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Fish Skin Project: a new hope for burned children in Kabul

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 [...]

“ABC of Citizenship 2025”: building an inclusive and intercultural society together

“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, [...]

Women Business Prize – Afghanistan

Women Business Prize – Afghanistan Award for the resilience and creativity of Afghan women entrepreneurs under the Taliban regime The roots of this initiative date back to 2020, when NOVE successfully organized the Daring Women in Business Prize in Kabul (https://novecaringhumans.org/en/projects/daring-women-in-business-prize-dwb/) to encourage women entrepreneurs to withstand the severe recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. [...]

Healing Circles

Healing Circles Psychological support and mental well-being for Afghan women and girls In Afghanistan, women have lost fundamental rights and are subjected to severe restrictions, such as being banned from studying beyond primary school, holding many jobs, travelling alone, walking in a park, or making their voices heard. As a result, rates of depression and [...]

A Sea of Sports

A Sea of Sports A project built on sports, play, and inclusion A Sea of Sports offers children and young people in situations of social vulnerability — housed in foster homes, women’s shelters, or CAS (Extraordinary Reception Centers) — a unique and exciting combination of play and sports activities, in close contact with water and [...]

Bread for Women (BfW)

Bread for Women (BfW) The project combines humanitarian intervention and targeted development actions. Initiated in Kabul, it was designed to be extended to other Afghan cities and provinces, with the aim of generating a large-scale positive economic impact. Today, the Afghan population is plagued by increasingly acute poverty, due to the combined effect of the [...]

Dignity – The Right to Exist

Dignity - The Right to Exist 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. Dignity provides families - mostly women and children - in extreme poverty and vulnerability with tailor-made [...]

The Power of Sport

The Power of Sport Sport plays an essential role in the social inclusion of people with disabilities, significantly improving their quality of life and self-esteem. But in Afghanistan - a country at war for over 40 years and with enormous economic, social and security problems - playing a sport remains a dream for those with [...]

Social Inclusion Programme

Social Inclusion Programme In June 2022, NOVE signed an agreement with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to implement a Social Inclusion Programme for people with disabilities. Based on the agreement, NOVE manages the ICRC's Social Inclusion Programme, bringing the expertise of its board member Alberto Cairo, who has been in charge of [...]

Vitamins for Minds – Education & Advocacy

Vitamins for Minds – Education & Advocacy Information, Inclusion, Rights and Culture for the New Generations. The project – dedicated to schools, universities, and citizens – is a new model of development based on the sharing of information, contemporary culture, and social responsibility. With Vitamine per le Menti, NOVE promotes educational and awareness-raising programs that place [...]

Crescere al sicuro – Growing up safe

Crescere al sicuro. Growing Up Safe Supporting the state-run orphanages of Kapisa In Afghanistan, orphanages play a crucial role in feeding, educating, protecting, and caring for children from families living in extreme poverty. For many of these children, orphanages are often the only chance to survive, attend school, and be shielded from child exploitation and [...]

Una pietra dopo l’altra – One Stone at a Time

One stone at a time Rebuilding, after the earthquake In the eastern provinces, the earthquake of August 2025 destroyed or severely damaged more than 6,700 homes, schools, and healthcare facilities, worsening the already high-risk conditions faced by the local population, particularly women, children, and people with disabilities. Through the project One stone at a time, [...]

Oltre le macerie – Beyond the Rubble

Beyond the Rubble Emergency food response following the earthquake In Afghanistan, more than 14.2 million people are living in conditions of acute food insecurity, 2.9 million of whom are facing emergency-level conditions (2025 – IPC - Afghanistan - Acute Food Insecurity). The earthquake that struck the eastern provinces in late August 2025 severely disrupted access [...]

Women Restarting – From emergency to enterprise

Women Restarting From emergency to enterprise For over forty years, Afghanistan has endured chronic insecurity, frequent climate-related disasters and recurring conflict, all of which have progressively weakened its economic and social fabric, culminating in one of the most significant forced displacement crises in the world today.  According to data published by UNHCR, the number of [...]

Seeds of Rebirth – A future for families in Afghanistan’s eastern provinces

Seeds of Rebirth. A future for families in Afghanistan's eastern provinces Seeds of Rebirth provided concrete support to the families in the provinces of Kunar, Nangarhar, and Laghman, Afghan regions hit hard by the food crisis, the aftermath of the August 2025 earthquake, and broader economic and social upheaval. Families were selected from among those [...]

Le bambine tornano a sognare – Girls can dream again

Girls can dream again Supporting Kabul's Future Hope orphanage For one year, we accompanied the growth of 37 girls living at the private Future Hope orphanage in Kabul. In 2025, approximately 3.5 million children under the age of five in Afghanistan were affected by acute malnutrition (UNICEF, 2026) Malnutrition and trauma severely compromise children's physical [...]

Renew & Restart – Women’s entrepreneurship and creative recycling

Renew & Restart. Women’s entrepreneurship and creative recycling NOVE created Renew & Restart to help reduce plastic pollution while simultaneously offering women in Kabul an opportunity for socioeconomic empowerment. Participants were selected based on vulnerability criteria such as household poverty, number of dependents, and the presence of malnourished children in the family. Personal motivation to [...]

SOS Children Italy

SOS Children Italy In 2015, when the project was launched,"S.O.S Children",according to statistics in Italy more than 1 million 300 thousand minors were in a state of destitution and almost 100 thousand were victims of mistreatment or abuse. NOVE helped 32 children deprived of the necessities to grow up healthy and serene by offering, depending [...]

I don’t have leprosy

I don’t have leprosy We managed to overcome the stigma that isolated the community of impoverished and marginalized lepers in Kore ‘ghetto’. We did so by helping six young women from the ghetto in their long and difficult educational journey. They all obtained a university degree and found employment which made them economically self-sufficient. Beneficiaries: [...]

Reach

Reach Greece, Lesvos, Policastro and Idomeni. 2015. Beneficiaries: 9. During the peak influx into Greece of migrants fleeing war, deprivation and violence of all kinds, NOVE donated a minibus to the 'Mennesker i arbeidan' association - which was assisting migrants on the island of Lesvos. They were helping to provide transport for the most vulnerable [...]