Raid in the Verga school in Palermo: theft in the gym under renovation

Raid in the Verga complex, in the Albergheria district of Palermo, where renovations are underway on the gym outside the school, which will soon be open to the district.
Unknowns entered climbing over the railings and, after breaking a window in the locker room, they took apart and took away newly installed aluminum doors and various equipment of the company that is carrying out the work.
The gym, destined to become a basketball court and a place dedicated to open sports in a neighborhood that does not have facilities or spaces used for sports, is one of the flagships of the project against educational poverty “CASA a Ballarò” financed by social enterprise “Con i Bambini”, which sees the association “Per Example” and many other associations in the neighborhood engaged in many educational and laboratory activities in favor of the children and families who live there.
“The theft certainly brings with it economic damage – reads a note from the association For Example -, but it also represents a bad signal to those who have chosen to support and finance initiatives for the benefit of our city, as well as to those who put themselves at stake to create opportunities for the children and young people of the neighborhood. The damage suffered will not discourage us, nor the school, nor the other subjects who have always been involved in the territory, on the contrary it will determine an increase in the attention and precautions taken against those in Sunday for a few tens or hundreds of euros has chosen to try to steal an opportunity from their own children “.

And they add: “Thanks to the great availability of the Chestnut Company which, under the direction of the Architect Agnello, is carrying out the work and which has already taken care of strengthening the protection system for what has been achieved so far, we will deliver the gym on time. to the school, the neighborhood and the city, offering a beautiful space for games and sports to the many people who can’t wait to use it in this neighborhood “.

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