(Finance) – “On November 25th a #RedSuitCase is for everyone!“. It is with a choral invitation addressed to passengers and air transport staff that Rome airportsthrough its social channels, launched in recent days its campaign in support of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. A symbol of freedom, autonomy, emancipation which goes hand in hand with ADR’s determination to implement concrete actions.
“Working on culture, on civic conscience, on equality has great value and on this we base the initiatives that we launch inside and outside the airport towards our people, the passengers, the population that revolves around our reality”, he states Marco Troncone, CEO of Aeroporti di Roma, a Mundys Group company that manages the Roman airports “GB Pastine” of Ciampino and “Leonardo da Vinci” of Fiumicino. “While we work to change the culture, however, what needs to be done in the present is to be able to offer immediate help to women in difficulty. If every organization, each in its own small community, could do this it would be a huge step forward. As an airport manager with beyond 4 thousand employeesie which impacts daily on a community made up of around 50 thousand people who work in our airports, on a territorial community among the largest in Italy, we feel a strong responsibility to implement concrete actions and from this derives the decision to make our airports of Purple Points: through specific training of airport staff on gender-based harassment and violence created together with the ‘DONNEXSTRADA’ Association, to ensure that women in difficulty and looking for help can find a first aid, support and welcome point in our airports”.
As part of the Aeroporti di Roma projects, the collaboration with “AllxOne“, an association founded in Fiumicino with the aim of support, welcome and guide women who are victims of mistreatment, physical and psychological violence, sexual violence and other forms of abuse and which consists in the financing by Aeroporti di Roma of some listening desks in the area. In this context, the installation of one of the benches against violence that constitute the project for the Fiumicino area of the person appointed by Mayor Federica Cerulli.
A commitment that is part of a broader path that involves staff, partners, institutions and local communities and which has given rise to active collaborations in support of bodies and associations involved in the fight against gender violence. From participation in the “Dis-crimen Dis-criminis” project to raise students’ awareness of the issues of equality and discrimination; to the support for the “Camomilla Award” of #WomenforWomenAgainstViolence which in the last month has been visible on the monitors of the Rome Fiumicino airport, to the sponsorship of the 31st edition of the BestWoman, a marathon scheduled for next December 3rd in Fiumicino, organized by the ASD Atletica Villa Guglielmi.