In Rome, "Social Carpentry" Is A Tool For Integration The non-profit organization ''ALI - Free Home Reception'' is hosted by some young migrants from the K_Alma Social Carpentry workshop to build wooden houses and wooden objects. - Matteo Nardone/Pacific Press/ZUMA A unique project in the Italian capital brings together experienced carpenters to share their skills and knowledge with asylum seekers and the unemployed. ROME — It goes without saying that what K_Alma is trying to accomplish is not simple. But it also — and above all — carries a unique human, environmental, social and political vision. For the past three years, in its headquarters in central Rome, K_Alma has brought together volunteer carpenters to teach their profession to asylum seekers, refugees and unemployed Italians, offering them free formal and informal education opportunities, self-training, self-expression and knowledge. What the group practices, in other words, is social carpentry.