The story of Brandon and Tendai: in Zimbabwe we fight against hunger and for a better education

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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Rising violence, poverty and cholera epidemic: Haiti in the grip of a “humanitarian catastrophe”

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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”.

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BEST, Bergamo Sport and Territory, a project for a healthy and safe sport

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 […]

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Updates from the Houses of Smiles in India: resume normality and school routine in Tamil Nadu

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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.

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Charity night 2022: a great result for solidarity

Great success for the CESVI Foundation Charity night 2022 which was held on Thursday 15 September at Kilometro Rosso – Innovation District – in Bergamo and which collected 80,000 euros in donations to support the Case del Sorriso around the world, places where children who are victims of poverty, neglect and neglect can receive care, protection, and love.

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