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AVSI Annual Report by Giampaolo Silvestri, Maria Teresa Gatti, Elena Riva, Elisabetta Ponzone, Dania Tondini, Anna Zamboni, Marco Sangiorgio, Andrea Nebuloni , Sheila Berti, Mariaregina Valdameri. Translated by Antonio Pinna Photo courtesy of Massimo Cuttica, Pio De Rose, Ilaria Di Biagio, Emiliano Larizza, Fabrizio Lava, Brett Morton, Luca Rossetti, Nicola, Staff AVSI, Stefania Malapelle, Unhcr. Graphic design Accent on Design, Milan Cover: Haiti, nutritional center in Port-au-Prince, courtesy Enrica Brame
“[...] incremental progress is possible only in the material sphere.
Here, amid our growing knowledge of the structure of matter and in the light of ever more advanced inventions, we clearly see continuous progress towards an ever greater mastery of nature. Yet in the field of ethical awareness and moral decision-making, there is no similar possibility of accumulation for the simple reason that man’s freedom is alway s new and he must always make his decisions anew. These decisions can never simply be made for us in advance by others - if that were the case, we would no longer be free. Freedom presupposes that in fundamental decisions, every person and every generation is a new beginning”.
“SPE SALVI facti sumus” (24) Encyclical letter on Christian hope Benedict XVI, March 30th, 2007
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Introduction Who we are Stakeholders Network Our organization structure Where we are, what we do Intervention areas Fund raising Our 2010 Economic data Consolidated financial statement
Haiti: AVSI’s first tents for the population of Port-au-Prince, January 2010
The forces that change history are the same as those that change man’s heart New alliances for development
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2010 WAS DEEPLY MARKED BY THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE. The earthquake
hit the capital city Port-au-Prince and caused 250,000 deaths and as many as 600,000 homeless on January 12th, 2010. This forced AVSI, which had been in that country since the late 1990s, to carry out emergency and rebirth efforts with contributions from tens of thousands of people.
Such an event affected us financially, but especially made a difference in terms of our professional and human experience. We have slowly witnessed the miracle of hope unfold. In the face of destruction rose the search for life, personal commi tment of our Haitian and expat colleagues, sympathy by thousands of supporters, and the involvement of both public and private institutions. Following the first emergency, we started 17 projects with the help of 40,000 people. Most remarkably, we laid the fundations for a long human reconstruction program. 2010 was also the year of newer and stronger alliances: first of all, alliance with companies. This alliance was already written into AVSI’s DNA and it became stronger in terms of cooperation, with primary Italian corporations and with our typical small and medium enterprises. We have developed a project along with the Enel Cuore Foundation, likewise commenced a joint program with ENI on social impacts studies in some African countries. Such a cooperation
between private for-profit and private not-for-profit organizations will surely bring surprising benefits even in the toughest environments, where economic and human development can find themeselves joined at the origin. Alliances with the world of research and with the cooperation is linked to Italian military missions abroad. In Lebanon, a project developed by the Italian Cooperation Agency’s ROSS (Rehabilitation, Occupation, Services, Development) has involved the University of Milan: one major result was the identification of the Candidatus Phytoplasma phoenicium which jeopardize the production of peaches and almonds. This borderless natural phenomenon forces research centers all over the world to cooperate in order to stop it. New alliances with international agencies already partners with AVSI, such as the UNHCR, which involved us in an educational intervention in Dadaab, Kenya. This effort had started out as an Italian Cooperation project then developed into a “temporary town”, a shelter to 400,000 fleeing people. The project must adapt itself to an enormous growth, also due to the Horn of Africa famine. Critical and systematical reflection on experience was confirmed as AVSI’s commitment in 2010. While there is a lot of talk about aid efficiency, AVSI made a series of evaluations and analyses on the cases, in collaboration with the Subsidiarity Foundation, in order to build
practice-based knowledge. The 2010 final assessment of the OVC (Our Valuable Children) Program was very significant: it was in fact one of the most important programs in the history of AVSI. Funded by USAID (United State Agency for International Development) within PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) and the Distance Support Program, it reached 14,000 children and adolescents, their families and communities in Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and subsequently in the Ivory Coast as well. It showed how crucial the role of family is in the child’s growth, especially in difficult conditions. Finally, AVSI Board of Directors was renewed in 2010, with the appointment of President Mario Saporiti and the reduction in the number of Directors from 9 to 7. Mario Saporiti takes the place of President Arturo Alberti whose mandate lasted forty years, AVSI’s lifetime. In the face of the crisis and its consequences that do not make big headlines, such as food crisis, in the face of the reduction of governmental funds for development and of private donations due to impoverishment, AVSI, secure with its value, has found allies of good will, large and small. “The forces that move history are the same forces that move the heart of men”. 2010 helped us meet many wounded hearts, but looking for a meaning, hearts with big responsibilities yet willing to question themselves. Hearts that even through a small act such as distance support change history. We are looking out for such hearts.
Born as an association in 1972 and recognized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a not-for profit organization of international cooperation in 1973, as of 2010 AVSI holds General Consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), is a partner of some of the major international organisms (UNHCR, UNICEF, ILO) and cooperation agencies such as USAID and ECHO.
The mission To promote
the dignity of each person through development cooperation activities with a special attention to education, according to the Catholic social teaching.
AVSI who we are At present, AVSI is operating in 38 countries in the following sectors: • Social and educational • Distance support • Urban development • Healthcare • Work • Agriculture, food security and water • Energy and environment • Humanitarian emergency
guiding values
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CENTRALITY OF THE PERSON The person is seen as a unique being in his or her fundamental relationships, family and society. The person cannot be reduced to a social category or a limitation such as poverty, disease or disability.
Education in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp, home to 400,000 people. AVSI operates here in collaboration with international agencies, UNHCR and the Italian Cooperation.
STARTING FROM THE POSITIVE Every person and every community represents a potential resource, regardless of their vulnerability. This means valuing and strengthening all that has been made by people and also helping people to understand their own value and dignity.
DOING WITH Starting from a relationship with the people to whom the project is directed and building with them on the basis of their development path.
DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND SUBSIDIARITY Development projects must favor associations, ackowledge and value the establishment of intermediate bodies along with a responsible and engaged social fabric.
PARTNERSHIP Promotion of partnerships with all the actors in the field in order to favor synergies and optimize available resources.
In Italy 57 permanent collaborators; 2 consultants; 14 volunteers; 12 interns
Abroad 1.396
By the term stakeholders the subjects are meant, both inside and outside an NGO, who share interest with the activity of the organization.
human resources (collaborators, expatriates, consultants, volunteers and interns)
stakeholders Among others are personnel, local partners, international partners and sponsors.
middle eastern east 3% 2% europe asia 3%
latin america and caribbean
33%
59% africa
Distribution of personnel abroad, by area: local partners (governmental, educational, healthcare institutions, non-governmental and religious organizations)
38.642 donors
9.907 private (companies, individuals, banks, foundations, schools and families) 28.656 distance support sponsors (may coincide with private donors) 79 public (municipalities, counties, departments, regions, provinces, Italian Government, European Union, bilateral cooperation, international organizations, development banks.
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More than 60 organizations now make up the informal AVSI network, which works systematically on the implementation of projects, common reflection on development, to share methods and experiences. The network includes founding members and participating members, but also partners. A network bound by operative friendship.
AVSI network Italy
> Associazione Famiglie
per l’Accoglienza www.famiglieperaccoglienza.it founding member > Associazione per l’Uganda > AVSI Alto Adige Südtirol http://users.south-tyrolean.net/ avsi-aast > CBAU - Comunità Biellesi Aiuti Umanitari - www.cbau.net > DIESSE - www.diesse.org > EDUS - www.educazionesviluppo.org > FOE Federazione Opere Educative www.foe.it > Fondazione per la Sussidiarietà www.sussidiarieta.net founding member > Fondazione Sacro Cuore di Cesena founding member
Albania
Bulgaria
> APSI Associazione per il sostegno
delle iniziative sociali
Canada
> AVSI Canada - http://avsi-canada.org
founding member
Chile
> Fundación Domus
www.fundaciondomus.cl founding member
Ecuador
> Fundacion Sembrar > CUET
Germany
> Support International V.
