Lavender Sugar - Cambalache

 Flavored sugar for use in cookie dough or cakes, or to sweeten tea. Lavender sourced from the APS Cambalache community gardens. Grown and processed, it creates employment opportunities for young people, women, and refugees.

 Origin: Italy, Piedmont
 Format: 100g
 Ingredients*: Sugar 96%, Lavender 4%
 *Aromatic herbs from the Cambalache APS community gardens. Cultivated and processed, they create employment opportunities for young people, women, and refugees.

 The Cooperative: Since its inception in 2011, Cambalache has been at the forefront of welcoming and assisting asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection. From 2012 to 2019, it managed extraordinary reception projects (CAS), and from 2016 to 2018, in a temporary consortium with Coompany & Soc. Coop. and the Associazione Comunità San Benedetto al Porto, it was the managing body for the SPRAR project, also in the Municipality of Alessandria. In this role, in addition to ensuring reception, it accompanied beneficiaries through all legal and administrative procedures and provided them with linguistic, cultural, and healthcare assistance. Aiming to create effective inclusion paths, Cambalache emphasizes the training of those assisted, through professionalization, retraining, and growth programs, with a focus on career guidance, active citizenship, and learning Italian. To enhance the social impact of hospitality, it promotes volunteering, training for staff, and awareness-raising activities among residents.