12Jan
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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 [...] Read More >>
24Sep
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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. [...] Read More >>
08Sep
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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 [...] Read More >>
10Aug
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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 [...] 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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Daring Women in Business Prize (DWB)
Daring Women in Business Prize (DWB) A pilot initiative launched by NOVE in 2020 in Kabul to encourage Afghan businesswomen to withstand the severe economic recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. An Italian-Afghan jury, composed of institutions, foundations, banks, and relevant Afghan authorities, evaluated proposals submitted by 27 businesswomen from various provinces. The Prize was [...] 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 >>