is an association of:

• voluntary service
• social Christian inspiration
• without the sake of gain

C.O.E.S.:

works for over thirty years for the human, social, cultural and professional promotion of Emigrants, Immigrants and their Families.

C.O.E.S.:

• carries out plans and organizes some meetings as regards emigration and immigration problem.
• suggests some provisions and enterprises to the Institutional Organs for the protection and the support of the migrants.
• organizes demonstrations to reinforce the original cultural values of the migrants.
• organizes learning travels and stays in colonies and campings for Emigrants' sons and organizes tours in Sicily of grown-up people emigrants.
• develops an action of information about the emigration problem through a periodic newspaper, called "Siciliani nel Mondo" (Sicilian people in the world).
• organizes courses of languages, general culture, qualification and professional adjournment.
• puts in practice a service of social and legal assistance for the access to the regional and national laws.

C.O.E.S. works:

in Sicily, through

• the Regional Seat
• the Provincial Delegations
• the Municipal Delegations

in the other Italian Regions, through

• the Regional Delegations
• the Municipal Delegations
• the sticking Associations

abroad, through

• Delegations in places where there are sicilian people
• the sticking Associations

in the Institutional Organs:

• the Regional Consulta of Emigration and Immigration
• the Municipal Committees of Emigration and Immigration
• the COM.IT.ES.