In Rome, Social Carpentry Is A Tool For Integration The non-profit organization ALI - Free Home Reception is hosted by some young migrants from the K Alma Social Carpentry workshop to build wooden houses and wooden objects. - Matteo Nardone/Pacific Press/ZUMA
A unique project in the Italian capital brings together experienced carpenters to share their skills and knowledge with asylum seekers and the unemployed.
ROME It goes without saying that what K Alma is trying to accomplish is not simple. But it also and above all carries a unique human, environmental, social and political vision.
For the past three years, in its headquarters in central Rome, K Alma has brought together volunteer carpenters to teach their profession to asylum seekers, refugees and unemployed Italians, offering them free formal and informal education opportunities, self-training, self-expression and knowledge. What the group practices, in other words, is
Dutch manager APG forms joint venture to help ABP invest in Chilean forests
Dutch manager APG forms joint venture to help ABP invest in Chilean forests
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Dutch pensions provider APG formed a joint venture on behalf of its largest pension fund client to invest in forests in Chile.
On behalf of the €495.3 billion ($603.3 billion) ABP, Heerlen, Netherlands, APG formed the company with British Columbia Investment Management Corp. and South American investment bank BTG Pactual s timber investment group. BCI has C$171.3 billion ($141.9 billion) in AUM.
The new venture will invest $385.5 million in forestry in Chile, owning more than 80,000 hectares of Chilean forest across three regions. The company will be the third-largest wood producer in Chile, separate news releases by APG and ABP said. The forests contribute to the conservation of biodiversity and they are managed to take into account the social and economic well-being of workers and local communities.