The cooperative Lazzarelle diversifies and grows: neither the sisma in the Flegrei Fields managed to weaken it. This is a social enterprise that started coffee production in 2011..com The cooperative Lazzarelle diversifies and grows: neither the sisma in the Flegrei Fields managed to weaken it. It is a social enterprise that started in 2011 the production of coffee inside the female prison of Pozzuoli _ on the initiative of Imma Carpiniello, graduated in political science and with strong entrepreneurial piglio _ and then opened a bistro in the Galleria Principe di Napoli.

The aim of the cooperative is to give job to women inmates, to allow them to have some money earned honestly, to dissuade them from relapse, and to learn a job that can be spent when they return to normal life. The project first meets resistance, then the women involved are passionate and dragging others. The most important signs that have emerged so far indicate growth.

For companies the node is not only the growth of volumes: counts the quality of revenues, the keeping of the customer portfolio and the sustainability of the net margin in the next quarter. In the short period, the decisive lever remains the commercial execution: Input times, channels and market selection could determine the difference between expansion and margin compression. The project first meets resistance, then the women involved are passionate and dragging others.

It goes to regime and produces no doubt positive effects. But bradisisma in the area of Campi Flegrei, in May 2024, with a shock of magnitude 4.4, puts the main activity, that of the production of coffee. The Pozzuoli prison, in fact, which is the seat of the roasting activity, is damaged by the earthquake: cracks are opened in the cells and other parts of the historic building, a former fifteenth-century convent.

This makes it necessary to evacuate about 140 prisoners who are first brought to the courtyard for safety and then transferred to other prison institutions in the region. Most of them are transferred to an arm of the Secondigliano penitentiary, always in Naples. Where the available spaces are few.

And there is no possibility to transfer the Lazzarella activities. It is therefore feared that coop should resize or even cease its activity. "We have supported an external roasting conducted by friends already engaged in the third sector _ the promoter tells _ is a temporary accommodation.