Fondazione Labia is a non-profit organisation that supports the advancements of arts and culture in South Africa.
Their mission statement reads: “As South Africans, we recognise the deep inequalities besetting our country. These are inequalities not just of wealth but more critically of opportunity. The greatest of them lies with education.
Young South Africans in certain areas of our country are disproportionately affected by these inequalities. They have a very limited safety net, and less than adequate access to healthcare and education. Daily, they face challenging socioeconomic conditions (often which result in domestic violence and abuse) and have an extremely limited voice with which to communicate their suffering and influence the status quo.
They are, in many respects, not just the group most intensely affected by inequality, but also the group with the least power to ameliorate their desperate reality.
It is, more than ever, in all of our interests to do what we can to facilitate change because they are, quite literally, our future.”
Based at the Casa Labia Cultural Centre in Muizenberg, South Africa, Fondazione Labia works with schools and community centres to bring upliftment through cultural, musical and artistic activities.
Bocconi University partnership:
Fondazione Labia is the official partner of Università Bocconi for recruiting recipients of the Count Luccio Labia Bursary, which affords 3-5 underprivileged African students a year the opportunity to attend Bocconi in Milan, Italy. The programme includes a fully funded undergraduate degree for students who are recruited from schools all over South Africa. This is a unique program of fostering links between the youth of Italy and Africa. The Fondazione intends to maintain this worthwhile partnership for many years to come and hopes to provide many brilliant students with this opportunity of a lifetime.
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