“We were in March, some years ago. One day, around mid-afternoon, a mini bus almost full of people rushed in the Jazeera Health Centre, located about 20km out of Mogadishu. There was a pregnant woman in final labour contraction, ready to deliver her baby. We immediately put her in a birthing room, but I soon […]
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Dhiban is a fifteen-year-old young woman living in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in El-Dhanan in the Jazeera zone, Somalia. Because of a cholera outbreak in her village, she has lost both her parents at the age of four. Alone and with no family, Dhiban was given in custody to her aunt who […]
ContinueShaping the future: Dreams and hopes of children in Misrata
Always committed to child protection and to the promotion of the fundamental rights of children – especially through the programme Houses of Smiles active in many countries around the world – today Cesvi Foundation intervenes also in support of the resilience process of vulnerable boys and girls, their parents and caregivers in Western Libya through […]
ContinueThanks to her shop, Hibaaq finds hope for the future of her family
Like many other regions in Somalia, Hobyo district is experimenting an ongoing critical situation. The constant threat of drought and desert locust infestations have destroyed the pasture and incredibly worsened the conditions of the livestock. As a consequence, many rural households living in the countryside have been forced to displace into the main villages in […]
ContinueResilient 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 […]
ContinueRising To The Challenges. Support for the communities affected by 2020 floods in Pakistan
Cesvi, together with Alliance2015 partners ACTED and Concern Worldwide, has been working to help over 20,000 beneficiaries affected by floods in Pakistan.
ContinueUnstoppable Malika
“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 […]
ContinueDriving towards resilience: a displaced widow regains hope in conflict-affected Libya
Samira is poised and fierce, as she recalls how she used to live before the war. Ten years ago, she would have never anticipated losing her way of living: elegant clothing, dinners in restaurants, a beautiful house. But the richness of her family attracted the attention of the militias. They stormed and ravaged her home, […]
ContinueSupport to the rural community Wadi Al-Salqa in the Gaza Strip
Wadi Al-Salqa is a rural community located south of Deir al-Balah in the Middle Area Governorate, adjacent to the eastern borders (Access Restricted Area) of the Gaza Strip. More than half of the community has no access to any source of income and depends on external aids. People in this area have lack access to […]
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