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social report 2005

social report 2005
Brazil
“L
ove-caritas-will always prove necessary, even in
the most just society. There is no ordering of the State so just that it can eliminate the need for
a service of love. Whoever wants to eliminate love is preparing to eliminate man as such.
“ […] feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, caring for and healing the sick, visiting those in
prison, etc. […] Individuals who care for those in need must first be professionally competent:
they should be properly trained in what to do and how to do it, and committed to continuing
care. Yet, while professional competence is a primary, fundamental requirement, it is not of itself
sufficient. We are dealing with human beings, and human beings always need something more
than technically proper care. They need humanity. They need heartfelt concern”.
Deus Caritas Est, Benedict XVI (para. 28, 31)
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Editorial coordination: Piera Benaglio, external consultant, Chiara Savelli, internal coordinator,
in collaboration with all the departments of the Foundation.
Project manager in charge of Social Report: Giampaolo Silvestri.
Document available electronically: www.avsi.org
Printed reports may be requested from AVSI headquarters in Milan or Cesena
Quality Certification
on AVSI project planning
2004 Oscar di Bilancio Award
Not for Profit category
Photos courtesy by Silvia Morara, Fabrizio Arigossi, Marco d’Andrea, Fabio Cuttica, Paolo Pellegrin, AVSI’s staff world wide
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CESENA
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table of contents
Brazil Rosa Brambilla at Belo Horizonte
AVSI 2005 statistics
Foreword
Methodological notes
part one
part two
part three
PROFILE
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT
THE FIGURES
• Mission
• Methodological approach
• History
• Stakeholders
• Activities
Development cooperation
International adoptions
Activities in Italy
• Corporate governance
• Organization
• Local partners
• AVSI Network
• Domestic and international relations
Activities
• Development cooperation
Projects in progress in 2005
- Social and educational area
- Distance Support
- Urban development
- Healthcare and prevention
- Vocational Training and development
of small and medium businesses
- Agriculture and environment
- Emergency Relief
• International adoptions
Why the choice
Training of couples
2005-2006 Subsidiarity project
• Activities in Italy
AVSI Points
“Tents” Campaign
Events
Corporate Social Responsability
Communication
Cultural and training activities
• Economic profile of activities
• Financial Statements 2005
• Profit and Loss Accounts 2005
• Certified Auditors’ Report
• Summary of Financial and Profit
and Loss Results
part four
AVSI headquarters and offices in Italy
AVSI headquarters and offices worldwide
NGOs Members of AVSI Network
Appendix 1: Sample aggregation of project’s
analytical data
Appendix 2: CSI Certification
Human Resources
• Staff at Italian headquarters
• Expatriate staff
• Training
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AVSI 2005
statistics
27 NGOs making up the AVSI
network, 17 of them are based in
developing and transition countries
113 projects in progress in 40
countries worldwide
Over 10.000 volunteers involved
in AVSI Points’ activities in Italy
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114 expatriates and 535 locally
hired staff working in project
implementation on the field
3 millions families, i.e. some 16
millions people, are the indirect
beneficiaries of the activities
implemented
82.429 children supported
through various activities
Necessaries distributed to
838.988 people
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32.297 parents and youth
participated in training
and awareness raising activities
1.401.791 people benefited
from emergency relief activities
50 water wells digged and
motorized
27.886 children helped though
the distance support program
in 33 countries worldwide
11.000 mothers and pregnant women
benefited from the PMTCT program
81 educational centers newly
built or rehabilitated
4.026 people received vocational training
2.420.000 people could benefit from
improved health services (Uganda,
Rwanda, Nigeria)
6 Hospitals in Uganda and 5
health clinics in Rwanda and
Nigeria received support and help
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FOREWORD
W
e are living in a world ruled by violence and abuse and peace-
building is a hard and lengthy task for people of goodwill. Too often war is used to solve conflicts and/or as a means of
power and control.
AVSI foundation does not operate “outside the world” in a separate heaven, but is plunged into the dramatic reality of our
time: in Northern Uganda, wreck havoc by a 20 years long conflict; in Congo, ravaged by a civil war that may hopefully be
solved by the ongoing democratic process; in Sierra Leone, where attempts are being made to overcome the dramatic
consequences of a long civil war; in the Middle East (Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine) where hatred among different populations and traditions seems to never end; in the hell of the slums of the big Latin-American cities, where the fight for survival
seems to take up the minds and hearts of many of our peers.
Under such difficult conditions, AVSI staff working on the field always experience that there is a positive from which to start
and through which a less dramatic future may be built for the people in need they encounter.
Thus, while this Social Report covering 2005 activities is certainly intended to document how we are using private and public funds and as a communication tool for all our stakeholders, it is mainly aimed at proving the miracle of a work that originates from a passion for people and for their destiny, a simple but real witness of the positive work carried out by people
moved by an ideal in favor of other people living in conditions of poverty, marginalization and disease.
President Arturo Alberti
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Methodological notes
Now in its fourth edition, AVSI’s 2005 Social Report incorporates the technical improvements identified during the previous direct
experience.
The same basic methodological standards have been applied also this year, namely:
• “G3 Guidelines” developed by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)1, that represent a generally accepted international standard,
• “Social Report Drafting Guidelines” developed by the Study Group on Social Reports (GBS)2 in 2001, and specifically referring
to the Italian context.
The following principles have been taken into account:
• clear description of contents;
• synthetic presentation, complete with charts, tables, and generally, visual expression;
• complete information and figures.
In addition the Social Report has been drafted according to the principles of transparency, accuracy, reliability and consistency.
More specifically:
- the description of the mission, profile, activity, organization and management systems comply with GRI principles, properly
adjusted to consider the peculiar features of a NGO;
- economic indicators comply with GRI requirements, properly adjusted as above; in addition they provide information about
fundraising as well as efficiency indicators;
- environment performance indicators are not covered by a separate section, as set forth by GRI; however they may be found
in the results of some agricultural and urban upgrading projects;
- social indicators referred to employees comply with GRI principles. As to the indicators covering the impact of AVSI’s activities
on people and their contexts, therefore able to evidence the degree of achievement of AVSI’s mission, reference is made to
the principles of performance measurement adopted by OECD, the UN and the World Bank to assess cooperation activities.
Such classification identifies three classes of indicators: input, output, and outcome, as shown in table 1.
Table 1
Input, output and outcome indicators
variables
Input
Output
Outcome
definitions3
Human, financial, technical and organizational resources used to implement projects
Immediate results of the activities contributing to the achievement of the specific goal: goods, services, decisions and authorizations
directly produced at the operating stage
Short-term impact, in terms of improved well-being, on target beneficiaries
Global Reporting Initiative is an initiative of Ceres, an NGO headquartered in Boston, which since 1997, has joined together members of major auditing firms,
businesses, trade and labor unions, environmental and religious organizations, and institutional investors, in order to issue indicators to gauge the economic, social and environmental impact of businesses.
2
Study Group on Social Reports is a committee established in 1998 in Italy by a panel of scholars and professionals concerned with “corporate social responsibility”. Their purpose is to draft an accounting document able to produce exhaustive, consistent and comparable reports on the social effects of corporate activity.
3
“Operative Manual to monitor and assess development cooperation projects”; Italian Department of Foreign Affairs–Directorate General for cooperation development.
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METHODOLOGICAL NOTES
At the initial stage of data collection for this report, an essential contribution was provided by the operational units in charge
of discrete projects. The information supplied is fundamental to the purpose of the aggregations and conclusions reported
herein. Specifically, when presenting the outcome of development cooperation activities, we have:
• Described the peculiar features of each area of intervention;
• Evidenced in brief the results achieved by the various projects implemented in 2005, through the aggregation of the analytical data supplied by project manager (see example in Appendix 1).
AVSI intends to advance along the path of high-impact cooperation initiatives using this Social Report as a tool for setting specific improvement goals for next year; such as:
- Strengthening the collaboration with stakeholders, through more structured involvement and monitoring of their expectations and degree of satisfaction;
- Improving the reporting process, in terms of systematic and continual use of performance indicators as defined above.
Brazil, Alagados, Salvador
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Mission
Methodological approach
History
Stakeholders
Activities
Activities in Italy
Corporate governance
Organization
Local partners
AVSI Network
Domestic and international relations
profile
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PROFILE
Mission
To support human development in developing countries according to the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church, with special
attention to education and promotion of the global dignity of every person.
Methodological approach
Centrality of the person
The person is the center of any development program, the purpose of every project. This means first of all sharing needs with
the individual to share the very meaning of life and to be moved by his/her destiny. Failing this, the answer to needs becomes
only a self-rewarding good action or a political strategy. The person is seen as a unique, unrepeatable being, who cannot be
defined by a social category or by the situation he/she is living – poverty, disease, handicap, warfare.
Starting from the positive
Every person, every community represents a potential resource, no matter how vulnerable they are. This means valuing all that
has been made by people, including their history, their existing relationships, and the experiences making up their heritage.
This basic operational principle originates from a positive approach to reality and helps persons recognize their own value and
dignity and take up their own responsibilities.
Doing with
A top-down project is either violent, since not shared, or ineffective and unsustainable, since assistance-oriented. AVSI’s
approach to project planning and implementation consists in doing with people; that is, starting from the relationship with the
people to whom the project is targeted and building with them, according to their own progress.
Development of intermediate bodies and subsidiarity
A society is born out of the free commitment of persons and families joining together. A development project means to enhance the capacity of people to associate, hereby recognizing and supporting the creation of intermediate bodies and of a
responsible and integrated social context. The right of every person to freely associate and to take actions or start-up business activities becomes a powerful drive towards better civic and democratic life.
Partnership
Development projects are based on real partnerships among all entities active in the particular field, including institutions that
are public and private, local and international, thereby avoiding duplications and promoting synergies to optimize available
resources.
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History
1972 > AVSI is founded at Cesena on
September 27th through the initiative
of people supporting the presence and
activities of a few volunteers in Zaire (now
Democratic Republic of Congo). The first intervention of AVSI at Kiringye lasts for 10 years.
The outcome is a Social Medical Center, a rice
mill, a peanut oil mill, and a hydroelectric plant.
Local staff is properly trained.
1973 > AVSI is formally approved by the
Italian Dept. of Foreign Affairs.
1981 > AVSI is licensed to implement
cooperation projects in cooperation with
the European Union (EU). Funds are
allocated for first time in 1984 to cover
experimental projects aimed at improving
the general living conditions in five Brazilian
favelas or slums.
1990 > the first fundraising campaign is
launched, under the name of “Christmas
of Solidarity”, in collaboration with
Companionship of Works Association. Its
purpose is to raise funds to support AVSI’s
projects. An awareness-raising initiative is
also launched concerning the issue of
underdevelopment. Some 150 tents4 are put
up in the streets and squares of the cities
of Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
1991 > AVSI is credited and registered
as a Private Voluntary Organization (PVO)
with the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID).
1993 > The “Distance support” program
is started to care for African children
orphaned by AIDS. The program answers
the desire of expatriates to care for and
meet the needs of children in difficult
conditions, who do not benefit directly
of any development project.
1996 > AVSI is granted the general
consultative status by the NGO Committee
of the UN Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC), the body which produces
recommendations to the UN General
Assembly and to member countries on
economic, social, cultural and human
rights related issues. AVSI is registered in
category I and is qualified to provide
contributions on the issues of its interest.
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2001 > AVSI offices are opened in New
York to assure representation at the UN
and other international organizations.
> A grant agreement for $ 4.4 millions is
entered into on April 5, 2001 by the World
Bank, Cities Alliance and AVSI; this is
supported by a trust fund of the Italian
Government to the World Bank. A three-year
cooperation program is started in partnership
with Conder, the public agency for urban
development of the State of Bahia, to
provide technical assistance for the urban
upgrading of the favela known as Ribeira
Azul, located in the Bay of Todos os Santos,
and improvement of procedures related to
planning and drafting of development
cooperation projects.
2004 > The US Agency for International
Development (USAID) funds a 7,54 million
dollars AVSI project, to support children
orphaned by AIDS and vulnerable children
and adolescents in Uganda, Rwanda and
Kenya. Direct beneficiaries are 12.400 children, with 55.000 family members involved
and 120 local associations to work on the
field in collaboration with AVSI. This is the
first time that the US Government is funding
a project of an Italian NGO of this weight.
in the metropolitan area of Salvador Bahia
(Brazil). Some 150,000 people live in this
favela, and most of them in pile dwellings,
well below the poverty threshold.
2002 > On the occasion of its first thirty
years of activity, AVSI promotes a conference in Rome, titled “Christian Presence
and development”. Speakers and participants are Member of Parliament Franco
Frattini (Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs),
Member of Parliament Massimo d’Alema
(Chairman of the Italy-Europe Foundation),
His Excellence Archbishop J.L. Tauran
(Secretary of State Relations of the Holy
See) and Professor Giorgio Vittadini
(Chairman of the Companionship of Works
Association.
2003 > AVSI is granted quality certification
(ISO 9001:2000), assuring constant control
> AVSI is awarded the “Oscar di Bilancio”
in the not-for-profit section, an Italian Prize
promoted and organized by Ferpi – The
Italian Federation of Public Relations.
> AVSI becomes a Foundation. The outcome of this change is a legal and operational organization more adequately matching the context of development cooperation.
2005 > In January AVSI starts activities in
favor of the victims of Tsunami in India, Sri
Lanka and Thailand. Projects are targeted
at resuming business activities in some
fishermen villages, supporting schools
swept away by the seaquake and helping
disabled children. In November AVSI supports the victims of hurricane Katrina in
New Orleans.
> AVSI is credited with UNICEF and granted the consultative status
The first groups implementing promotion and fundraising activity in favor of AVSI projects worlwide used to put up a sheltered table in the public squares throughout Italy at Christmastime, hence the name of “Tents”. (see “The Tents Campaign”).
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Stakeholders
By “stakeholders”, we mean all those subjects somehow involved in the activity of an NGO, both inside and outside the organization itself. Identifying the stakeholders of an NGO is a complex task given the variety of actors involved in development
cooperation. Nevertheless a careful and detailed analysis of AVSI’s relationships enabled to identify a few main categories of
stakeholders:
1) Public and Private Donors: donors enabling project implementation, thanks to the funds granted. These are public
and private national bodies, as well as many businesses, schools, and families that supported and continue to support at
a distance a great number of children. This Social Report intends to contribute building transparent and trustworthy relationships with them, through a precise reporting on the use of funds, in order to establish and develop a collaboration
between governmental and non-governmental cooperation.
2) International Bodies: AVSI intends to promote multilateral synergies and collaboration in order to implement development projects, also by means of this Social Report.
3) AVSI’s promoting parties and participating members, and individual persons belonging to the two
categories: this Social Report represents a useful tool to provide an organic and complete view of the work carried out,
and to highlight the results achieved and how effectively the Foundation is managed.
4) Direct beneficiaries, communities, local partners: the main stakeholder of AVSI’s activities is the person always
considered in a precise context and within a community. Local partners are essential intermediate agents of the relationship between AVSI and direct beneficiaries; thanks to their continuous presence on the field and deep knowledge of the
context they belong to, they contribute to establish a reliable relationship. Thus the project is perceived by the community
as their own (ownership), which accounts for sustainability on the long term.
5) Human Resources: this Social Report acknowledges the work of the staff and represents a useful tool to provide a
general view of the outcome, thus strengthening the level of operational and managerial responsibility within the
Foundation.
By this 2005 Social Report, AVSI confirms its commitment to ensuring constant improvement of the reporting process and
developing closer relationship with all stakeholders, guided by the principle of open and transparent communication with all
those who are directly or indirectly involved in its activities.
Private
donors
Private donors
bodies
Direct beneficiaries
Volunteers
in Italy
Promoting partners
Public donors
Local partners
NGOs and
Supporters
associations
Network
Staff and Collaborators
Local bodies
Staff in
developing
countries
Staff at
headquarters
European
Union
Expatriate
staff
UN agencies, World Bank
Participating
Members
bodies
Private donors
Participating members
External Stakeholders
Local
communities
Participating
Members
physical persons
Internal Stakeholders
Direct
beneficiaries
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Dept. of
Promoting
Foreign Affairs
partners
physical persons
Promoting
Cooperation
partners
development
bodies
agencies from other
countries
International
bodies
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Activities
AVSI’s activities are focused on three main sectors:
AVSI’s more than thirty years of experience in this sector
are the outcome of a history and a concept that development is first of all the development of the human person.
For AVSI the person is the center of any project. Far from
an assistance-oriented approach, every project aims at
promoting the freedom and responsibility of each individual, within the context where he/she lives.
Today the Association is implementing 113 projects in 40
countries of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern
Europe and Asia in the following areas of intervention:
social issues and education, urban upgrading, healthcare
and prevention, vocational training and development of
small and medium businesses, agriculture and environment
and emergency relief.
Education in Northern Uganda
International Adoptions
As a unique case in Europe, the Italian law states that any Italian body may be approved to implement international adoptions procedures, provided it also proves a commitment to the implementation of cooperative projects in favor of minors.
In 2000, considering the experience acquired with large numbers of children in neglect and distressing conditions all over
the world, AVSI decided to extend its commitment to this sector. In its capacity as an Approved Body, AVSI provides adoption assistance not only through the fulfilment of bureaucratic procedures, but mainly to participate in and support a human
event marked by an exceptional meaning and gratuity that is adoption.
Volunteers in Milan
Activities in Italy
Raising awareness is an activity closely linked to AVSI’s
general educational concern. The Foundation promotes
educational activities in collaboration with universities,
schools, teachers’ unions, students, medical doctors, health
operators and other bodies. The main goal of these activities
is to help people gain familiarity with development and
solidarity issues, laying the groundwork for people to pursue
new positions and job opportunities in the sector of
cooperation.
AVSI’s network of supporters assures capillary dissemination
of information and sponsors fundraising activities: some
10.000 volunteers throughout Italy promote various events
(including dinners, meetings in schools, shows, etc.) and
present AVSI’s worldwide activities.
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Corporate Governance
The following institutional bodies are involved in managing the
activities of AVSI Foundation:
body
members
General meeting of promoting partners
Meets twice a year, defines and approves the Foundation guidelines
proposed by the Board of Directors, appoints the members of the Board
of Directors, the Treasurer, the Chairman and members of the Board
of Auditors, resolves on changes of the Articles of Association, approves
the budget and balance-sheet.
41 promoting partners:
• 24 Bodies, out of which:
- 7 NGOs from the Western world
- 15 NGOs from developing
and transition countries
- 2 Italian associations
• 17 individuals
Board of participating members
Meets at least once a year; is called and chaired by the President
of the Foundation; proposes one or more representatives to be appointed
as members of the Board of Directors by the General Meeting of promoting
partners; submits opinions and proposals concerning the Foundation’s
activities, however not binding.
112 participating members:
• 4 Bodies,out of which:
- 2 NGOs from developing countries
- 2 Italian associations
• 108 individuals
Board of Directors
The body governing the Foundation, both on current and extraordinary
issues. It consists of an odd number of members, varying from 7 to 11,
determined by the General Meeting of Promoting Partners, and remains in
office for three years. It prepares the budget and final balance-sheet,
proposes possible statutory changes, appoints the Secretary General
and proposes the guidelines of the Foundation activities.
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Arturo Alberti
Gianluigi Mauri
Raffaello Vignali
Alberto Brugnoli
Alberto Piatti
Fulvia Tagliabue
Carlo Michele Battistini
Fabrizio Palai
Ezio Castelli
Pablo Llano Torres
Roberto Mingucci
Arturo Alberti
President
Represents the Foundation, controls the implementation of resolutions and
takes care of external relations.
Deputy Vice-President
Substitutes the President in case of absence or inability, and fulfils
the functions and powers assigned by the Board of Directors
or by the President.
Ezio Castelli
Secretary General
Assures the operational management of the Foundation, exercising all powers
of ordinary and extraordinary administration assigned by the Board of Directors.
Remains in office for a period of three years, and may be reconfirmed.
Alberto Piatti
Board of Auditors
Audits the Foundation activities and consists of three members. The Board
remains in office for three years; members may be reconfirmed.
