At the Malaspina in Palermo, children become watchmakers

Very interesting news from Ansa last Thursday, 15 April:

"Tomorrow, at the Malaspina Juvenile Penal Institute in Palermo, a handicraft workshop with master watchmaker Giorgio Sicilia, sponsored by Confartigianato and intended for the boys in the Institute, will start. The aim is to teach the boys the operations for watch maintenance, also with a view to their future employment.

The activity will be divided into thirteen meetings between technical lessons and exercises, giving the young people the opportunity to put into practice the notions they have learnt and allow them to develop a specific interest in a professional sector, that of watchmaking craftsmanship, which today offers room for employment.

To us, it seems like a really good initiative both from a social point of view for the reintegration of these young people, and for the preservation of the trade of watch repairman, which today is in danger of disappearing. Initiatives of this kind make it clear that these small realities deserve to be preserved.

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