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CHANCE TO RETURN TO THE OLD COUNTRY
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Project
Return is a 1.5 million Euro project sponsored by the Italian government
which offers Argentines of Italian descent a chance to return to the
land and culture of their ancestors. Project Return offers Italo-Argentines
a free plane ticket, start up housing costs and a job in the Veneto region. This project is a way to help some of the ethnic
Italians who have suffered unemployment during the recent Argentine
crisis.
Carlo Antich is an Argentine of Italian
extraction who is now living in Italy and working at the Electrolux-Zanussi
refrigerator plant in Feltre. In 1918 his
family immigrated to Argentina to find work and a more prosperous
life. Despite their happiness and success in Argentina, they were
nostalgic for Italy. Antich is the first member of the Bolgan
family who has had the opportunity to return to Italy.
Each participant in Project Return must be an Italian citizen. Along
with a job offer, Italo-Argentines are given
two weeks of lessons in Italian language, history and traditions before
leaving for their new home in the Old Country. Take home pay is about
1,100 Euros a month. Within the first year of the job, participants
have the ability to bring their wives and children to Italy.
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COLLEGES
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Italian
Americans founded some of America’s oldest colleges and universities.
The University of Santa Clara was founded by two Italian Jesuits,
John Nobili and A. Accolti
in 1851 with only $150. Gonzaga University in Washington state was founded by a Jesuit
priest, Joseph Cataldo, in 1881. St. Bonaventure’s College, one of the best and well-known small
colleges in New York state was founded by Father Pamphilius.
Source: The National Italian American Foundation.
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