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Activities such as farming, tilling or collecting scrap metal can be fatal in Syria. One in three communities lives in places contaminated by mines and unexploded ordnance, but the socio-economic crisis caused by Covid-19 has in recent years encouraged many more people to take risks to generate income.    “Large-scale education and awareness-raising on the […]

“We are very worried about the current situation of girls in Afghanistan. After almost 7 months of stop, secondary schools have not reopened for young women. The ban on attending school is terrible news that puts the future of thousands of women at risk”. These are the words of Stefania Piccinelli, Head of International Programmes […]

In the western province of Herat, in a context of severe and compounded crises, the difficulty to provide food for oneself and one’s own household has become very common. Such task is even harder when the most vulnerable are at the head of the family: it is the everyday struggle of widows and women who […]

In November of two years ago, the Hurricane Iota struck just few days after the Tropical Storm Eta hit Central America, causing severe flooding and landslides in Guatemala, already dealing with longstanding vulnerabilities, among which the high rate of chronic malnutrition and food insecurity, and the fallout of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The records show […]

Last summer, the entire world was watching what was going on in Afghanistan. Even though the media attention has decreased, its severe humanitarian crisis has only gotten worse since. As of today, more than 60% of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance. However, such international help is facing strong limits in accessing the […]

New sanctions against Mali could have a devastating impact on the country, where one in three people are already dependent on humanitarian aid. 14 NGOs are urging all states and bodies supporting these sanctions to unequivocally commit to applying humanitarian exemptions, so that life-saving aid can reach all those in need. Bamako, Mali, 19 January […]

Since 2012, Venezuela has been immersed in a political, institutional, and economic crisis that has led to the large-scale migration of people from the country (the second largest mobility crisis in the world after Syria), all of this occurring against the backdrop of multiple and complex, regional mobility crises. Many people had and continue to […]

More than 40 years of prolonged crisis and war, impoverishment, disintegration of the rule of law and systematic exclusion of women from social, economic and public life have hit the Afghan population hard, especially affecting the rights of women and girls. More than two million women are war widows and an even greater number have […]

Side by Side is a documentary that was born from a collective process. The protagonists are not professional filmmakers but people who, through action-cams, have agreed to tell the story of the impact of climate change in their communities in Mozambique. Climate change is causing an increasing number of natural disasters around the world: in […]

On October 27th, members of ChildFund Alliance in Central America participated in the 2021 Central America Donors Forum (CADF), a multi-sectoral networking and learning space to foster discussion and reflections on the socio-political context of the region and to advance philanthropy and development efforts in Central America. The CADF this year took place virtually on […]

Between November 11th and 16th, 50 Palestinian Small and Micro Enterprises (SMEs) were awarded a grant in the framework of WE CHANGE – Participatory gender pathway and promotion of women’s economic empowerment in Palestine project, funded by the Italian Agency for Development cooperation as part of the AMAL- Human rights and gender equality programme, and […]

As a result of climate change, 150 million people will need humanitarian aid in 2030, 50 million more than today; 258 million boys and girls are still not receiving an adequate education; at the end of 2021, 435 million girls and women worldwide will be below the poverty line. The year 2021 thus confirms the […]