- Paolo Sciumè
- Massimo Moscatelli
- Luigi Mondardini
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Organization
Responsibility for quality
Following the experience acquired in drafting the first Social Report, covering 2002 activities, AVSI could implement a
collection system of social data enabling to constantly monitor achievements and consequently make the preparation of this
document easier. The Quality Control Department coordinates the data collection system, while each operating area (project
planning, accounting, personnel management) is responsible for monitoring and updating the relevant data, according to an
established procedure. In 2005 AVSI maintained quality certification (UNI EN ISO 9001:2000) in respect of planning
cooperation, support and development projects in collaboration with the main domestic and international institutions (see CSI
certification, appendix 2).
organization chart
president
cultural and
training activities
AVSI USA
representation
with int.bodies
board
of directors
technical and
operative committee
institutional
communication
development
education
secretary
general
personnel
management
general services
technical and
operative director
international
adoptions
projects
fund raising
communication
quality
control
cooperation
local bodies
distance
support
private
donors
Africa
the Middle East
Eastern
Europa
Latin
America
communication
supporters
network
Tsunami
Areas
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Local partners
The support to project beneficiaries is assured by a close net of relations with local partners that are deeply rooted in the area.
Such local partners include:
• governmental bodies (ministerial departments, districts, municipalities, hospitals);
• schools and educational bodies (including universities);
• community based organizations;
• non-governmental organizations;
• faith based organizations (congregations, parishes, dioceses).
According to AVSI’s methodological approach, the involvement of such partners in project implementation is essential. From
the operational point of view, this means that communities are the first actors that promote and approve a development
project and are involved in its implementation in a reliable and responsible manner. Thus the intervention is not perceived as
something from the outside, but as belonging to the community, where project implementers do not substitute the community, but rather provide competent support. Moreover, in the relationship with local partners, the goal of AVSI is to strengthen
their capacity in view of future sustainability. To this end, AVSI promotes various training programs to transfer knowledge to
local partners and to improve upon the Association’s working method.
.
Number of local partners involved in the
implementation of AVSI’s projects in 2005
Governmental
Bodies
Educational bodies
and schools
Community based
organizations (CBOs)
Non-governmental
organizations (NGOs)
Faith-based
organizations (FBOs)
Total
16
44
65
52
51
228
AVSI network
Some NGOs, originally partners of AVSI in project implementation, have in time developed their collaboration. In fact, considering that they share with AVSI the same ideals, concepts and approach, they have become members of AVSI thus originating an operational network , presently consisting of 27 NGOs, out of which 17 are from non-western and transition countries.
NGOs members of the AVSI Network
DIJO
MEXICO
CSJ*
MEXICO
COWA
UGANDA
COWA
KENYA
Fundación Domus
CHILE
Fundatia
ROMANIA
NGOs from
Western Europe
and the USA
AVSI promoting partners
* AVSI participating members
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Support International V.
GERMANY
Meeting Point
International
UGANDA
AVSI
San Marino
REP. of SAN MARINO
AVSI
USA
Meeting Point
Kitgum
UGANDA
CODESC
BRAZIL
Ass. per
l’Uganda*
ITALY
CESAL
SPAIN
Maksora
RUSSIAN FED.
NGOs from
developing and
transition countries
AVAID
SWITZERLAND
EDUS*
ITALY
AVSI
CANADA
VIDA
PORTUGAL
Ass. Famiglie
per l’Accoglienza
ITALY
CDM
BRAZIL
AVSI Polska
POLAND
ACDI
ARGENTINA
SHIS
ALBANIA
SOTAS
LITHUANIA
St. Kizito*
KENYA
The Seed
NIGERIA
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Two case-histories
SOTAS (Volunteers in Social Service), Lithuania
SOTAS is a non-governmental organization established in 2002 on
the initiative of a few persons who wanted to organize in a stable
form their work, targeted to youth and families in difficult
conditions in Lithuania. SOTAS main goal is actually to implement
projects that, on one side may bring about a real improvement of
the standard of living of children and their families, and on the
other side, promote care and social solidarity in the country.
In 2002-2003 SOTAS implemented in collaboration with AVSI a
project for the “Social reintegration of institutionalized minors” as part
of an EU ACCESS program. Activities were mainly carried out in
Vilnius, at Minors Institute No. 4, where 160 children are living.
Significant results have been achieved through family
and social reintegration of orphaned children or children belonging
to families in difficult conditions and therefore subject to possible
marginalization and school drop out. In 2004-2005 SOTAS,
implemented in collaboration with AVSI (as main partner) and other
Italian associations approved for international adoption, i.e. AMU
and la Primogenita, the project “Prevention of minors neglect and
improvement of the social reintegration of children in difficult
conditions in Lithuania” funded by the Italian Commission for
International Adoption. Goal of the project was to improve the
standard of living of institutionalized minors and minors living in
families at social risk, through activities aimed at promoting social
reintegration into the original community in their country.
Project’s beneficiaries were minors living in institutes or in families
at risk, families of origin, foster families, as well as social workers.
Seminars for social workers operating with the VTAT service
(Committee for the defence of the Rights of Children) and for
workers operating with institutes for children have been proposed
and held by the approved bodies involved in the project,
in collaboration with the Lithuanian Adoption Service and SOTAS’
local operators. 60 social workers coming from all over Lithuania
attended the seminars. SOTAS is a member of the AVSI Network,
of the Lithuanian Confederation “NGOs for children”, and of the
Catholic Forum of Social Initiatives, Vilnius.
Meeting Point International (Uganda)
Meeting Point International (MPI) is a non-governmental organization
established in Uganda in 1992 and officially registered as a NGO
since 2003. MPI was set-up to help and support HIV/AIDS
infected people and their orphans, in four slums of Kampala.
Since its very start, the Association basic principle was to focus the
assistance activity on the person as a whole and not simply on the
patient. The Meeting Point priority concern is that nobody be left
alone to face disease, sufferings and death. They are convinced that
a person cannot be defined by his/her problems, but rather by the
infinite value of his/her heart (this is why their logo is the Icarus by
Matisse, representing the infinite desire of the heart of man, in spite
of his finite nature). The Association’s activities include healthcare
for sick people, psychological support for sick people and their
families, micro-lending for people in serious need so that they
may start small income generating activities and improve their living
conditions, information and awareness-raising activities on
AIDS and related problems, and distribution of food to vulnerable
groups in the areas of their concern. Support to orphaned children
is one of the most important aspects of Meeting Point International’s
work. Thanks to AVSI’s distance support program, the
Association may cover the school fees and all expenses related
to schooling of 733 children, and propose health education and
vocational training courses to adolescents. In addition, MPI is
running at Kireka, the largest slum of the capital city, two centers:
the “Welcoming House”, caring for 33 orphaned and neglected
children and the “Luigi Giussani” Day Care Centre, where
primary education is provided to 85 children who would
otherwise live in the streets. Some 1.035 AIDS infected people
receive help from the organization: 106 of them are treated with
antiretroviral drugs. In addition MPI supports 1.660 orphans
and children aged between 4 and 15 living in difficult conditions
and helps 50 old neglected people with the distribution of
food and other necessaries. The 2005 budget of Meeting Point
International has been 238 thousands Eur, funded by private and
public institutions from Italy, Spain and Switzerland, as well as by
many individual donors.
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PROFILE
Domestic and international relationships
AVSI works in close cooperation with and utilizes funds from:
> The Italian Department of Foreign Affairs which granted formal approval in 1973
> The European Commission - AVSI is also a partner of ECHO (Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid)
>
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
UN Agencies and programs:
UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund)
UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)
UNHSP (United Nations Human Settlements Programme – UN-Habitat)
UNHCR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)
FAO (Food and Agricolture Organization)
WFP (World Food Programme)
OCHA (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)
> WB (World Bank)
> IADB (Inter-American Development Bank)
> USAID (United States Agency for International Development)
> DUTCH COOPERATION
> REPUBLIC OF SAN MARINO
AVSI enjoys consultative status with:
> ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council - United Nations)
> UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization)
> UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund)
AVSI is on the special list of NGOs of:
> ILO (International Labour Organization)
AVSI is a member of:
> Federazione dell’Impresa Sociale della Compagnia delle Opere
> UN Department of Public Information (DPI) in New York
> Italian Association of NGOs
> FOCSIV (Federation of Christian Organizations for International Volunteer Service)
> READI (Network of European and Mediterranean NGOs for development and integration)
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PROFILE
Small business activities in Northern Uganda
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A school in South Sudan
Activities
• Development cooperation
Projects in progress in 2005
- Social and educational area
- Distance Support
- Urban development
- Healthcare and prevention
- Vocational Training and development
of small and medium businesses
- Agriculture and environment
- Emergency Relief
• International adoptions
Why the choice
Training of couples
2005-2006 subsidiarity project
• Activities in Italy
AVSI Points
“Tents” Campaign
Events
Corporate Social Responsability
Communication
Human resources
• Staff at Italian headquarters
• Expatriate staff
• Training
social and
environmental report
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AVSI is presently active in 40 countries of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Asia and North America with
113 projects. Sixty projects concern the social and educational sector, with a great number funded through the distance support program. Other traditional areas of intervention include: urban upgrading, healthcare and prevention, vocational training and
support to small-medium businesses, agriculture and environment and emergency relief. The remarkable increase of emergency
relief projects recorded in 2005 is due to AVSI’s intervention in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand, following the Tsunami disaster.
PROJECTS IN PROGRESS IN 2005
social-educational
countries
projects
Africa
Angola
Burundi
Kenya
Mozambique
Nigeria
D. R. Congo
Rwanda
Sierra Leone
Sudan
Uganda
Total
Latin America
and the Caribbeans
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Cuba
Haiti
Mexico
Peru
Venezuela
Total
The Middle East
Jordan
Iraq
Lebanon
Palestine
Total
Eastern Europe
Albania
Bulgaria
Bosnia
Croatia
Kosovo
Lithuania
Poland
FRY
Russian Federation
Romania
Total
Asia
Philippines
Kazakhstan
India
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Total
North America
Usa (Louisiana)
Total
Other Countries5
Total
DS*
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
8
1
9
1
5
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
10
3
1
2
1
7
1
1
2
urban
development
healthcare
and
prevention
vocational
training and
development
of SMB
emergency
relief
total
1
1
1
1
2
1
5
7
1
1
4
2
4
8
1
3
2
1
9
1
1
1
1
3
2
3
1
28
2
1
1
7
3
1
1
1
3
3
1
3
2
9
2
1
1
1
3
1
5
7
1
1
9
1
1
6
2
1
1
1
2
4
1
1
1
2
2
1
1
3
7
23
1
1
2
1
27
2
33
1
3
2
4
9
1
1
8
16
1
1
5
1
3
6
3
2
3
12
37
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
agriculture
and
environment
1
1
1
10
18
1
4
3
2
4
14
1
1
1
113
* DS: Distance support
5
The “Education+schooling=development”: scholarships for youth in poor countries is one of the projects funded by the Tents campaign: In 2005, 303 scholarships have been granted to
youth in the following countries: Argentina (67), Brazil (18), Chile (16), Cuba (1), Ecuador (11), Mexico (13), Paraguay (21), Peru (38), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (10), Albania (8), Bulgaria (33),
Croatia (2), Kazakhstan (4), Kosovo (10), Lithuania (6), Czech Republic (4), Romania (5), Russian Federation (12), Hungary (3), Kenya (6), Lebanon (3), Nigeria (5), Uganda (6).
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Africa and Latin America have been the areas of traditional AVSI’s presence. The implementation of projects in Eastern Europe,
and particularly in Romania and Albania dates back to the nineties.
PROJECTS BY GEOGRAPHIC AREA6
40
37
35
29
30
25
23
20
15
10
14
9
5
1
0
Eastern Europe
Latin America
and the Caribbeans
The Middle
East
Asia
Africa
North America
PROJECTS BY AREA OF INTERVENTION7
35
33
30
27
25
18
20
15
10
16
10
8
5
1
0
Distance
support
Social-educational
Emergency relief
Vocational training
and business
support
Agriculture
Healthcare
Urban upgrading
Argentina Vocational training courses
6
7
The “Education+schooling=development”: scholarships for youth in poor countries is one of the projects funded by the Tents campaign: In 2005, 303 scholarships have been granted to
youth in the following countries: Argentina (67), Brazil (18), Chile (16), Cuba (1), Ecuador (11), Mexico (13), Paraguay (21), Peru (38), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (10), Albania (8), Bulgaria (33),
Croatia (2), Kazakhstan (4), Kosovo (10), Lithuania (6), Czech Republic (4), Romania (5), Russian Federation (12), Hungary (3), Kenya (6), Lebanon (3), Nigeria (5), Uganda (6).
The “Education+schooling=development” project has been allocated to Latin America, since scholarships have been mainly granted to countries of this area.
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Social and educational area
Social and educational projects have a remarkable weight for AVSI both in terms of quantity and of social impact. They include a great number of activities, directed primarily to children and, whenever possibile,to families, teachers and social workers.
In fact, the educational process concerns all those who are somehow involved.
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED IN 2005
n.
country
project
project leader
e-mail
1
Romania
Foster house for neglected and HIV infected children (Casa Joy)
Claudia Terragni
[email protected]
2
Romania
Foster house for neglected and HIV infected children (Casa Emilia)
Claudia Terragni
[email protected]
3
Romania
Foster house for neglected and HIV infected children (Casa Edimar)
Claudia Terragni
[email protected]
4
Romania
Educational, social and healthcare activities addressed to Rom children at Cojasca
Ioana Stere
[email protected]
5
Romania
Human promotion and social reintegration of HIV infected neglected children living in
Claudia Terragni
[email protected]
difficult conditions
6
Russian Federation
Support to "Golubka" center, caring for early mothers
Rosalba Armando
[email protected]
7
Lithuania
Prevention of minors neglect and improved social reintegration of children in difficult
Lijana Gvaldaite
[email protected]
conditions
8
Argentina
Poverty reduction for vulnerable families and youth in the area of Partido della Matanza
Antonella De Giorgi
[email protected]
9
Brazil
Nova Semente center for children
Nadia Caldarera
[email protected]
10
Brazil
Support to primary education of children and adolescents in the Morro dos Cabritos
Paola Galafassi
[email protected]
Paola Cigarini
[email protected]
Paola Galafassi
[email protected]
Community participation, environment and healthcare education at Alagados
Gianfranco
[email protected]
IV - V
Commodaro
favela
11
Family reintegration center for children and adolescents at social risk (FOC – Family
Brazil
Orientation Center)
12
Education and employment for the global development and social inclusion of the
Brazil
persons living in the Morro dos Cabritos favela
13
Brazil
14
Mexico
Human Development Center
Andrea Bianchessi
[email protected]
15
Iraq
Emergency relief project to support nursery schools in the suburbs of Baghdad
Giuseppe Parma
[email protected]
16
Jordan
Rehabilitation of the nursery, primary and secondary schools of the Latin
Massimo Fusato
[email protected]
Silvia Galbiati
[email protected]
Patriarchate at North Zarqa
17
Social and professional reintegration of social groups, either neglected or at risk of
Kazakhstan
neglect, in Almaty and neighbouring areas
18
Social and professional reintegration of social groups, either marginalized or at risk of Tiziana Gualtieri
Kazakhstan
[email protected]
marginalization, in Almaty and neighbouring areas
19
Nigeria
Educational center in the urban area of Lagos
Michela Pasqual
[email protected]
20
Sierra Leone
Educational recovery and social reintegration of former child-soldiers in Freetown
Ernest Sesay
[email protected]
21
D. R. of Congo
Integrated project of schooling support in the rural areas of the North Kivu province
Donatella Strano
[email protected]
22
D. R. of Congo
Rehabilitation and support to the primary school of Karambo
Edoardo Tagliani
[email protected]
23
Kenya
Improved human development conditions for children, adolescents, and youth
Leonida Capobianco
[email protected]
through educational and healthcare activities
24
Kenya
Support to Little Prince School - Kenya
Leonida Capobianco
[email protected]
25
Kenya
Improved living conditions for children, adolescents and youth through educational
Paolo Sanna
[email protected]
Care and support to orphaned and vulnerable children in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda
Lucia Castelli
[email protected]
“Education+schooling=development”: scholarships for youth in developing and
Alberto Brugnoli
[email protected]
and healthcare activities
26
Uganda Rwanda
Kenya
27
Various countries
transition countries
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ACHIEVEMENTS
input
Overall achievements of 27 projects, 6 of which have been completed and 21 are still in progress.
staff
Expatriates
Local skilled staff
Local unskilled staff
Consultants
Local consultants
Total
funds
for expatriate staff
for local staff
for production facilities acquired in Italy
for production facilities acquired locally
Total
production facilities
supplied/built
output
material aids
assistance
units
full time equivalent
36
242
189
8
2
477
20,37
187,47
146,15
8
2
363,99
€ 410.000
€ 577.300
€ 312.500
€ 3.069.000
€ 4.368.800
• Building/expansion of educational and recreational areas and maintenance works for 37 educational centers (Romania,
Nigeria, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Argentina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jordan, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya)
• Building of secondary school in Freetown and rehabilitation of a primary school and housing units at St. Michael Center,
Lakka (Sierra Leone)
• Building of 355 housing units at Alagados 31 and construction of coastal road enabling access to services (Salvador
Bahia, Brazil)
• Building and furnishing of the FOC – Family Orientation Center (Salvador Bahia, Brazil)
• Set-up and opening of a job-counter promoting access to employment (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
• Supply of 7 computers, servers and copying machines (Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Nigeria)
• Furnishing of 3 foster houses and provision of domestic appliances (Romania)
• Supply of educational material and equipment (Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Argentina, Romania)
• Purchase of two cars (Kazakhstan, Uganda)
• Nutritional and healthcare support to 6.700 children and their families
• Support to the start-up of income generating activities for 800 families
• Supply of drugs to treat children malnutrition and recurrent diseases (Salvador Bahia, Brazil)
• Educational support and remedial lessons to 16.000 children (Romania, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Nigeria,
Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya)
• Psychological support to and social-educational care of 886 children and adolescents (Romania, Lithuania, Brazil, Iraq)
• Recreational and sport activities for 25.281 children and adolescents (Romania, Argentina, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Nigeria,
Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Brazil)
• Healthcare (pediatric, nutritional) for 2.149 children and adolescents (Romania, Russian Federation, Argentina, Brazil,
Mexico, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya)
• Social-psychological support to 9.475 children and adolescents (Argentina, Russian Federation, Mexico, Uganda, Rwanda
and Kenya)
• Relationship recovered with 71 families of origin of children living in foster houses and support to 22 mothers with very
serious family problems; psycho-social support to 33 foster or adoption families (Romania, Lithuania, Russian Federation,
Argentina)
• Awareness-raising and training activity on the issues of nutrition and parents/children relationship for 509 adults (Brazil, Argentina)
• Customized support to 356 families of children suffering from malnutrition, at risk of school drop-out, or with special problems, through home visits (Romania, Argentina, Mexico)
• Promotion of schooling and attendance at vocational training courses for 303 adolescents (Romania, Brazil, Kenya)
• Support to vocational training and employment for 204 unemployed youth and women (Brazil, Kazakhstan)
• Preparation to university entrance examination for 340 youth (Nigeria)
• Organization of special literacy lessons for 640 adults (Nigeria) and implementation of cultural/recreational activities for
50 adults (Mexico)
• 303 scholarships granted to high school and university students (Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia)
• Payment of transportation for outpatient current and special examinations (Salvador Bahia, Brazil) and school bus service (Baghdad, Iraq)
• Support to 355 families moving to new housing (Salvador Bahia, Brasile)
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output
training
of operators
- Courses
- Participants
- Days
117
1.376
2.456
awareness raising/
training of parents
and children
- Courses
- Participants
- Days
256
3.341
495
special events
outcome
improvement of
general living
conditions of
participants
support to cultural
and business
development
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• Parties with the families on the occasion of the main religious, school and popular festivities (Romania, Argentina,
Brazil, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Kazakhstan)
• Organization of a round-table on the subject of “Social and professional reintegration of either marginalized groups
or groups at risk of marginalization, in Almaty and neighbouring areas” (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
• Inauguration of multi-purpose center (nursery school and PC room) in Baghdad (Iraq)
• Inauguration of Little Prince primary school (Kenya)
• Open day at the vocational training Center, González Catan (Argentina) and at the nursery and primary schools in
Lagos (Nigeria)
• Project presentation to the Department of Education in Almaty, (Kazakhstan)
• Sport tournaments
• Improved living conditions for some 30.000 vulnerable children and adolescents, through:
- improved educational facilities, thanks to maintenance and rehabilitation works (Iraq, Jordan, Sierra Leone)
- improved quality of the educational service and consequent reduction of school delay and drop-out (Romania,
Argentina, Nigeria, Kenya, Democratric Republic of Congo)
- improved nutritional conditions (Romania, Brazil, Nigeria)
- healthcare and sanitation, and awaraness raising on the main hygienic practices (Romania, Argentina, Brazil,
Nigeria, Sierra Leone)
- promoting access to services for disabled people (Romania, Uganda)
- improved interpersonal relationships and development of learning abilities
- setting a trustworthy relationship between parents and educational bodies and awareness-raising on the importance
of education, nutrition, healthcare and value of the family (Romania, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone)
- granting scholarships (Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America)
- improving teachers’ training
- vocational services for young unemployed people (Argentina)
• Improved living conditions for 251 children and adolescents attending care centers, through:
- recovery and development of the affective relationships between children and families of origin (Brazil, Romania)
- development of social relationships and enhancing responsibility in decision-making processes and in the fulfilment of routine tasks (Romania - Lithuania)
• Improved living conditions for 355 families that have been provided with a new house (Brazil)
• Improved relationships between muslims and christians, thanks to the rehabilitation and expansion of 2 nursery
schools in Baghdad attended by children of both religions (Iraq)
• Improvement of relational resources, economic conditions and self-esteem of vulnerable families (Romania, Lithania,
Argentina)
• Vocational training and support to mothers in highly vulnerable economic conditions
• Development of a culture of attention and care and proving the effectiveness of a subsidiary approach in foster
houses and foster families (Romania, Lithuania)
• Improved quality of the educational services provided by the schools as a consequence of training school teachers
and managers (Romania, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya)
• Increased consciousness of the Rom community in respect of the value of school, health, education and children
care (Romania)
• Capacity building and improved skills of the operators and local counterparts (Argentina, Sierra Leone)
• Development of collaboration and involvement of local administrations (Romania, Argentina, Brazil, Kazakhstan)
• Collaboration with local businesses to promote apprenticeship in favor of youth attending training courses
(Argentina)
• Disseminating increased awareness on existing problems and developing the abilities of the communities to mobilize and organize (Brazil, Kazakhstan)
• Development of job opportunities through employment orientation activities in order to enhance existing talents
and skills
• Improved quality of the familiar relationships and enhancing parents’ responsibility towards their children (Brazil)
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Distance support
Distance support is a particular form of solidarity
that is fulfilled through a steady and uninterrupted
flow of financial contributions. Funds are directed
to a clearly identified “beneficiary” somewhere in
the world, who thereby receives food, healthcare,
sanitation, schooling and opportunities to participate in educational and recreational activities.