> SHIS www.shisalbania.org
founding member
www.supportinternational.de founding member
Haiti
> ACDI Asociación Cultural
para el Desarollo Integral www.acdi.org.ar - founding member > Obra Padre Mario Pantaleo http//padremario.org
> Université Notre Dame d’Haiti > Commissione Episcopale Nazionale
Giustizia e Pace
founding member
Mexico
> CRECER DIJO founding member > CSJ founding member
Myanmar
Kenya
Angola
> A Semente do futuro
member
> CDM - www.cdm.org.br
founding member > AVSI Nordest > Ceduc > Obras educativas Padre Giussani www.obraseducativas.org.br > CREN di San Paolo www.unifesp.br/suplem/cren/ > Cantinho da Natureza di Rio www.cantinhodanatureza.org.br/ > Scuola Agricola Rainha dos Apostolos di Manaus
Institute www.stkizito.com founding member > COWA founding member > Cardinal Otunga School
Kazakhstan > MASP
Kosovo
> SHPRESA E JETËS > Agrodukagjini
Lebanon > La Libanaise
> Caritas Lebanon
www.caritas.org.lb/
Russia
> Maksora - www.maksora.ru
founding member
San Marino Republic
- AVSI San Marino www.avsisanmarino.sm founding member
> Ayeyarwaddy Homeland
Mozambique
> Khandlelo Associaça ˘o Para
Spain
> CESAL - www.cesal.org
founding member
Desevolvimento Juvenil
Nigeria
> St. Kizito Clinic founding member > The Seed founding member
Palestine > ATS e Custodia di Terra Santa
www.terrasancta.org
Sierra Leone
> Family Homes Movement
www.thefhm.org/ITA/Benvenuto.html
Switzerland
>
AVAID Founding member
Uganda
> COWA (Companionship
Paraguay
> Fundacion San Rafael
> St. Kizito Vocational Training
> CODESC founding
> SOTAS - www.sotas.org
> Effetà
Argentina
Brazil
Lithuania
www.sanrafael.org.py
Peru
> Universidad Católica Sedes
Sapientiae - www.ucss.edu.pe
Poland
> AVSI Polska - www.avsipolska.org
founding member
Portugal
> VIDA - www.vida.org.pt
founding member
Romania
> Fundatia Dezvoltarea Popoarelor
www.fdpsr.ro founding member
of Works Association) www.btvet-uganda.org/trainingprovider/homepages/cowavocational-training-center founding member > Meeting Point International www.meetingpoint-int.org founding member > Meeting Point Kitgum http://meetingpointkitgum.org founding member > Permanent Center for Education > Luigi Giussani High School > Meeting Point Hoima
USA
> AVSI USA
www.avsi-usa.org founding member
Venezuela
> Fundación San Antonio
our organizational
structure
AVSI Foundation manages activities through the following institutional bodies:
bodies
members
BOARD OF FOUNDERS
It gathers twice a year, approves and defines the activities of the foundation which are suggested by the Board of Directors: It appoints the directors, the president of the foundation, the board of auditors, decides on statute changes, and approves both final and budget plans.
41 founding members: • 24 agencies of which: 7 NGOs from developed countries 15 NGOs from developing and transition countries 2 Italian foundations 17 natural persons
BOARD OF PARTICIPATING MEMBERS
It gathers at least once a year, summoned and headed by the president of the foundation, suggests one or two representatives out of which the board of founders appoints a member of the board of directors. It expresses non-binding opinions and proposals concerning the activities of the foundation.
112 participants: • 4 agencies of which: 2 NGOs from developing countries 2 Italian associations 107 natural persons
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
It has all the powers of ordinary and extraordinary administration of the foundation. Mandate lasts three years; number of members can vary from 7 to 11 according to the board of founders. It prepares the final and budget plans, suggests possible statute changes, appoints the secretary-general, and draws guidelines for the activities.
In 2010 AVSI board of directors was renewed. Mario Saporiti Ezio Castelli Alberto Piatti Pablo Llano Torres Daniele Nembrini Fabrizio Palai Michele Faldi
PRESIDENT
The president represents the foundation Mario Saporiti and monitors the execution of approved acts.
VICE-PRESIDENT
The vice president replaces the president in case of absence or impediment.
Ezio Castelli
SECRETARY-GENERAL
The secretary-general is responsible for the operative direction of the foundation and exercises all the ordinary and extraordinary powers conferred to him by the board of directors. The mandate lasts three years and can be renewed.
Alberto Piatti
BOARD OF AUDITORS
Monitors the activities of the foundation and is made up of three members. The board has a mandate of three years and its members can be renewed
Paolo Sciumè - President Luigi Parente Alvaro Agasisti
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AVSI POINT NETWORK
SYSTEMIZATION PLANNING
SPONSORS NETWORK OFFICE
VOLUNTEERS
PRESIDENT
AVSI USA REPRESENTATION WITH INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES.
BORD OF DIRECTORS
SECRETARY GENERAL
FINANCE/TREASURY DIRECTOR OF CTO KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
OPERATING MANAGER KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT OFFICER FINANCIAL MANAGER
LOGISTIC
FRONT DESK CESENA
FUND RAISING
PRIVATE DONORS
ADOTTA UN’OPERA
DISTANCE SUPPORT
COORDINATOR
RULES IMPLEMENTATION
PURCHASING
COMMUNICATION
ADMINISTRATION
IT
ACCOUNTING
REPORTING
PERSONNEL
INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS
PROJECTS
DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION
QUALITY SYSTEMS
GENERAL OFFICE
LOCAL COOPERATION
ADMINISTRATION OFFICE
HUMAN RESOURCES
EASTERN EUROPE ASIA DESK AREA
LATIN AMERICA DESK AREA
AFRICA DESK AREA
MIDDLE EAST DESK AREA
NATIONAL TECHNICAL TEAM FOREIGN COUNTRIES COORDINATION OFFICE
MILAN
CESENA
NAPPLES
OFFICE
OFFICE
OFFICE
where we are, what we do Countries where AVSI is implementing projects Countries where AVSI is promoting activities
CANADA
A
T L
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A
N
In 2010, AVSI FOUNDATION has completed
T
I C
G
U
M
projects
L
E
F
X
O F O I C
HAITI
MEXICO
in 38 countries of Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia, in addition to the distance support.
C A R I B B E A N
HONDURAS
VENEZUELA
BRAZIL COLOMBIA
ECUADOR
projects by intervention areas
type of projects AGRICULTURE, FOOD SECURITY AND WATER
PERU
14 9
HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY
CHILE
1
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
PARAGUAY
ARGENTINA
9
WORK
6
MIGRATIONS
9
HEALTHCARE SOCIAL-EDUCATIONAL
70
DISTANCE SUPPORT URBAN DEVELOPMENT
1
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RUSSIA
LITHUANIA KAZAKHSTAN
POLAND GERMANY SWITZERLAND
SPAIN
AUSTRIA RUMANIA
ITALY
KOSOVO
SAN MARINO
ALBANIA LEBANON
PORTUGAL
PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
MYANMAR
JORDAN
THAILAND
PHILIPPINES
NIGERIA
ETHIOPIA SOUTH SUDAN
SIERRA LEONE
UGANDA IVORY COAST
KENYA
RWANDA
BURUNDI
CONGO BRAZAVILLE
TANZANIA D.R. CONGO
I N D I A N O C E A N
O
ANGOLA
C E
MOZAMBIQUE
A
N
49%
51%
16,363
17,025
2008 33,388
55%
45%
16,041
13,286
48%
16,483
2009
52%
12
17,751
2010
29,326
34,234
47
42
Eastern Europe
10
7 Asia
Middle East
Africa
Latina America and Caribbean
total resources - value x.000
Public
Private
projects by geographic area
intervention areas
social and educational
The social and educational field is the largest for AVSI. It includes activities of sheltering, family support, primary and secondary pre-school education, informal education, educational quality, maternal and feminine skills quality, intervention of childhood care and protection, strengthening of the civil society organizations and solidarity networks, reconstruction of intra-community relations in conditions of vulnerability and post-war scenarios, and special attention to people with disabilities.
projects implemented in 2010
70
ALBANIA
3
ARGENTINA
2
BRAZIL
15
BURUNDI
3
CHILE
1
REP. OF THE CONGO
1
IVORY COAST
1
ECUADOR
2
ETHIOPIA
1
HAITI
6
KAZAKHSTAN
3
KENYA
4
KOSOVO
2
LITHUANIA
1
MEXICO
1
MOZAMBIQUE
1
MYANMAR
1
NIGERIA
1
PALESTINE
projects 2
PERU
2
DEM. REP. OF THE CONGO
1
ROMANIA
2
RUSSIA
2
SIERRA LEONE
2
SOUTH SUDAN
2
UGANDA
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Cardinal Otunga High School Courtesy Pio De Rose
The implementation method is common to many interventions: focusing on the person within her/his family and community, valuing her/his personal legacy (resilience), valuing the community heritage through the strengthening of helping relations and through the support to associations of people, through the involvement of the institutions.
