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In 2025, we opened Horti Bistrot, a place that is not just a restaurant, but a space for growth and new opportunities. Every day, people with disabilities and prisoners benefiting from Article 21 participate in a training course for waiters and waitresses.

Here they learn about service, mise en place and professional skills, but above all they regain self-confidence and build their future. All this is possible thanks to work grants, which are essential tools for ensuring a real, dignified and supported path to integration.

With concrete support, our young people have the opportunity to test themselves, train and start afresh. Supporting a work grant means offering a chance for independence, inclusion and redemption. You too can make a difference: support a work grant, support the future of Rebecca, Adil and Matteo.

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A Horti Book Club was created by our student collective. The reading group will meet every two months and, at each meeting, will discuss a book belonging to a different genre. In this first edition, entitled Sui generis, participants will embark on a veritable 'reader's journey', exploring literature through the nuances and peculiarities of the literary genres that comprise it.

The next event will be on the 16th April. The second book we will be talking about is "The years" by Annie Ernaux. For more information, write to bookclub@horti.it

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The Horti are promoting 'Il bambino scambiato. Autismo: le possibili verità tra bufale e fake news' (The Changed Child. Autism: the possible truths between hoaxes and fake news), an event dedicated to an open and multidisciplinary discussion on the topic of autism, between scientific information and misinformation. The day, coordinated by Daniela Scotto di Fasano (University of Pavia), opens with a welcome address by Alberto Lolli, Director of the Horti, and a speech by Simone Miraldi, philosopher and park guide.

During the morning, the topic of autism will be explored from a psychiatric perspective with Pierluigi Politi (University of Pavia, Italian Psychoanalytic Society) and through the direct testimony of the famous Stefano 'Elio' Belisari, offering both a clinical and experiential perspective, followed by a debate with the audience. The afternoon broadens the perspective by addressing the media dimension with Tommaso Piazza (University of Pavia) and the psychoanalytic dimension with Marco Francesconi (University of Pavia, Italian Institute of Group Psychoanalysis), concluding with a final round table discussion.

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Are you passionate about art and nature? Do you want to turn your passions into meaningful actions?

Become a Horti volunteer. Depending on availability and skills, volunteers are involved in the following areas:

• Information and surveillance service at the info point and in the park
• Logistical support for events

Contact us at promozione@horti.it and let us know how you would prefer to contribute to the Horti project.

2025 was a wonderful year, but 2026 can be even better with your help. Come visit us or donate here to receive or renew your personal Horti Card.

Thanks to your support, we will be able to offer training and employment opportunities to vulnerable people who find a new beginning at Horti. Join Horti Friends, a group of people who cultivate care, hospitality and beauty. Every donation is a seed that grows: together, let's make another year of Horti blossom.