“My life was beyond hope. I was thrown into the street with my three children and I was expecting a child. I had lost my confidence, I would have likely taken my own life because of the psychological pressure I was under”. This is how Maryam, a 32-year-old Sudanese refugee and single mother of four, […]
ContinueAt the start PEACE OF ART, charity auction in favour of Cesvi for the Ukraine Emergency
From social networks to a concrete help: as the conflict in Ukraine continues, the Instagram page @putinpeace which in going on to collect artworks and generosity from all over the world as a shout against the Russian invasion, launches from the 1st of April until the 13th, PEACE OF ART, an online charity auction in […]
ContinueUkraine Emergency: Cesvi alongside the population in the country
DONATE NOW FOR THE EMERGENCY IN UKRAINE While attention is focused on the exodus of more than 4 million refugees, the humanitarian conditions inside Ukraine are increasingly dramatic. The country now seems to be split in half: on the one hand, eastern and south-eastern Ukraine, which lives daily with fighting and shelling whose intensity shows […]
ContinueWar in Ukraine: our commitment to refugees
The number of people fleeing the conflict has now exceeded 3.6 million. Over 320,000 have so far found shelter in Hungary. Many are passing through the town of Zahóny, where Cesvi has set up a tent structure that can accommodate up to 10,000 refugees a day and offer a hot meal, Wi-Fi and legal advice. […]
ContinueCesvi in Romania to protect women and children fleeing the war in Ukraine
In partnership with Sos Bambini Romania in the Little Prince Centre in Sighetu Marmației. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, 535,461 refugees have crossed into Romania (UNHCR) – through the three official border entry points and from Moldova, which many refugees transit through before arriving in the country. One of the border crossings […]
ContinuePalestine: a safer home for Rima and her family
The people of the Gaza Strip, more than 2 million people at present, have been living with war for many years: trapped in this densely populated strip of land, at the mercy of shelling, without a safe place to take refuge and without access to welfare services and basic means of livelihood, many Palestinian civilians […]
ContinueCovid-19, Cesvi: two years fighting against the emergency in Bergamo and in the world
The shortage of masks and medical devices, social isolation, the fear of first leaving home and then losing their jobs. Two years after the beginning of the Covid-19 emergency and on the occasion of the dramatic recurrence of the National Day in Memory of the Victims of the Coronavirus Epidemic (18th of March), Cesvi recalls […]
ContinueCesvi in Hungary: the first Entry Point Hub is operational in Záhony
Záhony – a small Hungarian town two kilometres from the border with Ukraine – has become the place where, for thousands of refugees, fear gives way to hope. You can read it in their faces, which finally relax and at least for a moment light up with a smile. A smile full of the joy […]
ContinueUkraine Emergency, Záhony: a tent to bring back hope
The small town of Záhony has always been a peaceful place in the Hungarian countryside a few kilometres from the border with Ukraine. But on 24 February, everything changed. Záhony is the main access point to Hungary for tens of thousands of refugees fleeing a war that has already forced almost 3 million people to […]
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