Resilient Ameera

Ameera

Ameera sits in the cool and dim meeting room in Cesvi’s office premise. The windows have drawn curtains, shielding the place from Libya’s soaring summer temperatures. She recounts her personal journey in the presence of a Cesvi psychologist and her dedicated case worker who have been supporting and seeing her and her son for the […]

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Cesvi integrates a new resilience-focused approach in its protection services

Awareness session on GBV prevention held in Misrata

In 2020 alone and not considering the consequences of the global COVID-19 pandemic, 59 countries have been affected by humanitarian crises. In this scenario, the humanitarian community is called to play a role of utmost importance in crisis contexts around the world. It goes beyond the provision of life-saving assistance, to embrace a broader approach […]

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Annual Report 2020: the numbers of our transparency

Cesvi’s 2020 Annual Report is now public. The report represents the punctual description of the projects and interventions carried out in 23 countries over the past year. 2020 has dramatically been characterised by the pandemic, social distancing, global lockdowns. Cesvi has carried out 97 emergency and/or development projects in 4 continents. We have reached more […]

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Unstoppable Malika

Malika showing a dessert she produced.

“I am a rural girl; I got married at the age of 16 and my father taught me how to drive using a Peugeot car”. The incipit of Malika’s story could be the opening line of a coming-of-age novel. But her story is much more than this. The now 47-year-old Libyan woman was sent off […]

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MEET – Mentoring Experiences to Empower territories

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Since 2017, Cesvi is implementing educational interventions to support migrant women and mothers living in territories densely populated by immigrants, with low incomes and lack of access to social services. Cesvi works in Zingonia, an urban area in Lombardy, located between Milan and Bergamo, where the presence of foreign citizens (mostly families with children between […]

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