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 …
ERITREA Asmara orphanage training courses
With this project for the job training of orphan girls, COME NOI invests again in Eritrea.We think it particularly important in this time when the Country is again involved in new war events caused by the Tigrè conflict, at the Ethiopian border. The “Figlie di Sant’Anna” Sisters will organize one- or two-year training courses of needleworking, hairstyling, and computer for 12 young orphan girls. At the end of the 12-year-long compulsory school, when eighteen, the girls in the orphanage are in charge of the Sisters, who provide food, lodging, in apartments on rent, and choose the school the girls will …
SENEGAL Educational vegetable garden, chicken breeding and the music project at the Ngaparou High School
The help to the Ngaparou High School, where Come Noi has built the library – now a multimedia room, goes on not only with the medical examinations, but also with the educational vegetable garden, the chicken-breeding and the music project. The success of the projects is ensured by the initiative and commitment of the excellent rector Madame Awa Thiam. The educational vegetable garden, started in 2019 using the water from the well co-financed by Come Noi, in February 2020 was already producing peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, sald, cucumbers… In the area have been also planted 50 mango trees, each of them …
RWANDA Construction of a disabled center in Muyanza
In 2018 Come Noi decided to finance the construction of a disabled center in Muyanza.The works began in January 2018 (the old building was demolished, the walls of the new structure were erected and the roof was laid) and ended in February 2019 and in the same month the center was inaugurated.After the inauguration, the center began its activities with a training action for the families of handicapped children as well as pupils and teachers of elementary and middle school for an education to welcome and help children handicap.A Center Management Committee has been appointed headed by the head of …
SENEGAL Vaccination project
The project includes a vaccination campaign in agreement with the local health district and the Ministry of Health. These are vaccinations against typhoid, hepatitis B, meningitis which are currently not funded by the government. The program aims to reach people in particularly poor locations and in 2019 takes place in the Fatik region. To find out about all our active projects in Senegal click here
KENYA The school Romamwe in the village of Ndaragwa
The Karibu Ndugu Association, was set up in 2014 by a group of young persons, mostly studets, after their first trip to Kenya. On that occasion they met Rosemary, director of the small school Romamwe, in the village of Ndaragwa, near Nyahururu, about 180 km North of Nairobi. Rosemary devotes time, effort and the spaces at her disposal to give life to a school, which rises on the land surrounding her house. In 2010 the classrooms were all in sheet metal, the small kitchen and the toilets in conditions completely inadequate to the needs of the many children who attended …
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 …
Dispensary of the Somone Library
The project was born from the need to provide the dispensary of the Somone library with medical technical equipment and ensure the presence of a paediatrician once a month. The dispensary serves an area with more than 10.000 inhabitants, where 35 children per month are born. Dr Niang and dr Bassene, our medical doctors on site, continue to work for free at the dispensary, continuing a collaboration born with the project and consolidated over time. With the contribution of Come Noi, the dispensary has been significantly enhanced and qualified, becoming a point of reference for an increasingly populated territory. To …
