Cooperazione, Emergenza e Sviluppo
In the Houses of Smiles around the world and in Italy, our operators help children and mothers in difficult situations every day and have stories full of hope to tell. Like Lucia’s story. “Thanks to the Case del Sorriso program I was able to make my children understand the importance of school and today my eldest daughter is in her fourth year of high school”.
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In Peru, a fundamental component of the House of Smile project consists in the job placement of the beneficiaries, who are adolescents and young mothers with a history of violence and abuse, often without any family support. We talked about it with Glenda Quiroz, a job placement specialist in Lima within the CESVI project.
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It is common, during the summer months, that CESVI cooperators engaged abroad spend a holiday in Italy and spend a few days at the Bergamo office for business meetings and greetings to colleagues. On one of these occasions Samuele Silva, CESVI contact person in South Africa, told the main news regarding Philippi’s Casa del Sorriso (not far from Cape Town), the CESVI project which aims to offer, as well as welcome and protection to young people mothers who are victims of domestic violence and their children, the possibility for them of a path of rebirth and redemption that also includes looking for a job and obtaining economic independence.
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In a country increasingly afflicted by the climate crisis and a dramatic famine, many people find themselves living on the street. Even young people and children find themselves having to face the difficulties of not having a home. The story of Brandon and Tendai, welcomed in Harare’s House of Smiles, has a happy ending. Thanks to our operators, the life of these two street children has returned to being dignified and serene.
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Palucia is a 22-year-old young mother. While her baby of 9 months, Dalo Leo, is sleeping – “an active and intelligent boy who requires much attention”, according to his mother – we can interview her with a little more calm. Palucia has a bright smile, that reflects her finally peaceful mind: Her tragic past is […]
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Dande Darpa Khel is a village in tehsil Miran Shah, North Waziristan. In 2014, the little town was severely affected by the instabilities in north-western Pakistan, which forced over 5 million people into displacement in the whole country, including the 17,500 inhabitants of Dande Darpa Khel, who could come back to their village only in […]
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Amidst a global pandemic, the political crisis and the effects of climate change, Cesvi stands by the side of the people of the Dry Zone in Myanmar. Over the past two years, the people of Myanmar have been facing the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic which affected more than 450,000 people and caused over 17,000 […]
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In June 2014, instabilities in north-western Pakistan forced over 5 million people into displacement, leaving their homes and all their belongings in the hope of finding shelter and safety in neighbouring regions. Among them, there were also the 2,320 inhabitants of the small village of Gul Akram Kot, in North Waziristan. Following the unrest, they […]
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“We were living a simple and happy life before the 2017 drought”, tells us Nadifo, a 30-year-old woman, mother of 4 children aged between 7 months to 6 years, who at the time of the Sima drought that hit Somalia was forced to leave with her whole family their hut to find shelter in a […]
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