Community Service

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Here at SRISA we believe in the importance of community service. Over the years students at SRISA have participated in numerous community service projects including two on-going projects in conjunction with UNICEF in Florence.

Pigotta Doll Project: Every winter UNICEF organizes a competition and people from all over Italy participate by hand sewing “pigotte” dolls that are sold in December to raise money to immunize children all over the world. Each During the Fall semesters students are asked given the opportunity to take part in the workshop and make dolls for UNICEF. Each doll is sold for 20 Euros and SRISA students have raised over 1,200 Euro for UNICEF by participating in the project.

UNICEF Greeting Cards Project: Throughout the year SRISA coordinates a project that to hand make to create hand-made Seasons Greetings cards. These linotypes and wood cuts made by students are then printed on to cards that have been letter pressed printed on the SRISA letter press. Students from SRISA help man the booth with UNICEF to collect money and sell both the Pigotte dolls and the SRISA cards for UNICEF. All proceeds from the greetings’ cards go to UNICEF.

Park Clean-up: In conjunction with the city of Florence, SRISA students have teamed together to clean-up two of the city’s parks, Piazza Indipendenza and Piazza D’Azeglio. These experiences were a great opportunity to come together as a team and make an effort to give something back to the city that hosts us.