It is a distinctive kind of “adoption” that, unlike
legal adoption, does not involve any family relationship or legal link among the relevant subjects.
It is intended to improve the daily life of thousands
of children and youth, favoring a process of poverty reduction and stimulating human development.
Initiated in 1993 with a few dozens children, the
program has expanded to support in 2005 some
27.886 children and youth in 33 countries of the
world. In 2005 distance support has been extended to Chile.
FIGURES FOR 20057
Countries
Sponsored
children total
Financial
resources eur
Africa
Angola
419
112.000
Burundi
752
124.000
Kenya
Mozambique
1.988
292.000
814
177.000
Nigeria
1.029
256.000
D. R. Congo
1.170
366.000
Rwanda
1.663
128.000
Sierra Leone
Uganda
Total
632
151.000
4.453
1.222.000
12.920
2.828.000
Latin America and
the Caribbeans
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Cuba
547
125.000
4.541
1.341.000
32
386
128.000
21
7.000
Ecuador
919
227.000
Haiti
645
204.000
Mexico
801
251.000
Peru
245
39.000
Venezuela
201
64.000
8.338
2.386.500
Total
The Middle East
Joardan
321
75.000
Lebanon
1.356
377.000
Palestine
322
76.000
1.999
528.000
Albania
994
268.000
Bosnia
24
5.000
Bulgaria
83
18.000
Total
Eastern Europe
Croazia
31
9.000
Kosovo
249
56.000
Lithuania
222
73.000
Poland
213
69.000
Russian Federation
424
90.000
1.907
402.000
4.147
990.000
Kazakhstan
354
117.000
Philippines
128
31.000
482
148.000
27.886
6.880.500
Romania
Total
Asia
Lebanon Students
Total
7
The financial resources figure refers to funds allocated to Distance Support activities during 2005.
On the other hand, the figure related to children refer to the number of children
matched to a specific sponsor as of December 31, 2005.
For children included in the program during the fourth quarter of 2005, no payment has been made in the year (Chile).
TOTAL
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The countries where AVSI has the largest commitment to distance support coincide with the areas of long-standing presence
and of greater project implementation, specifically Uganda in Africa, Brazil in Latin America and Romania in Eastern Europe.
TOTAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN SPONSORED BY CONTINENT
14.000
12.920
12.000
10.000
8.338
8.000
6.000
4.147
4.000
1.999
2.000
482
0
Africa
Latin America
and the Caribbeans
The Middle East
Eastern Europe
Asia
Distance support coincides with a pledge of responsibility taken by the donor who assures a steady economic contribution
over a significant period of time. The financial support is used to encourage the growth of the person. The weakest and most
fragile children often need special attention and care, while the older ones are thus enabled to succeed in completing their
studies. The number of adolescents and youth supported is constantly increasing, which reflects the continued commitment
of donors and the need for expansion of specific programs in support of secondary, vocational and university level schooling.
Last week Mr. Walter V. travelled to Romania to meet with Adriana, the girl he
is sponsoring through distance support. Adriana is presently going through
a rather critical situation because she left the foster center “Pinocchio” and is
now living with her boyfriend and his family; moreover she stopped attending
the vocational school for waiters-cooks, where she was enrolled at her first
year. Adriana appreciated Mr. Walter’s visit and accepted to meet with him.
This proved once more that her sponsor represents for her a reference person.
The meeting between Adriana and her sponsor took place at Fundatia
headquarters. Adriana explained to her sponsor why she left the foster
house: her two brothers were often going to see her and beated her, while
the foster house’s staff did not react at all. So she decided to go and live with her
boyfriend and his family, where she feels loved and protected. Mr. Walter’s attitude was open and
sympathetic. However he reminded her that education is the most important thing in life and that she
should complete her studies and get her certificate, considering that she is enjoying distance
support. He also confirmed that he is available to help and support her on schooling.
Following this meeting, we decided to contact the management of the vocational school where Adriana
is enrolled, to check whether the girl may resume her studies. Adriana must think of her future. We are
going to continue monitoring the situation and see what we can do to help Adriana while keeping in
touch with her sponsor”.
Nicoleta Bosnigeanu, LGC Coordinator
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Urban upgrading
In 2005, AVSI implemented just one urban upgrading project in Brazil, at Salvador Bahia, in the favela of “Novos Alagados”
and in other areas of the All Saints Bay with some 135.000 inhabitants. The project is intended to provide technical and social
assistance (PATS) to the “Ribeira Azul” program of the Government of the State of Bahia. This project is not limited to environmental upgrading and sanitation (drinking water system, sewage system, road network, waste disposal…) but includes a
number of integrated activities for the benefit of the population living in these areas such as the establishment of educational
and health services as well as vocational training, among others.
input
staff
funds
output
supplied/built
material aids
training/
awareness raising
special events
Expatriate staff
Local skilled staff
Consultants
Local consultants
Total
units
5
25
46
1
77
4,5
4,5
€ 158.400
€ 145.700
€ 1.041.500
€ 1.345.600
for local staff
Total
• Rehabilitation of the nursery school of the craftsmen association at Alagados, Salvador and of the school located at
“Largo do Conjunto Santa Luiza”
• Building of a nursery school for 150 children
• Building of 191 housing units
• Improvement of 101 housing units
• Architectural and engineering study for the physical and environmental recovery of the Alagados VI and Mangueira communities
• Study and design of the Coastal Road
• Drafting of the Town-planning and Environmental Preservation Plan of the Rio Cobre Basin
• Support to COOPESBA, the fishermen cooperative of Novos Alagados as well as to the building cooperative of
Mangueira
• Support to the Alagados local band
• Technical assistance to define and implement training courses on the issues of planning and administration addressed to 55 CBOs
• Training and accounting support to 7 Cooperatives and one association for a total 24 hours lessons and 34 individual technical assistance visits
• Training and accounting support to 34 micro and small businesses for a total 26 hours lessons and 43 visits.
• Social-health support and environmental education provided to 500 families that received new housing units.
• Recovery of mangroves and introduction and dissemination of new values and behaviors
• Funding of 10 social and educational projects promoted by CBOs
• Training of 30 educational operators for small babies.
• Start-up of a Family Orientation Center
• Reintegration of 8 youth with past convictions, through socially-useful jobs
• Tripartite Management Committee held on 21-23 February 2005 and attended by members of the Government of the
State of Bahia, Italian Department of Foreign Affairs, World Bank/Cities Alliance.
• June 2, 2005, meeting in Salvador Bahia to present the PSIA – Poverty Social Impact Analysis - attended by officers
from various departments of the State of Bahia, as well as representatives from the World Bank, the municipal prefecture of Salvador and AVSI
• On 13 September 2005 a nursery school for 150 children in the area of Joanes Azul, has been inaugurated. The ceremony was attended by Paulo Ganem Souto, Governor of the State of Bahia, Roberto Moussallem, Secretary for the
Urban Development of the State of Bahia, Julian Carrón, head of the Communion and Liberation Movement, and
representatives of the Salvador prefecture and of AVSI
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outcome
improvement
of general living
conditions
of participants
support to cultural
and business
development
• Empowerment of civil society through training and support provided to some 70 subjects including associations
and local cooperatives.
Environmental reclamation of the bay through:
- the eradication of 1.168 pileworks and consequent improvement of the bay waters with mangroves growing again
- increased supply of official water (in 2000 only 36.6% of houses were linked to the public supply network; in 2005
this percentage has increased to 70.7)
- connection to the sewage system (in 2005 84.4 % of houses were connected, as compared to 21% in 2000; similarly, houses without toilet decreased from 30.6% in 2000 to 3% in 2005)
• in 2005 the World Bank approved co-funding of Viver Melhor II, a program of the Government of the State of Bahia
to upgrade poor urban areas in 18 towns, based on the lessons learnt from PATS; 30 % of funds are allocated to
social and educational activities. Against a new trust fund from Italian Cooperation to the World Bank-Cities
Alliance, AVSI enters a contract with the World Bank for the implementation of a technical assistance program
(PAT) for the Viver Melhor II in 3 areas of Salvador and Ilheus, where some 350.000 people live
• as a consequence of capacity building, 6 cooperatives of the area established by young people, could participate
in and be awarded tenders for the construction of infrastructural works
Brazil, Ribeira Azul, Salvador
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Healthcare and prevention
Historically, healthcare has been the first activity implemented by AVSI. Activities in this area have included physical rehabilitation or construction of hospitals and health centers, the functional reorganization of health services, training of local medical
and nursing staff and sanitation education for the local population. Many of these projects are implemented in peripheral territories with ongoing conflicts.
Hospital in Northern Uganda
HEALTHCARE PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED IN 2005
n.
country
1
Jordan
project
Use of information technology to improve the living conditions of people with
projetc leader
e-mail
Massimo Fusato
[email protected]
Davide Naggi
[email protected]
physical disabilities
2
Uganda
Support to and extension of the physical rehabilitation services in Northern
Uganda
3
Uganda
Improvement of the surgical services provided by Hoima regional hospital
Andrea Rizzi
[email protected]
4
Uganda
Improvement of healthcare services provided to the vulnerable population of
Chiara Pierotti
[email protected]
Andrea Mandelli
[email protected]
Filippo Ciantia
[email protected]
Acholiland
5
Uganda
Development of the information and data processing systems of the healthcare centers members of Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau (UCMB)
6
Uganda
Improvement of basic healthcare services provided to people infected with
AIDS and their families in the Great Lakes region
7
Rwanda
Humure health center
Marco Perini
[email protected]
8
Nigeria
Development of a nutritional center for children and families infected with
Chiara Mezzalira
[email protected]
AIDS, tubercolosis and malaria
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ACHIEVEMENTS
input
Overall achievements of 8 projects, 6 of which are still in progress and 2 have been completed.
staff
Expatriate staff
Local skilled staff
Consultants
Local coonsultants
Total
funds
for local staff
Total
built/supplied
output
material aids
assistance
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units
11
41
26
5
1
84
8,58
38,16
25,75
5
1
78,49
€ 413.000
€ 164.100
€ 94.400
€ 966.700
€ 1.638.200
• Building of occupational medicine ward completed at Gulu Regional hospital (Uganda)
• Rehabilitation of the surgery ward, surgical room, out-patients center and ultrasound room at Hoima regional
hospital (Uganda)
• Improved logistics of bioptic examinations at Hoima Regional Hospital (Uganda) as a consequence of the collaboration established with the Pathology Department of Nsambia Hospital (Uganda)
• Supply of surgical equipment for the surgery of Hoima Regional Hospital (Uganda) and the maternity ward of
Humure Health Center (Rwanda)
• Furnishing the conference hall of the Nutritional Center of St. Kizito clinic (Nigeria)
• Supply of information and communication technology in order to improve the provision of health services in
Northern Uganda
• Purchase of 3 vehicles
•
•
•
•
•
Supply of drugs to Northern Uganda hospitals
Food distribution to hospitalized people (Uganda) and at Humure health center (Rwanda)
Provision of powdered milk to 720 children
Distribution of seeds, agricultural tools and animal feed
Micro-lends granted to 424 people
• Identification and monitoring on the field of people with physical disabilities and epilepsy by means of mobile
health units
• Monitoring growth and nutritional recovery:
- 1.892 children sumitted to screening
- 2.003 children aged between 0 and 5 received vaccination
- 8.379 undernourished children received support and care
• Awareness-raising about the HIV test addressed to pregnant women and the population in general; development of prevention of mother-to-child transmission and support to HIV+ and AIDS infected people:
- 11.000 mothers and pregnant women benefited from the PMTCT program in Hoima district (Uganda)
- 1.677 pregnant women submitted to HIV screening
- 2.372 AIDS and HIV+ people assisted and treated
• Healthcare, health education, prevention of malaria and treatment of frequent diseases:
- 6.300 people examined
- 4.276 people hospitalized
- 1.541 people vaccinated/treated
- 4.844 lab tests executed
- 580 major/small surgery operations executed
- 974 pregnant women submitted to ante-natal examination
• Farmyard animals and seeds of various vegetables provided to 6 associations of the Humure Health Center
(Rwanda)
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training
of staff
- Courses
- Participants
- Days
38
546
334
awareness/training
of parents and
adolescents
- Courses
- Participants
- Days
52
1.663
54
special events
• Publication of two issues of “Erada”, quarterly magazine on disabilities distributed free in 20.000 copies
• 3 workshops organized on the use of IT tools to improve the living conditions of people with disabilities
• Inauguration of the Occupational Medicine Ward at Gulu Regional Hospital (Uganda) and of the Special Services Ward
at the Nutritional Center of St. Kisito clinic (Nigeria)
improvement
of general living
conditions
of participants
• Improvement of the services provided by the centers for disabilities as a consequence of:
- Improved quality of treatment of complex clinical cases, such as children with cerebral palsy, palsies of
neurological origin
- Surgical, medical and rehabilitation treatment of disabled people identified in rural areas
- Implementation of the program for the identification and treatment of epilepsy in all supported health
centers
• Improvement of the health services provided by Northern Uganda hospitals thanks to the renovation and
maintenance works carried out at the health facilities, improvement of the accounting and reporting systems,
and development of local staff’s skills. In 2005 an improvement in the death rate has been recorded (death
rate decreased from 6.7% to 3.5%)
• Development of the skills of the local staff at Hoima regional hospital (Uganda), through support provided by
expert surgeons on short-term missions.
This determined:
- decreased average hospitalization time (from 11 days in the second quarter of 2005 to 8 days in the third
quarter 2005)
- increased number of surgical operations, thanks to the presence of the employed health staff and to the
provision of tools and drugs (133 in the third quarter 2005 against 108 in the second quarter 2005)
- reduced waiting time for the results of bioptic tests (10 days in the third quarter 2005 against 60 days in
the first quarter 2005)
- decreased death rate within the surgery ward (4.1% in the third quarter 2005, against 6.5% in the first
quarter)
• Improved assistance provided to HIV+ and AIDS infected people in Hoima District (Uganda), proved by:
- increased number of women who benefited from the PMTCT program (from 9.807 in 2004 to 11.000 in
2005)
- decreased HIV prevalence in pregnant women cared by PMTCT centers (from 7.2% in 2004 to 6.4% in
2005)
- increased number of HIV+ people visited at home or in the health centers (from 814 recorded in 2004 to
1.391 in 2005)
• Improvement of the nutritional status of people who took part in the activities of the model farm and vegetable garden
at Humure’s Health Center (Rwanda)
support to cultural
and business
development
• Development of the skills of the staff of health centers, centers for disabled and hospitals (Uganda, Jordan)
• Dissemination of the best breeding and farming techniques and of the concept of solid work thanks to the
joint management of the model farm and vegetable garden created at Humure Health Center (Rwanda)
• Development of the curricula at the Catholic University of Nkozi and the Uganda Institute of Information and
Communication Technologies (UICT), Kampala (Uganda)
• Adoption of a data analysis model worked out by the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau by the Uganda Health
Department
• Development of the collaboration between the nutritional center of St. Kizito clinic and the local government
authorities of the vocational training school (Nigeria)
outcome
output
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Vocational training and business
development
AVSI is convinced that there can be no development without employment. Thus, AVSI implements projects aimed at improving the skills and know-how of local entrepreneurs, and promoting the start-up of new business activities through micro-lending and managerial support. Particular attention is paid to vocational training for youth.
VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED IN 2005
n.
country
1
Romania
2
project
Albania
project
leader
e-mail
Human promotion of vulnerable children and families in difficult condi-
Lacramiorara Rediu
[email protected]
tions in the area of Arad (Arad 3)
Vasile Nita
[email protected]
Support to and promotion of small business activities run by women in
Simone Andreozzi
[email protected]
Albania
3
Albania
Development of small business activities run by women
Simone Andreozzi
[email protected]
4
Albania
Support to educational works, for the reintegration of youth at risk of
Simone Andreozzi
[email protected]
Rosalba Armando
[email protected]
Andrea Bianchi
[email protected]
social exclusion
5
Russian Federation
Vocational training and promoting access to the job market to prevent
youth marginalization
6
Kosovo
Development of the democratization process in Kosovo: capacity
building of civil society organizations active in the farming sector in the
area of Peja/Pec
7
Peru
Educar Lombardia per Lima (Education, Research and Employment)
Daniela Altini
[email protected]
8
Peru
Support to upgrading the vocational training system and to the develop-
Daniela Altini
[email protected]
Claudio Palchetti
[email protected]
Andrea Migliavacca
[email protected]
Claudio Palchetti
[email protected]
Giorgio Capitanio
[email protected]
ment of micro, small and medium businesses in the Cono Norte, Lima
9
Argentina
Support to the development and modernization of micro, small and
medium businesses
10
Argentina
Revitalization of the industrial activities in Argentina: development of
small and medium businesses to promote access to export credit
11
Argentina
Support to small and medium businesses: quality certification of meat
for the export market
12
Brazil
Employment education for youth looking for their first job and support
to the establishment of small businesses
13
Brazil
Employment education for youth in difficult conditions looking for their first job
Giorgio Capitanio
[email protected]
14
Kazakhstan
Vocational training of unemployed youth or youth looking for their
Silvia Galbiati
[email protected]
Matteo Matteini
[email protected]
Stefano Montaccini
[email protected]
first job
15
Palestine
Integrated program of support to the institutions in the area of capacity building and promotion of development at Bethlehem
16
Kenya
Promotion of youth employment and small businesses and training in
advanced technologies, Nairobi in Kenya
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ACHIEVEMENTS
input
staff
funds
built/supplied
output
material Aids
assistance
Expatriate staff
Local skilled staff
Consultants
Local consultants
Total
units
19
148
62
24
21
274
13,50
120,53
32,37
24
21
211,40
€ 300.200
€ 281.400
€ 137.000
€ 771.200
€ 1.489.800
for local staff
Total
• Furniture and equipment provided to: 11 small handicraft businesses run by women and coordination agency
(Albania); CEASE (Centro de Apoyo al Sector Empresarial, Peru); movie hall at a boarding school for girls (Albania);
students’ information counter at Novosibirsk State University (Russian Federation); two laboratories (information technology and cooking) and two vocational training classrooms; project management office and rooms for vocational
activities (Brazil)
• Supply of raw materials and production equipment to 11 small businesses run by women (Albania)
• Creation of a new revolving fund to support small and medium businesses, while keeping the 2004 fund too. (Argentina)
• Start-up of a co-operative to market breeding and farming products (Argentina)
• Market study on handicraft in the area of Bethlehem (Palestine)
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Supply of food, educational material, and sanitation products to educational facilities (Albania)
Supply of necessaries for 187 institutionalized children or children from families in difficult conditions (Romania)
Renovation of housing units and supply of domestic equipment to 26 families (Romania)
Supply of clothing and goods for babies to 92 women (Romania)
Scholarships to 50 youth (Brazil)
13 lends granted by the revolving fund (Argentina))
Supply of educational material to 90 schoolboys (Kazakhstan)
• Support to access the job market through:
- n° 7 workshops
- n° 1.142 interviews
- n° 55 contacts with businesses
- dissemination of information on the opportunities for students to integrate their studies in foreign countries
• Support to marketing and export provided to 11 handicraft micro-businesses run by women (Albania)
• Support to the Santa Fe Business Service Center and to the PROGAN breeders’ cooperative and consolidation
of the PROGAN’s export cooperative (Argentina)
• Follow-up and consulting services provided to new businesses (Argentina)
• Support to 39 micro-businesses through micro-lending (Brazil)
• Support to the start-up of two production units/cooperatives (bamboo works , handicraft products and clothing
manufacture) involving 51 youth (Brazil)
• Support to 31 breeders in the implementation of the traceability system (Argentina)
• Socialization and recreational activities for 40 istitutionalized children (Romania)
• Support to 353 women who intended to abandon their children at the maternity ward (Romania)
• Social activities in favor of the family of origin of 37 children who have been abandoned at the maternity ward
(Romania)
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training/awareness
for parents
and adolescents
16
494
131
- Courses
- Participants
- Days
327
2.391
598
special events
• Participation in a trade fair to present the handicraft products manufactured by the 11 micro-businesses run by
women (Albania)
• Organization of an international workshop on the issue of “Gratuity, creativity and development” for the not-for-profit
bodies of the Cono Norte (Peru)
• Implementation of the “Sé empresario ahora” competition, for people who want to become entrepreneurs (Peru)
• Official presentation and practical demonstration of the TRAZ.AR system to the government authorities and to bodies
of the sector (Argentina)
• Inauguration of the “Espaço Obras e Companhia” center (Brazil)
• Final ceremony for the delivery of certificates attended by the directors of the vocational and employment centers
(Kazakhstan)
• Attendance at the conference organized by UNDESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs) on
youth employment in Africa (Kenya)
improvement
of general living
conditions
of participants
• Improvement of the living conditions of 474 children and adolescents, thanks to:
- improved nutrition and health and sanitation conditions (Romania, Albania)
- improved educational and recreational opportunities (Albania)
- increased socialization abilities (Romania)
- better services provided by boarding schools for girls (Albania)
• Improvement of the employment status and opportunities of 4.113 youth/adults, by means of:
- implementation of employment/vocational orientation activities (Romania, Russian Federation, Kenya, Brazil)
- organization of literacy and vocational training courses (Romania, Peru, Kenya, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Albania)
- registration of unemployed youth with the Bolsa del Trabajo (Employment Record) (Peru) and support to
keep the job found
- start-up of a temporary or permanent job (Peru, Russian Federation, Kenya, Brazil, Kazakhstan) with consequent increase of the family income
• Increased sale of livestock and handicraft products by beneficiary cooperatives and micro-business run by
women, with consequent improved expectations on the development of their employment as well as of the
family income (Argentina, Albania, Peru)
outcome
output
training of staff
- Courses
- Participants
- Days
support to cultural
and business
development
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• Development of job centers and of an employment office (Romania, Brazil, Russian Federation)
• Increased involvement and integration between businesses and institutions in charge of vocational training
(Romania, Brazil, Kazakhstan)
• Improved entrepreneurial skills of the existing agricultural and livestock breeding cooperatives/handicraft associations and incentives to the set-up of such new businesses (Albania, Kosovo, Argentina, Kenya)
• Increased managerial skills and transparent administration by public officers as well as improved dialogue and
exchange of information and know-how among agricultural associations, institutions and cultural centers
operating in the agricultural field (Kosovo)
• Drafting of a database for increased exchange of information and search of marketing opportunities (Peru,
Argentina)
• Awareness-raising in women on the importance of family for a sound and balanced growth of children and
consequent decrease of the rate of neglect (as compared to 2004, neglect of children decreased by 50% Romania)
• ACDI, a partner of AVSI, developed its own organization and achieved quality certification on administrativeaccounting procedures (Argentina)
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Agriculture and environment
AVSI’s intervention in Agriculture has been traditionally targeted to ensuring food security and to boosting small farming activities. In recent years special attention has also been given to environment.
Haiti
AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENT PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED IN 2005
n.
country
1
FRY
project
Support to the development and modernization of agriculture and of small and
project
leader
e-mail
Lengyel László
[email protected]
Chiara Crotti
[email protected]
medium farms in the municipality of Becej
2
Argentina
Climate changes and carbon emissions: Center for territorial and environmental
research, observation and monitoring
3
Haiti
Promotion of food security in the municipality of Torbeck
Lorenzo Ossoli
[email protected]
4
Haiti
Creation of nurseries for the production of reforestation trees
Lorenzo Ossoli
[email protected]
5
Lebanon
Training and service center for farmers and breeders of the agricultural region of Jbeil
Matteo Ragni
[email protected]
6
Lebanon
Improved management of the irrigation system in Lebanon and Jordan
Emilio Maiandi
[email protected]
7
Uganda
Promotion of food security in Northern Busiro County, Mpigi District
Luca Giacomini
[email protected]
8
Rwanda
Improved living conditions of the population thanks to social, educational and
Marco Perini
[email protected]
environmental activities
9
10
Sudan
Promotion of food self-sufficiency in Eastern Equatoria-South Sudan
Pietro Galli
[email protected]
D. R. Congo
Promotion of food security in the region of North Kivu
Albino Daccò
[email protected]
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ACHIEVEMENTS
input
staff
funds
output
built/supplied
material aids
assistance
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Expatriate staff
Local skilled staff
Consultants
Local consultants
Total
for local staff
For prpoduction facilities acquired locally
Total
units
12
115
168
13
9
317
9,42
71,56
58,40
13
9
161,38
€ 238.800
€ 407.900
€ 97.200
€ 1.112.600
€ 1.856.500
• Realization of:
- 10 tree nurseries equipped with service facilities and irrigation system (Haiti)
- facilities to store agricultural equipment and to carry out products marketing activities (Haiti)
• Digging and building of 6 water wells operated by hand pumps (South Sudan) and 2 new wells in Humure
district (Rwanda)
• Renovation of tanks and fountains in Humure District (Rwanda)
• Start-up of activities of 3 agricultural training centers and 3 out-patients centers for undernourished children
(Haiti)
• Farmers Service Center completed in the Bekaa Valley (Lebanon)
• Implementation of a crossbreeding program to improve avicultural production (Uganda)
• Start-up of an aquaculture plant at Kiziba (Uganda)
• Maintenance and development of CIOMTA environmental research center, network of weather stations, and
two CO2 flow towers (Argentina)
• Purchase of equipment: 9 motorized rice mills and 1 rice peeler (Democratic Republic of Congo); laboratory
test equipment for the milk collection center (FRY)
• Provision of tools and materials to 60 farmers, to build breeding and farming facilities (Haiti)
• Provision to 10 agricultural organization of all the material required to realize and manage tree nurseries
(Haiti)
•
•
•
•
•
•
Purchase and distribution of 1.700 heads of farmyard animals (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Distribution of high quality disease-resistant bedders and seeds to 200 new farmers (Uganda)
Distribution to farmers of 160 genetically improved pigs from 6 production centers (Uganda)
Distribution of nutritional integrators and drugs, as needed, to 60 children (Haiti)
Distribution of agricultural and breeding kits to 11 associations (Rwanda)
Distribution of 135.000 bedders to the population to promote reforestation (Rwanda)
•
•
•
•
•
Technical assistance provided to 2500 farmers/breeders and monitoring of livestock breeding and fruit farming
Support to the management of agricultural co-operatives (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Argentina)
Treatment of 60 undernourished children (Haiti)
Technical assistance to realize 10 tree nurseries (Haiti)
Processing of satellite images on behalf of the National Woods and Forests Department in order to identify the
extent of deforestation and of transgenic soy colonization (Argentina)
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outcome
output
training
of staff
- Courses
- Participants
- Days
33
1.237
48
training/awareness
of parents and
adolescents
- Courses
- Participants
- Days
10
14.300
34
special events
• Meetings with local authorities on the occasion of the visit of consultants (F.R.Yugoslavia)
• A 3 days workshop on the issue of Participatory Approach with the farmers of the area, held at the newly built Service
Center (Lebanon)
• Publication of 1 pamphlet on the use of pesticides, in collaboration with FAO and the Saint Joseph University, Beirut
(Lebanon)
• 1 Farmer Field School implemented in collaboration with FAO’s Integrated Pest Management project (Lebanon)
improvement
of the general
living conditions
of participants
• Improvement of the living and working conditions of the farmers/breeders and their families, thanks to:
- increased livestock and agricultural productivity (RFY, Lebanon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda);
- introduction of new farming techniques and new variety of fruits (selection of smaller trees, planting of varieties with certified origin, optimization of manuring and irrigation, optimization of the use of antiparasitic
products (Lebanon)
- optimization of farm management and improvement of the know-how and equipment necessary to carry out
farming and breeding activities (Haiti, Uganda)
- Reforestation of hills and mountains with consequent preservation of soil fertility (Haiti, Rwanda)
• Improved accessibility to drinking water for the population of Rwamiko District (Rwanda) and Torit County
(Sudan) with consequent saving on the time and efforts devoted to such activities
support to cultural
and business
development
• Increased awareness of the beneficiaries on the importance and safety of food self-sufficiency
• The improved living conditions of the families involved supported children education and schooling, the capacity of
facing healthcare costs and to improve the sanitation conditions of houses
• Development, in terms of human and material resources, of the managerial and operational abilities of the local associations active in farming and livestock breeding, and specifically of: Busiro North Development Foundation (BNDF Uganda), 10 farmers associations (Haiti), Litani River Authority (Lebanon), agricultural cooperative AS – Coop (Becej,
RFY) and Entre Rios cooperative (Argentina)
• Increased consciousness among the farmers that the use of joint tools and services such as trade associations and
cooperatives makes their work easier and more valuable (RFY, Uganda)
• Increased managerial and technical abilities of the staff of the Water Department of Humure and Rwamiko districts
(Rwanda) and of the Farmers and Breeders Training and Service Center of the agricultural area of Jbeil (Lebanon)
• Increased professional level of all researchers involved with CIOMTA - Centro De Investigación, Observación Y
Monitoreo Territorial Y Ambiental – thanks to the collaboration with the international team of the Istituto di
Biometeorologia of CNR, Florence (Argentina)
• Dissemination of the results of the survey on deforestation and of the information made available by the project in
favor of the local authorities and consequent impact on their decisions concerning environmental and territorial policy
(Argentina)
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Emergency relief
Although not specifically focused on this sector, AVSI carries out emergency relief projects in geographical areas of long-standing presence, to support the populations affected by natural disasters or the implications of warfare. In 2005, for the first time
AVSI implemented projects in Sri Lanka, Thailand and India, to support the populations of the areas swept through by tsunami.
EMERGENCY RELIEF PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED IN 2005
n.
1
country
India
project
Support to children and adolescents victims of tsunami at Cheyyur, Dioceses of Chingleput,
project
leader
e-mail
Libero Buzzi
[email protected]
Libero Buzzi
[email protected]
Libero Buzzi
[email protected]
State of Tamil Nadu
2
India
Support to fishermen victims of tsunami to promote their return to normal working activity at
Kadiapattanam, State of Tamil Nadu
3
India
Project in favor of orphaned girls victims of tsunami, through schooling support and building
of a foster house at Kalimar, State of Tamil Nadu
4
Sri Lanka
Pre-school education of children victims of tsunami and warfare in Jaffna district
Libero Buzzi
[email protected]
5
Sri Lanka
Development project in favor of disabled children and youth in Batticaloa district
Libero Buzzi
[email protected]
6
Thailand
Support to children education of families victims of tsunami - Krabi
Libero Buzzi
[email protected]
7
Thailand
Post-emergency projects in favor of children and their families in the Dioceses of Surat Thani
Libero Buzzi
[email protected]
8
Thailand
Support to a school for disvantaged youth in favor of students victims of tsunami - Krabi
Libero Buzzi
[email protected]
9
Thailand
Support to children and youth, Somwang village, Dioceses of Surat Thani
Libero Buzzi
[email protected]
10
Sudan
Post-conflict assistance to the population of Torit County
Pietro Galli
[email protected]
11
Sudan
Consolidation of post-conflict assistance to the population of Torit County
Pietro Galli
[email protected]
12
Uganda
Support to the population living in warfare in Acholi-land, Northern Uganda
Filippo Ortolani
[email protected]
13
Uganda
Emergency relief activities in favor of Northern Uganda populations living in warfare conditions
Pietro Galli
[email protected]
14
Uganda
Assistance to the populations living in internally displaced people camps in Northern Uganda
Samuele Rizzo
[email protected]
15
Uganda
Continued support to internally displaced people in Northern Uganda
Massimo Fusato
[email protected]
16
D.R. Congo
Help to the resettlement of 6.500 families in the territories of Rutshuru, Masisi and Walikale
Edoardo Tagliani
[email protected]
17
D.R. Congo
Help to the resettlement of 10.000 families in Fizi territory
Edoardo Tagliani
[email protected]
18
USA
Support to the families victims of hurricane Katrina in the area of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Ezio Castelli
[email protected]
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ACHIEVEMENTS
input
Overall achievements of 18 projects, of which 11 are still in progress and 7 have been completed.
staff
funds
output
built/supplied
Expatriate staff
Local skilled staff
Consultants
Local consultants
Total
units
43
273
114
5
435
21,83
103,46
85,98
5
216,27
€ 542.100
€ 528.500
€ 257.500
€ 3.870.500
€ 5.198.600
for local staff
Total
• Building and rehabilitation of 40 educational facilities and 25 housing units
• Set-up of a new facility for disabled people in Batticaloa district (Sri Lanka) and technical laboratories for the
Vocational Training Institute at Krabi (Thailand)
• Replacement of 480 mosquito nets to the doors and windows of the dorms at Suska Songkroh Khao Pramon
School at Krabi (Thailand)
• Construction of new roads and rehabilitation of bridges in the area of Dongoton, Torit county (Sudan) through
the Food for Work procedure
• Building of shelters for the night commuters at Opit mission (Gulu district) and at St. Joseph’s Hospital (Kitgum)
(Uganda)
• Rehabilitation of the sewage system at Lacor Hospital, Gulu (Uganda)
• Building and maintenance of 7 hospital facilities
• Building of the water distribution system in Torit county (Sudan) and installation of a water purifying system at
Surat Thani (Thailand)
• Building, rehabilitation and motorization of 42 wells (Uganda)
• Building of 1.826 latrines (Uganda)
• Building of 9 rain water collecting systems
• Building of AVSI’s operational office at Pader (Uganda)
• Emptying of septic tanks at Kitgum’s Government Hospital and in the areas of night commuters’ shelters
(Uganda)
material aids
• Supply of 15 wood or fiber glass catamarans manufactured locally (India)
• Supply of 50 fishing net kits including ropes and accessories (India)
• Supply of furniture and educational material to 2 new nursery schools at Atchuveli and Karaveddy (Sri Lanka) and for
100 studends victims of tsunami
• Support to schooling by means of: payment of school fees, supply of educational material and payment of transport
costs for 6.850 children/adolescents
• Distribution of necessaries to 838.988 people
• Distribution of drugs and medical equipment to 5 hospitals and various rural health centers (Uganda)
• Supply of seeds and hoes to 10.000 families
assistance
• Support and help provided to 70 disabled children and their families through home visits and care (Sri Lanka)
• Support to a network of 10 centers in Batticaloa district, providing services and care to over 100 children with various
disabilities (Sri Lanka))
• Educational/recreational activities for 339 children
• Assistance to refugees in transit at Kitgum on their way back to Sudan (Northern Uganda)
• Healthcare assistance to 38.000 people
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outcome
output
traning of staff
training/awareness
for parents and
adolescents
special events
improvement
of general living
conditions
of participants
support
to cultural
and business
development
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- Courses
- Participants
- Days
5
343
12
- Courses
- Participants
- Days
23
11.060
20
• Attendance at two national contests on robotics for vocational training schools, in Bangkok (Thailand)
• Editorial on the “Times-Picayune” (the most important daily of New Orleans), issue of November 26, 2005, concerning the solidarity shown by some poor women affected by AIDS and members of Meeting Point International,
an NGO based in Kampala, Uganda, in favor of the victims of hurricane Katrina
• Gradual recovery of development in the areas swept through by tsunami (Sri Lanka, India, Thailand) through:
- building of permanent houses
- resumption of work by the families victims of tsunami, particularly of the fishermen at Kadiapattanam (India)
- support to schooling of children and youth, particularly of the most vulnerable ones, such as orphans and
disabled
- support to youth employment in the area of Krabi (Thailand)
- improved health and nutritional conditions of some children from very poor families at Somwang (Thailand)
• Improvement of the living conditions in displaced people’s camps in Northern Uganda, through:
- development of health services
- increased awareness of displaced people on health and sanitations
- resumption of agricultural activities for food security
- increased access to drinking water and latrines
• More confortable material and family conditions after the damages of hurricane Katrina and more positive
approach to difficulties thanks to customized help
• Increased professional skills and know-how of local operators (educational and social workers) involved in the projects in favor of the populations victims of tsunami (Sri Lanka, India, Thailand)
• Support to the dissemination of information on the methods of prevention and transmission of the main diseases,
thanks to awareness-raising activities in displaced people’s camps (Uganda)
• Improved skills of some medical staff at Isohe health center (Sudan)
• Increased awareness on hygiene and sanitation through the establishment of the Water Source Committees
• Dissemination of farming techniques especially in respect of vegetable growing and management of local committees
• Increased awareness about the dangers of landmines and unexploded devices (Uganda)
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AVSI’s activities in South-East Asia,
in favor of the victims of tsunami
On December 26, 2004, early morning a tremendous
tsunami sewpt through South-East Asia, with over 300.000
casualties and millions of displaced people; the world reacted immediately with solidarity and responsibility to this disaster; so did AVSI that could rely on the generous support
of its donors.
AVSI at that time was not active in the area and generally
speaking emergency relief is not among AVSI’s priorities
unless in countries of long-standing presence. Therefore it
first entered contacts with people and institutions well rooted in the area, and specifically with the local Catholic church,
which provided the first indications and requests of help.
The evaluation of the activities proposed by local institutions, and identified during the first two missions made
by AVSI’s experts at the beginning of 2005 in the area
swept through by tsunami, specifically Thailand, Sri Lanka
and India, was based on the following main principles:
• to support preferably post-emergency activities even in the medium term – immediate emergency relief was already
widely covered by tenth of skilled international organizations - so that, starting from the immediate need created by
tsunami, a development process could be promoted in the concerned areas
• to address our help mainly to children and youth, preferably through social and educational activities
• to identify reliable local partners sharing AVSI’s approach and method of intervention to collaborate in project implementation.