RATHER THAN WITH AN EASY-CHARITY APPROACH, PROJECTS ARE CARRIED OUT WITH A FOCUS ON EDUCATION BY VALUING THE PERSON WHO LEARNS FROM PAST AND SHARED EXPERIENCES, WHO IS AMBITIOUS AND IGNITES THE SPARKLE OF DEVELOPMENT
intervention areas
distance support Those who already knew about the difficult life conditions of the Haitian children that we help with the distance support, would have hardly imagined that their situation could get even worse, yet... on January 12th, 2010 Haiti became the focus of global attention. There was not a single family in Port-au-Prince that did not have to count their dead in this huge catastrophe. The other areas of the country where the distance support (DSP) is active, the Southern department and the Fonds Verrettes municipality bordering the Dominican Republic, were not hit by the earthquake but were still affected by the massive flood of refugees, the communication and supply breakdown from the capital.
33.338 total of sponsored children in the world
Tent school in Haiti.
Ivory Coast, fleeing from war.
It was very hard for the AVSI staff to find the courage to go back to work without knowing anything about friends, colleagues, even their families. Nonetheless, on the morning of January 13th, the social workers and the DSP ones especially, let AVSI know that they were around. So they got to work right away. All that AVSI has been able to do for the 1,500+ DSP children in Haiti was made possible by the support of all the Italian sponsors but also by the courage and sacrifice of these young colleagues, who put their duty before everything else. They believed in the mission of their own job so much that they would consider the sponsored children as their own, and would go around looking for them one by one, at every house, every tent, every hospital, until news on everyone was collected and their needs assessed. Thus the post-earthquake reconstruction started. As the children were found by the social workers, the team assessed their primary health needs and doctors provided first aid, taking turns working at Cité Soleil and Martissant, the two boroughs where the majority of DSP children live. The Italian sponsors were immediately informed when their sponsored child was found and what his or her conditions were: some had lost one or both parents, nearly all of them had their house damaged or destroyed. About twenty of them were severely wounded. Unfortunately, three of them died. A certain number of families decided to move out to other areas of the country where relatives or acquaintances could help them. When these children could not continue in the distance support project their sponsors were invited to continue their support to any of the many needy children in the area.
AVSI is a member of Third Sector Agency’s ‘Sostegno a Distanza in Chiaro’ initiative.
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two stories Myriame’s house
For the first three months AVSI has worked only in the fields, where we have followed our children and met many others who needed our help and support, due to the terrible conditions that they were facing. This led to to a big awareness campaign in Italy, which had a very positive reaction on the part of many donors. This allowed us to include 600 more children in the project: 150 at Cité Soleil, 300 at Martissant and 150 in the southern area of Torbeck.It was possible to inform the sponsors only about these “emergency DSP children’s” name and some basic information. The personal form and additional details were communicated later.
The members of FIBA CISL in the province of Forlì-Cesena have been sponsoring Myriame, from Haiti, through the DSP since 2005. They share her letters, her pictures, her school reports and drawings that they receive along with the periodical update. Myriame received a copy, too and was very happy, whereas the social workers were very impressed to see how much the sponsors cared for her. When they learned that Myriame’s house had been brought down by the earthquake they launched a fundraising campaign to help rebuild it.
As the families were gradually able to return to their houses, they were provided with support kits, particularly hygiene kits (soap, laundry soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, bowl, etc), kitchen kits (pots, plates and metal glasses, tableware, etc). The “School in Tent” has begun in the fields in early February: subsequently temporary schools have been built that operate in two turns thus allowing more than 400 children to complete their school year. All the children were visited by a doctor and properly cured when necessary. The most vulnerable families were granted food and nutritional supplements for children and pregnant women. Families were also provided with farming tools kits and had the opportunity to work in workshops on brick-making, dressmaking, handicraft classes. This was done in order to favor the economic relaunch of the area.
SAMUEL, wounded in shootout, but cured thanks to the support network. 4,61 0,27
5,95
7
7,38
9
% sponsored children, by age group
7,65
49
31
6-12
geographic area
13-16
17-18
19-24
24 years
V
4-5
% of children sponsored by geographic area
47,13
27,00
0-3
4
AFRICA
LATIN EASTERN AMERICA EUROPE CARIBBEAN
females
males
total
EASTERN EUROPE
1,461
1,565
3,026
AFRICA
8,551
7,946
16,497
LATIN AMERICA
5,180
5,059
10,239
635
665
1,300
ASIA MIDDLE EAST
1,244
1,032
2,276
TOTAL
17,071
16,267
33,338
MIDDLE EAST
ASIA
Samuel lives at Martissant, Port-au-Prince, Haiti and was accidentally wounded in a gang shootout in the month of November. Such episodes were frequent in Haiti before the earthquake, now increased poverty and instability have amplified insecurity. He was hit by one reocheting bullet in the head and one in the back. Immediately afterwards he was taken to the hospital and received all necessary cures and was soon declared out of danger. The happy ending to this sad story came thanks to the distance support as well, without which the child could not have been promptly rescued and cured. In fact, somebody knew he was included in the AVSI project and informed our social workers as soon as the accident occurred. Since the social workers lived in the same neighborhood they could rapidly intervene.
intervention areas
urban development In more than 20 years of experience in Brazilian metropolises, AVSI has developed a know-how and a specific method in urban upgrading. This method has been presented at many international summits, such as the G8 or the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and has been documented in studies of agencies such as Cities Alliance.
projects implemented BRAZIL
2
AVSI’s approach in informal urban areas is about building infrastructures and house maintenance along with activities of support for the individual (healthcare, educational, social), involving the local communities and favoring the partnership among existing institutions and organizations. Brazil, Salvador de Bahia
2
Two good examples of this are the following projects, both in Brazil, implemented with the Italian Government, Cities Alliance and the World Bank. The former, in Salvador Bahia, provided technical and methodological assistance to the local institutions on interventions in shantytowns in Salvador and other towns in the State of Bahia. The latter was located in the urban areas of Olinda, in the State of Pernambuco, involving all the know-how and expertise AVSI had developed. Brazil started international cooperation initiatives abiding by an agreement with Italy. This engaged in an intervention in Maputo, Mozambique, aimed to improve life conditions in a poor neighborhood, thereby following the method acquired in Bahia.
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THE CHALLENGE OF CITIES’ DEVELOPMENT IS ABOUT BEING ABLE TO OFFER SERVICES THAT ARE ADEQUATE TO THAT PERSON. The city becomes sustainable and livable if the person/ nature union is restored, resilient, welcoming and able to adapt to new needs and populations, therefore becoming able to shape itself to better address their needs.
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intervention areas
healtcare
Among the Millennium Development Goals in the health sector are reduction of child mortality and reduction of the spread of AIDS by 2015, malaria and TBC or “major diseases”.
St. Joseph’s mission hospital in Kitgum, Uganda
projects
AVSI’s healthcare projects, mainly focused in Africa, include public healthcare initiatives aimed to support existing healthcare facilities, build hospitals and clinics, grant access to treatments, develop programs for endemic diseases prevention and cure and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, along with specific interventions on nutrition where technical competence has been acquired. Special attention has been dedicated to orientation, training and ongoing formation of the operators as well as to the involvement of the communities by raising awareness on the disease and finally the use of mobile healthcare teams capable of reaching patients in remote or inaccessible areas lacking any medical assistance.
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projects implemented
BRAZIL
1
DEM. REP. OF THE CONGO
3
NIGERIA
1
SOUTH SUDAN
2
UGANDA
1
VENEZUELA
1
intervention areas
work
AVSI Foundation’s vocational projects and projects support micro and small enterprises focus on widening access to work for vunerable people, by favoring the encounter between demand and supply, self-employment and microenterprise, with a special attention to youth and women. Along with technical orientation, programs include a personal follow-up, aimed to favor the full development of potential of youth and grown-ups alike Belo Horizonte, women of CoopArvore, the cooperative that makes objects from car production waste materials.
