A community of individuals, families, educators, professionals, and volunteers who share a common commitment: to support children, young people, and adults in challenging circumstances.
Our commitment is rooted in deep connections, daily care and a belief in everyone’s potential.
Cometa is a life that grows through the people it meets: it welcomes and educates children and young people without forgetting any part of their story; it involves families and supports them through difficulties, it forges bonds, and it expresses care through attention to detail and beauty, as a response to each person’s deepest desires.
It began with a simple gesture: welcoming a child in need in 1986 gradually became a shared journey that today embraces schools, educational services, and inclusive workplaces.
A non-profit organization that supports children, young people, and adults on a path of growth, in a place where each person can discover their uniqueness and become fully themselves.
Our values
A shared vision that guides our actions
Everyone is embraced in their entirety and history: at Cometa, they can feel at home. To welcome means to believe in each person’s potential and to walk alongside them, with respect and trust, sharing daily life.
Experience as an opportunity for self-discovery. Our educational approach is built on hands-on learning, which fosters understanding through practice and direct experience: from doing to knowing.
Every person is unique and irreplaceable. We welcome individuals for who they are, support them in becoming their true selves, and help them discover their own excellence.
Beauty is a longing in every human heart. For us, it is a way of life: a constant attention to detail and a guiding principle in our daily actions.
To be challenged by reality: the longing for a truer humanity.
A network of organizations collaborating to promote the common good through care, education, work, and inclusion.
Founded in 2000 from the experience of a group of families and friends in foster care, it supports and accompanies families in welcoming children and young people, promoting a culture of welcome.
An educational service open to the local community, welcoming children and young people aged 6 to 14 and offering personalized support to minors and their families.
It brings together different areas of Cometa, including the Oliver Twist School, the career guidance and employment office, inclusive workplaces and the international division.
It promotes the knowledge and practice of sports, recreational, cultural, and educational activities, placing personal growth at the center.
Founded in Como in 2000, it is an organization dedicated to promoting a culture centered on the person and on welcome.
A community of people who organize events and fundraising campaigns to support Cometa’s educational, social, and vocational activities.
We guide each person through a custom educational and work pathway, in environments intentionally designed to help them realize their full potential.
Our resources, our responsibility: browse our social reports and documents on public funding to see how we transform the support we receive into value for the community.
Your expertise can help build a future for many children and young people. Join us: view our open positions and submit your application to become part of Cometa.
What we do
Cometa is a place where every person can feel loved, expected and wanted while discovering their own worth
Welcome
The first step is to feel at home
Welcoming means guiding children, young people and families with attentive listening, genuine care and shared daily experience
Education
Learning by doing, growing together
School, workshops, projects, and work: our educational pathways start from experience to help each person find their own way, developing both knowledge and self-awareness
Work
Work as possibility, discovery, self-creation
Workplaces that offer young people and individuals with disabilities or vulnerabilities the opportunity to challenge themselves, acquire skills, and receive practical guidance into the professional world
