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 […]
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 […]
Continue“We were living a simple and happy life”. The testimony of Nadifo from Somalia, affected by the climate crisis
“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 […]
ContinueWe were in March, some years ago…
“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 […]
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 […]
ContinueCesvi and Rires’ resilience approach in Libya on Child Abuse & Neglect journal
A great achievement rewarding the fruitful collaboration between Cesvi and the Resilience Research Unit (Rires) from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy). The prestigious scientific magazine “Child Abuse & Neglect” has published this December the article “Principle-driven program design versus manualized programming in humanitarian settings”, authored by Francesca Giordano from Università Cattolica and Michael Ungar […]
ContinueOur commitment against Covid-19 does not stop
Cesvi publishes the report describing its commitment during the Covid-19 emergency. Download it here to find out about all of the actions implemented to tackle the pandemic in Italy and in the world. Covid-19 has returned to scare the whole of Italy. The epidemic does not stop and the numbers continue to rise exponentially, making […]
ContinueCoronavirus and the elderly: more than 1,000 over-65s helped in Bergamo and Milan
Two projects to help the elderly in Bergamo and Milan. Workers and volunteers providing home deliveries of groceries, meals, and medicines.
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