AVSI’S QUALIFYING POINT IS A CONCEPTION OF WORK AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE PERSON’S TALENTS. AVSI and its local partners’ creative fantasy has highlighted important goals, mentioned by the President of FIAT Mr Belini at a workshop on the “Arvore da Vida” project which is improving life conditions and offering jobs to the population of the Terezòpolis neighborhood (Belo Horizonte). The project reaches more than 5,000 youth, 1,200 of which have taken vocational classes: 70% of them have already entered the job market. Another example is the hard work of women in Kampala, Uganda, where they make necklaces out of recycled paper, which has now become a source of new income generating activities (IGAs), similarly to what happens in Albania, Mexico and Kenya.
Meeting Point International in Kampala, Uganda
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9
projects implemented ALBANIA
1
BRAZIL
5
MEXICO
1
PERU
1
UGANDA
1
intervention areas
agriculture, food security and water Agriculture, food security and water are three milestones for AVSI, as they are strictly intertwined: they are potential factors in the development and in the improvement of life conditions. In 2010, hungry people in the world numbered about one billion, 98% of which in the developing countries. In the food and farming sector, AVSI Foundation’s projects include food security and malnutrition reduction measures, with a focus on the improvement in the availability of food items for families, yet also orientation and training on innovative technologies in the farming sector, protection of the environment and of water resources.
REP. DEM. OF CONGO
1
MYANMAR
3
BURUNDI
1
HAITI
4
LEBANON
2
RWANDA
2
UGANDA
1
14
projects implemented
Aquaducts in the rural area around Les Cayes, Haiti.
projects
From access to food aimed to reduce undernourishment to access to international markets for the small producers. A sort of “chain” from favoring a larger knowledge of growing and breeding techniques to improving water use and maintenance at home. Several of AVSI’s experiences are largely contributing to the international debate promoted by EXPO 2015 on healthy nutrition. In the delicate mosaic of the Middle East – for example – work with the farmers in Lebanon and the restoration of water in the Marjayoun Plain, in the south of the country, has spread a unique method, by putting together beneficiaries, governments and institutions. Likewise, results of activities in the farming areas of Southern Haiti are generating development and future perspectives. Something similar is going on in Argentina with the Pampa breeders. The “nutrition network” launched in Mexico is aimed to strengthen a network of Latin American operators working toward the improvement of child nutrition.
intervention areas
energy and environment “Energy poverty is the challenge of the century” said the World Energy Council (WEC), thus declaring that nearly two billion people worldwide, particularly in the developing countries, still do not have access to basic energy services. Access to energy represents, in fact, an essential prerequisite for the economic development of communities. The hectic pace of today’s life has nonetheless already affected a large part of the needy populations, who tend to access energy in ways that are harmful to the planet, inefficient and disrespectful of nature. It is the case with deforestation aimed to produce vegetable coal or illegal, inefficient access to the existing networks, especially in bigger cities.
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Brazil, delivery of new refrigerators.
projects implemented
REP. DEM. OF THE CONGO
1
BRAZIL
1
IN THIS FIELD OF ACTIVITIES, AVSI WORKS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CERTAIN COMPANIES IN NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL TO IMPROVE ENERGY SUPPLY EFFICIENCY, WHEREAS ITS EFFORTS IN SOME AFRICAN COUNTRIES ARE FOCUSED ON STUDIES ON ALTERNATIVE ACCESS TO ENERGY IN POORER ENVIRONMENTS AND ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Energy and environment are strictly intertwined. The challenge is about re-establishing what Pope Benedict XVI calls “the alliance between man and nature, without which the whole human family is destined to disappear”. In a culture where this relationship is soured and conflictive, it is necessary to restore an intelligent, fruitful and constructive relationship. Peace Forest, for instance, is a project on reforestation of 2,471 acres in the Kokolopori reservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and on improving the ecosystem and biodiversity of native vegetable species and conservation of endangered animal species, such as the bonobo. The other environmental benefit of Peace Forest is to balance out Co2 emissions, as is illustrated by AVSI campaign “Double Zero Co2”, along with Matching and Utilità.
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RdCongo, the forest
intervention areas
humanitarian emergency Although it is not specialized in emergencies, AVSI intervenes in chronic crises, conflict and post-conflict, never losing contact with all the local actors on the ground.
projects
A refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, courtesy Fabrizio Lava.
AVSI’s interventions are conceived to limit the consequences of these breakdowns, by acting on healthcare, infrastructures, education and family income generation. Emergency situations can cause even more damage to vulnerable people, whose already fragile-living conditions can plummet from hardship.
AVSI’S APPROACH IS FUNDAMENTAL AS IT IS ABOUT REBUILDING THE HUMAN STARTING BY THE AFFIRMATION OF LIFE NOTWITHSTANDING THE EMERGENCY It is particularly worth mentioning that INEE was involved in the working groups to help define the standards on education in emergencies.
projects implemented
9
REP. DEM. OF THE CONGO
1
HAITI
3
LEBANON
2
PERU
1
SOUTH SUDAN
1
UGANDA
1
intervention areas
migrations There is no point today in talking about development cooperation without mentioning migrations. Internal migrations, such as the urban drift and external migrations, entire peoples forced to leave their homeland and roots. Some relocate abroad temporarily due to war or regimes that hamper a decent lifestyle. Others live away from their native land in conditions of lasting precariousness.
Therefore, AVSI operates in the Iraqi refugee camps in Jordan, builds new houses for the Palestinians in Lebanon, works with the Rom communities in Romania and in the refugee camps at Dadaab, Kenya. The transformation of the shantytown of Ribeira Azul, Brazil into neighborhoods was possible because the project started from and focused on the positive that lies in every person and used that to help build a sense of community.
Lebanon
6
projects implemented JORDAN
2
LEBANON
2
KENYA
1
ROMANIA
1
AVSI’S MISSION IS SUPPORTING THE PEOPLE WHO LEFT THEIR ORIGINS BEHIND IN THE PATH TO THE RE-DISCOVERY OF THAT “INBORN DIGNITY” THAT IS PECULIAR OF EVERY HUMAN BEING, ACCORDING TO BENEDICT XVI.
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intervention areas
international adoptions
projects
AVSI Foundation has been approved by the International Adoptions Commission of the Italian Government, therefore can deal with such adoptions. It currently operates in Brazil (States of Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais, Espiritu Santo and Bahia), Mexico and Lithuania.
Main steps in the adoption process with AVSI totale totale of children adoptions
Age of child at arrival in Italy
1-4
4-7
7-9
+9
LITHUANIA
27
42
35
29
134
98
BRAZIL
9
50
47
25
131
77
KAZAKSTAN
2
-
-
-
2
2
TOTAL
38
93
82
54
267
177
1. GROUP INFORMATION MEETINGS For qualified and unqualified couples alike. 2. INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION PREPARATION CLASS Led by a psychologist with the participation of AVSI operators and families with adoption experience. 3. IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW AND CHOICE OF COUNTRY The social team meets the couple to further discuss adoption plan, motivation, and identify the country of choice. 4. PREPARATION AND TRANSMISSION OF ALL PAPERWORK DUE TO THE FOREIGN COUNTRY Explanation, preparation and delivery of adoption requests to the foreign country authorities. 5. WAIT AND MATCHING PROPOSAL At this stage, several meetings and interviews are held with the couple. The technical team dedicates these specific meetings to the matching proposal and the couple’s approval. 6. JOURNEY ARRANGEMENT AND STAY ABROAD After the couple’s approval the journey(s) and stay(s) in the foreign country are arranged. During this time, the couple is always accompanied by an AVSI contact person. 7. POST ADOPTION For 2 years or longer the couple will have to keep regular contact with the social services and with AVSI with regard to the post-adoption reports for the foreign country.
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267
Adoptions completed in 2010
Total of adopted children in 2010 50% Brazil, 50% Lithuania
Total adoptions from 2003 to Dec 31st 2010
Total of adopted children from 2003 to Dec 31st 2010
fund raising
The AVSI Points network, “Every man is a king”.
The annual AVSI awareness and fundraising activities are developed in Italy through coordinated actions with a network of volunteer supporters (the so-called AVSI Points). Every year, AVSI works on two awareness campaigns:
campagna
tende 2010-2011
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Awareness campaign for the 5 per 1,000 pretax donation
Annual fundraising campaign called “Solidarity Tents”.
