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.
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.
In Haiti, following the catastrophic earthquake of August 2021 and due to the now endemic poverty, problems of crime on the streets and lack of access to basic services that generate poverty and hunger alternate.
The situation is even more catastrophic in the suburb of Citè Soleil, where the slum of Wharf Jérémie is located and where hunger is at dramatic levels, in a country at the “breaking point”.
The #TheSmileOfWomen project is also starting, together with Elena Miro ‘, thanks to which we are building the future of women in conditions of great fragility welcomed in our CESVI House of Smile in Philippi (Cape Town – South Africa).
The BEST – Bergamo Sport and Territory -project is about to start. It has as protagonists ATS Bergamo, Volley Bergamo 1991, CESVI Foundation, Magic Mirror, and Bergamo Police Headquarters, and has as its objective the protection of children and is aimed at creating a child safeguarding policy in the field of volleyball. The work of […]
The run that celebrates the uniqueness of each individual and the values of inclusiveness and diversity, Run For Inclusion, will be held on 29 and 30 October 2022 in Milan.
Since 2008 Legami has supported CESVI and its projects to fight hunger and protect women and children through the sale of calendars. A very rich collection in different formats and subjects that supports the activities of the House of Smiles in South Africa.
India and, in particular, the Tamil Nadu area, experienced alternating and very serious phases also in 2022 regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, in the spring of 2022, the country proved to be a worrying basin of infections and deaths due to the Coronavirus, with consequences on the return to school and the return to normalcy in the following months.
