Byumba shoemaking school

The Byumba Diocesan Center to help young people learn a job has become a vocational school recognized at government level. To integrate the three courses already operating for some years (hairdressing, cutting and sewing and basket making), we were asked to contribute to the creation of an annual shoemaking course. Come Noi has decided to finance the laboratory for leather processing and the repair of footwear, handbags and belts, with the aim of allowing students to quickly achieve managerial and financial autonomy. The project involves 25 young people (8 street children, 8 single mothers and 9 orphans) for a training …

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A well for the village Bogou

Bogou is a locality located in northern Togo, in the Savannah region, Tandjouare prefecture, Bogou canton. The area is surrounded by arid mountains. Over 92% of the population is rural and agricultural. The real problem of the locality is the lack of water, which forces the population to drink that of the swamps and rivers, increasing health problems caused by microbes and pollutants. We decided to help the village of Bogou, by building a hand-fed water well, to distribute drinking water to all families The work will be followed by the Togolese NGO APMED which has supported us in recent …

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A well for the villages Shabana and Butimba

The excavation of the well has been proposed to Come Noi by the Abbé Jean Nepomuscene, for giving water to an area where a situation of extreme shortage has arisen and the inhabitants are forced to draw (dirty) water from a stream at a few kilometres away. After careful analysis by the project evaluation group, the financing of the project has been approved and the first tranche of € 15,000.00 has been sent. Subsequent transfers of funds must be preceded by a precise reporting of the expenses incurred. The Abbé Jean Nepomuscene, in charge of the project, will personally follow …

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RWANDA – Byumba Champignons project

This project, sustained by Come Noi from 2009 to 2016 has continued autonomously in the following years. It was stopped during the pandemic due to the inability to buy the materials and to leave the place of recidence. In autumn 2021, at request of soeur Pelagie, Come Noi sent € 1350 for reactivating the project, which restart again only in 2022 because it has taken a long time to get cotton, an essential material for boutures, that comes from Tanzania and from Dubai. In January The production of the boutures began in January and the harvesting in March. With the …

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ITALY Karibu Open – cooperative for sustainable catering in Torino

Karibu Open is a co-op for sustainable catering, aimed to encouraging and accompanying the employment of migrants in the Torino territory. In order to be effective, the integration should take place throughout the whole process: in the working environment, within a professional team in a professional kitchen, in domestic social contexts, with the users of the catering service, and on the table, creating diverse and variegated menus, clear signs of different identities. Sustainability is the project guide value and the limit within which each choice will be made. This value is considered and realized in its three forms: Environmental Sustainability …

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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO- Kinzono agricultural project – Plateau de Batekes

The project was born in 2018 with the aim of giving a group of single women with children the opportunity to cultivate lands their own, purchased thanks to the support of Come Noi and Aimée Ngoma Mbenza founder of the non-profit association Femme Lève Toi. In the first two years, 6 hectares of land were purchased and today with the purchase of another 16 hectare plot the figure has reached 22!! The land, adjacent to the previous one, will allow us to increase the cultivation of cassava in particular, and to rotate the fields a bit. As the cultivated area …

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SENEGAL Support for health posts in Malicounda Koutal and Dijlacounda

The project started in 2020: every week Dr Athanase Sarr, a doctor selected by Comme Nous and supported by the Carlo Urbani Prize grant (AICU), visits, without any charge, patients at the Malicounda health post, located near Mbour. The health post is managed by a nurse who collaborates with a midwife and a pharmacist. The presence of Dr Sarr, a competent and dedicated young doctor, has improved healthcare and the management of the dispensary. With Dr Sarr’s contribution, some needs were also identified for the renovation and purchase of healthcare materials and equipment, which were supplied in 2020. In May …

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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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