Festa dei nonni: Ragusa province get 42,000 to 46,000 active grandparents, Nonsi note talk

Festa nazionale dei nonni na 2 October, and Ragusa Oggi talk say law 159 of 31 July 2005 set am up officially, to celebrate 'the importance of the role wey nonni dey play inside families and society in general'. The law fix the date 2 October and invite schools and local bodies to promote initiatives on the relationship between generations. For Ragusa province, the Nonsi (Nonni Smart Italia) note wey Novetv and Corriere di Ragusa carry talk say on 321,000 inhabitants, over 65 na about 68,000, na about 20-21% of the whole population, with provincial old-age index of 161 elders to every 100 young people under 14. But the same note warn say make person no mistake am: Istat no dey census grandparents, because their status na family relationship, so e hard to count am as a role. The figures na demographic data for elderly residents, the note tok.

The Nonsi note come follow with estimate: national Istat surveys show say small pass 70% of people wey pass 65 get at least one grandchild, so the note talk say, in Ragusa province, between 42,000 and 46,000 active grandparents dey. Nonsi call their work 'multiservizi' — emotional support for families when crisis dey, economic support, and shared memory for new generations. The same note talk say nearly half of Italian families dey depend on grandparents for the daily management of children, and say one family out of three dey use their contribution. Nonsi also point to 'nonni sociali', grandparents wey dey do volunteer work to support minors wey dey difficulty or wey dey face educational poverty. And the Nonsi note as Novetv and Corriere di Ragusa carry am describe the safety and the resilience wey grandparents dey give as one function 'wey person fit call terapeutica'.

Ragusa Oggi, with consolidated Istat territorial data for 2024, give anoda angle. The average age for Ragusa province na 44.5 years, against 45.7 for Sicily and 44.8 for Catania — na the lowest for the island. But for 2023 e be 44.3, so e rise by two-tenths in just twelve months. The old-age index wey Ragusa Oggi cite for Ragusano in 2024 na about 160 people wey reach 65 for every 100 youths up to 14; one year before e be 156, while the Sicilian average reach 184.2. So the province still younger pass the region, but e dey age.

Wetin Ragusa Oggi describe dey happen every morning: grandparents dey accompany grandchildren to school, dey pick dem after, dey carry dem go football, dance or catechism, dey allow parents join work shifts with family. Ragusa Oggi talk say na welfare wey no dey enter public budgets and no dey show for payslip, and e get weight for province wey get cities wey close but also countryside, frazioni and small centres. The same outlet note the other side: grandparents today dey live longer, dem often dey help children and grandchildren at the same time as dem dey face their own age needs, so dem go need services, assistance and policies wey dem dedicate to dem. On memory, Ragusa Oggi talk say many grandparents for the province na last direct witnesses of land wey different — countryside without machines, big families, emigration, poverty, reconstruction, then the big economic and social change — and dem move from house wey no get telephone to smartphone video call with grandchildren. As for next step, the sources only talk the law invitation to schools and local bodies to do initiatives; no other Ragusa event dey for the material.