WHAT HAPPENED? As of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, schools in many countries around the world had to switch from the usual face-to-face classes to online teaching. Although social distancing in schools had already been tested, the authorities are still concerned about the unsatisfactory results. It has been almost a year now…
Beatrice is 21 years old today, and she attends the second year of psychology in Milan. She loves this university and is particularly interested in developmental psychology because she thinks that the environment in which kids are educated, and in which they grow up is fundamental to understand the pattern of their behaviour in the…
In one of our last articles, we insisted that “the pandemic gave us hope and a chance to rebuild volunteering”. In this respect, it is very interesting to get to know more types of experiences and points of view. We could not help but discover and look at AIESEC, and we decided to interview Francesca…
Volunteers Action Foundation Nepal (VAFON) is a non-governmental and non-profit social organization that operates in Nepal. It was founded in 2017 by a team of sociologists, journalists, social workers, activists, and educationalists. It works for human rights (and not only), equal access to economic and social well-being, and career opportunities (especially for disadvantaged people like…
IMMIGRATION IN ITALY In the last twenty years, immigration started to become a more and more consistent dynamic in Italy. Thousands and thousands of immigrants have been arriving at the Italian coasts after leaving their homelands because of wars, conflicts, or simply out of despair. Most of these people, speaking different languages, with different backgrounds…
We all know how much volunteering is important and plays a big role in our everyday civil lives. Without the solidarity and the commitment of volunteers in all the sectors in which they operate, we would certainly live in a more difficult world, divided into less inclusive societies. However, we are not so aware of…
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…
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…
Every October 16th, since 1979, is celebrated the “World Food Day”, founded by the member countries of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). This year, in the occasion of this day, the Ong CEFA (that deals with promoting people’s self-development), together with the Caritas of Bologna and the Bologna City’s patronage,…
The Braida Institute, a middle school in Verona, Italy, thanks to the support given by Volunteer In The World, carried out a volunteering project involving its students. It consisted of a unique school trip of five days to Athens, Greece. There, the students had the possibility to work as young volunteers at the Love and…
