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  • EMERGENCY - HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
  • INCLUSION OF VULNERABLE PEOPLE MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES
  • RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
  • RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
  • WOMEN PEACE AND SECURITY

Future citizens

Prossimi Cittadini (Future Citizens) The project is aimed at the protection and socio-economic inclusion of Afghan refugees - applicants for international protection and unaccompanied minors, who arrived in Italy after the regime change of August 2021, who were not included in the CAS / SAI reception circuit and lacked means of subsistence. Prossimi Cittadini (Future [...]

Futuro Presente / Future Present

Futuro Presente The project Futuro Presente / Future Present provides personalised help to residents in Italy who have a medium-high level of vulnerability, to help them overcome a moment of emergency and foster their socio-economic inclusion. Almost all the people involved in the project are women and minors living in poverty, either relative or absolute. [...]

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 [...]

Caring for Women Emergency (CWE)

Caring for Women Emergency (CWE) Caring for Women Emergency is the emergency programme initiated by NOVE to help the survival of women heads of households, their children and others in a highly vulnerable state. The situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate. In January 2023, according to an estimate by the World Food Programme, some 20 [...]

Oltre l’Accoglienza (Beyond the Welcome)

Oltre l'Accoglienza (Beyond the Welcome) A pathway designed to welcome, assist and promote the social and professional inclusion of 90 Afghan refugees who arrived in Italy in August 2021, as part of Operation Red Handkerchief that brought 400 Afghans to safety, organised by NOVE in collaboration with the Italian government. Oltre l'Accoglienza (Beyond the Welcome) [...]

Sport4Equality project

Sport4Equality project This project, aimed at minors at risk of social invisibility and their families, takes place in Italy. Its aim is to fight against isolation and educational poverty, and to support parenting. Sport4Equality project consists of an integrated pathway of tutoring, monitoring and prevention, both at the socio-educational and metacognitive levels, offered to a [...]

With the Afghan Children

With the Afghan Children Promoted by the social enterprise "Con i Bambini", the project, which includes more than 100 local partners, aims to activate and consolidate a widespread inclusion system that guarantees Afghan minors and their families a stable inclusion in the community of reference. With the Afghan Children provides for the strengthening of actions [...]

Invisible Children

Invisible Children Children in Afghanistan represent 48.5% of the population or 20 million persons (UN, 2022). 13.1 million Afghan children are currently in need of humanitarian assistance. Among children under five, one in two suffers from severe malnutrition (UNICEF, 2023). Due to a lack of basic services, an estimated 212 children died every day in [...]

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 This project - dedicated to schools, universities and citizens - is a new development model based on information sharing, contemporary culture and social responsibility. Given that insufficient exposure to comprehensive knowledge models accentuates disorientation and increases uncertainty for the future,Vitamine per le Menti - Vitamins for Mind aims [...]

Dedicated to women – Voices and faces

Dedicated to women - Voices and faces Dedicated to Women - Voices and Faces is a knowledge networking project to raise awareness of women's culture from a creative and social point of view. Art, science, technology and traditional techniques to build new development models. 24 interactive open webinars, including 7 specifically for high schools. Over [...]

Safe Spaces

Safe Spaces Thanks to the cooperation and training received from AMNA, an organisation that supports refugees in their mental wellbeing journey, NOVE created 'Safe Spaces'. This is a trusted and protected platform where Afghans can share their feelings and needs, guided by an experienced Afghan facilitator. By adopting a non-clinical approach, Safe Spaces has promoted [...]

LIFELINE Emergency Programme (LEP)

LIFELINE Emergency Programme (LEP) After the Taliban seizure of power and the freezing of international aid, NOVE stepped in to help alleviate the suffering of the Afghan population with the Lifeline Emergency Programme, which has three components. In all, more than 22,000 people have been supported. NO HUNGER: rapid response to the extreme need for [...]

WEDUT (Women, Education, Training) – The Right to Study

WEDUT (Women, Education, Training) - The Right to Study When the Taliban retook power in August 2021, NOVE had to close part of its projects aimed at women's education and training. By negotiating with the Taliban authorities, it managed to implement the following free activities for women and girls under project WEDUT: Continuation of literacy [...]

Vocational Training, soft skills development and business marketing course

Vocational Training, soft skills development and business marketing course After the Taliban took Afghanistan, most of the women who were working had to stop, thus losing a source of income that guaranteed, or contributed significantly to guaranteeing, their family's survival. Consequently, the need for female training in areas of work to which women still have [...]

