AN URBAN AND SOCIAL BEEKEEPING AND AGRICULTURE PROJECT
Welcome, training and work. These are the key words that enclose the essence of Bee My Job, an urban and social beekeeping and agriculture project born in Alessandria thanks to APS Cambalache, and which sees refugees and asylum seekers play the lead role. A project, at the same time, of integration and personal growth of the resources involved and the territories, which is based on the culture of respect for men and nature, and on a work ethic in stark contrast to the logic of exploitation that too often are protagonists in Italy. Awarded and recognized as a virtuous model of integration, it has already been replicated in different territorial contexts in Italy and enjoys the patronage of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). A project that looks to the future of Europe with a strong and clear message: in order to create value, we need to give space to contamination!
BEE MY JOB
AN URBAN AND SOCIAL BEEKEEPING AND AGRICULTURE PROJECT
Welcome, training and work. These are the key words that enclose the essence of Bee My Job, an urban and social beekeeping and agriculture project born in Alessandria thanks to APS Cambalache, and which sees refugees and asylum seekers play the lead role. A project, at the same time, of integration and personal growth of the resources involved and the territories, which is based on the culture of respect for men and nature, and on a work ethic in stark contrast to the logic of exploitation that too often are protagonists in Italy. Awarded and recognized as a virtuous model of integration, it has already been replicated in different territorial contexts in Italy and enjoys the patronage of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). A project that looks to the future of Europe with a strong and clear message: in order to create value, we need to give space to contamination!
BEE MY JOB: THE FILM
TRAILER
Thanks to the support of a group of beekeepers involved in the project, the idea was born to tell Bee My Job through a short film that could highlight the different aspects of this experience. The documentary plays on the similarity between the importance of a swarm of bees for the balance of the ecosystem and the need to make room for cultural contamination, to welcome those fleeing war, those who are threatened by fragile and dangerous systems just as bees are from the environment that man has polluted. The full version can be viewed on APS Cambalache’s You Tube channel.
BEE MY JOB: THE FILM
TRAILER
Thanks to the support of a group of beekeepers involved in the project, the idea was born to tell Bee My Job through a short film that could highlight the different aspects of this experience. The documentary plays on the similarity between the importance of a swarm of bees for the balance of the ecosystem and the need to make room for cultural contamination, to welcome those fleeing war, those who are threatened by fragile and dangerous systems just as bees are from the environment that man has polluted. The full version can be viewed on APS Cambalache’s You Tube channel.
BEE MY JOB ACADEMY
FLY YOUR FUTURE WITH BEES
The Bee My Job Job Academy is a beekeeping school aimed at refugees, asylum seekers and migrants from all over Italy. It is based in Alessandria and offers a theoretical and practical intensive training course that is completed with a series of complementary modules of safety at work, sectoral Italian language, orientation to services in the territory to better promote the social and professional inclusion of participants. Training is concentrated in March. It offers access to scholarships and forms of temporary hospitality in Alesandria. The theoretical lessons in beekeeping are held by Aspromiele technicians, whilst the practical sessions take place at the urban apiary managed by Cambalache, at the ”Forte Acqui” public park.
At the end of the training, the Academy promotes internships beekeeping farms across Italy. The farms are identified in collaboration with the trade bodies and selected by Cambalache on the basis of the sharing of the ethical values of the project.
BEE MY JOB ACADEMY
FLY YOUR FUTURE WITH BEES
The Bee My Job Job Academy is a beekeeping school aimed at refugees, asylum seekers and migrants from all over Italy. It is based in Alessandria and offers a theoretical and practical intensive training course that is completed with a series of complementary modules of safety at work, sectoral Italian language, orientation to services in the territory to better promote the social and professional inclusion of participants. Training is concentrated in March. It offers access to scholarships and forms of temporary hospitality in Alesandria. The theoretical lessons in beekeeping are held by Aspromiele technicians, whilst the practical sessions take place at the urban apiary managed by Cambalache, at the ”Forte Acqui” public park.
At the end of the training, the Academy promotes internships beekeeping farms across Italy. The farms are identified in collaboration with the trade bodies and selected by Cambalache on the basis of the sharing of the ethical values of the project.