SPIRAL Foundation
Spinning Potentials Into Resources And Love
Healing the Wounded Heart
REFUGEE ScART
Spiral Foundation in Vietnam - Healing The Wonded Heart
If you are traveling to Vietnam, do not miss visiting Hue. The City of Hue with its complex monuments is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993
In Hue you will also find a truly special place to be visited, the Healing the Wounded Heart Shop. It is a special boutique tipe store run by disabled artisans that create beautiful items made recycling discarded materials. Proceeds from the sale of any item in the shop is donated by the disabled artisans to help fund heart surgeries for people born with congenital heart disease in Central Vietnam.
Most of the artisans are hearing impaired, but still they will welcome you and to share their work and their commitment to a more peaceful and caring world.
The Healing the Wounded Heart is a humanitarian aid project of the Spiral Foundation in cooperation with OGCDC, Hue Vietnam [Office of Genetic Counseling and Disabled Children] OGCDC provides vital assistance to children with disabilities and/or sickness and their families in Central Vietnam and the Central Highlands. The organization was founded on January 26, 1999 by the Rector of Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy www.ogcdc.org
PLEASE VISIT OUR COMPASSIONATE STORE & ENJOY OUR TRULY BEAUTIFUL GIFT ITEMS
DESIGNED WITH RESPECT FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE RICH VIETNAMESE TRADITIONAL HANDICRAFT
CREATED BY DISABLED YOUTH THAT RECEIVE FAIR SALARIES AND MEDICAL INSURANCE
ALL NET PROCEEDS FROM SALES FUND HEART SURGERIES FOR POOR CHILDREN IN CENTRAL VIETNAM VIA OGCDC, HUE VIETNAM
HEALING THE WOUNDED HEART SHOP
23 Vo Thi Sau Street, Hue
Tel: + 84 54 3833 694
The internationally renowned Italian writer
Erri De Luca says of us:
"What connects a used plastic bag and open heart surgery on a child? A "chain of hands" that collected waste, turned it into crafts, and sold it, using the proceeds for surgery. One? No, hundreds. These are the smile-generating earnings of the Spiral Foundation."
Spiral Foundation in Italy - REFUGEE ScART
REFUGEE ScART – Migrant Art is a humanitarian aid project founded by the Spiral Foundation Onlus in summer 2011. It operates under the patronage of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - South Europe Office. In a workshop made available by AMA Roma SpA, a group of ten refugees create artistic sheets from recycled scrap (scarto, in Italian) material to manufacture objects of great use and beauty. In the past three years REFUGEE ScART has recycled over ten tons of plastic making a significant contribution to the environment of historic central Rome. The main goal of REFUGEE ScART is to benefit a group of refugees, arrived in Italy in search of protection by facilitating opportunities and paths to regain one's dignity [“the state or quality of being worthy of honour or respect.”]. With REFUGEE ScART refugees become positive contributors to the common good, give back to the society that has welcomed them. Through REFUGEE ScART refugees no longer experience a condition of isolation and anonymity: they become part of a group acquiring a sense of belonging, identity, self-esteeme and pride that encourages the integration process. Above all REFUGEE ScART refugees are able to generate an income. The entire (100%) proceeds from sales go directly to the refugees that created the objects. Futhermore since August 2013, REFUGEE ScART refugees-artisans have decided to help other migrants in greater difficulty than themselves by donating a part of their monthly income to EMERGENCY'S Ong-Onlus medical post for recent migrants in Castel Volturno (Caserta).
REFUGEE ScART is a simple idea of great social utility: it clears the streets of discarded plastics, it recycles scrap materials while generating work, and it allows refugees to start a new life. Participants of REFUGEE ScART, in time, are themselves empowered to become donors to others in greater need. By building civic partnership, everybody benefits: from the city's oldest residents to its newest. A true example to all.
REFUGEE ScART: a sustainable model, a true example to all.
REFUGEE ScART
Piazzale dei Caduti della Montagnola 39 - 00142 Roma
Marichia Simcik Arese (+39) 335.706.7879
Helga Bacher (+39) 339.208.4002
The internationally renowned Italian writer
Erri De Luca says of us:
"They come from far away, disoriented, and with no knowledge of our society they succeed in giving purpose and dignity to all with their good hands, extracting value from the last layer of goods. They are able to discover instantly our weak spots, where very precious is their help, and they invent a way to transform a weakness of ours, our scraps, in revenue for them and help for us. Thanks to REFUGEE ScART depleted waste becomes repleted good."