Post-emergency projects, now already completed, have been implemented respectively in Thailand, Dioceses of Surat
Thani, where hundreds of families have been helped through the provision of necessaries and fishing equipment, rehabilitation and rebuilding of houses, digging of water wells and supply of purifying systems, and in India where boats and fishing equipment were supplied to 50 fishermen who lost everything because of tsunami.
The remaining projects, some of which are expected to continue for years, are essentially development oriented and
involve a type of work with the beneficiaries and the local partners certainly more in line with AVSI’s tradition and approach.
During this first year AVSI’s work contributed to relieve the sufferings of the local population swept through by tsunami and
to promote a gradual return to normal life; but it also generated and consolidated a fruitful collaboration with various local
partners; thanks to a fully shared methodological and operational approach, this enabled to set the conditions for completing the activities already started and planning new support and development opportunities for the area.
Projects could be implemented thanks to the generous response of many private donors. Total donations were as up
as 1,200,000 Eur; donors have been 2,900, of which 2,100 individuals and 630 various bodies including associations,
schools, parishes, hospitals and over 110 businesses. Some businesses deserve a special mention: among them CIM
Italia, whose donation was targeted to the children of Somwang, a village of the Surat Thani dioceses inThailand, to support schooling, as well as Ventomatic and Petrolvalves which contributed to post-emergency projects addressed to children and their families in the same area of Thailand.
AVSI Points too, spread all over the domestic territory, contributed to support post-emergency projects, through a number of awareness and fundraising initiatives in favor of the populations victims of tsunami: among them the events organized at the Dal Verme Theatre in Milan, and at Legnano, Varese, Lumezzane (Brescia), Chioggia, Venezia and Campobasso.
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Solidarity educates to solidarity: a witness from
the Kireka women (Uganda)
The story we want to tell concerns the people living at the Acholi Quarter, inside the slum of Kireka: they are families from
Northern Uganda who have come to this place to escape from warfare and hunger. Compelled to live in very poor health and
sanitation conditions, often ravaged by epidemics such as AIDS and cholera, working in the nearby stone quarry as a unique
source of income, they have been helped in the run of years by Meeting Point International that implements various activities
to somehow improve their living conditions: building houses in bricks to replace mud huts, organizing health and sanitation
information courses, literacy courses for women, food distribution, micro-lending to start small income generating activities,
etc. Such important changes have not only contributed to improve the general living conditions, but also changed the life
approach of the Acholi Quarter people, developing their sense of belonging and enhancing their ability to meet the challenges of life.
“When AVSI proposed us to launch a fundraising campaign for the victims of hurricane Katrina, I was almost ashamed to make
such proposal to the Kireka women, since I knew very well that they hardly succeed in feeding their children” says Rose
Busingye, MPI coordinator. “But I was myself overwhelmed by their enthusiastic response to our proposal; in fact they decided to contribute to this initiative by offering their income of two weeks work as stone-breakers in the Kireka quarry.
“The news of hurricane Katrina has reached me and I feel sorry for the
devastation she caused in your life” so writes Margaret to the victims of
hurricane Katrina in a letter accompanying the over one thousand dollars
collected among the women of the Acholi Quarter. “ I am sending you my
small gift as a sign of “my tears”, tears for what happened in your life.
I identify myself with you because I know what suffering means. I
am AIDS infected and I know I could die at any time, however I am
not frightened because I know that somebody is going to care for my
children. Even now, while I am writing to you, people whom I don’t know are supporting my children at school (note : through AVSI’s distance support). Thus I am going to offer
you the love I received. My gift is just a token of the love I was donated for the first time by
people who didn’t know me. So the greatest thing in this world, even greater than any suffering or disease, is mutual love. Thanks”
The Kireka women had already offered their help and simpathy in the past, at the time of the devastations caused by Tsunami,
when they donated their work to people who were undergoing the same sufferings they had often experienced themselves.
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International adoption
Why this choice
International adoption consists of a free and self-aware choice made by a couple ready to become, in full gratuity, the parents of
a child who, born from another couple in a foreign country, needs a family where he/she can grow and feel wanted and loved.
“There is a form of ”procreation” which occurs through acceptance, concern and devotion. The resulting
relationship is so intimate and enduring that it is in no way inferior to the one based on a biological
connection. When this is also juridically protected, as it is in adoption, in a family unified by the stable bond of marriage, it assures the child that peaceful atmosphere, and that paternal and maternal love which he needs for his full human development”.
John Paul ll
This free and self-conscious choice of adoptive parents to raise a child is evidence of the fact that a family is built on love,
which is not measured only by genetic standards. The very existence of so many children worldwide living without a family and without a chance to be brought up in their homeland suggests international adoption as a concrete form of love
and as a response to every child’s fundamental needs.
Many children all over the world are faced with the dramatic experience of neglect. For this reason not only does AVSI
implement projects directed to curtail this phenomenon, but has also applied to be a Licensed Authority in international
adoptions.
As a Licensed Authority, AVSI Foundation will provide the family and the child with the necessary assistance in the formal
steps of adoption, but is also concerned with sharing and supporting a human act so full of love and devotion.
AVSI foundation is presently licensed to fulfil international adoption procedure in Brazil (States of Sau Paulo, Minas Gerais,
Espirito Santo), Mexico, Lithuania, Kazakhstan.
In 2005
international adoption
procedures have been
completed for 28 children –
20 boys and 8 girls aged
between 19 months and 13
years – from Brazil,
Lithuania and Kazakhstan.
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Training of couples
One of the tasks of the Licensed Authority is to provide the families involved with information covering the various steps f
adoption procedures in Italy and in the foreign country. AVSI Foundation fulfils this task through its four Italian offices (Milan,
Cesena, Verona, and Naples) by means of free informational meetings with groups of couples not yet qualified for adoption.
Such information may also be found on AVSI’s website, which includes a specific section devoted to international adoptions.
number of meetings
attending couples
group meetings
53
280
couple meetings
411
411
A further task of the Licensed Authority is to prepare the parents for the experience of adoption.
AVSI proposes a course where the future adoptive family is helped to explore in depth the very meaning of their own choice
and all the aspects related to international adoption, offered prior to making any formal commitment.
courses
attendees
11
105
The issues dealt with in these courses are:
- the couple: the desire for procreation and the commitment to a special form of maternity and paternity;
- the child: the adoptive child and his/her experience of neglect (problems, reasons, origin);
- the family: the relationship couple-child, how to be parents of a child who is born from another family, and how to fill an
empty space by creating new bonds
- the country of origin: return – confrontation, health, legal and bureaucratic issues in the foreign countries.
The course develops through four meetings and is run by a psychologist with an adoptive couple also present. Lessons
from a pediatrician and an AVSI operator are also included.
AVSI Foundation remains at the side of the couple throughout the entire adoption procedure. In addition, AVSI assists the
new family in the post-adoption period through personal and group meetings run by social workers and with the friendly
support of families with a long-established adoption experience.
Subsidiarity Project 2005-2006: Kazakhstan
On July 25, 2005, the Italian Commission for International Adoptions, approved the project “Social and vocational reintegration of marginalized groups, or groups at risk of marginalization in Almaty and neighboring areas – Kazakhstan” allocating
funds for 33.425,37.
AVSI Foundation, leader of the partnership with the Italian agencies N.A.D.I.A., i Bambini dell’Arcobaleno, International
Adoption, is implementing the project in collaboration with MASP, a Kazakhstan NGO member of the AVSI network.
The project addresses the social and vocational reintegration of marginalized groups in the city of Almaty and neighboring
areas.
Project beneficiaries are: adolescents living in orphanages, early mothers, unemployed women and women that need to be
reintegrated into the job market, vulnerable minors.
The project started on August 1, 2005 and is expected to last for one year.
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Activities in Italy
In this area AVSI implements a number of promotional, awareness-raising and educational activities with the purpose of increasing people’s familiarity with issues of development cooperation and solidarity
AVSI Points
In Italy a number of supporting groups, the so-called “supporters’ network” have organized and now cover the whole
national territory. These volunteers are committed to support AVSI’s projects by devoting their time and energy, on a fully
free basis, to raise awareness in the public at large and particularly among youth about the issues of development, and to
foster a culture of sharing, charity and interest in the common good, as well as of personal responsibility in front of reality.
Being deeply rooted in Italy, the supporters’ network has been able to enter into partnerships with local bodies, as well as
with public and private institutions, in order to implement campaigns, initiatives, and fundraising activities in support of
AVSI’s development projects.
Where a personal relationship has consolidated and a “real network” created, meeting and fundraising opportunities have
enormously increased. To enhance the development of this process, in 2005 special efforts have been devoted to make
the relationship with the volunteers operating on the territory stable and lasting.
AVSI Volunteers
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SUPPORTERS’ NETWORK PRESENCE
IN ITALY IN 2005
Valle
Valle d’Aosta
AVSI Points
relationship with administrations:
regional
municipal
distance support
schools
events
Lombardia
AVSI Points
regional
municipal
province
distance support
schools
events
local press
Veneto
AVSI Points
regional
municipal
distance support
schools
events
local press
Emilia Romagna
AVSI Points
regional
municipal
province
distance support
schools
events
local press
Sardegna
AVSI Points
distance support
schools
events
local press
7
n.
1
1
1
36
0
2
Piemonte
AVSI Points
regional
province
distance support
schools
events
local press
n.
8
1
1
1.214
17
10
14
n.
72
Trentino Alto Adige8
1
20
2
8.263
268
243
181
n.
11
1
4
1.396
24
30
40
n.
18
1
9
5
5.643
180
55
89
n.
4
320
6
9
3
n.
only Bolzano and Merano
AVSI Points
distance support
schools
events
local press
2
259
19
2
5
Friuli Venezia Giulia
AVSI Points
distance support
schools
events
local press
n.
4
507
25
2
2
Liguria
AVSI Points
regional
municipal
distance support
schools
events
local press
Toscana
AVSI Points
municipal
province
distance support
schools
events
local press
n.
8
1
1
736
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8
4
n.
10
2
1
2.169
30
24
5
EDUS is an association member of the AVI network, that has been active for many years now in the
Trento Province, to implement cooperation projects in close collaboration with AVSI
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Sicilia
AVSI Points
regional
municipal
distance support
schools
events
local press
n.
11
1
3
1.239
87
19
8
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Marche
AVSI Points
regional
municipal
province
distance support
schools
events
local press
Lazio
AVSI Points
distance support
schools
events
local press
n.
12
1
8
1
1.223
53
38
21
n.
5
1.773
20
11
8
Abruzzo
AVSI Points
municipal
regional
distance support
schools
events
local press
Molise
AVSI Points
regional
municipal
distance support
schools
Basilicata
AVSI Points
distance support
schools
events
local press
n.
12
1
1
578
28
5
4
n.
2
1
1
101
3
n.
2
155
3
2
2
Umbria
AVSI Points
distance support
schools
events
local press
n.
3
368
23
6
5
Campania
AVSI Points
province
distance support
schools
events
local press
Puglia
AVSI Points
municipal
distance support
schools
events
local press
Calabria
AVSI Point
distance support
schools
events
local press
n.
6
1
804
42
1
1
n.
12
2
1.045
86
14
3
n.
7
419
64
2
3
Legenda
AVSI Points
locations where AVSI is present through a stable supporting group well rooted and active on the territory
relationship
with administrations
local administrations with which AVSI develops partnerships and that deliver funds for cooperation projects and
local initiatives (decentralized cooperation)
distance support
number of current donors helping one or more children
within the distance support program
schools
number of schools where awareness activities have
been carried out and/or supporting AVSI’s projects
events
Awareness and fundraising initiatives such as dinners,
shows, sport events, public meetings, etc.
local press
Number of AVSI-related articles published by the local
press
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The Tents campaign
The “tents campaign”, the main initiative promoted by the supporters’ network, is an awareness and fundraising activity
that has been implemented every year by AVSI and Compagnia delle Opere7 since 1990.
It was born in the late eighties from an idea of a group of volunteers who decided to pitch a tent at the exit of a supermarket in Brianza (area north of Milan) to raise funds for some projects. Over time, the tents multiplied to become a structured initiative involving many thousands of volunteers and hundreds events aimed at creatively promoting AVSI and its
activities. The “tents” name has been maintained and now defines the yearly promotional and awareness-raising campaign, focused on various subjects and proposing specific projects.
Today the “tents” campaign is a complex activity of “organized charity” characterized by a ten-years history and deeply
rooted on the territory. It involves more than 10.000 volunteers who refer to 180 points spread all over the domestic territory, distributing some 850,000 copies of a special issue of “Buone Notizie”, 43.000 posters, 20.000 Christmas Cards,
15.000 gadgets, 1.500 CDs and DVDs, and organizing over a three months period more than 320 events of various type.
Every year the “tents” campaign features a specific area of support. In the past four years, the focus has been education, viewed from various standpoints:
• “Education a priority need” (Tents 2001-2002 )
• “Work education: road to development” (Tents 2002-2003)
• “Education + Schooling = Development” (Tents 2003-2004)
• “Education to charity: a condition for development” (Tents 2004-2005).
Volunteers of the Tents campaign at various italian locations
7
Compagnia delle Opere is a not-for-profit association aimed at promoting a spirit of mutual collaboration and support among its members to enhance human and economic resources to
the best, within any kind of activity – either profit-oriented or not-for-profit.
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2004/2005 projects
The 2004/2005 “Tents” campaign promoted support to five
projects:
• South Sudan: Rehabilitation of and support to St. Kizito
primary school at Isohe. New classrooms, new dorms, and
educational material for 1.500 children and their teachers.
• Democratic Republic of Congo: Rehabilitation of and
support to the Karambo primary school, North Kivu.
New classrooms for 400 children and training courses for 180
teachers.
• Jordan: support to and extension of the school of the
Latin Patriarchate at North Zarqa. New rooms, educational material, vocational training courses for 800 students and
their teachers.
• Palestine: vocational training for craftsmen and small
businesses in Bethlehem. Vocational courses of arts and
crafts.
• Egypt: support to Saint Charles Lwanga school in Cairo.
Educational material and vocational training courses for 2.500
students and their teachers.
The “Tents” campaign
worldwide
In recent years the “Tents” campaign has been carried out
also in some foreign countries, like Romania (Bucharest and
Cluj), Austria (Wien), Spain (Madrid), Ireland (Dublin),
England (London), France (Paris and Menton), the United
States (New York), Japan (Hiroshima and Tokyo), Canada
as well as Switzerland, Uganda, Belgium, Germany, Brazil,
Chile, Peru, Russian Federation (Novosibirsk) and in 2005 in
Argentina too.
Tokyo Volunteers of the Tents
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AVSI magazine: the events of the years
January 21, Milan (Italy)
AVSI participates in the 6th
edition of the National Forum
for Distance Support.
140 associations attending.
April 4, New York City
(United States) AVSI and
Crossroads Cultural Center NYC,
sponsor the debate “The United
Nations and the future international government”. Speakers area:
Professor Edward Luck,
Columbia University; Mr. Baali,
Algerian Ambassador;
Archbishop Migliore, Holy See;
Mr. Dugan, of the US Mission to
the UN; Mr. Marco Bardazzi,
Crossroads NYC.
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March 10, Salvador de
Bahia (Brazil) inauguration of
the Nova Semente educational
center; among the participants:
Geraldo Majela,Cardenal of
Salvador, Clodoveo Piazza, state
minister for poverty, Angelo
Abbondio, president of Umano
Progresso foundation, partners
such as Aiutare i Bambini
Foundation and Edus. The center cares for 40 children, whose
parents are in jail.
April 27, Santa Fe
(Argentina) Presentation
of the Traz.ar project, the beef
information management and
storage system used by
breeders to trace the quality
of the products intended for sale
and export. The project has
been implemented by ACDI
(Cultural Association for Integral
Development, local partner
of AVSI) and funded by BID
(Interamerican Development
Bank).
2005
March, Buenos Aires
(Argentina) AVSI participates
in the 2nd Meeting of Latin
American Compagnia delle
Opere, held at the Catholic
University of Argentina.
Fabrizio Pellicelli, area manager
of AVSI, in Salvador, presents
the “Ribeira Azul” project to a
public of over 600 people.
May 9-11, Cracow (Poland)
AVSI Polska in collaboration with
Compagnia delle Opere
organizes a workshop on
“The United Market of the
Enlarged Europe” addressed to
associations, cooperatives and
trade unions. Among the
participants: the former Premier
of Latvia, the General Manager
for Regional Policies of the EU,
the counsellor of the European
Economic and Social Council,
Enrico Biscaglia, director of
Compagnia delle Opere.
March 3, New York City
(United States) AVSI
sponsors the debate “The
United Nations and Sustainable
Development” with the participation of Pax Romana and New
Humanity, and in collaboration
with the permanent observer of
the Holy See at the UN.
May 13, Carrara (Italy) AVSI
participates in the workshop on
micro-lending and women,
organized by the Soroptimist
Club Apuania; on this occasion,
AVSI presents an important
project implemented in Albania
targeted to improve women’s
conditions through the support to
11 micro-businesses run by
women specialized in handicraft.
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May 18, Rome (Italy)
Inauguration of the new AVSI
Point in Rome, set-up to
promnote AVSI in the capital
of Italy. The event includes
a guided visit to the exhibition
“Guggenheim’s masterpieces:
from Renoir to Warhol” at the
Scuderie del Quirinale. Over
200 guests attending, mostly
journalists and politicians.
May 29-June 1,
Frankfurt (Germany)
First meeting of an international
work team appointed by the
Interagency Network for
Education in Emergency to
analyse the issue of the minimum
standards to be achieved in the
area of education during
emergency relief activities. AVSI
has been selected with other 19
bodies, like UNESCO, UNICEF
and Save the Children, to contribute to the works of this network
for the next two years.
May 19, Kampala (Uganda)
20th annuversary of AVSI’s
presence in the country. Mons.
Christophe Pierre, Apostolic
Nuncio in Uganda attends the
celebration.
June 18-19, Rome (Italy)
AVSI presents its experience
at the first workshop addressed
to the members of the National
Formun for Distance Support.
May 20, Rio de Janeiro
(Brazil) Pier Ferdinando Casini,
chairman of the Chamber
of Deputees, visits AVSI’s
educational Center Cantihno
da Natureza. He comments
as follows “Thanks for the
lesson of life you are offering
us every day”.
May 28, Nairobi (Kenya)
The Minister of Education of
Kenya inaugurates the “Little
Prince” new AVSI’s primary
school enrolling 150 children
from Kibera slum.
July, Sau Paulo (Brazil)
Gianfranco Fini , Italian Minister
of Foreign Affairs visits Cren, the
nutritional center for undernourished children run by AVSI in
collaboration with the Federal
University of Sau Paulo.
September, Kampala
(Uganda): AVSI publishes
in Uganda “Basic training on the
risk of education”, within
the context of an educational
project funded by the
US Labor Department.
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August 21 - 27, Rimini (Italy)
“Freedom is the most precious gift that heaven has
bestowed upon men” : this is the title of the 26th edition of
the Rimini Meeting for friendship among peoples, in which
AVSI participates every year with its own booth and on the
occasion of which it promoted the following meetings:
Sustainale
development and
conflicts:
the challenge of Africa Speakers:
Corrado Clini, General Manager
Dept. of Environment and
Territorial Protection; Altiero
Matteoli, Minister of Environment
and Territorial Protection; Chèrif
Rahmani, Minister of Algerian
Environment and Management of
Terrritory; Alberto Michelini,
personal representative of the
Italian Premier for Africa; Amilcare
Boccuccia, Director of Sector
Hagaz Agricoltural School; Pàthe
Baldè, director of Senegal Dept.
of Environment and Protection of
Nature; Alberto Piatti, Secretary
General AVSI; Ignazio Musu,
manager of the Venice
International University.
