“SALVE! – HEALTH TO SHARE – For a culture of giving in the world of health care.”

The Salve! Health to Share Association (a voluntary organization) was founded in 2007 to create a network among those who practice the health profession in the light of fraternity and a culture of giving in the health and social health field.

It is animated and supported by those who seek a new culture that places the person in his or her entirety at the center of interest of the medical art in order to promote the fullness of being and value. From the ever more urgent need to reconcile a humanistic culture of health with technological progress and a high level of professionalism that points to excellence, the members of the Association are committed to creating a network of relationships and collaborations between health and social health workers, between Associations, between institutions that work at different levels trying to build and maintain fruitful relationships. Among its objectives are: the promotion of dialogue through formation, exchange of experiences, meetings, professional internship, editorial activity, the support of cultural and scientific initiatives and the implementation of activities inspired by the respect for the value and dignity of human life.

The association acts in line with the principles of the Economy of Communion supported by the Focolare Movement and is committed through reflection and action to promote the emergence of structures adhering to the ideal of solidarity, sharing and fraternity.

One of the first activities that the “Salve! Health to Share” Association has proposed to implement is to collaborate within its means and statutory purposes to set up the Risana Outpatient Clinic, located in the Lionello Bonfanti Business Park, in order to give “space” to those professionals who live the “medical art” according to the principles that constitute the program guidelines of the Association itself.

Since 2012, the Association has directed its efforts towards social solidarity, developing the project “SOS Family” which, wanting to be a concrete response to the request for help from many families and individuals, provides a team of professionals (lawyers, teachers, psychologists, doctors) who offer their professionalism for free to those who experience permanent or contingent situations of discomfort.

Since March 2014, the S.O.S. Family Project has expanded its activities to include the social loan service, financial support measures aimed at social inclusion, financed by the Region of Tuscany by virtue of an agreement to carry out activities of social utility in accordance with the d.p.g.r. 23.3.2013 n.17\r. The service is aimed at Italian and foreign citizens regularly residing in the municipalities of the Florentine South-East Area who find themselves in contingent conditions of socio-economic fragility, with special attention to large families, to situations of severe disability, to young children and single parents. This project is currently being reactivated.

For the first time, since July 2016, the Salve! Association in collaboration with E. di C. S.p.A. Polo Lionello Bonfanti and the Regional Federation of the Misericordie of Tuscany promotes the project “Noi Qui” (“Us Here”), after having signed a partnership agreement presented on June 19, 2016 to the institutions, the associative realities, and the citizenship of the territory. The idea is to give life to a place open to all those who feel the need to join others to spend time together among people eager for solidarity and friendship. The objective of the organizations that support the project is to value the spaces of the L. Bonfanti Business Park (Burchio – Incisa Valdarno) by generating concrete meeting opportunities (courses, events, healthy games) where young people and adults of all ages and cultures can share passions, hobbies, challenges and ideas.

Since 2017, the association has opened up to some partnerships that can help spread a new style of “doing economy” that, in the name of fraternity, goes to those in need. These include collaborations with the project “SCiC: social, civil and communion”, an interactive exhibition of civil economy, aimed at the younger generation and the project “Il Fagotto” (“The Bundle”), a space of communion open to those who want to give and those who are in need to take. Currently the “SALVE! Health to Share” Association is accredited to the register of the Regional Civil Service, which allows it to present new projects or to strengthen the projects in progress by providing for the employment of youths interested in voluntary civil service.

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