The European Solidarity Corps is a funding programme of the European Union that consists of giving young people from 17 years old to 30 years old the opportunity to work and volunteering in their country or abroad. To participate you must be legally resident in the EU Member States or in one of the other…
Sea level rise is a phenomenon caused by the melting of the glaciers and partly attributable also to the warming of the surface oceans. Ocean and sea levels from all over the world are growing and this process is becoming faster and faster. Between 1991 and 2019 oceans have risen about 75 mm and the…
The Wildlife Recovery Centre Monte Adone, in the province of Bologna, was born in 1989 at the initiative of Rudi Berti, his wife Mirca Negrini, and their young daughter Elisa. Initially thought as a centre for the recovery of the autochthonous wildlife, in November of the same year it starts also the hosting of exotic…
Ever since the first vehicle rolled onto the streets in 1886, the world has had a love-hate relationship with the motor car. Today, with over one billion motor vehicles on the roads around the globe, it sometimes seems as if we cannot escape the pollution, noise, and danger that they produce. The car-free day is…
The Fair-Trade is a form of commerce based on dialogue, respect, and fairness, which focuses on the achievement of bigger equity between the North and the South of the world through international commerce. It wants to reach a fair price and at the same time ensure the territory safeguard, avoiding the maximization of profit developed…
Based on the World Bank’s definition of the poverty line, China has already eliminated abject poverty. This remarkable record in poverty reduction is predominantly attributable to growth. But, in 1978, China was one of the poorest countries in the world. Then the reform began, starting with the rural sector, where most citizens lived. Agricultural output…
Oxford Omnia is a transnational NGO born in 2017 thanks to Oxford University student Elena Bernini, who wished to give something back to the Vietnamese village where she was born and raised before being adopted by an Italian family. That is how the “Matteo Bertero English Centre” came into existence. This is an English school…
On the 9th of October 2020, in Oslo, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the World Food Programme (WFP), a historical result for the largest humanitarian organization which fights hunger by fostering peace. As we all know, hunger and food insecurity are the worst enemies of the poorest…
On Tuesday 1st December 2020, #GivingTuesday, the world’s largest giving movement, will hold its annual celebration. Born in 2012 as a day encouraging people to do good and come together to “give back”, this movement has expanded over the years in 55 countries: it became a true inspiration for millions of people across the world!…
In 2012, after 30 years of work in the pharmaceutical industry in the developing world, Dr Faber founded an organization named One Family Health. This ambitious project was born out of the realisation that the problem of a lack of quality entry-level healthcare facilities in the rural areas of the developing world was the major…
