Since the end of the 80s Italy is in the depths of the immigration, that enters directly into our lives. Mostly they are lone people looking for a job, but there are more and more families reunited, living sometimes dramatic situations for  lack of accommodation orof healthcare,  and need for integration. With the project “Friendship of foreigners”, some families of Come Noi , in collaboration with the diocese Caritas Migrants Service ,committed to support the inclusion of immigrant families in Turin,. Over the years, fifteen families have been followed by eleven Italian families. Families have been met on concrete situations: …

Food  autonomy  through the development of agricultural projects has been our priority for over 50 years. We began in the mid-70s in South India, in the villages of the Javadhi Hills plateau, in the state of Tamil Nadu, to continue in Brazil, in the enormous state of Minas Gerais, and later on in the African continent: in Mozambique at Boane and in Eritrea at Bimbilnà. Today the challenge continues in Congo where between 2018 and 2023, in collaboration with the Femme Lève Toi association, we have  progressively cultivated from 6 to 22 hectares.

Activating educational training, as a leading force for achieving  financial and managerial autonomy, was a priority yesterday, and is even more today. Many interventions are functional to this goal: – scholarship grants for young people from developing countries that study and graduate in Italy  and later will use their acquired skills in the Countries of origin – set up and maintenance of agricultural schools and training centers: rural arts and craft centers (OCARR) and the Exodus Center in Rwanda , sewing and weaving schools in Eritrea ,CET, ABA and Casa Come Noi in Brazil, courses at the Library of Somone …

Help the farmers’ associations in  the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, to fight the extreme poverty of the countryside, to prevent people leaving their areas of origin for the cities, where the dream about a better future often turns into the nightmare of the life in ‘favela’: this is the goal of the projects in Ouro Verde and Cachoeira de Pajeu. Help people who returned to their villages in the diocese of Lira in Uganda, after 20 years of inactivity in the refugees camps without any economic supports, to restart cultivating their land. Help the poorest families, widows, and …

Microcredit and training: actions for the development of small businesses activated in various communities in Rwanda and Uganda, where we finance small groups of people, especially women, to learn a job, obtain the necessary equipment and start a business on their own, individually or in small companies. So far, everything is normal. The challenge is to ask them to return, with time, what they have received, in order to allow others to start the same training and microcredit, multiplying the little we have given for a number, theoretically infinite, of times.