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 …
Category: Our challenges
Our challenges
The challenge of management autonomy
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 …
The challenge of craftsmanship and microcredit
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.
RWANDA Nyagatare Exodus Center and professional school
” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]The professional school, restructured by Come Noi, has always hosted courses for hairdressers, sewing, welding, masonry, electricity as well as literacy courses and general education. We started in 2009 to support the project for re-education, family and social reintegration, schooling and detoxification of street boys and girls. The main building, built with the financing of the Exodus association in Milan and furnished by Come Noi, hosts 45 boys and girls without families. Today the professional school is becoming more and more relevant even at the national level. The use of drugs, the small delinquency, the prostitution …
RWANDA Basketwork in Byumba
The project has been proposed to Come Noi by Sister Odette, who intends to reactivate the school of basketry at the Mgr. Ruzindane center in Byumba. It is aimed at young orphans who cannot stay at school. Thanks to this project they can learn a job, having the possibility of self-employment and keep themselves away from the risk of drugs and prostitution. Come Noi has decided to support the project for a period of three years starting in 2016. The building where the courses will be held is under construction, in the meantime other available rooms are being used. The …
RWANDA Clay manufacturing in Muyanza
In autumn 2016 Abbé Jean Népomuscène submitted to Come Noi the new project of clay manufacturing. The goal was to develop the management autonomy of the inhabitants of Muyanza, integrating the agricultural income of the families involved with the one coming from the commercialization of the objects produced. The initiative is part of a regional project for promoting creativity and innovation in art and domestic objects. Clay manufacturing will be used for the production of household and bathroom wares. Muyanza clay is the best in the area: the Congo imports it to build tiles. Come Noi after having analyzed the …
RWANDA Kibirizi professional school
In 2017 Come Noi accepts a new challenge proposed by Mons.Fourissier in the field of professional training: The restructuring and maintenance of the Kibirizi professional school. The project is aimed at young people who have finished school but cannot find a job. It’s part of the current government system, which promotes the professional training of young people at risk. Our contribution should cover three years. During the first year the salaries of two teachers, a social worker and the material used for the courses have been payed for by Come NOi. For their part, the students provide scholastic material, food …
UGANDA Agricultural training for the women of the village of Bala
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 …
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. …