Operation Red Handkerchief

Operation Red Handkerchief In the difficult days following the entry of the Taliban troops into Kabul, NOVE, along with a task force made up of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence and the Nel Nome della Donne Trust, carried out an emergency evacuation of 400 Afghans in danger, including women with [...]

Pink Shuttle – Banu Bus

Pink Shuttle – Banu Bus Even before the return of the Taliban regime, most women in Afghanistan were banned from using buses and taxis with men on board, motorbikes and bicycles. To promote the independence of Afghan women - giving them the opportunity to get around to reach medical facilities, schools, universities and workplaces - [...]

Women in Business Hub (WiBH)

Women in Business Hub (WiBH) In agreement with the Afghan Ministry of Women's Affairs (MoWA), NOVE opened the 'I'm a Woman and I Want to Work' Project in 2013 in Kabul. This is a Women's Vocational Training Centre where free English, computer and professional cooking courses were offered and coupled with a job advisory service. [...]

Daring Women in Business Prize (DWB)

Daring Women in Business Prize (DWB) This was a competition organised by NOVE to encourage Afghan women entrepreneurs to be resilient in the face of the severe economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. It did this by supporting the launch or enhancement of the best women's business ideas. The Italo-Afghan jury, made up of [...]

The exceptional Children of Aleppo

The exceptional Children of Aleppo East Aleppo, besieged for four years, the target of daily bombardments and raids, has been the symbol city of the terrible war in Syria. 300,000 displaced, 40,000 dead, mostly women and children. Asmar, 28, with financial support from the Afkar Foundation took care of 47 abandoned children, housing them in [...]

COVID-19 Emergency in Italy

COVID-19 Emergency in Italy In Rome and Ladispoli, NOVE responded to the urgent need for food triggered by the pandemic. To this end,NOVE contributed to the purchase of food supplies distributed to 132 families and 161 homeless people. In Salerno and Roccapiemonte, food was distributed to 110 families. Food supplies were bought from small local [...]

COVID-19 Emergency in Afghanistan

COVID-19 Emergency in Afghanistan During the lockdown in Afghanistan, those earning a living through day jobs could no longer provide for themselves and their families. This resulted in starvation among many adults and children. NOVE assisted over 4,500 people from 677 familiesliving below the poverty line, including widows and disabled people.Hygiene kits and parcels containing [...]

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 [...]

Give an Italian a hand

Give an Italian a hand Italy, Rome. 2016-2018. Beneficiaries: 15. This project lend a hand to Italians living in poverty, among them the 'new poor'. These are people and families affected by unemployment or the loss of purchasing power of their salaries and pensions and who were trying to stay afloat without losing their dignity. [...]

Lend an hand

Lend an hand Italy, Rome. 2019. Beneficiaries: 12. The project emerged from combining two previous NOVE’s initiatives: Migranti in FormAzione, support for asylum seekers and Dai una Mano a un Italiano (Lend a hand to an Italian), dedicated to vulnerable Italians. Its aim was to offer vocational training and job placement opportunities to people of [...]

Migrants in Training

Migrants in Training Italy, Rome. 2019. Beneficiaries: 37. Migrants in Training started in October 2016 and is based on the principles of human solidarity and social cohesion. The aim is to give migrants the tools needed to effectively integrate into Italian society. In 2016, a work orientation and vocational training course was offered to 15 [...]

A kindergarten for the children of working women in difficulty.

A kindergarten for the children of working women in difficulty Italy Rome. 2012-2013. Direct beneficiaries: 30 (mothers and their children). The kindergarten, “Nido d’Ape’, run by the Cooperativa L’Accoglienza, was created to receive the children of socially and economically disadvantaged women. It had a dual objective: to offer children a place to play and learn [...]

Creative recycling to assist a small community of women

Creative recycling to assist a small community of women Salerno, Italy. 2014-2016. Direct beneficiaries: 20 women. The families of the apprentices, and the neighborhood community also benefited from this initiative. For years NOVE supported the sewing laboratory of the Association ‘Sant’Andrea nell’Annunziatella’, committed to helping people in very vulnerable situations. In 2013 we donated new [...]

For the voiceless

For the voiceless Rhodes, Greece. 2016. Beneficiaries: 40 children. In 2016, the St. Andrew's Institute was the only public facility in the South Aegean to take in children with severely disabling conditions and those whose family members could not care for them. Colourful walls, drawings and games made the institute a welcoming and peaceful 'home'. [...]