Adult education in Northern Uganda. courtesy Brett Morton
AVSI
The Tents campaign and the 5 per 1000 campaign take place thanks to a growing informal network of volunteers - the AVSI Points – which arranges initiatives and events (spontaneously and for free) to promote the projects, the method and the activities of the foundation all over the country. Furthermore, there are particular events that lead AVSI Foundation to promote extraordinary fundraising campaigns. In the year 2010, following Haiti’s January 12 earthquake, AVSI launched an emergency fundraising. This produced a large number of fundraising and awareness events arranged by the AVSI Points network – in favor of all the relief activities on the Caribbean island where AVSI had been operative since 1999. AVSI network rallied quickly, creating events all over the country. In total, 217 events were held on this occasion.
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LE FORZE CHE CAMBIANO LA STORIA SONO LE STESSE CHE CAMBIANO IL CUORE DELL’UOMO
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the project Haiti: building an educational center in Port-au-Prince.
Chile: reconstruction of the Santa Teresa de Los Andes school in Santiago.
AVSI Volunteers are pivotal to campaigns:
volunteers are creative and dynamic and can effectively interact with all the grassroots actors. In 2010, a total of 1,268 people worked to directly support the activities of AVSI Foundation. The increase in the number of supporters in 2010 was significant (the network was made up of 872 people in the previous year); this is mainly due to the emergency in Haiti.
The Tents campaign.
The 2010 title: “The forces that change history are the same as those that change man’s heart”.
Kenya: Cardinal Otunga Secondary School Nairobi.
South Sudan: St. Mary University in Juba for teaching courses and training. Lebanon: restoration of water in the Marjayoun Plain.
Events and raised funds. Among the events that were held: stands in public places including entertainment and promotion of AVSI activities in the world; testimonies and meetings held at schools during schooltime, public meetings where AVSI expatriate staff illustrate their work and experience with testimonies, documentaries, dinners, sporting contests, theater plays, concerts. Events held to support the Tents Campaign: 575 (total amount raised Euro 1,047,344, and additional 217 for Haiti)
Distance support: investing on a generation, secondary and vocational school in Uganda and Kenya.
Furthermore, proceeds of the book: “Alla radice dello sviluppo: l’importanza del fattore umano” by Ilaria Schnyder, Gabriella Berloffa and Giuseppe Folloni were donated to AVSI. The book was launched December 6th, at the Foreign Affairs Ministry Offices, Rome in the presence of Minister Franco Frattini, Robero Fontolan, Alberto Piatti, Ilaria Schnyder, Giuseppe Folloni. “Alla radice dello sviluppo: l’importanza del fattore umano”, with introduction by Luigi Campglio (professor of Political Economy and vice-rector at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan), edited by the Foundation for Subsidiarity, published by Guerini & Associates, 2010. On the basis of the AVSI shantytown inclusion project in Salvador Bahia and the Trabalhadores sem terra movement in Sao Paulo (Marcos and Cleuza Zerbini), the authors explain development as the effect of a consistent subject which interacts intelligently with reality; this is a point we have been working on for some years.
fund raising
AVSI Point
Following a trip to Uganda, friends from the Rimini AVSI Point wrote this diary to show value sharing and commitment.
Every man is a king short chronicle of an unexpected trip
UGANDA November 26-28, 2010
AFTER MANY YEARS OF “TENTS”, A BUNCH OF FRIENDS ACCEPT THE INVITATION. COME WITH US AND SEE WHAT – BETTER, WHO – AVSI UGANDA ACTUALLY IS. Off we go, fully entrusted. We do not know who we will meet, or what we will do, but trust and wait are solemn. Stefano welcomes us at ten p.m. We have a real pizza by the slice at the AVSI base in Kampala. He quietly says: I have been here for eleven years with my wife and children. They were raised here. It’s their home. Our life was not planned in the first place. It is simply a yes that sounds like a “why not’? The next morning we meet the new members of the “expedition”: a varied group of journalists that will take us to Kitgum where a humanitarian intervention is underway that involves a team of the Italian armed forces doctors. We dive into Kampala’s crazy traffic, blocked by trucks full of people for the ongoing electoral campaign. Padre Tiboni
The trip to Kitgum was supposed to be six hours long. It actually took a whole day. Every plan is subject to change in Africa and time has a different duration from Europe. But the journey is a grace, too. Chiara, AVSI’s area desk
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officer, is our guardian angel throughout our stay. She is a force of nature, full of passion for her work. Kitgum has 50,000 inhabitants. It should be called a city but the title would be misleading here: dirt roads full of holes like craters; where asphalt had been laid a long time before, holes are not well rounded, they are sharp-edged. We are here on the celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of St Joseph’s Hospital. This hospital was founded by Combonian missionaries and AVSI started to help them a few decades ago. We visit the hospital with Mila, an anesthetist who has been here for three months with her husband Mario – an architect involved in water management projects, and their two children. We can’t not help being moved as we walk through the wards. Gynecology, Pediatrics, Obstetrics... Women’s and children’s silent eyes follow us with a gentle and friendly curiosity, eyes marked with silent suffering. In addition to Mila and Mario’s family AVSI’s compound in Kitgum is home to Sara and Francesco “Fritz”’s family: he follows us to make sure that everything goes smoothly, as far as is possible in Africa. Their son Luigi was born two years ago in the Obstetrics ward that we have just visited.
Then the feast was held. An African feast, in the soccer field of the Combonian mission: the Holy Mass of three and a half hours for the opening, a whole day for the full program. The choir of full voices, accompanied by fantasy rich instruments, sings songs that are way too long for us though barely long enough for them to please them in their singing together. In the middle of the field stood a coreography of female children in a white dress, girls in flamboyant blue, ladies in shiny clothes of bright colors and barebreasted warriors. Aside from the feast, a hug between two women: Ketty and Valentina. The former is a small, plump and white-haired African lady, the latter an attractive Italian girl. One hug is not enough, more will come... They lock eyes with each other partaking the joy of two hearts that get together and remind each other of the life they have shared. Valentina, an expat (AVSI’s ‘slang’ term for the Italian volunteers) who has lived two years side by side with this “acholi” from northern Uganda in a remote place in the middle of nowhere six hours north of Kampala. Ketty, two happy eyes, happy to be on the world, on this world, as it is, a world of suffering, misery, disease, a world of great patience and greater dignity, joy. Ketty creates the first Meeting Point here in Kitgum, a place where the sick people are taken care of on their path to a near end, whereas before they had to hide due to the moral and social stigma that disease brought. Social because moral: AIDS. We leave the feast and jump up in the AVSI jeeps, off to another show in a nearby small town. Sara has set up a music band with the guys from a missionary school. Three weeks of study and preparation, trumpets, trombones, cymbals and drums and out of nothing comes a musical ensemble that gets applauses and ovations thanks to the mix of pride, dignity and passion. It is true! We have seen: it is true! After... or before cures and food, we are all hungry for truth and beauty. Without Truth and Beauty donated for Love to that king that every
Without Truth and Beauty donated for Love to that king that every man is, who is “that man” that you meet, what are cures for? What is food for? man is, who is “that man” that you meet, what are cures for? What is food for? Now, off with Ketty to her Meeting Point. We visit the building where we notice a large sheet with the picture of the hug between Fr Giussani and John Paul II with the writing “The beginning of our friendship”. Then she wants us to meet her friends. The first ones are Walter and his wife who welcome us into their house. They suffer from AIDS but – Meeting Point miracle! - they have two healthy children! Then Ketty takes us to a female friend, whose name is Santa, and she bears signs unmistakable signs of severe AIDS: she looks to us like she is near the end, lying in a dark round thatched hut in a godforsaken place, taken out in her friend Anna’s arms, gritting her teeth for the pain. As soon as she sits on an old wheelchair... she smiles at the words of introduction of her friend Ketty, then unexpectedly starts to sing to the tune of a merry African song. She sings happy. Yes: HAPPY, she sings! The Kenyan camera operator working with the Rai reporter sobs and stops the filming. What secret hides behind that impossible happiness? Do you think it is possible, reasonable to “envy” her sincerely joyful smile, so simple, so disarming, so real? We return to Kampala on a flight from an unconvincing strip of red land among joyful children. Upon arrival, a short lunch break at the Kampala
headquarters and out of the window we see an old priest walking by. “Tibo!” Alberto calls. He is AVSI’s big chief and official speaker at yesterday’s feast. That priest is Fr Tiboni. We would like to tell him that we are his sons, we would like to say that you have been hearing about him for years, that we share his love for the Movement, his Love for Christ and the Church, we would like to... but everything is compressed into very few words, hands that shake warmly, a look that we entrust with everything. He understands. Then, before we take our flight back to Italy, one last visit. Kireka, one of Kampala’s slums, the shantytown. Here hides a corner of a “new world” that we know about: it’s the work of Rose where women and children break big rocks into smaller rocks to sell them to road and housing construction firms in two quarries. A day’s work for the equivalent of 50 cents (of Euro). Right beyond the deep, evocative hole stands the Kampala Meeting Point. Rose is there, with her sons and wearing her smile like the sky, eager to wait for us, welcome us, like if she were the dearest of friends, full of joy at the idea of hugging us again after a few years. But we are here now, we are back, our friend, dear friend, friend of our hearts. We exchange the first words then off to class! The choir of her sons sings the first Alpine song. Then outside, under the school porch, in front of the vast extension of huts, big trees and smoke just like it would be on the Tofane or Marmolada mountains. Why do you sing the Alpine songs? Do you understand them? “A bit”, they say “also, when we sing them, we are happy”. A correspondence of feelings which is a correspondence of life. Life is so beautiful. This life!
fund raising
Alliance with the companies
DISTANCE SUPPORT.
