When I offered myself to participateto the Mentoring Project as coordinator, I accepted but I was a bit scared about the use of those interventions because of students to whom this message was aimed to. I need only few weeks to understand the positivity that those interventions could have on the kids who, away from school, lived a difficult environmental and familiar reality.

Seeing these Mentees participating to meetings with an active role, dialoguing about important and complex topics such as the familiar system, friendships, the relationship with teachers, how to manage the aggressiveness, how to solve conflicts with fellow teenagers, school problems, the importance of study ecc...propose possible solutions to conflicts and issues, has left me without doubts regarding the usefulness of those interventions and the need of having a project at school such as Mentoring, which could help the re-inclusion of troublesome kids in society and school.

Thanks to Mentoring these kids, also called kids at risk, have found a place which is not a scholastic one where talking and expressing their own ideas without fear of being mocked; in the end, they have found a place where they can be themselves.

Vincenzo Esposito, Coordinator of the "Mentor" Project