- Improve the inclusiveness of teaching in order to mitigate discrimination that arises during school transitions;
- Promote access to education for disadvantaged, marginalized, and excluded groups;
- Improve schools’ capacity to combat gender discrimination.
education
GIVE ME FIVE
Realized by Oxfam Italy
Starting date 2024
In Progress
Italy
- Arezzo
- Napoli
- Padova
- Ragusa
- Rome
Objectives
Impact
The project promotes the involvement of a network of more than 15 partners, including schools and third-sector organizations active in five Italian regions, to pilot a multidimensional and integrated educational program capable of contributing to quality, equitable, and inclusive education for the benefit of 2,130 students.
The intervention renews and enriches school curricula in order to adequately respond to the diverse and emerging educational needs that children and their families bring to the attention of the school community.
Project
GIVE ME FIVE is a national interregional project developed in Veneto (Padua), Tuscany (Arezzo), Lazio (Rome), Campania (Naples), and Sicily (Ragusa), aimed at combating child educational poverty and school dropout. It involves a network of 16 partners, including schools and third-sector organizations, engaged in piloting a multidimensional and integrated educational program capable of contributing to quality, equitable, and inclusive education.
The project, supported in 2025 for the second consecutive year by funds from the Italian Buddhist Institute Soka Gakkai through the 8×1000 scheme, responds to the need to invest in urban areas where issues of child educational poverty and families’ socio-cultural and economic hardship are most concentrated.
By strengthening alliances between school and out-of-school education, actions will be implemented to promote inclusive teaching, educational guidance, and the prevention of distress and discriminatory phenomena.
The project over the years
In 2024, the project involved a network of 17 partners, including schools and third-sector organizations, active in Veneto (Padua), Tuscany (Arezzo), Lazio (Rome), Campania (Naples), and Sicily (Ragusa), with the aim of combating child educational poverty and school dropout through the experimentation of a multidimensional and integrated educational program capable of contributing to quality, equitable, and inclusive education.
The project tested a multidimensional model of community welfare intervention and inclusive education capable of addressing the obstacles and conditions that limit, for minors—and especially the most vulnerable—their opportunities for growth, well-being, and inclusion within their communities. Gender equality was also promoted across all areas of the school system, based on a global and integrated approach to tackling gender disparities in education.
The intervention strengthened local educational networks in the most fragile contexts, generating long-lasting benefits for the community.