NEOENERGIA GROUP WITH AVSI FOR DEVELOPMENT IN BRAZIL Neoenergia Group, leading power distributor in northeastern Brazil, operates in partnership with AVSI in the state of Pernambuco (pop. 9 million) where 59% of urban population live in conditions of extreme poverty. AVSI operators have completed the registry of all families and consumers, in order for the population to access the social tariffs that the Brazilian law provided for 50 thousand families. They are likewise busy in awareness campaign on the efficient use of energy, for instance by replacing old refrigerators or high consumption lamps with more efficient products. As a result, Neoenergia Group has seen a reduction in delinquency rate from 50 to 20% and the system loss rate due to illegal connections has fallen from 39 to 7%. For its part, AVSI has launched various microenterprises and created a social fund through the collection of old refrigerators and other waste. By promoting the efficient use of energy at home, it reached 135,000 home visits which allowed it to develop a deeper knowledge of the population and their needs. www.neoenergia. com
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Sanofi-Aventis is not only the fourth-largest pharmaceutical company in the world, but the largest in Europe and emerging markets. The company puts social responsibility at the core of every activity. Being an actor of healthcare policies implies the obligation to act ethically and responsibly by promoting the economic and social development in every field of activity. This is why Sanofi has started to sponsor AVSI through the distance support program in 2002 and to this day it sponsors 14 children in different countries. Furthermore, ESPOIR, the corporation foundation of the group, has been sponsoring AVSI healthcare projects in Africa and Latin America since 2009. www.sanofi.it
GROWING TOGETHER. New alliances in Mexico An extraordinary structure built after the 2010 earthquake had left old buildings unfit for use. On Tuesday February 1st, 2011 the brand-new Community Development Center “María de Guadalupe” was inaugurated in the Monte Albán neighborhood of Oaxaca, Mexico. The center was built thanks to contributions by Enel Cuore Foundation, Government of Navarra, CESAL (a Spanish non-profit organization in partnership with AVSI), the Tents Campaign conducted in Italy and in Mexico with the local partner CRECEMOS (DIJO), the Desarrollo Integral de la Juventud Oaxaqueña association and the Italian Cooperation Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
HAITI. Healthcare and nutrition centers with Acri. Works are
AT SCHOOL WITH MEDIAFRIENDS IN HAITI. Mediafriends, a non-profit organization established by Mediaset, is working with AVSI on the reconstruction of 4 schools and educational centers in Port-au-Prince: the Ecole Drouillard for 400 children in the Cité Soleil neighborhood and the Ecole Kindergarten Dodo for 180 children in the Martissant area. Works are in progress on two more primary schools at Martissant which will allow 800 children to study
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HUMANA: A BOTTLE OF WATER TO EDUCATE PEOPLE. Feeding the person, nourish the hopes is the Humana Italia program in Mexico – in collaboration with AVSI – to support the María de Guadalupe Center by donating 10 cents (Ð) for every bottle of Acqua Amorosa sold. The proceeds are used to buy healthy food items in order to ensure a balanced diet to children, fight child malnutrition, support a nutritionist and social workers who monitor the nutritional habits of families. Furthermore, meetings are held with the mothers to convey healthcare and hygiene notions that are necessary for the growth of children. Program along the Expo lines. www.humana.it
Originally built as a soup kitchen for the poor in 2003, today the Center hosts more than 400 children – service includes full meals and activities with the families. The center has become an important gathering place for the community and is now sponsored by AVSI Distance Support Program, Panino Giusto and Humana. This experience has become a method and collected as a book: Crescere insieme. Ask Avsi.org
progressing with the Casse di Risparmio Spa and Fondazioni di Origine Bancaria in Port-au-Prince, where 3 nutritional centers are being built in the Martissant area and the equipment and set-up of 5 healthcare centers at Les Cayes (Torbeck municipality, in the south of the country). This concrete help reaches more than 10,000 Haitian children affected with malnutrition. Their conditions worsened after the 2010 earthquake. Then came AVSI and ACRI to support the population. The centers are being adquately restored and equipped, 150 people are being trained as doctors and paramedics.
A BREEDING GROUND OF HOPE IN HAITI in favor of Les Cayes rural community, sponsored by UniCredit Leasing Spa. The goal of the project is to re-establish the productive capacity of a farming community of 10,000 -therefore, agricultural and zootechnical orientation and support to small businesses.
fund raising & efficiency Private/public fund raising progress value % - x.000
49%
51%
16,363
55%
17,025
45%
16,041
2008
48%
13,286
2009
33,388
52%
16,483
17,751
2010
29,326
34,234
Public Private
Destination of funds by area value % - x.000 % 6% 2612
7%
2%
6%
2,083
7%
2,309
% 6% 2853
626
1,822
6%
1,932
1,991
2008
Latin America and Caribbean
1,973
2009
33,388
2010
29,326
34,234
Africa Asia Estern Europe Middle East
28%
29%
9,230
57%
34%
8,491
19,154
Cost types
11,530
56%
52%
16,455
17,887
Efficiency rate fund raising
value % - x.000
amounts in euro
8%
2,842
16,112,321.0
3% 1% 974
Income
258
fund raising
974,385.0 2010 Project costs
Costs
34,317
fund raising
Structure costs Fundraising costs Collateral costs
88%
30,243
fund raising index 2006 0.07
2007 0.06
2008 0.05
2009 0.07
2010 0.06
our 2010 AVSI in the world. The most important events in the last 12 months. More information at www.avsi.org
February“Supporting the process
of post-earthquake reconstruction in the province of Chincha”, this is the title of AVSI’s emergency program in Peru, with the Italian Cooperation. Two new classrooms are built for the creation of micro-enterprises and small businesses involving more than 200 women in the Laura Caller Iberico Traning Center.
January On January 12th, 2010
a powerful earthquake hit Haiti, killing approximately 250,000 people. AVSI - already present in the country with a team headed by Fiammetta Cappellini, immediately responded to the emergency along with the United Nations, providing help and support to the population. 12 months later AVSI supported 40 thousand people through different activities and project. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights will award AVSI.
April UNESCO and
UNHCR acknowledge AVSI’s experience in education in northern Uganda, where AVSI has been since 1984. This experience is considered a model of balance between humanitarian emergency and education, by valuing reconstruction and the development of the social fabric.
May
AVSI’s experience with Neoenergia Group in Brazil on the access to energy in developing countries is presented at a seminar held in Milan by EnergyLab, along with the Regione Lombardia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Commission, Cariplo Foundation, Assolombarda and Expo Milano 2015.
March
A debate on the future of cooperation in the scientific, agricultural and nutritional fields between Italy and Middle East is promoted by AVSI in collaboration with the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture, Italian Cooperation Agency, Faculty of Agriculture at the Saitn Esprit University of Kaslik and Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Studies in Milan. A seminar in Lebanon and a workshop in Milan are held on the fight against the Phytoplasma of the stone fruits.
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June AVSI sponsors UNICEF’s “Back to School” campaign and allows 40,000 children to go to school. The UN Children ‘s Fund considers AVSI’s method and the approach to education as two of the “best practices”. During the previous school year 39,441 children have received school supplies, 1,107 teachers were involved for a total of 621 schools.
