 The Casa dello scugnizzo offerered hospitality, boarding, education and moral support to the young and homeless, taking the place of the family.The education given to the young has as aim the single individual's engagement in relationship to the needs of the community to whom it belongs and, with the help of public charities, in a few months the boys are lifted from the burden of work to leave space to schooling and professional training.«…Mario is an uncommon priest, who becomes a street urchin “like them” by taking off his talar, when the Little Brothers of Charles de Foucauld and their experience of incarnation is still in the future.