Livia Maurizi – Director of NOVE Caring Humans: 'We don’t break down walls; we dig through them from the inside, patiently, until the light begins to filter through.' Livia Maurizi is an international cooperation professional with solid experience in designing, managing, and developing partnerships in complex and highly fragile contexts. Trained as an economist, with [...] Read More >>

Susanna Fioretti – Co-founder of NOVE Caring Humans: “I don’t give up easily when faced with ‘no’s” Susanna Fioretti has worked for a music publishing company, in the General Directorate’s secretariat at ENEA, and as coordinator of an environmental protection project in Greece. At the same time, she obtained a diploma as a volunteer nurse [...] Read More >>

Work as Resistance. The Story of Shehzadgi. Violence does not always leave visible marks. Sometimes it takes the form of silence, dependence, or the inability to choose. It is the first form of violence: economic violence, which traps women when they are deprived of the means to support themselves, to study, and to work. In [...] Read More >>

The photo is published for illustrative purposes only The rebirth of a mother. Nazanin’s story Nazanin is 37 years old, comes from the province of Kabul, and is illiterate. Two years ago, she became a widow: her husband died of electrocution while working. But the real burden, the one that had been carving into her [...] Read More >>

Little Ayeda saved thanks to an extraordinary network of solidarity Little Ayeda has landed at Palermo’s “Falcone e Borsellino” airport. She is two years old and affected by Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis type 1 (PFIC1), a rare and very severe genetic liver disease. We at NOVE were there together with PFIC Italia Network ODV to [...] Read More >>

Regaining their freedom: the story of Munisa and Deeba Munisa is not sure she remembers how old she was when she got married. She is now 38, with three daughters under the age of 13 and a 3-year-old son. The girls, Deeba, 12, Shiba, 10, and Husna, 8, are all in second grade because of [...] Read More >>

"Cumbersome bureaucracy, inadequate Italian courses, lack of recognition of qualifications, difficult access to scholarships at universities, insurmountable obstacles to renting a house. Every day we see the limits and problems of the welcoming in Italy on the skin of the refugees we follow'. Telling from the inside the concrete and harmful problems that hinder [...]Telling [...] Read More >>

"One of the peculiarities of Futuro Presente is to integrate what local actors in the five regions involved in the project are doing for the people included in the project: interventions conceived and designed ad hoc in response to each person's needs", explains Rosanna Pricoco, coordinator of Futuro Presente / Future Present. The collaboration between [...] Read More >>

“In countries suffering from war or post-conflict situations, such as Afghanistan, it is the most vulnerable social groups such as women, the elderly and people with disabilities who pay the highest price". Speaking is Alberto Cairo, a partner at NOVE Caring Humans, who is responsible for the implementation of our physical rehabilitation and social reintegration [...] Read More >>