OctoberDuring the World Hunger Relief Week, AVSI participates at the meeting held by Committee on World Food Security, along with the delegation of Haiti. On October 16th, AVSI participates at the World Food Day with panels on the ongoing programs with Myanmar’s farmers. AVSI’s major experiences can be read on the leaflet number 10 “Feeding the person, nourishing the hopes”, also at www.avsi.org
July 9 months after the earthquake in Haiti, AVSI supports the population with reception activities and food distribution; child protection and family support; psycho-social support on trauma processing; education and instruction in tents; mobile clinics for maternal assistance; programs against malnutrition; drinkable water supply; purification plant.
August
AVSI at the Rimini Meeting 2010. The stand is where people can find us, where the Ugandan women from Rose’s Meeting Point International tell their experience and make their famous recycled paper necklaces. AVSI attended many public meetings. Calendar, testominies, photographs and interviews: see specific page at avsi.org and www.meetingrimini.org
November AVSI and its partner CBAU (Comunità
biellese aiuti umanitari) inaugurate the new MEO Center, dedicated to the memory of friend Lino Lava. This social, educational day care center involves 450 children, adolescents, and their families thanks to the distance support program.
Supporting the educational emergency in the PNA territories of Bethlehem, Jericho, East Jerusalem. This is the goal of AVSI’s new project in collaboration with ATS, Custody of the Holy Land. To be more specifical, five schools will be sponsored, plus the Ephpheta Institute for more than 3,000 students, 300 teachers, social workers and 550 families.
December
AVSI launches the Tents Campaign “The forces that move history are the same forces that move the heart of men”. ‘Sky per il Sociale’ makes a tv commercial for free to be aired on its channels. The collaboration with Sussidiario. net is worth mentioning: its “Tents news” and constant publication of AVSI’s testimonies around the world” make for a powerful way to spread knowledge. Projects, commercials, tv news and articles can be found in the specific Tent page at avsi.org
September 10th anniversary of
Maksora, AVSI’s local partner in Russia, and of Casa Golubka, the reception center in Novosibirsk, Siberia, for teenage mothers. The anniversary was celebrated on September 28th and one day later a seminar was held on “the non-profit and institutions: stages and perspectives of development”. The goal of the event was to talk about the collaboration between the non-profit sector and the Russian government.
CTO – INTELLIGENT DEVELOPMENT. AVSI’s annual orientation week with personnel and partners from around the world to convert practices into knowledge, in collaboration with the Subsidiarity Foundation. The meetings take place at the Sia Ssb SpA building, from December 14th to December 18th, with the participation of university professors, enterprises, institutions, within the framework of the “Compagnia per lo sviluppo” project, co-funded by the European Union. The goal is to establish and strenghten a network to share experiences in a more productive way. “The challenge of reflection on project management experiences is to convert practices into judgements and knowledge, making it a common heritage” says Maria eresa Gatti, director of CTO Knowledge Management. Calendar, interviews, documents, photographs and videos can be found on our website or upon request www.avsi.org
economic data
assets
Annual report 12/31/2010 and 12/31/2009 – Assets All amounts in Euro ASSETS
12.31.2010
INTANGIBLE ASSETS Statutory changes Software Quality Certification Trademark registration Improvements to third parties' good
12.31.2009
– 11,351 2,808 1,901 42,833
– 26.228 3,108 55,691 58,893
TANGIBLE ASSETS Lands and buldings Plants and machinery Motor vehicles Office furniture Electronic Office Equipment
1,742,699 13.727 – 22,006 24,139
85,027 1.727.181 12,938 – 18,022 28,742
1,802,571 FINANCIAL ASSETS Interests in our businesses
117,981
TOTAL FIXED ASSETS RECEIVABLES From private donors From customers on other activities From social security From treasury Other receivables Receivables from institutional donors _ Projects funded by the Italian Government _ Projects funded by the European Union _ Projects funded by international agencies _ Projects funded by CEI _ Projects funded by local administrations
1,786,883 112,981
117,981
112.981
1,979,444
1,984,890
482,956 86,701 13,064 114 4,792
1,113,622
8,165,829 5,124,797 9,535,996 222,800 550,509
14,311 114 28.985 9,312,603 5,026,225 7,171,589 180,800 464,649
23.599,932 Receivables from other agencies _ due within next year _ due after next year Receivables from foreign subsidiaries _ due within next year _ due after next year
50,000 –
50,000
2,482 –
2,482
432,130 –
432,130
184,669 –
184,669
FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES OTHER THAN FIXED ASSETS Other securities CASH AND BANK DEPOSITS Bank and post office deposits Cash and values on hand
22,155,866
38,670
5,027,901 32,364
5,060,266
38,607
5.523,987 31,104
5,555,091
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS
29,768,625
29,093,747
ADJUSTMENT ACCOUNTS
7,199
4,930
31,755,268
31,083,567
TOTAL ASSETS
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liabilities Annual report 12/31/2010 and 12/31/2009 – Assets All amounts in Euro LIABILITIES Membership fees Foundation's fund Changes in foundation's fund _ Adjustments to foundation's fund _ Membership fees paid during the year _ Result of the year
12.31.2010
12.31.2009 40,918 658,503
(430,087) – 24,601
(405,486)
40,918 478,503 (123,877) – (306,209)
(430,087)
NET EQUITY
293,934
89,333
EMPLOYEES SEVERANCE INDEMNITY
502,722
464.305
MEDIUM AND LONG TERM LIABILITIES _ Payable loans TOTAL MEDIUM AND LONG TERM LIABILITIES PAYABLES TO BANKS _ due within next year _ due after next year PAYABLES TO PROJECTS _ By the Italian Government _ By the European Union _ By international agencies _ By local administrations _ By CEI _ By international adoptions _ Private _ Distance Support PAYABLES TO SUPPLIERS _ due within next year _ due after next year PAYABLES TO PROJECTS-RELATED STAFF _ due within next year _ due after next year PAYABLES TO HEADQUARTERS STAFF _ due within next year _ due after next year PAYABLES TO TAX AUTHORITIES _ due within next year _ due after next year PAYABLES TO SOCIAL SECURITY AGENCIES _ due within next year _ due after next year PAYABLES TO THIRD PARTIES _ due within next year _ due after next year
233,776
150,343
262,516
799,996 150,343
7,416,318 4,435,554 8,453,798 353,023 171,144 51,883 4,011,076 4,340,205
29,233,001
472,907
799,996 8,004,027 4,756,699 6,508,171 271,209 186,305 55,848 3,350,395 4,737,774
59,847
857,370 48,308
59,847 354,388
48,308 345,749
354,388 94,609
345,749 67,689
94,609 105,606
67,689 95,008
105,606 253,898
ADJUSTMENT ACCOUNTS TOTAL NET EQUITY AND LIABILITIES
27,870,428
857,370 472,907
TOTAL PAYABLES
MEMORANDUM ACCOUNTS
262,516 233,776
95,008 182,627
253,898
182,627
30,724,599
30,267,176
237
237
31,755,268
31,083,567
12/31/2010
12/31/2009
GUARANTEES RECEIVED FROM THIRD PARTIES _ Guarantees issued by banks
2,207,945
2,117,845
150,682
2,273,616
2,358,627
4,391,461
_ Commitments towards third parties COMMITMENTS IN RESPECT OF PROJECTS _ Own commitments in respect of projects TOTAL INTERIM ACCOUNTS
economic data
profit and loss account
Annual report 12/31/2010 and 12/31/2009 – Profit and loss account All amounts in Euro PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
2010
2009
Contributed Income from Italian Government
4,248,957
3,957,310
Contributed Income from the European Union Contributed Income from international agencies Contributed Income from local administrations Contributed Income from CEI Contributed Income from private donors Contributed Income from DSP to institutional projects Contributed Income to DSP management CONTRIBUTED INCOME ALLOCATED TO PROJECTS