Returning
to life in
Brazil
Speakers:
Guzman Carriquiry, undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for
the Laity; Giampaolo Bettamio,
undersecretary of the Dept. of
Foreign Affairs; Marcos Zerbini,
chairman of the Landless
Workers’ Movement, Sao
Paulo; Roberto Moussalem
de Andrade, Minister of Urban
Development, State of Bahia,
Brazil; Fabrizio Pellicelli, AVSI’s
project manager in Salvador;
Giuseppe Deodato, General
Director for Cooperation
and Development, Dept. of
Foreign Affairs
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Solidarity
and cooperation in
humanitarian emergencies: the future
of childhood Speakers: Alberto
Piatti, Secretary General AVSI;
Giovanni Lonfernini, State
Secretary for Information, Culture,
Civil Protection of the Republic of
San Marino; Sister Mary, a missionary in Kenya supported by
AVSI; Giuseppe Deodato,
General Director for Cooperation
and Development, Dept. of
Foreign Affairs; Agostino Miozzo,
Dept. of Civil Protection; Alfredo
Mantica, undersecretary of the
Dept. of Foreign Affairs.
Doc,
fuel is out
Presentation of
the book by
Alberto
Reggiori,
medical doctor and AVSI’s volunteers in Uganda for 12 years.
Speakers: Alberto Reggiori,
author of the book, Arturo Alberti,
President of AVSI; Filippo Ciantia,
AVSI’s representative in Uganda.
One hour
that changes life
Speakers:
Eugenio
Cocozza,
medical doctor Medicina &
Persona; Arturo Alberti, President
of AVSI; Filippo Ciantia, AVSI’s
prepresentative in Uganda;
Daniele Giusti, President of
Catholic Medical Bureau; Ivone
Rizzo, GAVI
2005
September 11, New
Orleans (USA) AVSI
participates in the mission
headed by Mons. Cordes,
president of Pontifical Council
Cor Unum, visiting New Orleans
and Baton Rouge, to exspress
the Pope’s solidarity to the
victims of hurricane Katrina.
September 14, Lagos
(Nigeria) Over 400 people
attends the inauguration
ceremony of the multi-purpose
center linked to St. Kizito Clinic,
which has been established in
1992 to meet the needs of the
most vulnerable people (300
patients per day).
September 13, Salvador
de Bahia (Brazil) The first
educational center bearing
the name of Luigi Giussani is
inaugurated. It is a nursery
school for 2000 children
in the area of Alagados, where
AVSI has been working for
years, in collaboration with the
World Bank, the Government
of the State of Bahia, and the
Italian Department of Foreign
Affairs. Julian Carron, head
of the Communion and
Liberation Movement attends
the ceremony.
October 7, Rio de Janeiro
(Brazil) Hon. Giampaolo
Bettamio, undersecretary
of Italian Dept. of Foreign Affairs,
visits AVSI’s educational center
Cantinho da Natureza together
with Ministers Bisogniero
and Ravaglia, Michele Valsenise,
Italian Ambassador and
Massimo Bellelli, consul
to Brazil.
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October 11, Belo
Horizonte (Brazil)
Inauguration of the new
multi-purpose center Obras
e Companhia, including the
“Don Virgilio Resi” vocational
training center.
October 28, Almaty
(Kazakhstan) AVSI organizes
a round table on the subject of
“Social and vocational integration of marginalized and vulnerable groups in the city of
Almaty and neighboring areas”.
November, Salvador de
Bahia (Brazil) The “Family
Orientation Center” project
in Salvador is selected as
one of the best projects
against malnutrition within
the “Petrobras Zero Hunger
2005” sponsored by Brazil
President Lula.
November 10, Rome (Italy)
AVSI participates in the seminar
titled “Humanitarian actions and
synergies between the Holy See
and Italy in development aid” to
reflect on the results of the
projects funded by the Italian
Deparetment of Foreign Affairs.
The event has been organized by
Italian Development Cooperation
in collaboration with Pontifical
Council Cor Unum for Human
and Christian Promotion. Among
the speakers: Giuseppe
Deodato, Director Italian
Cooperation; Karel Kasteel,
Secretary Cor Unum; Vittorio
Nozza, director Caritas Italy;
Matteo Zuppi, Comunità di S.
Egidio and Sergio Marelli, president of Italian NGOs.
November 14, Milan (Italy)
The exhibition “Child Soldiers”
is inaugurated at the Milan
Catholic University. The
Exhibition, sponsored and
promoted by Pubblicità
Progresso, shows the drawings
of war, hope and peace made
by former child-soldiers during
the psychosocial recovery
program run by AVSI in
Northern Uganda. A catalogue
with DVD on the exhibition
is available.
November 15, Beirut
(Lebanon) AVSI organizes a
workshop “Risks in the use of
pesticides” promoted by FAO, to
explain to the farmers how
to correctly use pesticides.
Among the participants: Franco
Ristretta, Italian Ambassador
to Lebanon; Abdessalam Ould
Ahmad, FAO amassador to
Lebanon; Yolla Ghorra, representative of Lebanon department of
Agriculture.
November 19. Florence
(Italy) Arturo Alberti,
president of AVSI, receives
the prestigious award
“Scudo di San Martino”.
Concert for the opening of the
“Tents” campaign at the
Conservatorio Milan Concert Hall,
singing Barbara Frittoli,
as soprano; piano player Luigi
Zanardi, before a public of over
900 people.
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November 21, Rome (Italy)
AVSI partecipates in the meeting
on AIDS prevention and update
on AIDS pandemic, promoted
by the World Food Program,
UNAIDS and Italian Development
Cooperation, under the management of Minister Giuseppe
Deodato. The representatives
of FAO and Comunità
di S. Egidio are among
the participants.
December 3-4, Bertinoro
(Italy) 2nd workshop for
teachers organized by AVSI and
DIESSE, on the subject
“Education to living together:
working in a multi-ethnic school
and society”. Among the
speakers: Prof. Lucetta Scaraffia
and Giorgio Paolucci, journalist
of Avvenire.
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On behalf of the Italian
Association of NGOs, AVSI
opens the seminar “Supporting
Solidarity: Development
cooperation between public
and private funds”. The seminar
is attended by businessmen,
as well as representatives
of University and media.
AVSI organizes a seminar on
the experience of family support
project to prevent minors’
neglect, implented in Lithuania
by SOTAS, local partner of AVSI.
The meeting is held at the
headquarters of the Banca
Popolare di Milano, in the
prestigious Room of Columns.
December 14, Amman
(Jordan) AVSI and UNDP
organize a seminar to illustrate a
project on education and
disabilities funded by the Italian
Government and promoting
access to the job market of
disabled people, using advanced
information technologies.
December 15, Washington
DC (Unites States) AVSI signs
a 5,006,072.00 Eur worth
contract with the World Bank for
the implementation of the “Bahia
Poor Urban Areas Technical and
Methodological Assistance
project- PAT" in Brazil.
2005
December 4, Milan (Italy)
AVSI presents the new “Tents”
campaign to over 400 people
(representatives of AVSI Points
from all over Italy). The campaign
message is “Education is the
first charity”; the meeting is
characterized by the presentation
of moving experiences from
AVSI’s volunteers.
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Corporate Social Responsability and
involvement
In recent years there has been a growing interest about Corporate Social Responsibility. The wording “Corporate Social
Responsability (CSR)” was coined in the middle of the nineties, when the United Nations invited big companies, and
specifically multinational groups, to enter trade agreements including a precise commitment for developing countries and
environment, and has been the object of information meetings, seminars and workshops, which contributed to the consolidation of an increasing awareness on the issue of international cooperation in the world of business.
The European Commission defines CSR as “a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis ”; social responsibility therefore coincides with an increasing awareness that businesses should not only conceive themselves as mere business producers, but rather as subjects tentatively integrated in a wider context, i.e. the world, of which they understand
the complexity and for which they are ready to adopt a responsible behaviour in order to contribute to a sustainable development.
The recent tax regulation in Italy concerning the deductibility of donations in favour of not-for-profit bodies (Law act no.
80 dated 14 /05/ 2005 “Più dai meno versi”), is certainly going in this direction. AVSI’s approach to the relationship with
businesses is based on some original elements that express a specific identity, within the scope of Social Corporate
Responsibility. The form by which a number of companies in 2005 have expressed their support to AVSI’s projects
worldwide, does not originate from the typical English concept of “returning” something to those who have nothing because they received a lot from their business, but rather and more simply from a direct involvement in projects or works able
to catch interest and fascinate for the methodological approach used, and therefore to raise the desire of a direct implication. Charity in the Christian sense, has historically set the basis of our civil society: nurseries, schools and hospitals originate form this spur linked to an undeniable and almost essential need. AVSI collaborates with businesses along this path,
in an attempt to exercise an appeal able to generate an active involvement.
In 2005 many businesses and very many people have been directly and tangibly involved in this form of support.
Examples of the most significant experiences of this kind of implication follow hereafter.
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AVSI and Businesses: a partnership for development
Fondazione Cariplo, through
the funds allocated to
“International Partnerships”,
Cariplo supported a schooling
project in South Sudan. The
same project was cosponsored
by a number of Bank
Foundations members of ACRI,
the Association of Italian
Saving Banks and of bank
foundations, that had
previsouly funded a school
project in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Cordar (Water Supply
Company, Biella) supported
two water access and management projects respectively in
Rwanda and Haiti.
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The Fondazione Cassa di
Risparmio di Cesena
sponsored the implementation
of educational activities and
building of a library at the
Santa Caterina da Siena school,
Asunción, Paraguay.
OXO and Sacchi
Elettroforniture have been
supporting AVSI’s projects for
many years now. Specifically,
they are funding the foster
houses for HIV positive children
in Romania. In 2005 this projects
has also been funded by
Zurigo Assicurazioni.
The world of Rotary Clubs,
which has been supporting AVSI
for years now, has funded several projects, also in collaboration
with the Rotary Foundation.
The Milano Giardini Club,
contributed to the set up of a
physiotherapy gym for landmine
victims at St. Joseph’s Hospital,
Kitgum, Uganda.
Cosmit (the company managing
the well known Furniture
Exhibition) and Odiemme
Association (gathering
managers and businessmen)
sponsored the set-up of the
“Virgilio Resi” employment center,
at Belo Horizonte; TXT e-solutions supported some educational centers in Brazil.
The Rotary Club Imperia,
contributed to the set up of the
nutritional and health center at
Humure, Rwanda.
Petrolvalves, funded the
project for the set-up of a school
in Islamabad, Pakistann.
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Mistral Tour, sponsors a training project for youth in the area
of tourism at the Sedes Sapieniae
University, Lima, Peru.
The Rotary, Pesaro contributed to the daytime educational
center in Tirana, Albania
Fabi Donna sponsored the
project supporting women’s
handicraft activities in Albania.
In addition, many businesses
have been supporting to various
extents the “Tents” campaign:
let us mention the Banca
Popolare di Milano, which has
been sponsoring this initiative
since its very start, sided this year
by Novartis, a well know
international pharmaceutical
group, that contributed specifically to the implementation of the
events organized in Milan, Piazza
Duomo, and also Intesa Vita,
Lazard, Editoriale Duesse,
Zurigo Assicurazioni,
Etnoteam, Deutsch Bank,
Illva Saronno and
Simbologica.
One hour of work
to change life
Finally, some activities deserve a specific mention;
in particular the “donation of one hour work” to a
specific project, that has involved the employees of
leading businesses, More than 13.000 employees
of some ninety health companies and hospitals all
over the Italian territory supported the program,
promoted by AVSI, Medicina e Persona and
ACMI (Association of Italian Catholic Medical
Doctors) to donate one hour salary to the Uganda
Catholic Medical Bureau, a network of 27 missionary hospitals, 220 rural health centers and 12
vocational training schools in Uganda. A similar
formula has been adopted by Unicredit employees,
to support the Cantinho da Natureza educational
center (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
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Communication
Avsi’s website www.avsi.org
Completely redesigned in 2005, it is now available in Italian, English and Spanish, with
more space devoted to institutional presentation, activities, new projects and ongoing events.
A specific section is reserved to Corporate Social Responsibility. Safe access to special
sections for on-line donations and registration with distance support program.
AVSI’s website is also used to file texts, various publications, notice of tenders and job offers.
Newsletter
The monthly on-line publication of AVSI sent by
e-mail to over 10.000 subscribers. It keeps our
expatriate volunteers and our local partners worldwide informed and updated on our
activities, as well as, media, businesses and donors supporting our projects. Every issue
describes the most important projects implemented as well as the events in which AVSI
participated. Registration free on our website: www.avsi.org. Previous issues may
be looked it up in AVSI’s website, section “press & publications”.
Buone Notizie (Good News)
AVSI’s quarterly house organ – a collection of news, articles, reports and interviews, with
contributions by leading journalists and/or personalities. It is published in Italian and
mailed free to some 80.000 people (private donors, businesses, journalists, vips…).
The 4th issue of the year is published in December
and printed in some 800.000 copies for use as institutional tool to introduce the “Tents” Campaign on the
occasion of the various events organized in Italy.
Previous issues may be looked it up in AVSI’s website,
section “press & publications”.
Social Report
Published for the first time in 2003, the subsequent
year it has been awarded the Oscar di Bilancio prize at the Milan stock exchange,
in the not-for-profit class, “in view of its transparency, clearness and immediate impact of
projects on beneficiaries”. It is issued in Italian, English, Spanish and Portuguese and may
be looked it up in AVSI’s website, section “press & publications”.
AVSI’s pocket books
A series of booklets on AVSI’s experiences and projects worldwide. Now available:
Children in Conflict situations; To educate the child in the family, in the community and
in the world; The Challenge of HIV-AIDS; Education to work in rural development;
Distance Support; Africa, forgotten conflicts and peace constructors; Argentina,
educational emergency and youth marginalization. They may be looked up in AVSI’s website, section “press & publications”.
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Press office
Issues press releases timely distributed to mass media, in order to promote projects that are strongly rooted on the territory
and AVSI’s deep experience in the area of development cooperation.
Achievements:
• over 800 articles published in the year on dailies, weeklies and magazines;
• over 100 interviews broadcasted by national radios (such as Radio Rai and Radio 24–Il Sole 24 Ore) and local private circuits
• over 20 presences in national,satellite and local TVs and interviews on the field (such as UnoMattina,
Raiuno, Tg1, Tg5, Sat 2000);
• several videos produced by AVSI and social TV ads have been sent on the air by national TV
networks (Rai and Mediaset), satellite and local TVs.
Distance support
In 2005 a new leaflet of the distance support program has been published: 20 color pages
going through the history of this AVSI’s project in favor of vulnerable children and adolescents, including reports, useful information and registration form. May be downloaded
from ASVI’s website, section “distance support”.
Documentaries
Several video reportages documenting ongoing projects worldwide, through the
witness of those who are daily committed on the front line for the development of
peoples. In 2005 AVSI issued “Family in Eastern Europe”, a trip to Romania
and Lithuania across the projects to prevent minors neglect. The video, available in Italian and English, has been co-sponsored by the Directorate General for
Culture of the European Commission.
Additional publications in 2005
• Basic training on the risk of education (Kampala, Uganda, September): an handbook addressed to teachers
and social workers, complete with interactive cd rom, for use in training courses on the issue of education based on “the risk
of education” by Luigi Giussani. This handbook, published by AVSI within the scope of the educational project implemented
in Uganda and funded by the US Department of Work, originates from the long experience of the working team in charge of
AVSI’s educational projects in collaboration with COE (Compagnia Opere Educative). It may be downloaded from AVSI’s
website: www.avsi.org – section “press and publications”.
• Health and pesticides: 101 ways to prevent pesticides poisoning, a publication made in collaboration with
FAO and with Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon.
• The psycosocial program in Uganda: a case study (1994 – 2005): gathers the most significant events of
AVSI’s psycho-social program addressed to the victims of Northern Uganda conflict, from 1996 to 2005. This book has
been published by AVSI Uganda and funded by USAID, the development cooperation agency of the US Government,
and is now available also on-line at AVSI’s website. A detailed description of the work made in almost ten years with
adults and children in emergency situations,
but also with teachers, tutors and social
workers.
A guide to understand the sensitive
approach to this issue.
Editorial coordination: Mary Ann Kerins and
Mark Canavera. It may be looked up and
downloaded from: www.avsi.org (section
“press and publication”).
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In 2005 AVSI promoted a number of training activities in collaboration with universities, schools, teachers’ associations, students,
medical doctors and health operators, public and private bodies. Specifically:
In collaboration with the Bologna University, School of Architecture, Cesena
AVSI promoted and contributed to the implementation of an integrated optional course, worth 4 credit points, on the issue
“Housing, urban evolution and international cooperation in developing countries”; the coordination of the course, addressed to the
students of the fifth year, has been entrusted to Dr. Roberto Mingucci of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of the
Bologna University. The course has been held during the months of April and May 2005 and has been attended by some fifteen
students. Lessons have been delivered by several Italian and foreign teachers expert in this specific subject.
In collaboration with the Bologna University, School of Political Sciences, Forlì
AVSI collaborated to the implementation of a specialized course of Sociology “Sociology of health and life styles” at the School of
Political Sciences “Roberto Ruffilli”, Forlì, by including a workshop on the subject of “Multiethnic society in movies” within the
“Sociology of multiethnic society”, course by Prof. Giuseppe Scidà.
Movies on the subject of multiethnic society have been proposed to the students enrolled in the course, followed by a debate and
presentation of some AVSI’s projects with strong multiethnic and multicultural aspects.
In collaboration with the Federation of Educational Works (FOE)
Training and upgrading course for expatriate volunteers committed with educational works on “The risk of education”. One-day
working session at Santarcangelo di Romagna; 50 teachers and educational operators attending (August 25).
In collaboration with DIESSE
• Workshop for teachers at Bertinoro University Residential Center (December 3 and 4), on the subject of “Education to living
together: working in a multiethnic school and society” Lectures have been delivered by university teachers, and cultural mediators, specifically: Professor Lucetta Scaraffia (“La Sapienza” Rome University), Prof. Giuseppe Scidà (Bologna University),
Professor Graziella Giovannini (Bologna University), Dott. Giorgio Paolucci (Jouralist, Avvenire), Prof. Fabrizio Foschi (DIESSE) and
Dr. Arturo Alberti (AVSI). The workshop has been attended by 60 teachers, educators and cultural mediators.
• Publication of the book “The educational challenge: integration and multicultural approach”; editorial coordination by DIESSE
Emilia Romagna; the book is a report of the workshop “Integration and multicultural approach” promoted by AVSI and DIESSE
in 2004. The book as been presented at the 2005 Rimini Meeting.
Additional events
In 2005, AVSI’s cultural and training sector also promoted:
• Periodical meetings with youth interested in international careers;
• Periodical meetings with teachers who want to bring the attention of students to international issues, though reports on actual
experiences of solidarity, education and peace in developing countries.
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Human resources
To fulfill its mission, AVSI relies primarily on the professional committment of its operating organization in Italy and abroad.
For this reason, quality personnel management procedures are fundamental to AVSI’s methodological approach, i.e. the
centrality of the person.
Staff at italian headquarters
Cesena
Milano
TOTAL
employed staff10
consultants
volunteers
voluntary civil
service
TOTAL
18
3011
48
4
4
17
11
28
6
41
45
86
6
A remarkable increase (84,6%) of staff has been recorded in the period from 2001 to 2005, which corresponds to the
increased activities of AVSI.
EVOLUTION OF STAFF AT MAIN OFFICES
60
50
40
30
48
48
2004
2005
38
31
26
20
10
0
2001
2002
2003
The average age of the staff of AVSI in Italy is rather low (35 years). Moreover, in order to meet the variety of needs, AVSI
requires a particularly qualified professional and cultural background; this is proved by the high percentage of staff with
high school or university degree.
Also the percentage of women in the staff of AVSI is very high (62%).
10
11
Figures covering staff in Italy include both employed staff and collaborations on project basis (for a total of 18).
This figure includes a former expatriate who, starting from November 1, 2005, has been hired as employee at the Italian headquarters.
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PROFILE OF AVSI’S STAFF IN ITALY
employed staff
consultants
7
31
10
2
2
48
AGE
<29
30-45
46-65
>65
TOTAL
GENDER
F
M
TOTAL
EDUCATION
Secondary school
High school degree
University degree
TOTAL
volunteers
voluntary civil
service
TOTAL
6
4
5
2
20
1
28
18
35
32
1
86
30
18
48
2
2
4
19
9
28
6
57
29
86
19
29
48
1
3
4
3
16
9
28
3
3
6
3
39
44
86
6
6
Employment contracts follow the regulations for contracting by professional service providers.
