Since its foundation in Bologna in 2006, “Momo Banca del Tempo” has been offering a service that aims to set in motion a social-solidarity system through a non-monetary economy. Users offer and receive different types of services using their own time instead of money. We talked with the founder, Giusi Lumare, and an intern, Serena…
In 2019, Elena, a 24-year-old Italian student, started doing a Master’s degree in African Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She had always been curious about the roots of inequalities displayed on the African Continent, but, in 2017, she had a revelation when, before writing her bachelor’s thesis, she decided to join a volunteer project…
In the late months we have had the chance to see how differently the various countries have dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic: some countries have chosen a full-fledged lockdown, in some others rules were not as strict, some governments have pretended the problem doesn’t exist and so on. Thing is, most of the needed measures…
AIFO (Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follerau) was born in 1961 in Bologna thanks to a group of doctors and Comboni Missionaries, inspired by French journalist Raoul Follerau, who is known for having dedicated his life to the fight against leprosy and the emargination of diseased people. Through the years AIFO has opened offices across all…
The common purpose of nursing home visits is to raise the morale of the people staying in these institutions and to prevent them from feeling abandoned. Old-aged homes need volunteers. The visit by volunteers prevents them from being deprived of the attention. During the nursing home visit, the only thing that elderly people expect from…
