The project started in 2015 when our local contats pointed out the need to help single women with dependent or elderly children through the agricultural training. We have taken this new challenge with enthusiasm: Francesco Salvi, Giorgio Rabajoli, Father George Ogwal and Mons. Giuseppe Franzelli lead the project, thanks to the experience gained in 9 years of activity in training projects. 32 groups of 30 women each were activated, assigning a contribution of € 500 per group and a kit (iron box with three locks and three keys, notebooks and pencils for accounting). These are the activities: – meetings with …
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BRAZIL Ouro Verde “Casa Come Noi”
Casa Come Noi of Ouro Verde, managed by the “directoria” of the ACOP, was established in 1991 to give a school education to the poorest children of the surrounding area, and to provide assistance to those in pre-school age. Children come from extremely disadvantaged families and risk to waste their time on the street, when not attending lessons, with all the associated risks. They need help in studying and doing homework, so that they do not to fall behind with their studies and are not expelled from school, but they need also a food integration, which Casa Come Noi provides …
BRAZIL Associação Beneficente Agape – Curral de Dentro
The ABA was founded in 1991 in Curral de Dentro; at the beginning it was named Bertolusso Foundation and had professional and educational training aims similar to those of the CET (Centro Educação e Trabalho) and autonomous funds, but soon has found itself in economic difficulties. Don Sergio asked Come Noi for help to avoid abandoning a well-established professional training activity, in an organized and equipped structure; help that we have been happy to give. The ABA also has agreements with social services and therefore enjoys local contributions, even though less than the CET. About a hundred students are attending. …
BRAZIL CET of Cachoeira de Pajeù
The CET (Centro Educaçao e Trabalho) of Cachoeira de Pajeù is one of the most important educational projects activated by Come Noi in Brazil. It was founded in 1992 as an afterschool for a few girls and boys and was based in a small building on the suburbs: the old deconsecrated catholic church of Cachoeira, where there was a small vegetable garden also attended by boys and the embroidery school for girls. Over the past 20 years, the CET has seen many relevant transformations in structures and functions: new IT rooms, a new hall for school meals and organized …
ITALY Cultural integration –“Turin my home town” project
” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]Since 2000, we co-finance the project promoted by MEIC (Ecclesial Movement of Cultural Commitment) and “Mondi in città” for facilitating the integration of immigrant women from North African countries of Islamic culture, through Italian language courses and citizenship education paths. Women can bring their preschoolers, attended by a baby-sitting service during lessons. The initiative is unique in Italy for the high participation of Arab-Islamic women and involves more than 250 women and 100 children every year. This is a precious opportunity for North African women to regularly attend lessons, with the approval of their husbands and …
Somone Library – educational and cultural activities
The educational and cultural activities are carried out in courses organized at the library of Ngarapau Somone, located in a high school with more than 1000 students, which is still the operational center of our activities, under the control of the untiring and professional Ibou Diouf. The courses range from malaria prevention and personal hygiene to Islam-Christianity dialogue. Every year a program of courses is open to students and to the entire population. Since 2014, the training activity has been focused on computer courses, involving every year about 20 school teachers and 150 students, coordinated by three trainers. Come Noi …
SENEGAL medical examinations in the villages
The project started in 2012: a specialized medical team reached some disadvantaged locations without medical assistance centers nearby. Between 2013 and 2023, approximately 120 villages were reached, with multiple missions during each year, in the regions of Tambaconda, Diorbel, Louga, Kedougou, Tamba, Kaolack, Thies and in the distant Casamance. Around 5,000 people have been examined and treated and more than 20,000 euros of medicines and medical supplies, have been distributed. Come Noi supports the visits with contributions for doctors, transport, general expenses (petrol, food and accommodation) and medical supplies. The project has a very positive impact on communities and local …
SENEGAL Health in the schools of Mbour Ngaparou and Somone
The school health project was born in 2017 and integrates the health culture project activated between 2007 and 2014. In Senegal some chronic diseases are present in schools: asthma, nutritional, infectious, cardiological, neurological and hematological diseases. It is difficult to have access to specialist doctors so diseases are diagnosed late and followed irregularly. This, in addition to the increase in infant mortality, creates absenteeism and poor school performance. The program planned the visit of about 1000 students from the following schools: Jamm la Paix and the high school in La Somone, the boarding school and the high school in Ngaparou. …
SENEGAL Digging wells in the villages near Mbour
For years the activity of building water wells has continued, initially with the support of the non-profit organization Un puit pour la vie and subsequently with the One Love association. The objective is to improve the quality of life in many villages and involve local communities in the management, maintenance and control of water resources. In Senegal, water scarcity is still a cause of infant mortality and gastrointestinal diseases, and creates difficulties for agricultural cultivation and all domestic uses. Near the rapidly expanding city of Mbour there are still settlements with little access to clean water, persons have to go …
Come Noi Comme nous Senegal and AICU
Come Noi projects in Senegal are managed by the Comme Nous Senegal association, with our financial and operational control: some of us are in fact part of the organizing committee. Comme Nous Senegal is a non-profit organization founded in 2017 by Dr. Niang, pediatrician, Dr. Bassene, general practitioner and our local representative Ibou Diouf, professor and President. Comme Nous Senegal has its own statute and its own organizational structure which makes it autonomous in its work. The headquarters is in La Somone at the “Jamm la Paix” school directed by President Ibou Diouf. Currently the management of Comme Nous Senegal …
