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Building resilience in social inclusion
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] “A good half of the art of living is resilience“. – Alain de bottom [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] Do you Bend or Break? [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1615196465204{padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}”] The ability where one become strong, healthy, or successful again after something bad happens – Resilience. Resilience goes a long way in…
My Resilience
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1614782776045{margin-top: 40px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”844″ img_size=”large” style=”vc_box_rounded” css_animation=”fadeInDown” css=”.vc_custom_1614784148812{margin-top: 30px !important;}”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] Resilience is the ability to recover, cope, bounce back or spring back quickly from difficulties, toughness, or crisis or even to go back to “normal” (Oxford Dictionary, 2021). Is there really any such thing as normal? Life is constantly changing giving obstacles,…
What if CSR was a resilience tool?
Resilience is more and more relevant nowadays as our todays´ challenges face us to many uncertainties. The ongoing pandemic reminds us how it is important to be adaptable. That is why resilience can play a great role in the process of change. Indeed, to be resilient is the capacity for individual to recover quickly from…
May there be a new normality?
Authored by Paola Campassi (Pro Natura Torino), Translated by Maria Giulia Rosini The Covid 19 pandemic cannot be considered only a painful digression in our existence and in that of the world. It forced us to reflect on the need to change our lifestyle and socio-economic system that the West World built to the detriment…
The covid19 pandemic caught everyone by surprise.
The covid19 pandemic caught everyone by surprise. There was no time to prepare for it very much, or at all. After restrictions were put into place, there was little space to be outside or even leave the house altogether. Life changed dramatically almost overnight. Now that some restrictions have been lifted, things are still strange,…
“We won’t return to normality because normality was the problem”
“We won’t return to normality because normality was the problem” During the lockdown I bumped into the aforementioned sentence. This statement got me thinking about the meaning that is often attributed to the concept of normality. Does a universal concept for indicating “normality” really exist? Since I was a child, my mum taught me that…
LIMITED LIABILITY SOCIAL COOPERATIVE OF FOKIDA “YIANNIS VOLIKAS”
Limited Liability Social Cooperative (Koi.S.P.E.) of Fokida, “Yannis Volikas”, as all the other social cooperatives (Koi.S.P.E.) is a legal person governed by private law with limited responsibility of its members that was implemented by the law 2716/1999. Social cooperatives are productive/commercial units and mental health units which are overseen by the Mental Health Directorate of the Ministry of Health…
The importance of the Social Economy in the Resilience of people and communities
Social and Solidarity Economy, through social enterprises and cooperatives, is directly linked to the resilience of vulnerable groups and local communities. The social economy becomes more important in the crisis and post-crisis periods, as in this period of time the quantity of unprotected inhabitants increases, the unemployment growth and special measures should be taken to help…
ILO COOP COVID-19 Solidarity Message
https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/cooperatives/news/WCMS_744958/lang–en/index.htm – Original post Greetings from the Cooperatives Unit of the International Labour Organization in Geneva. This a moment of great disruption. Full or partial lockdown measures have affected more than 5 billion people around the world. Recent ILO estimates indicate that more than 436 million enterprises are at risk. Millions of workers around the world are…