2024-04-09 10:12:34
LIVES. The order of the Municipality of Laives to the children of Pineta di dismantle their small vegetable garden in a corner of abandoned municipal land, at the entrance to the Toggenburg 1 residential area, has councilor Andrea Sbironi (M5s) say that «This is yet another missed opportunity for young people». «There’s no point in complaining to them – continues Sbironi – if they aren’t given alternatives to social media and video games. We live in a reality that is increasingly virtual rather than concrete. Young people need spaces and structures that allow the acquisition of practical skills, and build that community belonging that is slowly disappearing. And from 2020 that we support the creation of such spaces, and in this specific case the creation of an educational garden. The case of Pineta fully stigmatizes what good they wanted to do south of Pineta, the educational vegetable garden and greenhouse. But the council, after promising it for years, has announced that it will not be done. This is the perfect example of not listening, of not planning and of all the “smoke” that has been sold to Laives in the last 4 years. We need to differentiate the interests of young people to distance them from idleness and mobile phones by encouraging them activities also useful for environmental purposes. It is therefore necessary to build places, spaces and regulations in this regard. We have the feeling that we have to start from scratch because in recent years no progress has been made in a clear and socially sustainable direction. We will support, as always, the policy of encouragement and not repression. It is evident that a political discontinuity is necessary”, concludes Sbironi.
«We certainly know that the initiative is formally an abuse – the parents of the children say in turn – and that authorization would be needed first for the garden. But it was a constructive and educational initiative, started spontaneously by the kids, an initiative that is certainly not dangerous or that could cause inconvenience to residents, on the contrary, it would keep young people positively engaged. Bureaucracy and formality have prevailed and it is a disappointment first of all for the kids who were committed to something positive.”
2024-04-09 10:12:34