Sportello Didattico · Supporto allo Studio e Inclusione Digitale

The Sportello Didattico has been running since 2020, always with the same goal: giving students, workers and residents who can't afford private tutoring a free place to study, with the help of people who actually want to give it. We don't just call it after-school support, because it's more than that — it's a path built to strengthen study methods and communication skills, aimed at building independence, not dependency.

Until October 2025, the desk lived at our historic location on via Alloro 64, largely sustained by specialised volunteering. With the official opening of Orbita, the Casa della Partecipazione on via Alloro 95, it moved into the new premises, expanding its capacity and weaving itself even further into the life of the neighbourhood. From March 2026, its scope grew further still: the desk now also supports people on probation working toward their middle-school diploma, in partnership with the Istituto Comprensivo Perez.

At the heart of the project is a team of four volunteer teachers — literature, Latin and Greek, maths and science, English — who, three days a week from 3:00 to 6:30 pm, follow a mixed group of young people. In 2025 alone, 303 hours of volunteer tutoring were delivered, entirely free of charge.

The project's sustainability rests on professional skills donated by members — often retired teachers who keep offering what they do best — whose time is tracked and recognised internally, like every other form of care work. Part of the support also comes from the Waldensian Church's Eight per Thousand fund, which covers a portion of the hours delivered.

What makes this desk distinctive is its place inside a wider ecosystem of restorative justice: here, education isn't just a service delivered to a beneficiary — it's one gear in an ecosystem of mutual care, where people serving community sentences aren't only recipients of support but, in some cases, collaborators in running the space itself. The relationship between teacher and student is never hierarchical: it's built on trust, the same trust that holds together everything we do at neu [nòi].