Buoni e Cattivi
Italy
There's a restaurant in Cagliari where the food is good — Slow Food good — and where every dish tells a story. A person who learned a trade starting from scratch, or close to it.
Who they are
Buoni e Cattivi is a social enterprise founded in 2016 by Fondazione Domus de Luna, which has been working in Sardinia since 2005 in the most difficult contexts of social hardship. The name comes from a song the young people in juvenile detention used to sing. With a small change — from "or" to "and" — the meaning shifts: no longer a choice between two opposites, but a recognition. In all of us there is a bit of one and a bit of the other.
From that awareness comes a place where people with very different stories — young people with disabilities, those who have left the penal circuit, mothers building autonomy, refugees — learn a trade and practice it with real professionalism. Today they run three restaurants between Cagliari and the WWF Oasis of Monte Arcosu, with over 80 active workers and more than 300 people trained since 2012.
How it works
Casa Costa Foundation ETS funds two annual internships for young people in disadvantaged situations, placed within the Buoni e Cattivi structures. Twelve months each, built with the cooperative's tutors, measured over time.
This is not a generic contribution: it is an investment in individual journeys. We chose this form because we believe that an internship — when it is serious, supported, designed around the person — is one of the most effective tools we have. And Buoni e Cattivi know how to do it. They have been doing it for fifteen years.
Why we do it
Casa Costa Foundation operates mainly in Alto Adige and Tuscany. Supporting a project in Sardinia is not an exception to our approach: it is a natural extension of it.
Regenerative tourism has no regional boundaries. What Domus de Luna has built in Cagliari and at the Monte Arcosu Oasis — a model where care for people, care for the territory and quality of hospitality hold together — speaks the same language as the project we are building in Val Badia and Val d'Orcia.
Not to duplicate, not to replace: to cross-pollinate. To bring ideas and practices from one territory to another. To see what happens when distant worlds look at each other and recognise something familiar.
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