08Sep
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Healing Circles
Healing Circles Psychological support and mental well-being From the renewed partnership with Amna Refugee Healing Network, a UK-based organization working for the mental well-being of refugees, NOVE launches the Healing Circles project to provide psychological support to Afghan women and girls, who are increasingly affected by the growing restrictions imposed by the Taliban regime. The [...] Read More >>
10Aug
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Renew & Restart. Women’s entrepreneurship and creative recycling
Women’s entrepreneurship and creative recycling Afghanistan is currently facing one of the worst environmental crises in its recent history. In Kabul alone, tons of plastic waste are produced every day, with serious consequences for public health and the environment. In response to the lack of organised recycling systems and the increasing environmental degradation, we have [...] Read More >>
07Aug
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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 [...] Read More >>
07Aug
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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 [...] Read More >>
07Aug
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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 [...] Read More >>
07Aug
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WEDUT (Women, Education, Training) – The Right to Study
WEDUT. Women Education and Training The right to study When, in August 2021, the Taliban returned to power, NOVE was forced to suspend most of its activities dedicated to women’s education. In just a few months, projects that had been launched and consolidated over the years were abruptly interrupted: girls could no longer go to [...] Read More >>
03Aug
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Aqela’s story
The long run Aqela's story 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 [...] Read More >>
03Aug
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Mother’s strength. Tarana’s story
Mother's strength. Tarana’s story Tarana grew up and went to school in Iran, returned with her family to Afghanistan, was married and gave birth to two children. The youngest had cerebral palsy and other major complications. The difficulties arising from these serious illnesses led to the breaking down of an already fragile marriage. Tarana faced [...] Read More >>
03Aug
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The solution is not to die. Laleh’s story.
The solution is not to die. Laleh’s story. Laleh is a graceful girl, small in stature, with a sad if not desperate expression. Three years ago her husband died in an explosion. They searched for the body without finding any evidence of it. Since then, she has been left alone with her children: a girl [...] Read More >>
03Aug
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The dream route. Parisa’s story.
The dream route. Parisa’s story. Parisa left Afghanistan with her family during the first Taliban regime (1996-2001) while still a child and grew up and studied in Iran. At the age of 16, there was the first leap into the dark. She was given in marriage by her father to a perfect stranger, with no [...] Read More >>