CONTRACT TIERS
middle management
4
Tier 1
5
Tier 2
8
Tier 3
7
Tier 4
5
Tier 5 (apprenticeship)
1
on project
18
Total
48
Staff turnover in 2005 recorded 6 new entries and 6 people leaving AVSI: as a consequence, there has been no change
in total staff.
STAFF TURNOVER
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48
2005 new entries
6
People who left in 2005
6
Staff as of 31/12/2005
48
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Volunteers at Italian Headquarters
Voluntary workers are a major resource for AVSI in Italy. More than half of them are available on a regular and planned basis.
This is due to the fact that most of them are retired and therefore have plenty of free time. In addition, they are people with
good professional background, in areas of activities often similar to those of AVSI’s paid workers. The motivation supporting
their commitment matches very well with the mission and values underlying the organization’s activity. This represents an
important factor for AVSI and its sharing approach. In fact, volunteers often involve friends and acquaitances in support of
AVSI’s activities, who in turn become the actors of a new culture of solidarity
VOLUNTARY WORKERS AT MAIN OFFICES
Presence
Regular (planned weekly/monthly presence)
Occasional (not regularly planned weekly/monthly presence)
Total
Areas of activity within the Foundation
18
10
28
Average weekly commitment (hours)
4 hours or less
Between 5 and 8 hours
Between 8 and 20 hours
Over 20 hours
Total
6
2
18
2
28
Projects
Distance Support
Fundraising
Services
Press/international relations
Logistics
Total
4
12
3
3
3
2
1
28
Volunteers turnover
New entries
Leaving
1
0
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Expatriate and local staff
Expatriates and locally hired staff are jointly responsible for the implementation of AVSI’s projects. The success of the activities is linked to the ability of expatriates to make AVSI’s approach operative and to communicate it to local collaborators. In
2005 AVSI expatriate staff numbered 114, working together with 535 locally hired people. This confirms the importance of
local people to be real actors of their development, starting from the identification of needs to project implementation and
sustainability.
country
expatriates
consultants
3
Albania
Angola
Argentina
Brazil
Burundi
Ecuador
Jordan
Haiti
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kosovo
Lithuania
Lebanon
Mexico
Nigeria
Peru
Poland
D.R. Congo
FRY
Romania
Russian Federation
Rwanda
Sierra Leone
Sudan
Tunisia
Uganda
Total staff abroad
free
collaborations
5
1
1
1
4
13
1
1
1
5
2
6
1
trainees
locally hired
staff
3
11
1
6
57
26
1
4
54
3
43
7
4
26
3
7
55
1
46
2
5
4
78
4
12
1
242
703
1
1
42
24
1
1
48
1
33
4
2
19
2
1
1
3
2
2
2
5
2
4
3
total
1
3
1
1
4
47
40
1
1
6
1
1
2
2
3
2
4
2
2
1
43
114
1
71
1
10
6
11
190
535
1
1
11
2
32
TERRITORIAL DISTRIBUTION OF STAFF ABROAD
600
500
460
400
300
223
200
100
34
30
18
Eastern Europe
Middle East
Asia
0
Africa
Latin America
Most staff employed abroad is working in projects in Africa.
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STAFF ABROAD BY CATEGORY
600
535
500
400
300
200
114
100
32
0
local staff
expatriates
consultants
11
11
trainees
free collaborations
Since 2001, expatriates have increased in number by 26,7%, increasing from 90 to 114 in 2005, according to the increased
number of projects implemented. They feature quite interesting characteristics:
- low average age: more than half (69) is aged between 30 and 45
- no gender disparity: 59 male 55 female
- high educational level: 81 have a university degree. The work in difficult situations, such as in healthcare or agricultural
projects, requires a strong professional background. The quality and value of AVSI’s activities is assured by specialized people with a deep personal motivation
Of the 114 expatriates, 45 are employed with a contract registered with the Foreign Affairs Dept.12 and 69 with a private contract with AVSI directly.
PROFILE OF ESPATRIATE STAFF13
expatriates
consultants
volunteers
trainees
total
19
69
26
3
12
17
9
2
114
32
1
4
5
1
11
11
32
87
48
1
168
Gender
F
M
Total
55
59
114
10
22
32
3
8
11
9
2
11
77
91
168
Education
High school degree
University degree
Total
33
81
114
2
30
32
1
10
11
4
7
11
40
128
168
Age
<29
30-45
46-65
>65
Total
12
13
These contracts are entered into by AVSI and registered by MAE within projects approved or co-funded by MAE, or within projects approved by international Bodies. In both cases, MAE
is covering social security and insurance costs and makes temporary leaves possible; this is compulsory for employees of public bodies.
An analysis of locally hired staff is impossible due to unavailability of the relevant data
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EVOLUTION OF EXPATRIATE STAFF
150
100
114
90
95
97
97
2001
2002
2003
2004
50
0
2005
TRAINING OF STAFF
Beyond any specific professional qualification, working in the area of development cooperation requires both a basic and
diversified set of skills and knowledge, ranging from the legal, to the managerial and finance sectors. Therefore, in order to
enhance the skills of new entries, the Association promotes periodic training sessions.
In 2005, 3 training sessions were organized with a total attendance of 35 people.
TRAINING OF NEW ENTRIES
2005 session
training days
no. of participants
April
4
13
June/July
4
14
October
5
8
TOTAL
12
35
Training sessions are held by AVSI’s area managers, who are faced with the specific issues covering the activities of an NGO
on a daily basis. The main purpose of these sessions is to introduce new staff to AVSI’s activities in general, and to provide
them with basic information about development cooperation and its major operating tools (management of project cycle,
financial planning, bookkeeping and project reporting, fundraising, etc.).
Much importance is also given to on-the-job training of expatriate staff, and specifically of project leaders. In 2005, three training sessions were organized, to deepen issues of common interest such as application of the principle of subsidiarity,
enhancement of human resources, the presentation of success stories with AVSI’s projects in areas such as AIDS prevention
or employment for marginalized youth. Normally, the December session is the occasion to present the “Tents” campaign to
the press, taking advantage of the presence of expatriates in Italy who may bring their direct witnesses from the field.
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TRAINING OF TECHNICAL COMMITTEE14
2005 sessions
length of session
no. of participants
April
3 days
23
August
1 days
34
November/December
5 days
48
TOTAL
9 days
105
Argentina Vocational training
14
In view of the quantity and variety of ongoing projects, an involvement of AVSI’s main project leaders has become necessary in planning, control and monitoring activities. To this end a
Technical Committee has been set-up, in order to support the Secretary General in the exercise of his functions, and assure an organic link between operations and the Board of Directors
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• Economic profile of activities
• Financial Statements 2005
• Profit and Loss Accounts 2005
• Certified Auditors’ Report
• Summary of Financial
and Profit and Loss Results
the figures
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THE FIGURES
Economic profile of the activities
TABLE 1 SOURCES OF FUNDING15
Funding sources
2002
2003
2004
2005
Amount
%
Amount
%
Amount
%
Amount
%
5.861
35
6.803
41
7.479
37
8.159
32
82
1
112
Private donors – distance support
Private donors – international adoptions
69
205
Private donors - others
1.352
8
1.394
9
1.030
5
2.205
Private donors – “Tents” campaign
1.481
9
1.351
8
2.096
11
1.678
7
Total private donors
8.763
52
9.630
59
10.717
53
12.247
48
Local administrations
527
3
676
4
681
3
668
3
CEI
943
6
348
2
109
UE
2.107
12
3.211
20
3.154
16
6.255
24
MAE/DAS/ 8%o funds /CAI
4.221
25
1.350
8
3.072
15
3.577
14
390
2
1.228
7
2.352
13
2.652
11
8.188
48
6.813
41
9.368
47
13.280
52
16.951
100
16.443
100
20.085
100
25.527
100
International bodies
Total public donors
Total funds
9
128
TREND OF FUNDING OVER FOUR YEARS
30.000
25.527
25.000
20.085
20.000
16.951
16.443
15.000
10.000
5.000
0
2002
2003
2004
2005
The funding trend (cash receipts) over a four years period (2002-2005) shows that:
• Confirming the trend of recent years, almost half of total funds have been contributed by private donors (48% in 2005). This
is, on onde side, evidence of the effectiveness of AVSI’s supporters’ network, and, on the other, of the good opinion that
AVSI enjoys with the public at large. Within these funds, distance support plays a very significant role, making up, in 2005,
32% of the Foundation income.
• An analysis of the sources of public funding clearly shows the importance of the funds contributed by the European Union,
Italian Institutions and various International Bodies.
15
The figures of the table reflect cash inflows; they differ therefore from the figures of the 2005 Profit & Loss Account which are based on time accrual (see page 80)
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THE FIGURES
public funds
private funds
TREND OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC FUNDS OVER FOUR YEARS
14.000
13.280
12.247
12.000
10.717
10.000
9.368
9.630
8.763
8.188
8.000
6.813
6.000
4.000
2.000
0
2002
2003
2005
2004
Although in 2005 public funds have increased as compared to the previous years, the ratio between private and public funds
has remained substantially steady over the years.
DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
INDEX
01/02
02/03
03/04
20
16
10
04/05
9
13
10
11
14
Total public donors
29
-17
37
41
Grand Total
20
-3
22
27
INDEX NUMBERS
INDEX
2002
2003
2004
2005
100
116
127
139
100
109
122
140
Total public donors
100
83
114
162
100
97
118
150
Grand Total
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THE FIGURES
ALLOCATION OF FUNDS BY GEOGRAPHICAL AREA16
area
2002
2003
2004
2005
Amount
%
Amount
%
Amount
%
Amount
%
Africa
4.693
28
5.208
32
8.305
41
12.881
50
Latin America and the Caribbeans
6.000
35
4.631
28
6.297
31
6.048
24
Asia
2.455
1
190
1
127
0
1.321
5
1.816
14
2.570
16
2.519
13
2.102
8
Eastern Europe
1.884
11
2.186
13
1.747
9
1.721
7
The Middle East
4.810
11
1.658
10
1.090
6
1.454
6
16.951
100
16.443
100
20.085
100
25.527
100
Allocation to solidarity projects
17
Total
YEAR 2005
14.000
12.881
12.000
10.000
8.000
6.048
6.000
4.000
2.102
2.000
1.721
1.454
1.321
Eastern Europe
The Middle
East
Asia
0
Africa
Latin America
and the Caribbeans
Allocation to solidariety
project
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Project Management performance
Organization costs/project costs
16
17
2002
2003
2004
2005
13%
12%
14%
11%
See note 15
These funds are contributed by private donors without any indication of the specif project they intend to support.
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THE FIGURES
LEGEND OF FUNDING SOURCES
Funding source
Description
Funds contributed by families, groups, businesses and firms to support one or more children within the distance support program.
Private donors - others
Grants from private bodies, businesses and or individuals to support specific projects
Private donors – “Tents” campaign
Funds raised during the traditional “Tents” campaign, implemented with the collaboration of thousands volunteers who
promote hundreds of events (dinners, shows, meetings…) all over the Italian territory.
Local administrations
Funds contributed by Municipalities and Provinces. Under law act number 68/93, these local bodies may allocate an
amount not higher than 8 ‰ of the sum of the first three items of their income, to support development cooperation
projects and international solidarity. The same possibility is provided by various regional acts.
CEI
Italian Bishops’ Conference
UE
European Union (various funding lines: food security, environment, human rights, co-funding of NGOs, AIDS prevention
and care, emergency relief through ECHO, rehabilitation, etc.)
MAE
Italian Department of Foreign Affairs
DAS
Former Social Affairs Department of the Office of the Premier. In the past DAS supported social projects, including international humanitarian projects, particularly in Albania.
8‰ Funds
Decree n. 76 of the President of the Republic, dated March 10, 1998, illustrates the procedure for the allocation of an
8‰ share of Income Tax on Physical Persons paid to the Treasury (IRPEF). The programs entitled to funding include
extraordinary interventions against starvation worldwide, natural disasters, support to refugees.
CAI
Commission for International Adoptions of the Office of the Premier.
International Bodies
Funds contributed by international bodies and agencies to support development activities.
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THE FIGURES
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AS OF 31 DECEMBER 2005 | ASSETS
ASSETS
INTANGIBLE ASSETS
Statutory changes
Software
Quality certification
Trademark registration
(IN EUR)
as of 31/12/2005
13.418
36.950
2.952
-
as of 31/12/2004
18.047
96
3.884
62
53.321
22.089
TANGIBLE ASSETS
Lands and buildings
Plants and machinery
Motor vehicles
Office furniture
Electronic office equipment
279.801
9.234
9.533
15.235
21.519
285.603
11.880
17.994
16.027
25.062
335.322
356.567
FINANCIAL ASSETS
Participation in other organizations
Receivables from other entities:
- receivable within the subsequent year
- receivable beyond the subsequent year
127.906
TOTAL FIXED ASSETS
131.782
127.906
131.782
516.549
510.437
451.427
10.284
339
141.130
433.249
10.155
264
161.643
RECEIVABLES
Receivables from private donors
Receivables from social security institutions
Receivables from tax authorities
Other receivables
Receivables from institutional donors
- Projects funded by the Italian government
- Projects funded by the European Union
- Projects funded by international organizations
- Projects funded by CEI
- Projects funded by local administrations
- Other receivables
Receivables from related entities
Receivables from foreign branches
Receivables from others
11.149.944
5.687.323
10.939.176
204.862
435.195
1.500
9.864.031
4.991.530
969.070
162.452
613.361
28.418.000
2.482
-
2.482
2.482
-
2.482
162.139
-
1.783
250.201
-
250.201
1.783
-
162.139
-
16.600.444
FINANCIAL ASSETS OTHER THAN FIXED ASSETS
Other securities
37.653
572.458
CURRENT CAPITAL
Bank and post office deposits
Cash on hand
4.002.082
76.685
4.078.767
2.421.696
56.392
2.478.087
TOTAL CURENT ASSETS
33.304.005
20.508.984
PREPAYMENTS AND ACCRUED INCOME
TOTAL ASSETS
8.356
33.828.910
7.729
21.027.150
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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31 2005 | LIABILITIES (IN EUR)
LIABILITIES
Membership fees
Association's Fund
Change in the Association's Fund
- Adjustments of the Association's Fund
- Membership fees paid in the year
- Result for the year
as of 31/12/2005
(218.185)
4.485
NET EQUITY
Reserve fund for deferred tax expenses
Reserve fund for credit depreciation
as of 31/12/2004
40.918
478.503
(213.700)
38.890
512.826
(34.323)
2.027
(218.185)
(250.481)
305.720
197.084
RISKS AND CHARGES FUND
RESERVE FUND FOR SEVERANCE PAY OF EMPLOYED STAFF
301.235
197.084
-
197.084
277.202
197.084
230.700
DUES TO BANKS
- payable within the subsequent year
- payable beyond the subsequent year
650.206
-
650.206
650.037
-
650.037
ADVANCE PAYMENTS RECEIVED AGAINST PROJECTS
-
Italian Government
European Union
International Organization
Local Administrations
CEI
International Adoptions
Private donors
8.894.661
5.293.511
10.913.246
703.876
199.351
60.527
5.301.509
6.872.980
4.423.536
1.438.821
909.134
212.499
31.366.681
4.883.807
18.740.779
527.955
-
527.955
489.776
-
489.776
78.783
-
78.783
86.761
-
86.761
198.328
-
198.328
144.428
-
144.428
43.041
-
43.041
46.484
-
46.484
69.043
-
69.043
56.555
-
56.555
114.521
-
114.521
82.984
-
82.984
DUES TO SUPPLIERS
DUES TO EXPATRIATE STAFF
DUES TO STAFF AT MAIN OFFICES IN ITALY
DUES TO TAX AUTHORITIES
DUES TO SOCIAL SECURITY INSTITUTES
DUES TO THIRD PARTIES
TOTAL DUES
33.048.558
20.297.804
ACCRUALS AND DEFERRED INCOME
345
33.828.910
327
21.027.150
TOTAL NET ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
INTERIM ACCOUNTS
GUARANTEES RECEIVED FROM THIRD PARTIES
- Bank guarantees
- Committments on projects
al 31/12/2005
al 31/12/2004
1.395.434
1.527.818
330.221
1.725.655
1.924.769
3.452.587
COMMITMENT ON PROJECTS
- Own commitments on projects
TOTAL INTERIM ACCOUNTS
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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AS OF 31 DECEMBER 2005 | PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT (IN EUR)
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
as of 31/12/2005
Contributed income from the Italian Government
Contributed income from the European Union
Contributed income from international organizations
Contributed income from local administrations
Contributed income from CEI
Contributed income from private donors
Contributed income from DS for projects
Contributed income from DS
CONTRIBUTED INCOME AGAINST PROJECTS
2.725.256
5.692.393
3.033.342
700.256
183.148
3.655.560
1.638.199
5.186.519
Contributed income from the Italian Government
Contributed income from the European Union
Contributed income from International Organizations
Contributed income from local administrations and CEI
Contributed income from private donors
Contributed income from DS
Contributed income from international adoptions
CONTRIBUTED INCOME AGAINST ORGANIZATION EXPENSES
TOTAL CONTRIBUTED INCOME
22.814.673
235.519
420.568
75.753
0
792.789
814.547
196.519
(1.678.459)
(4.259.385)
(275.059)
(322.727)
(793)
(1.207.243)
(1.253.430)
FUNDS TRANSFERED NOT YET ACCOUNTED FOR
Projects funded by the Italian Government
Projects funded by the European Union
Projects funded by international organizations
Projects funded by local administrations
Projects funded by CEI
Projects funded by DS
Projects funded by private donors
(333.594)
(585.255)
(2.524.177)
(102.797)
(183.148)
(4.033.266)
(3.145.089)
STAFF EXPENSES FOR PROJECTS STAFF
(2.902.628)
TOTAL PROJECTS COSTS
DEPRECIATION AND DEVALUATION
- Depreciation of intangible assets
- Depreciation of tangible assets
- Allocations and devaluations
EXPENSES TRANSFERRED TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT
(141.178)
(608.694)
(214.504)
(65.301)
(23.898)
(14.178)
(33.926)
(3.876)
TOTAL ORGANIZATION EXPENSES
OPERATING RESULT
Other financial income
From securities included in current assets
Income other than above
Interests payable and other financial expenses
PROJECT ADJUSTMENTS
RESULT OF THE YEAR BEFORE TAXES
Taxes of the year
RESULT OF THE YEAR
PAYMENT OF MEMBERSHIP FEES
ADJUSTMENTS
CHANGES OF THE ASSOCIATION'S ENDOWMENT FUND
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20.000
817.446
746.953
106.879
2.075.433
20.405.198
(8.997.096)
(850.111)
(2.447.515)
(1.610.428)
(159.411)
(185.504)
(24.990)
( 545.792)
(5.823.752)
(10.907.326)
(1.176.099)
(853.455)
(327.818)
(287.359)
(10.190)
(5.429.283)
(1.581.835)
(9.666.039)
(2.582.215)
(22.807.050)
(18.072.006)
(1.897.481)
(1.640.858)
(1.053.575)
(51.979)
569.710
(197.317)
(596.074)
(217.771)
(58.667)
(18.769)
(7.911)
(39.177)
(8.638)
(2.433.326)
3.866
93.634
97.500
(62.781)
(55.726)
195.941
(256.051)
5.359
23.326
(34.719)
12.623
(6.082)
28.685
(135.999)
(107.314)
25.068
(4.029)
6.541
612.504
100.632
(640.556)
(1.088.598)
(2.589.241)
(109.993)
FINANCIAL INCOME AND COSTS
Extraordinary income
Extraordinary costs
EXTRAORDINARY INCOME AND COSTS
Adjustments of payables for projects in currencies other than eur (project appreciation)
Allocation to credit devaluation
Adjustments of receivables in currencies other than eur (project losses in value)
18.329.765
194.537
189.618
2.535.695
25.350.369
PROJECT EXPENSES IN IMPLEMENTATION COUNTRIES AND IN ITALY
Projects funded by the Italian Government
Projects funded by the European Union
Projects funded by international organizations
Projects funded by local administrations
Projects funded by CEI
Projects funded by DS
Projects funded by private donors
STAFF EXPENSES FOR STAFF AT MAIN OFFICES IN ITALY
OTHER ORGANIZATION EXPENSES
- Raw, subsidiary and consumption materials
- Services
- Travels and transportation
- Use of third parties' goods
- Other administration expenses
as of 31/12/2004
2.840.946
3.722.620
2.174.829
639.578
301.866
2.507.125
740.858
5.401.944
21.039
179.710
( 34.834)
128.683
(22.569)
(18.084)
144.877
(197.449)
(20.737)
4.485
(218.186)
2.027
(216.159)
4.485
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THE FIGURES
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THE FIGURES
Summary of financial and profit and
loss results
The main items of the financial statements and profit and loss accounts as of December 31, 2005, are summarized below,
based on the drafting principles shown in the following tables (all amounts in thousands Eur):
SUMMARY OF 2005 PROFIT AND LOSS FIGURES VS 2004
Contributed income to projects
Project costs
2005
2004
22.815
18.330
(22.807)
(18.072)
Operating result - projects
Contributed income to organization
Organization costs
8
258
2.536
2.075
(2.433)
(2.589)
Operating result – organization
(102)
(514)
Operating result
(110)
(256)
35
(107)
Financial (costs) income
Extraordinary (costs) income
Projects adjustments
7
21
(129)
144
23
(197)
Result before taxes
Taxes of the year
(18)
(21)
4
(218)
Net result
The principle used introduces a clear distinction of the operating result between projects and the organization. The accounting procedure adopted enables to relate revenues and costs year by year, and by its very nature, tends to bring the project
operating result close to zero.
