Generazione bellezza (english version)

The Rebirth of the Spanish Quarters - April 12, 2023 One of the neighborhoods with the highest school dropout rates in Europe and an abandoned convent. The FOQUS project in the Spanish Quarters puts the school at its center, but everything else unfolds in a blaze of art, creativity, cuisine, and Neapolitan hospitality. In the heart of Naples' Spanish Quarters, in a gigantic, now empty and semi-abandoned 16th-century convent, a group of private individuals and visionaries decided in 2009 to invest in development, starting with schools and children, creating the Foqus Project. GenerAzione Bellezza meets with Rachele Furfaro and Renato Quaglia, two dreamers and founders of Foqus, to discuss how an innovative social change project can be created in a socially vulnerable neighborhood, home to more than 50,000 people and 10% of Naples' children. Where school dropouts account for 33% of students between the ages of 8 and 15, one of the highest rates in Europe. In Foqus, new training and job opportunities are being created for the neighborhood's young mothers, empowering them to become independent entrepreneurs in their own lives. Art, beauty, creativity, events, and culture are all encapsulated in the courtyard of the old Neapolitan convent. But beauty never stops; it begets more beauty, and today the neighborhood welcomes tourists, with murals dedicated to Totò and small squares dedicated to Maradona. A renovated and safe neighborhood, rich in tradition and history, a neighborhood that believes in its future.