QENDRA SOCIALE MURIALDO
MURIALDO’S FAMILY
"The Murialdo Social Center (QSM) for the Vocational Training and Education of Young People", based in Fier (Albania), is an educational, humanitarian, non-state, non-profit association promoted by the Congregation of St. Joseph (Giuseppini del Murialdo) based in Rome (Italy) and established under Albanian laws and registered in Fier on 23.03.1995.
This association in the spirit of free exercise as a function of utility and general interest, promotes professional training and all educational, cultural, sporting, artistic, scientific activities, etc., in order to contribute to the process of human self-training, civil, moral, spiritual, as a factor of freedom and responsibility in the social life of the Albanian national community.
Signs of a presence
• The Murialdo Social Center is a proposal open to all and on 09.03.97, in the most difficult moment in the history of the country after the fall of the Communist dictatorship, it managed to organize the meeting of all political parties, local civil authorities, associations and religious faiths, to draw up and launch an appeal for salvation and reconciliation to all the citizens of Fier.
• The local authorities, as a sign of appreciation for the educational activity of young people in the city and province, have given the street-ring road that passes in front of the Center the name of San Leonardo Murialdo, educator. The feast of the Saint on 18.05.99 was characterized by the street naming ceremony with the participation of civil and religious representatives and about 1000 young people, who created a musical show, sports games, and an exhibition of painting and photography.
Collaboration methods
The Murialdo Social Center is in relationship with associations and educational institutions, both Albanian and international.
He is a member of the Albanian NGO forum based in Tirana, as well as one of the initiators of the NGO forum in Fier.
It collaborates with various Albanian and international NGOs in order to create and implement projects for the benefit of young people.
A particular collaboration, from the beginning to the present, has taken care of with the local institutions, the board of directors and the schools of the city of Fier.
A privileged collaboration maintains with the ENGIM, an Italian association that operates non-profit in the field of human promotion through its primary activity which is professional training in Italy and in the world (Spain, United States, Latin America, Romania, India , Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, India ...).
Projects in progress
"Shën Jozefi Zejtar" Multifunctional Professional Center
Professional training center
On 19.02.96 the Murialdo Social Center, in the prefecture of Fier, signed an agreement with the Albanian Ministry of Labor for the creation and implementation of a Professional Training Project. The Agreement was also signed by ENGIM and the Italian Ambassador in Tirana.
The first two-year courses for Electricians, Company Secretaries and Foreign Languages begin on 26.01.97. Each course is made up of twenty young people, ten from the city and ten from the villages.
To date, the Center has qualified over two thousand certified students in different professions such as car mechanic, electrician, electrician, office assistant, plumber, carpenter, duralumin, welder, social worker, graphic design, cutting and sewing.
Currently they are active:
COURSES OF 2 YEARS
For the qualification of professional operator:
- Office management
- Auto mechatronics
- Electrician for civil and industrial systems
1 YEAR COURSES
For the qualification of professional operator:
- Design and Multimedia
- Electrician
- Social Health Operator - OSS
- Catering - Lounge and Bar
- Welder
- Thermohydraulics
SHORT SPECIALIZATION COURSES:
Pastry shop; Informatics; English; Italian; Adjustment – Turner; Graphic design; Accounting; AutoCAD: Household appliances; Alarm systems; Welding; etc.
Professional Institute
With the school year 2022-23, the Center starts the Professional Institute, offering three training profiles for the diploma of:
- Economics - Commerce (accounting)
- Electrical engineering and automation
- Services-Auto-Transport (Auto mechatronics)
Job Orientation Office FIER - "PUNËSIMI FIER"
New business that helps job seekers. Divided into three areas:
Personal orientation
School orientation
Mediator with businesses
Collaboration with ENGIM and the Italian YOUTH-IDEAS associations (competitions and exchange of experiences).
Youth Center - Oratory
The Murialdo Social Center from 04.05.98 until 04.02.2000, with the co-financing of the Italian Ministry of Social Affairs, as part of the intervention in favor of minors in Albania, has launched the Youth Center Project, in order to create a structure organization and the opening of a Youth aggregation center in free time through a series of sporting, cultural, artistic, theatrical, musical and spiritual animation activities.
Every day in the afternoon the Youth Center is open for the children and young people of the city of Fier.
With three teams, the Center takes part in the federal football championship.
With its Albanian and foreign volunteers, the Center also continues to organize mass activities such as the Kite Festival, the Children's Day on June 1st, Summer Camps, Summer Boys.
The Social Office
The Murialdo Social Center contributes to responding to new social challenges.
In October 1996 he started a Promoting Group for Prevention initiatives with a series of activities to prevent the phenomenon of minors exploited and taken abroad for the purpose of begging, drugs and prostitution.
On August 18, 1998, in collaboration with the International Social Service, he launched a project in favor of unaccompanied minors repatriated from Italy.
It was activated during the Cosovar emergency in the spring of 1999, providing assistance with aid (food, clothing and medicines) to 3,000 refugees housed in the city and its surroundings.
With various projects, the commitment to the Roma ethnic group in some suburban villages continues to support their education and integration into society.