On April 17, 2023, the screening of the documentary La Ciudad de los Niños about an Italian foster home and school created in Bolivia in the 1960s provided a fruitful platform to address issues of foster care, access to education for challenged youth, and migration flows prompted by transnational initiatives of support. See documentary here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyZHwrwq3Yw
Panelists included: Fulvio Diploma (Director, Ciudad del Niño, Cochabamba, Bolivia); Father Sergio Gamberoni (Director, Migrant Office, Catholic Diocese, Bergamo, Italy); Elena Bellina (Department of Italian Studies, NYU, USA, and co-writer/director of the documentary Ciudad de los Niños).
Respondents included: Svetlana Shpiegel (Associate Professor, Social Work and Child Advocacy Dept., Montclair State University); Arian Craig (Director, Red Hawk Fellows); Mario Gallo (Director of Admissions, St. Benedict’s Preparatory School, Newark, NJ, USA).
Moderated by: Teresa Fiore (Inserra Chair, Montclair State University)
For more information about the event, see
https://tinyurl.com/InserraCiudad