La Sorgente Società Cooperativa Sociale

The cooperative La Sorgente has been working in Val d'Aosta since 1990. We have developed services for people, and meet the following needs:

• families and children from 0 to 3 years of age;
• foreign immigrants and their families;
• self-sufficient and non-self-sufficient OAPs.

We have also developed residential and catering services: the Piccolo Albergo di Comunità and the Intrecci restaurant are two enterprises we provide for the people of Aosta.

In addition to several institutional activities developed as part of a convention with the local authority, our cooperative also provides:

• La Bonne Famille, a planning and mediation service for the social services (licensed by the Employment Department as a way of providing mediation work);
• Ali e Radici (Wings and Roots). An intercultural mediation service for hospitals, social centres, and schools, which also provides translation and interpreting services; also organises cultural events;

Our cooperative has also been certified ISO 9001 since 2000. Among our many initiatives, we can also count International events (University of Warsaw).

The fact that we have so many intercultural mediators means that local services can be used by a lot more people (languages available: Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Romanian, and Albanian, in addition to the main European languages such as English, French, German, Polish, Spanish, and Portuguese).