Riopen, in the Albergheria district, a few steps from the historic Ballarò market in the center of Palermoafter the winter break and a very successful first season, the ice cream bar which is now a hymn to integration.
BarConiwhose name brings together the ice cream And immigrationis in fact the first restaurant in Italy run entirely by migrants.
In Palermo there is BarConi, the first bar run only by migrants
A social-work inclusion project born a year ago and which already has a very loyal and numerous clientele. Born from an idea of Many facessocial enterprise which on its official website is described as follows: «We promote food as a tool for dialogue between different people and cultures.
We believe in a world without borders, where every person has the right to move to follow their dreams and satisfy their needs regardless of where they were born».
BarConi, in Palermo is the first bar-ice cream parlor in Italy entirely run by migrants (Instagram)
Social enterprise hymn to integration
Born in 2014 by a group of people from 8 different countries, Moltivolti specializes in food from around the world and has the aim of integrating within the economic community of the market young Palermitans together with migrant men and women from Central Africa and the Maghreb.
It is a reality that thrives on many activities in the same area: there is, in fact, the Sicilian-ethnic restaurant and the coworking in the headquartersThe bed & breakfasts and the café Elsewhere a few meters from the Monastery of Santa Caterina with its pastry shop The secrets of the cloister.
In Palermo, an ice cream that crosses borders
Bar.coni is the ultimate challenge which Moltivolti has set itself the goal of winning, creating autonomous skills for these people who have come to Italy to seek a better future. The local was the bet of Antonio Cappadonia, one of the best-known gelato masters in Italy who provided the raw material and technical support.
From the Ivory Coast, however, come Malik, Leslie Assie Chacou and Essoh Essi Armelle Christine, not even twenty years old, who welcome anyone with a smile that lights up the space around them.
Because BarConi is not always a negative word
BarConi was created thanks to the support of Fred Foundation based in the Netherlands and of the Swiss Haiku Foundation Lugano and already starting from the chosen name it aims at requalify a word which in recent years has sadly taken on a negative meaning.
Africa and Sicily, tastes are savored together
The ice cream itself unites Sicilian and African ingredients putting together, for example, peanut butter, a typical product of African cuisine, lemon peel, but also puffed rice, a cereal common to both African and Sicilian traditions.
And in addition to enjoying an excellent ice cream, you can also have breakfast with a touba, the Senegalese spiced coffeeor a bissap, iced hibiscus tea in a cultural mix that is good for body and mind.
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