The Beehive is a project for hosting minors founded in Cascia in 1938 by Blessed Mother Fasce, the historical Abbess of the Monastery of Saint Rita. In its 87 years of history, the Beehive of Saint Rita has become a home, a school and a community. It has been able to constantly adapt to social changes to propose a project that always keeps up with the times, and is able to respond effectively to the needs of minors and young people.
Today, the residential part of the Beehive has been transformed into an educational community, which can host girls from the ages of 11 to 17 who come from families in need and from the social services or from the Juvenile Court in the cases provided for by the law.
Since its establishment, our Foundation has designed and developed communication, awareness and fundraising campaigns to support this historic hosting project by the Monastery of Saint Rita of Cascia.
The project
The facility offers two options:
- 1. Residential support for the Little Bees, as we affectionately call the girls of school age from 6 to 19 years old. A team of educators takes care of them in everyday life, tending to all their needs and guaranteeing these girls all the love possible and a family environment where they can grow up peacefully. We offer them help in studying, health care, psychological support and a specific and personalised food programme. The goal is to allow them to grow in a healthy and protected place, where they can experience functional relationship models.
- 2. After-school activities for the Wild flowers, local boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 11. There is also a team of educators who accompany them with love and dedication, both in doing their homework and in the various moments of play and activities.
The project is dedicated to providing educational services that respond to the individual needs of each minor, accompanying them on a pathway of positive and functional growth. Children and their needs are at the heart of the Beehive’s work, which is carried out according to a philosophy of hospitality that the founder, Mother Fasce, based on love, attention and fundamental guidelines:
- to create a suitable place for children to grow
- to develop their autonomy
- to promote the construction and maintenance of processes that contribute to adequate psycho-physical-social development.
