Bari, Italy - July 2017 - An educational path attended by 250 young people from 12 June to 15 July has just ended. The children participated in sports, theatrical and artistic workshops. The novelty was the fencing workshop organized under the project "A thrust for life" by the Army's Southern Operations Command in collaboration with the Puglia Episcopal Conference, the University of Bari, the Region's school department, and Federscherma, Italy's fencing federation. About 60 young volunteers from Bari's secondary schools gave their educational input as part of their school + work project, alongside the Oratory's young animators and parents. Fr Francesco Preite, director of the Salesian House of the Redeemer of Bari, commented: "The Youth Summer Camp was a great workshop of civic education towards the common good. Playing in the 'Mimmo Bucci' garden meant bringing hope for change into the neighborhood. It was an action of a unique spiritual and social beauty that our Don Bosco taught us: to be good Christians and honest citizens."