The Opera Pia Isnardi and the Download Social Cooperative have signed the agreement thanks to which the Albergo Etico will move to the premises of the Isnardi Opera (in spring), also in Asti, in via Don Urbano Isnardi, 11, leaving its first historic headquarters in Asti, in Corso Galileo Ferraris 58, the place where the Download project, designed to promote the independence and job placement of people with disabilities with innovative methods, was born and took its first steps.

The Bishop of Asti Marco Prastaro, president of the Isnardi Opera, immediately made himself available to start a process that could make this move of headquarters a reality.

The Isnardi Opera, erected by don Urbano Isnardi as a moral institution in the 18th century and later IPAB, has a long history in Asti; the founder had the intuition to create a community in which to welcome and grow in autonomy, in job training, in faith and prayer, in sharing community life young girls who at the time did not have great possibilities of building a secure future .

This change, shared by the president of the Cooperative Download Albergo Etico Alex Toselli, together with the board of directors of the Isnardi Opera, was strongly desired to relaunch the mission of the Opera by favoring a use of the spaces as close as possible to the original idea at its time drawn by the founder.

At the same time, however, this change also aims to keep Albergo Etico faithful to its history and to the history of the territory in which it was born and has developed over the years.

The new building will have larger and renovated rooms, in line with the principles of hospitality that Albergo Etico has always made its own.

At the same time, however, this change also aims to keep Albergo Etico faithful to its history and to the history of the territory in which it was born and has developed over the years. Albergo Etico is in fact a social enterprise which, through a training course alongside professionals in the hotel and restaurant sector, offers job opportunities and the possibility of expressing talents and emerging to young people with Down syndrome and other forms of disability. 65% of Albergo Etico’s boys and girls with disabilities enter the world of work.

Born in 2009 and with a network still expanding in Italy and abroad, Albergo Etico can in this sense represent an innovative model of business and solidarity.

The new structure, which should be operational starting from spring, will be fully furnished and equipped for every need of the children hosted in the Academy, to promote job placement and the autonomy of active citizens, by training the children and the girls in a safe place, through a gradual path of coexistence and autonomy, learning to live with their peers and colleagues, self-managing and taking responsibility.