SUMMARY OF 2005 ASSETS AND LIABILITIES VS 2004
2005
2004
FIXED ASSETS
• Intangible
• Tangible
53.321
22.089
335.322
356.567
• Financial
127.906
131.782
TOTAL
516.549
510.438
CURRENT ASSETS
2005
2004
NET EQUITY
305.720
301.235
RISKS
197.084
197.084
277.202
230.700
& CHARGES FUND
LEAVING INDEMNITY
PAYABLES
• Receivables:
• To projects
- from institutional donors
- from others
• Other securities
• Cash on hand
TOTAL
31.366.681
18.740.779
• To suppliers
527.956
489.776
857.994
• To employees
277.111
231.189
37.653
572.458
• To banks
650.206
650.037
4.078.767
2.478.087
• Other payables
226.605
186.023
33.304.005
20.508.983
345
327
8.356
7.729
33.828.910
21.027.150
33.828.910
21.027.150
28.418.000
16.600.444
769.585
ADJUSTMENT
ADJUSTMENT ACCOUNTS
TOTAL
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TOTAL
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AVSI HEADQUARTERS AND OFFICES
WORLD WIDE
AVSI
headquarters
in Italy
CESENA
V.le Carducci, 85 - 47023 Cesena
Phone: +39 0547 360811
Fax: +39 0547 611290
E-mail: [email protected]
MILAN
Via M. Gioia 181 - 20125 Milan
Phone: +39 02 6749881
Fax: +39 02 67490056
VERONA
V.le A. Palladio, 16 - 37138 Verona
Phone/Fax +39 045 8109948
NAPLES
Via del Duomo 314 - 80133 Naples
Phone: +39 081 283885
Fax: +39 081 202526
BERGAMO
Via Moroni 103 - 24100 Bergamo
Phone: +39 035 226741
GENOA
Piazza Santo Stefano
di Borzo, 2- 16100 Genoa
AVSI offices
worldwide
NORTH AMERICA
Canada
AVSI Canada
672 Dupont st. suite 505
Toronto, Canada, M6G 1Z6
Phone: +1 416 537 4129
Fax: +1 416 537 8441
[email protected]
USA
AVSI-USA DC Office
1000 Connecticut Avenue
NW-suite 403
Washington, DC 20006
Phone/Fax: +1 202-429-9009
Website: www.avsi-usa.org
LATIN AMERICA
and the CARIBBEANS
Argentina
Buenos Aires
c/o Obra del Padre Mario Pantaleo
Calle Mario Pantaleo 201
Esq. Sanabria - 1759
González Catan (1759) Bs. As.
Phone: +54 0220 2420726
Fax +54 0220 2424711
E-mail : [email protected]
Santa Fe
c/o ACDI Asociación Cultural
para el Desarrollo Integral
Pasaje Rudecinto Martinez 2615
S3002AAA – Santa Fe
Phone: +54 342 4566049
Fax: +54 342 4521227
Brazil
Belo Horizonte
Av. Cristiano Machado, 9883
Bairro Heliópolis
CEP 31 760 000 - Belo Horizonte - MG
Phone: +55 31 21032700
Fax: +55 31 21032725
Rio de Janeiro
c/o CDM - Cooperação para
o Desenvolvimento e Morada
Humana - Av N. S. de Copacabana,
583/608 - 222050-000
Rio de Janeiro
Phone: 0055/21/22350760
Fax - 0055/21/2362422
Salvador Bahia
Rua Almirante Barroso, n° 344
Casa Rio Vermelho - 41.950-350
Salvador Bahia
Phone: 0055 71 3334-2858
Fax: 0055/71/3334/6098
Haiti
50, Rue Gregoire
(Complexe Galerie Nader)
Petion Ville Haiti Boite Postal 15540
Phone: 00509/525/3497
Peru
Lima
c/o edificio Cesed - Esq Globo
Terraqueo con Galileo Urbanización
Sol De Oro Los Olivos
Phone: 0051/1/5338000
Kenya
c/o St. Kizito
Vocational Training Institute
Roysambu - Kasarani Roundabout
P.O. Box 53772- Nairobi
Phone: 00254/2085/62453
Fax: 00254/2085/62291
Nigeria
14, Maitama Sule Street S.W. Ikoy
P.O. Box 50928 Falomo - Lagos
Phone: 00234/1/7741440
Fax: 00234/1/2692044
Democratic Republic of Congo
Avenue des Ibis, 182 - Goma - RDC
Phone: +88 163 1414755
Rwanda
Kacyiru, Remera II, Rukili II, Zone 2,
Nr. 41 - B.P. 3185 - Kigali
Phone/Fax: +250 514552
Uganda
Gulu
Plot 1 Jinnah Road
P.O. Box 758 - Gulu
Phone/Fax: +256 471 32531
Hoima
Plot n° 26 -34 Government Road
P.O. Box 249 - Hoima
Phone: +256 465 40136
Fax: +256 41 501606
Kampala
Ggaba Road - Plot 1119
P.O. Box 6785 - Kampala
Phone: +256 41 501604/05
Fax: +256 41 501606
Kitgum
Plot n. 50/52 Chua Road
P. O. Box 21 - Kitgum
Luzira (Kampala)
Port Bell Road
P.O. Box 6785 Luzira - Kampala
Phone: +256 41 220965-2
Fax: +256 41 501606
Kazakhstan
c/o MASP - International
Association for Social Projects
318, Bogenbai batyr Str.
480019 Almaty
Phone/Fax: +7 32 72559810
Kosovo
Rr Mbreti Piro, Peje/Pek
Unmik Kosovo
Phone/Fax: +381 3932315
Lithuania
c/o SOTAS
Volunteers in Social Service
Ausros Vartu, 12 - LT 2001 Vilnius
Phone: +37 05 2121453
Russian Federation
c/o MAKSORA
International agency for cultural
and social service
Krasnij Prospekt, 153/a B-V
630049 - Novosibirsk
Phone: +7 3832 209694
Fax +7 3832 220954/221852
Website: www.maksora.ru
Romania
c/o FDPSR - Fundatia
Dezvoltarea Popoarelor
Prin Sustinere Reciproca
Balciului Street, nr. 2 - Sector 2
Bucarest
Phone: +40 21 2530076
Fax: +40 21 2531226
MIDDLE EAST
Jordan
P.O. Box 3004 – 11821 Amman
Phone/Fax: +962 6 5517765
E-mail: [email protected] –
[email protected]
Lebanon
Riad El Solh – Rue des Banques
Stephan Building
P.O. Box 175722
post Saint Michel - Beirut
Phone/Fax: +961 9 637748
EASTERN EUROPE
and ASIA
AFRICA
Burundi
Burundi Head Office B.P. 6,
Avenue de Juin, Rohero, Kiriri
B.P. 3307 Buyenzi
Phone: +257 243288/252579
Fax: +257 252580
Albania
c/o SHIS - Shoqata Internacionale
per Solidaritetin
Rruga Kajo Karafili, nr. 26/2
Tirana
Phone: +355 42 69451
Fax +355 42 69451
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AVSI NETWORK
Ngos and associations members of the AVSI network
NORTH AMERICA
USA
AVSI-USA
420 Lexington Ave. suite 2754-55
New York, New York 10170
Phone/Fax: +1-212-4908043
Website: www.avsi-usa.org
Canada
AVSI Canada
672 Dupont st. suite 505
Toronto, Canada, M6G 1Z6
Phone: +1 416 537 4129
Fax: +1 416 537 8441
E-mail:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Mexico
CSJ - Centro
de Solidaridad Juvenil
Calle 9 sin numero entre 6 y 8,
Samulà
24090 - Campeche
Phone: +52 981 8126336
Fax: +52 981 8125299
DIJO - Desarrollo Integral
de la Juventud Oaxaqueña
Calle Pensamientos n. 501A
Colonia Reforma - 68020 Oaxaca
Phone: +52 951 5138181
Fax: +52 951 5138181
EUROPE
LATIN AMERICA
Argentina
ACDI Asociación Cultural
para el Desarrollo Integral
La Rioja 2350 - S3000BXD
Santa Fe - Argentina
Phone: +54 342 4566049
Fax: +54 342 4521227
Sito internet: www.acdi.org.ar
Brazil
CDM - Cooperação para
o Desenvolvimento
e Morada Humana
Av. Cristiano Machado, 9883
Bairro Heliopolis – 31760000
Santa Efigenia - Belo Horizonte
Phone: 0055/31/21032700
Fax: 0055/31/21032725
CODESC - Instituto
de Cooperação
e Desenvolvimento Social
Rua Capitao Salomao, 89 2 andar
CJ2 - Centro 01304 -010
San Paolo
Phone: +55 11 282263
Fax: +55 11 2272214
Chile
Fundación Domus
Barros Arana 758, San Bernardo
Santiago del Cile
Phone: +56 2 8594658
Fax: +56 2 8582368
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Lithuania
SOTAS - Volunteers
in Social Service
Ausros Vartu, 12 - LT 2001 Vilnius
Phone: +37 05 2121453
Switzerland
AVAID - Association des
Volontaires
pour l’Aide au Développement
via C. Maraini, 5 - 6900 - Lugano
Phone/Fax: +41 91 9231428
Poland
AVSI Polska
Ul. Langiewicza 31
02-071 - Varsavia
Phone: +48 22 5768000
Fax: +48 22 8252222
AFRICA
Portugal
VIDA - Voluntariado
Internacional para o
Desenvolvimento Africano
Calçada do Combro 61,1°
1200-111- Lisbona
Phone: +351 21 3433022
Fax: +351 21 3422021
E-mail:[email protected]
Albania
SHIS - Shoqata Internacionale
per Solidaritetin
Rruga Kajo Karafili, nr. 26/2
Tirana
Phone: +355 42 69451
Fax: +355 42 69451
Republic of San Marino
AVSI SAN MARINO
Via G. Babboni, 17
47899 Serravalle - S. Marino
Phone: +378 0549 900759
Fax: +378 0549 904253
Germany
Support International e V.
Pater-Ingbert-Naab-Strasse, 24
D-85072 Eichstätt
Phone: +49 8421 902194
Fax: +49 8421 902621
Russian Federation
MAKSORA - International
agency for cultural and
social service
Krasnij Prospekt, 153/a B-V
630049 - Novosibirsk
Phone/Fax: +7 383 2209694,
2268410
Italy
Associazione
Famiglie per l'accoglienza
Via M. Melloni, 27 - 20136 Milano
Phone: +39 02 70006152
Fax: + 39 02 70006156
Associazione per l’Uganda
Via Piave, 12
21020 Cazzago Brebbia (VA)
Phone: +39 0332 964334
EDUS – Educazione e Sviluppo
Via Zambra 11 - 38100 Trento
Phone: +39 0461/421977
Fax: +39 0461 407024
E-mail:
[email protected]
www.educazionesviluppo.org
Romania
FDPSR - Fundatia Dezvoltarea
Popoarelor Prin Sustinere
Reciproca
Balciului Street, nr. 2 - Sector 2
Bucarest
Phone: +40 21 2530076
Fax: +40 21 2531226
Spain
CESAL - Centro
de Estudio y Solidaridad
con América Latina
c/o Dr. Fleming, 59, 5° dcha 28036 - Madrid
Phone: +34 91 3597906
Fax: +34 91 3591459
Kenya
COWA - Companionship
of Works Association
P.O. Box 759 RUARAKA
00618 Nairobi
Phone: +254 2 6752568
Fax: +254 2 8560321
St. Kizito Vocational
Training Institute
P.O. Box 759 RUARAKA
00618 Nairobi
Phone: +254 2 6752568
Fax: +254 2 8560321
Website: www.stkizito.com
Nigeria
THE SEED Registered Trustee
Ilasan Estate - Lekki - Off Lagos
Epe-Expressway - Lagos
Phone/Fax: +234 1 2692044
Uganda
COWA - Companionship
of Works Association
Jinja Road Plot 874
P.O. Box 8868 - Kampala
Tel.: +256 41 286932
Fax: +256 41 286316
E-mail:
[email protected]
Meeting Point International
P.O. Box 21261 – Kampala
Phone: +256 41 222698
Meeting Point Kitgum
P.O. Box 96 - Kitgum
Phone: +256 772 531238
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APPENDIXES
Appendix 1
analytical data
sample aggregation of project’s
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POVERTY REDUCTION FOR VULNERABLE FAMILIES AND YOUTH AT PARTIDO DE LA MATANZA
Project summary: The project is addressed to families and youth living in the area of González Catan, Province of Buenos Aires,
and is implemented in collaboration with Obra del Padre Mario Pantaleo (OPM), a local foundartion active since long and helping
thousands of people through educational, social and health activities as well as assistance to to the elders and disabled people. The
critical situation of the country in the last two years generated a social emergency and created difficulties to the Foundation that
could no longer rely on agreements and aids. Therefore, the project intends to integrate and develop, in collaboration with the different sectors of OPM, the activities addressed to the poorest people in order to reduce the level of vulnerability of families and youth
through an integrated action of prevention, social and family support, education, vocational training and access to the job market.
Donor: the Italian Department of Foreign Affairs
Local partner: Obra del Padre Mario Pantaleo - González Catan – Province of Buenos Aires
Starting date: February 15, 2003
Total expected duration: 3 years + extension by 3,5 months
2005 Reference Period: January 1 – December 31
Project Leader: Antonella De Giorgi
Project leader’s e-mail address: [email protected]
ACHIEVEMENTS
input
QUALITY AND QUANTITY RESULTS SUPPLIED BY PROJECT LEADER
units
staff
output
building of facilities/
supply of operating
tools
18
material aids
Expatriate staff
Local skilled staff on a part-time basis
Local skilled staff
1
2
12
2
• maintenance of the classrooms and laboratories used by the educational and vocational training centers
• integration of the vocational training equipment
• housing maintenance:
96 operations performed
41 beneficiary families
• distribution of clothing, shoes and eye glasses:
872 beneficiaries
• supply of drugs, medical examinations, transportation to hospital:
565 beneficiaries
• payment of school fees:
134 beneficiaries
• supply of educational material:
490 beneficiaries (including those of previous item)
• nutritional support to children attending the activities: snacks provided to an average 360 children per week
• weekly distribution of food to families in difficult conditions:
18 beneficiary families
Project leaders have drawn this form for every project. The aggregation of the relevant data produced the achievements of every area of intervention.
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A1 Social and health activities
• Support to families:
120 home visits
998 meetings at project location
• Psychological and educational support to difficult
children:
31 beneficiaries
• Series of weekly meetings for women with serious
family problems
10 beneficiaries
• Course on “Building a mud oven”:
2 editions - 47 participants
• Course on “Feeding/Nutrition”:
2 editions – 42 beneficiaries
• Prevention day:
2 editions (8 hours) - 170 beneficiaries
• Support to cases with nutritional problems
(Educational Centre)
78 beneficiaries
A2 Educational-recreational activities
assistance
• Summer 2005: recreational activities for 98 beneficiaries
• Recreational activities – an average 406 participants
per week
• Remedial lessons – an average 102 participants per week
•
•
•
•
Sport activities – 126 beneficiaries
Remedial lesson for adolescents: 10 participants
Youth football championship: 40 participants
Volley championship for girls: 25 participants
output
A3 Vocational training activities
training/
awareness raising
special events
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• Course for cook assistants, 210 hours:
24 beneficiaries
• Course for joiners, 200 hours:
15 beneficiaries
• Course for Barmen/Waiters, 210 hours:
25 beneficiaries
• Course for bakers/confectioners, 206 hours:
35 beneficiaries
• Course on telemarketing and direct sale, 195 hours:
15 beneficiaries
• Course on gardening, 185 hours:
12 beneficiari
• 2 short courses for joiners,
2 short courses for bakers (100 hours):
120 beneficiaries
• Stages: 47 beneficiaries
Addressed to operators
Addressed to parents
and adolescents
• Training course for the operators of the Educational
Center on issues related to AVSI’s educational
approach:
8 participants – 4 hours
• International workshop in Buenos Aires on issues
concerning education and training:
9 participants - 16 hours
• Congress on education and psychology in Santa Fe
6 participants – 3 days
• Course for vocational training tutors – Province of
Buenos Aires
• Workshop on vocational training with lectures by an
expert
10 hours, 6 participants
• Training meetings on sanitation and nutrition
• Parties with the families
2 editions – 800 people attendimg each event
• Sightseeing – city tours
6 events - 286 total beneficiaries
• Open day at the vocational training center
272 participants
• Drug abuse prevention activities addressed to adolescents (theatre performances and discussions)
53 beneficiaries
• Drug abuse prevention activities (theatre performances and discussions)
25 beneficiaries
• Workshop on movie and literature
15 weekly meetings – 9 beneficiaries
• Education to personal hygiene addressed to the
children attending the Educational Center
some 450 children aged between 6 and 13
• Weight/height ratio control campaign addressed to
the children of the Educational Center
209 beneficiaries
• Meeting with the parents of the Educational Center
8 meetings – 155 participants
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Activities A1
•
•
•
•
Increased self-esteem of the people involved
Increased ability to activate relational resources (friendship among mothers, help activities within the Educational Center)
Increased ability to cope with reality
Participation and development of existing social actors (collaboration among the various sectors of OPM, with the
schools and institutions of the same area)
outcome
Activities A2
improvement
of the general living
conditions
of participants
• Resumption of regular school attendance
• Decreased ratio of school delay and school drop-out (98% of the children participating in the activities has successfully completed the year)
• Improved behavioral and personal hygiene habits
• Increased self-esteem (changed attitude towards the proposed activities and the family and school realities)
• Improved interpersonal relationship
• Decreased marginalization cases (some adolescents have left the street to attend the activities)
• An increased number of families refers to the Educational Center with increased responsibility on children’s education)
Activities A3
• Decreased drop-out from courses thanks to a more attractive proposal and improved teachers’ attitude
• Improved access to the job market for the youth of the area
support to cultural
and business
development
indirect
beneficiaries
• improved know-how of project and OPM operators
• Improved relationship with the schools promoting consciousness on the educational responsibility of institutions
• Establishment of relationships with businesses of the area to promote training on the field of youth attending the courses
500 children
800 families
15 schools
36 public and private institutions, businesses
González Catan, Province of Buenos Aires
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APPENDIXES
Appendix 2
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CSI Certification
Italy
47023 Cesena (FC), Viale Carducci, 85
ph: +39.0547.360811 - [email protected]
20125 Milan, Via Melchiorre Gioia, 181
ph: +39 02 6749881 - [email protected]
AVSI USA
The Association of Volunteers in International Service, USA, Inc.
420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 2754-55 - New York, New York 10170
Phone/fax +1 212 490.8043 - [email protected] - www.avsi-usa.org
www.avsi.org

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