SOCIAL REPORT

Parsec cooperative, considered in its nature of social enterprise, plays a significant role in supporting social inclusion. It represents a link between the land, the people who inhabit it and the institutions, helping to make society fairer, stronger and more cohesive. It is, therefore, a non-profit organization that, by pursuing its goals, contributes to improve the quality of life of society actors in which it operates.

Through the following data, we want to give an account of the choices, activities, results and use of resources, in order to make them visible to citizens and other stakeholders, and how the cooperative interprets and implements its institutional mission and its mandate.

We would like to represent a transparent framework of the complex interdependence between the economic and the socio-political factors resulting from our choices, stressing the quantity and quality of the relationships between our cooperative and the partners.
Then showing the socio-economic impact and the well-being generated by our work.

Social report

In drawing up a possible reflection on the past year, we found ourselves interrupting the long and inexhaustible theory of "things to do", procedures to follow, administrative commitments to be fulfilled in order to dedicate ourselves to a moment of reflection on the period we are experiencing, at within which the action of our cooperative unfolds.
At the risk of saying something banal, what we experienced was an extraordinary period. More, unpublished.
We had already been severely tested by everyone what the new millennium brought with it, with all its corollary of unprecedented and dramatic events: wars, migrations, climate problems, the crisis of the Western economy. To complicate the life of all of us and of our cooperative, in December 2014 the "Mafia capital" investigation rained down on us, without our being in the least involved, which threw a veil of suspicion on all social work, rushing us into one a state of profound, unjust mortification. We resisted, strengthened by the awareness of the indispensability of our work and the certainty of our honesty and administrative correctness.
In the light of the last two years, what has just been said seems to be downsizing, fading, paling. Since 2020 we have fallen into an unprecedented crisis, which has affected the entire social body: a crisis that has changed, even if we do not yet fully realize it, the anthropologies of all of us. The Covid-19 pandemic, still not over, has shown beyond all that it should have shown that if we were all equally at the mercy of a stormy sea, not all of us had the same boat to deal with the waves. We were the first to realize immediately how many citizens were unable to retire from home, simply because they were homeless (12,000 in Rome); we realized that the DAD is different if you have four children and two rooms or, conversely, two children and four rooms, or if you have only one device or, conversely, laptop for all members of the household. While everyone said "everything will be fine", we added "we hope for everyone".
Today, to this series of events that have precipitated us, in a world in profound transformation, we add the war in Europe. It seems to see the silhouettes of the biblical horsemen of the Apocalypse, war, violence, famine and pestilence.
All of this weighs on the lives of each of us, on our thoughts, on the concerns for our loved ones, on the people we care for and on everyone's future. However, we want to think that at least one area can represent, if not a certainty, at least a terrain where each of us feels he has full citizenship, decision-making and transformative capacity. I'm talking about our work, our way of understanding and acting cooperation and social work. In fact, while what we have just described was happening, we seem to be able to say that we have continued to keep the bar straight, guaranteeing with the greatest possible methodological rigor and commitment, services oriented towards social well-being, combining, with difficulty, our action in territories with the participation in the moments in which new political trajectories are built for the social.
We continued to design, we would say successfully, participating in the offer of public tenders for the management of services; we have guaranteed moments of meeting, exchange and training for members and collaborators. All this without neglecting the care of relations with our networks, with our clients, with the actors of the territory.
Over the next year, we expect PNRR resources to finally restore breath to city care, helping to mitigate ever-growing inequality. We also expect that the long-awaited co-planning and co-planning will finally allow a non-ancillary relationship between citizens, cooperation and regional, municipal and municipal administrations.

Dear Members, as every year, in drafting the short introductory note to our social balance sheet, we must attempt to summarize the general trend of the financial year in its complexity, which is always difficult to convey. From an economic point of view, the 2024 financial year also closes with a profit, the result of a "traditional" cost control policy, an orderly and competent management of projects and an incessant planning activity. A planning that is not trivially oriented towards any area of the "social market", perhaps towards those sectors of intervention that can guarantee funds regardless of our vision and our mission. Our planning, on the contrary, starts exactly from what we observe in our areas of intervention, identifying new needs and new work trajectories. In this sense, for us planning belongs, more than to the world of opportunities, to the world of possibilities: it is not oriented by the opportunities of taking on orders, but by that of exploring new possibilities of making citizenship and social justice more enforceable. English: Making social happiness as widespread as possible is the phrase we have chosen to summarize what we have believed to be right to seek for thirty years. The awarding of some intervention opportunities is also the result of the "reputation" that the cooperative enjoys at the municipal and communal level, and of the "esteem" that we have earned from the national and international policy community on the policies in which we are involved. This is demonstrated by the constant presence of our members, often with important roles, in a wide range of Italian and European networks. These results, at the same time, have been achieved in the face of a common and constant daily commitment, important both qualitatively and quantitatively: many members are involved in multiple projects, a circumstance that exposes them, among other things, to a tiring management of daily life, and all, in general, are engaged in a continuous cognitive and self-training effort to be up to the challenges that social issues propose. This is unfortunately true, in particular, but not only, for the Board of Directors, the administration and the secretariat, forced to face an exponential increase in reporting and bureaucratic needs. Despite this, I believe that being members and collaborators of the cooperative continues to represent a value: for the principles that inspire us, and first of all, the refusal of exploitation of man by man; for our way of doing social work, where we do not seek "good" but justice and equality; for the constant attention to updating and mutual training. The events we are witnessing, wars, climate crisis, authoritarianism and new fascisms, seem to be throwing us into a present devoid of dreams, into an anguish where no freedom is possible, because anguish and freedom exclude each other. It seems like we live in a world without a future and, as Byung Chul Han writes in Against the Society of Anguish: “where there is no future, there cannot be passion. The present reduced only to itself, without any tomorrow, without any future, is not the temporality of the action that decides for the new beginning. Temporality at most degenerates into a pure optimization of the already present, of what is falsely within reach. Without some horizon capable of offering a meaning, it is not possible to act”. Well, I am convinced that, in its small way, our cooperative fights to rebuild a horizon where passions, meaning and ideas of the future are possible.

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