ONDS Director, Italy Università Bocconi di Milano 08.10.2014 a project by
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this is a station
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…and this is a station
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This man is a problem
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This man is a problem for
§  The railway company
Image, smell, platforms used as a toilet
→ Remove
§  Security and Police
Illegal activities
→ Arrest
§  Local Authorities
Social Inclusion
→ Re-orient
§  Passengers
A hitch
→ Step over
§  Himself
Antonio
What to do with my life?
→ Survive !
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why homeless people
choose stations?
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homeless view
common view
Pickpocketing
Threat
Dirty
Unsafe
A dangerous gang
«He’s always there… useless social services!»
Source of money
Shelter
Clean
Safe
A community
History repeating: Home Habits
The station
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Good Place but not Right Place
Homeless people choose stations
because in there they find
something that is missing
in the society
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A possible solution
Railway
Companies
Local
Authorities
Users
3rd sector
station
community
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Networks
The HUB solution
Private Sector Funding
Railway
Companies
Charity and
Stations
Stakeholders
Voluntary Ass.
Citizens
Local
Authorities
Users
station
community
3rd sector
Sanitary
Service
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The National Help Center Network
similar places,
different services,
same strategies.
Rapporto annuale
Formazione
National Observatory on poverty and solidarity
in the Italian railway stations
Osservatorio Nazionale sul Disagio e la Solidarietà
nelle stazioni Italiane
seminari
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Different Kind of Antonio
1994 Bucarest,
Olga Ramic
Teacher
20 years
2014 Psichiatric Homeless
At Central Station Milan
2001 Messina,
Nino Cutillo
Knife grinder
11 years
2012 Homeless at
Roma Termini Station,
Lost his wife, his work
and became blind
2009 Asmara,
Ibrahim Maher
Medicin PHD candidate
4 years
2013 Refugee
at Catania Station,
Street Clown to survive
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In 2013 in the ONDS network
25.110 different homeless people
asked for help 215.730 times
Every day
725 action of help
79 different people registred
whereof 39 new people (49%)
77% men e 13% women
27% italian e 73% immigrants
(47% of immigrants are not EU citizens)
22% aged 18-29
27% aged 30-39
26% aged 40-49
16% aged 50-59
9% over 60
REPORT 2013
How many «Antonio»
in the italian stations?
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More than 100.000 people regsitred
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What happened to our friends?
Olga
Ibrahim
Nino
Help Center through the embassy got
in contact with her brother.
He is coming next month to bring her
back to Bucarest
After the Help Center helped him to
make a work assessment Ibrahim, is
now working as medical and Cultural
Mediator in the Caritas NGO of
Catania.
Nino was convinced by the Help
Center operator to be hosted in the
Mother Teresa Center in Rome. He
spent his last 2 years in dignity and
died last month surrounded by love.
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And what about Antonio?
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I am sorry, he is still there…
“You shall be free indeed when your
days are not without a care nor your
nights without a want and a grief,
But rather when these things girdle
your life and yet you rise above them
naked and unbound.”
Gibran Kahlil Gibran
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“Sarete liberi, infatti,
non quando i vostri giorni saranno privi
di ansie e le notti senza un bisogno o
una pena,
ma quando queste cose
vi stringeranno come una cintura
e saprete innalzarvi al di sopra di esse
nudi e sciolti.”
Gibran Kahlil Gibran
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Thanks for the attention
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