The project “Entering your own new community” aims to help 50 migrants and/or foreign citizens in the Pinerolo area to integrate themselves better and more quickly into the local communities where they found hospitality thanks to organizations such as the Waldensian Diaconia. Training sessions are therefore planned on various topics of social interest (e.g. on violence against minors and women) and healthcare (how to better understand the Italian healthcare system, maternal and child services, home first aid measures, compulsory and optional vaccinations, safe cycling, balanced nutrition with available foods etc.). This experience will be very useful not only for the participants themselves but for their entourage too.
The “Medical Mediation Counter” project will help migrants and foreign citizens with complex health problems residing in the Pinerolo area and will give assistance to social, health and reception workers who support them.
Two volunteer doctors of CUAMM Piemonte will be available for face-to-face or telephone interviews to untangle these cases and help them in diagnostic and therapeutic paths, even by contacting by phone general practitioners, pediatricians, hospital doctors; it will be possible for migrants in the Pinerolo area to be accompanied by one of the doctors in the health facilities where they need to go, even for those who are not living in reception centers but are reported by the Social Services or other civil and religious bodies in the area (Moroccan, Chinese, Romanian, Indo-Bengali communities,). The aim is always to help migrants orient themselves in the labyrinth of Healthcare, by explaining the situation and the future programs to the individual concerned and, if the migrant so wishes, by updating the general practitioner or the pediatrician of reference.

Useful contacts:

Dott. Marco Pratesi – 3271126904
gruppo.piemonte@cuamm.org