With the name "Agape Association", an association constituted pursuant to articles 60 and following of the Swiss civil code.
The Association has its headquarters in Bioggio. It can be transferred with a simple decision of the Management Committee.
The Association is a non -partisan and in charge and does not pursue profit. The duration is unlimited.

Promote and create reception, care and support services for childhood and adolescence in an educational, family and community context.
Promote support to families and their specific needs in collaboration with the institutional and/or private services existing in the area.
Support everything related to the promotion of family and youth policy and training.
Promote and develop the continuous professional training as well as take action in the loan of qualitatively and operationally acknowledgment for public or private bodies that request it in the context of the social purpose.
Participate and/or collaborate with associations and entities present in the area that pursue similar or similar purposes.

They can adhere to Agape as active members therefore with the right to vote:
• natural persons who intend to promote the intentions of the association with active collaboration.
• natural persons who use the structure.
• The legal, commercial, public utility, of public or public interest that promote the activity in the form of cooperation.
They can also adhere to Agape as passive members therefore without voting rights, but with the right of speech:
• the natural and legal sympathizing persons.

The application for adhesion of the new shareholders must be submitted in writing to the Steering Committee, to which the competence of decision is responsible for. At the time of admission, the new partner receives a copy of the statutes.
The quality of shareholder is acquired with the payment of the first social fee.
The quality of partner is lost:
• with the voluntary renunciation of the shareholder, who takes place by submitting, in writing, by the end of the civil year, his resignation to the Committee, with thirty days preparation.
• For non -payment of social contributions, in particular for the non -payment of the annual social tax.
Taking the belonging, the quality of shareholder decays and he loses all rights.

The exclusion of a shareholder can be pronounced by the Committee if the shareholder contravene evidently and seriously for the purposes of the same or is in default with the payment of the social tax.

Each active member has the right to one vote.
Any form of representation is excluded. Legal persons exercise their right to vote through a member of their boarding body, having the right of individual signature.

The main financial resource of the Association is the annual social share established during the ordinary General Assembly, which is paid every year by the shareholders, as well as by any other form of funding decided by the Committee.
Other resources of the Association are composed of: voluntary contributions and donations from members and third parties; contributions and subsidies from public bodies and parapubblicic; revenues from initiatives promoted by the Association itself and by consultancy to municipalities.

The bodies of the Association are:

1. the shareholders' meeting
2. the Committee
3. The review body

The shareholders' meeting is made up of all the members who actually participate in the meeting.

The social assembly is the supreme organ of the association and is convened at least once a year in ordinary session and whenever the committee or at least one fifth of the shareholders requires it, in an extraordinary session.

The convocation must take place in writing by communicating the treaties, the place and time of the meeting.

The resolutions are taken by a simple majority of the votes of the members present, since the assembly always validly established, regardless of the number of members present.

Under the competence of the social assembly are:

• the appointment of the President of the Sala and the Coagnators;
• the approval of the report of the previous session;
• the approval of the annual management of accounts, as well as the approval of the annual accounts;
• the appointment of the Committee and the auditors;
• the unloading of the Committee;
• the revision of the statutes;
• any other decision that is reserved for it by law or by the statutes.

The Committee is made up of 3 to 7 members.

It appoints the president, the vice-president, the secretary and the cashier within it.

The committee, inside, can also provide for the following offices:

• Educational lines responsible
• activity manager
• Research and development manager
• Administration / Finance and Logistics Manager

The Committee is appointed by the Shareholders' Meeting for three years. Each function can be re -elected.

The Committee is responsible for the good performance of the Association and can delegate precise tasks to members or third parties.

The Committee organizes in the most appropriate way the activity of the social year, proposes the calendar, sets the deadlines and communicates the date of the ordinary assembly.

Examines and evaluates proposals or complaints of the shareholders and takes adequate measures.

The Committee can validly deliberate only when at least half of its members are present. The decisions will take place by simple majority of the votes expressed by the members present. In the event of a tie, the vote of the president counts double.

Those these statutes have formally entered into force with the decision of the ordinary general assembly of 27 December 2019 and replace the previous versions.

The revision of the statutes is the responsibility of the Shareholders' Meeting of the Association and needs the qualified majority of two thirds of the members present.