1. Magna Grecia Foundation
International refugees problem and projects in Sicily
For a Mediterranean area of peace and security
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2. Robin Fund is a Maltese no-profit entity, established in March 2003, with the aim of contributing to a more ethical capitalism, for a fairer distribution of resources on the planet.
Among the activities carried out over the years, we can mention the promotion of a School of Ethics and Economics called "ROBIN Mind", linked to the "Unietica" World Circuit ( with the initiative of carrying out special seminars and workshops aimed at to the moralization of the political and executive class of the financial and banking system.
It promotes the initiative of the International People Summit (Palermo 26,27,28 May 2017), coinciding with the G7 Summit in Taormina, proposing a new model of socio-economic development.
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3. Magna Grecia Foundation
The Magna Grecia Foundation was born in November 1987 as an innovative cultural project to bring "Magna Grecia", the present Mezzogiorno, into the world, not only through historical deepening, but as a basic experience of the development of Western culture,trough the touristic/cultural and productive excellences.
Over the years, it has involved the largest Italian communities in countries such as United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, and has achieve interests, collaboration and projects over time.
It has established Lab Sud with Eurispes (an important research institute of economic and social studies in Italy) as a platform for revitalizing the themes of the South of the World, and in this sense promotes the program
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4. Purposes
Magna Grecia and Robin Fund, during the International People Summit, will promote the project: "From Sicily to a new Mediterranean ... ancient bridge with the Americas".
We know that RCNY is active in international co-operation to support the structures that work to help refugees and migrants. This issue of uncontrolled immigration and refugees is a major problem for humanity in general and for the Mediterranean in particular.
These uncontrolled flows create social, health and safety problems, and therefore an eco-sustainable development model is needed to avoid, or at least diminish, these flows by creating workplace in the origin countries.
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5. Purposes
In this context, the theme should be addressed not with a speculative perspective, but with regard to the existential and personalistic implications, to which the relationship with the immigrant must be inspired, and for this reason there was signed a MOU between RCNY and Rotary Palermo.
It will be dedicated an entire day during the International People Summit in May, where will attend, in various ways, foundations, associations, international standing engaged on this issue.
With the help of the RCNY, we want to be guardians and guarantors of the return to the life of the Mediterranean that today, unfortunately, is increasingly linked to death.
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6. Purposes
There will be an extraordinary event that begins in Marsala on September 2 and ends in Palermo on September 11th, that marks an ideal twinning with New York and with Ground Zero .. or ... G 0 that will also be read in G as a generation and 0 as the starting point for a new generation who has to believe in peace, not only talk about it but should work to get it.
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7. How to achieve the target
Sicily has always been, over the centuries, a land of conquest and therefore of immigration and then of emigration. Strong is the feeling that so many millions of emigrants have with this land and, even though for generations, now definitely Americans, the bond remains strong.
Malta and Sicily are also united in the sign of Rotary, in a single District, the 2110, which becomes the further reason of the why of this presentation.
The RCNY should be, like the Mediterranean, an element of aggregation with the various social forces that, not only in words, are active in trying to solve this problem that is daily present in the Mediterranean area and on the coasts of southern Italy.
We also hope that our intervention can be collected by RCNY to be submitted as a development program to the United Nations, as a possible alternative solution in relation to current support measures for international cooperation.
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8. When and Where
ROBIN FUND and MAGNA GRECIA operate between Malta and Sicily in the Mediterranean area, and they want offer your cooperation together RCNY for to realize a new social development model in the world.
They intend to support immediately this initiative with RCNY for to create a new public private partnership trough an appropriate program and the collateral letter of intent between all parties.
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9. “A call to Sicilian and Maltese emigrants worldwide”
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10. “A contribution for future generations”
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