"I was twelve years old when I got married. After my father's death, my mother remarried and my father-in-law forced her to give me to a 74-year-old man as a wife. I was little and I don't remember much of that period. I wanted to go to school and my husband agreed. But, we lived in the country and the school was far away. So, I remained illiterate" (...)
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Twelve-year-old Mirwais has been in the Kapisa orphanage for several years. His father was killed while fighting against the Taliban. A year later, his mother also died of an illness, which Mirwais called "yellow-eye disease", probably a form of hepatitis. This is how he described his family situation, "My father died in the war and my mother from illness. So, I'm fatherless and motherless" (...)
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As a child, Nazifa longed to study, but was never able to go to school. She felt that she was missing something important saying, "I sometimes felt as if I had a veil over my eyes. I also got into trouble because I couldn't read". There were too many things she could not understand or know. While doing household chores one day, she threw away some of her parent's important documents because they just looked like ordinary paper to her (...)
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Aqela, twenty-nine years old, waits for us on the street. She wears a black coat and a long black skirt. A black scarf leaves uncovered only her wonderful blue eyes. We walk with her down a street too narrow and steep for cars. We cross a gate and two small courtyards, and then we slip into a room. The room is gloomy. The red carpet on the floor is worn out. A mezzanine barely allows you to stand. There is only one window, very small, hidden by the curtains. A neon light makes the faces and her story more heartbreaking (...)
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This project targets those deprived of the dignity to which every human being is entitled and those who are about to drown in the waves of one of the world's greatest humanitarian catastrophes.
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CWE is the emergency program launched by NOVE contributing to the survival of women heads of households, their children and other people in a highly vulnerable state.
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This project involved a path of action designed to assist and promote the social and professional inclusion of 90 Afghan refugees who arrived in Italy in August 2021.
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