Where are NOVE members? Gaza Strip December 24, 2025 Not a week goes by without a thought turning to the challenges of Nove in the complex reality we live in. All around, winter is challenging: with the lights off, violations, incursions, and attacks are a daily occurrence, making no noise, as is the fact that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Women Restarting Female entrepreneurship for internally displaced women Afghanistan is experiencing one of the most significant forced mobility crises globally. For over forty years, the country has been marked by persistent conflict, chronic insecurity, and recurring climate-related disasters. The escalation of fighting between government forces and the Taliban in 2021 accelerated a wave of internal [...]

Fish Skin Project: a new hope for burned children in Kabul Burns represent one of the major health emergencies in Afghanistan, a country where access to medical care is extremely limited and where children are the primary victims. Severe burns often lead to infections, prolonged hospital stays and, in the most critical cases, death. Reducing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“ABC of Citizenship 2025”: building an inclusive and intercultural society together Immigration is not an emergency, but a structural phenomenon that characterizes contemporary societies. From this awareness comes ABC della Cittadinanza 2025, the new project promoted by CSV Lazio in collaboration with organizations engaged for years in the promotion of rights and intercultural dialogue: Piùculture, [...]