Magliette personalizzate: stampiamo il tuo progetto in cooperative sociali, facciamo del bene insieme!

Custom T-Shirts: We Print Your Project in Social Cooperatives, Let's Do Good Together!

What does it mean to print in social cooperatives? 

At Ape we have a mission: to do good. 

There are so many ways to do good, we have decided to do it along our entire production chain. 

The production chain for one of our t-shirts begins with the choice of material, in this article we told you about it added value of our craftsmanship

Our t-shirts are like a painter's canvases waiting to welcome a new masterpiece. 

For this phase of production we have chosen to print in social cooperatives. Social cooperatives are social enterprises that are born with the aim of pursuing the general interest of the community through human promotion and social integration of citizens with difficulties.

Through our choice we give work to fragile people and we come into contact with them, this allows us to know their stories and become part of a single community. 

The collaboration we want to tell you about is the one with Don Marco Ferrari. Don Marco gave us these words that tell where his desire to print such a strong belief on t-shirts comes from.

“I don’t know what, but words and reality have something in common, like a red thread, as if the same blood ran through them” (D. Mencarelli, Sempre ritorno).

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I am Don Marco Ferrari, a priest since 2017, in charge of youth ministry and vicar in Turate and Rovello Porro. Everything comes from here, from the reality that I live comes what I want to tell you. The torchlight procession has always been a tradition here, where I am involved in the ministry: boys who run passing the baton, a lit torch. Starting from a sanctuary to their oratory, spending beautiful and intense days of brotherhood and prayer. There is a fire that is passed from hand to hand but it is a fire already lit that comes down from above. Jesus invokes the fire from above that renews, rather than destroys: a fire already lit that renews humanity and everything. "The fire must burn", wrote Saint Catherine of Siena. The fire must burn in the heart more than in the lives of the boys,

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To buy the Don Marco Ferrari t-shirt click here !

flowing through the hands, passing from hand to hand, from heart to heart, blazing and renewing life. The torchlight procession as an experience is not life, but it helps to make a passage. The passage in life is made in fire, always: a passage is never painless because it leaves something behind and opens up new, unexpected scenarios. The torchlight procession in the journey of my communities is slowly taking shape as a passage in the lives of the boys from one group to another, from one experience to another. What can never be missing is that fire lit that comes down from above which is Jesus' desire for a true, new, living humanity: "how I wish it were already lit!".

We are very proud and fond of this collaboration and in particular of the possibility of realizing projects whose message we share. 

Tell us: what is the message you would like to shout out loud?  Wear it so you don't lose your voice! 

Write to us at info@apesocialwear.it and let's make your project happen together!

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