5,034,429 4,506,405 1,005,210 399,161 5,906,795 6,265,390 3,124,646
4,648,281 5,236,552 847,820 292,725 2,419,236 5,739,911 2,874,894
Contributed Income from Italian Government Contributed Income from the European Union Contributed Income from international agencies Contributed Income from local administrations and CEI Contributed Income from private donors Contributed Income from DSP Contributed Income from International Adoptions CONTRIBUTED INCOME ALLOCATED TO ORGANIZATION COSTS
462,095 346,353 480,382 0 1,091,858 998,384 34,500
Consultancy services Sponsorship services PROCEEDS FROM COLLATERAL SOURCES
30,490,993
26,016,729 502,965 237,923 312,337 5,936 1,043,889 1,000,220 206,917
3,413,572
3,310,186
229,301 100,000 329,301 34,233,866
TOTAL CONTRIBUTED INCOME PROJECTS’ COSTS Projects funded by the Italian Government Projects funded by the European Union Projects funded by international agencies Projects funded by local administrations Projects funded by CEI Projects funded by DSP Projects funded by private donors. COST OF PROJECT-RELATED STAFF
(3,007,394) (4,478,590) (3,921,029) (673,343) (178,161) (3,119,248) (10,472,265)
TOTAL PROJECT COSTS COST OF STAFF AT HEADQUARTERS OTHER ORGANIZATION COSTS _ Costs of raw, accessory, consumption materials and goods _ Costs of services _ Travel and transportation _ Costs for the use of third parties' goods _ Other management costs DEPRECIATION AND DEVALUATION _ Depreciation of intangible assets _ Depreciation of tangible assets _ Appropriations and devaluations COSTS TRANSFERRED TO PROJECTS MANAGEMENT
(166,498) (831,516) (184,267) (142,158) (38,750) (32,784) (76,009) -
TOTAL ORGANIZATION COSTS
(25,850,030) (4,393,171)
29,326,915 (2,782,962) (4,022,487) (4,416,668) (493,640) (227,366) (2,875.709) (6,903,388)
(30,243,202)
(25,759,456)
(2.534.892)
(2.673.180)
(1.363,189)
(108,793) 191,290
(100,567) (741,847) (225,022) (251,447) (13,838) (26,784) (75,400) 0
(3,815,584)
_ Costs for staff
(21,722,220) (4,037,236)
(1.332,720)
(102,185) 146,198 (3,961,887)
(180,694)
_ Costs for services
(51,848)
_ Travel and transportation
(26,226)
TOTAL COSTS OF OTHER ACTIVITIES
(258,768)
OPERATING RESULT
(83,687)
Other financial revenues From securities included in current assets Revenues other than above Financial revenues and costs
7 171,532
171,539 (46,268)
(394,428) 667 122,298
122,965 (25,561)
REVENUES AND COSTS
125,271
97,405
Extraordinary revenues Extraordinary costs
4,207 (21,964)
13,195 (5,328)
EXTRAORDINARY REVENUES AND COSTS
(17,758)
Adjustments of payables for projects in currencies other than Eur (Projects appreciation) Appropriation for the devaluation of projects' receivables Adjustments of receivables for projects in currencies other than Eur (Projects appreciation)
511,967 0 (491,014)
7,868 233,908 (1,281) (229,375)
ADJUSTMENTS ON PROJECTS
20,953
3,251
RESULT BEFORE TAXES
44,779
(285,905)
Taxes of the year RESULT OF THE YEAR
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(20,178)
(20,304)
24,601
(306,209)
auditor’s report
consolidated financial statement As a result of ever larger activities of foreign subsidiaries and in order to provide complete information on management trend, AVSI Foundation has recently started to publish a consolidated financial statement.
Amounts by country
Such statement is not subject to audit even though the Italian headquarters’ and all the foreign subsidiaries’ statements were audited by important auditing agencies.
117,474.41 0.26% THAILAND
292,015.01 0.66%
124,988.84 0.28% VENEZUELA
OTHER COUNTRIES
131,930.54 0.30%
151,868.51 0.34% ANGOLA
COLOMBIA
188,241.42 0.42%
227,744.19 0.51% CONGO REP
KOSOVO
365,266.92 0.82% PALESTINE
171,473.41 0.39%
391,665.89 0.88% SIERRA LEONE
KAZAKHSTAN
412,626.66 0.93% ARGENTINA
216,946.87 0.49%
421,299.13 0.95% MOZAMBIQUE
RUSSIA
494,673.42 1.11% JORDAN
718,309.32 1.61% PERU
495,844.18 1.11%
701,227.69 1.58% NIGERIA
MYANMAR
735,813.89 1.65% ROMANIA
546,348.56 1.23%
750,547.11 1.69% ECUADOR
ALBANIA
773,275.81 1.74% MEXICO
983,854.12 2.21%
1,186,156.85 2.66% SOUTH SUDAN
IVORY COAST
1,294,591.10 2.91% LEBANON
1,731,227.25 3.89% RWANDA
2,020,663.20 4.54%
The total amount raised by the AVSI-system in the world is euro 44,522,314. The graphic shows the percentage composition of funds raised by the various sponsors: it is interesting to note that their shares vary significanty, with a prominent role of UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund.
BURUNDI
2,732,899.05 6.14%
The single balance sheets and financial statements included in the consolidated statement have been provided by the respective foreign subsidiaries.
KENYA
5,017,865.84 11.27% HAITI
5,472,954.04 12.29%
Following are AVSI’s foreign subsidiaries included in the consolidated statement sheet: Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Peru, Brazil, Uganda, Burundi, Jordan, Lebanon, Ecuador, Thailand, Kosovo, Haiti, Kenya, Ivory Coast.
BRAZIL
7,421,269.50 16.67% UGANDA
CONGO DEM. REP:
8,231,251.75 18.49%
tot € 44,522,314
Consolidated statement shares by sponsos 5,380,782 - 12.09% EUROPEAN UNION
UNICEF 6,705,373 - 15.06% 4,986,787 - 11.20% USAID AND WORLD BANK OTHERS 809,672 - 1.82% PRIVATE IN LOCO SPONSOR 1,315,575 - 2.95% UNHCR 1,194,738 - 2.68% DUTCH GVT 263,090 - 0.59%
1,005,210 - 2.26% LOCAL ADMINISTRATION
tot € 44,522,314
399,161 - 0.90% CEI
ITALIAN GOVERNMENT 4,711,052 - 10.58% 7,327,954 - 16.46% PRIVATE DONORS INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS 34,500 - 0.08% 10,388,420 - 23.33% DSP
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Financial statements
2010
2009
(All amounts in Euro) CONTRIBUTED INCOME ALLOCATED TO PROJECTS – FOREIGN SUBSIDIARIES Contributed Income from Italian Government Contributed Income from the European Union Contributed Income from international agencies Contributed Income from local administrations Contributed Income from CEI Contributed Income from private donors Contributed Income from DSP to institutional projects Contributed Income to DSP management
10,081,545 4,248,957 5,034,429 4,506,405 1,005,210 399,161 5,906,795 6,265,390 3,124,646
CONTRIBUTED INCOME ALLOCATED TO PROJECTS
30,490,993
CONTRIBUTED INCOME ALLOCATED TO ORGANIZATION COSTS – FOREIGN SUBSIDIARIES Contributed Income from Italian Government Contributed Income from the European Union Contributed Income from international agencies Contributed Income from local administrations and CEI Contributed Income from private donors Contributed Income from DSP Contributed Income from International Adoptions
26,016,729
206,904 462,095 346,353 480,382 0 1,091,858 998,384 34,500
CONTRIBUTED INCOME ALLOCATED TO ORGANIZATION COSTS Consultancy services Sponsorship services
8,803,599 3,957,310 4,648,281 5,236,552 847,820 292,725 2,419,236 5,739,911 2,874,894
274,425 502,965 237,923 312,337 5,936 1,043,889 1,000,220 206,917
3,413,572
3,310,187
229,301 100,000
PROCEEDS FROM COLLATERAL SOURCES
329,301
TOTAL CONTRIBUTED INCOME
44,522,314
38.404.940
PROJECTS’ COSTS IN ITALY AND ABROAD
(28,040,553)
(24,313,128
COST OF PROJECT-RELATED STAFF
(10,633,849)
(9,056,427)
TOTAL PROJECT COSTS
(38,674,402)
(33,369,555)
(3,240,412)
(3,386,297)
COST OF STAFF AT HEADQUARTERS OTHER ORGANIZATION COSTS _ Costs of raw, accessory, consumption materials and goods _ Costs of services _ Travel and transportation _ Costs for the use of third parties' goods _ Other management costs
(317,127) (1,143,469) (243,038) (184,800) (56,574)
(1,945,008)
(126,431) (1,028,676) (225,022) (265,540) (68,704)
(1,714,373)
DEPRECIATION AND DEVALUATION _ Depreciation of intangible assets _ Depreciation of tangible assets _ Appropriations and devaluations
(21,883) (209,156) (231,038)
COSTS TRANSFERRED TO PROJECTS MANAGEMENT TOTAL ORGANIZATION COSTS
(34,289) (198,005)
-
-
(232,294)
191,290
146,198
(5,225,169)
(5,186,766)
COSTS OF OTHER ACTIVITIES _ Costs for staff _ Costs for services _ Travel and transportation
(180,694) (51,848) (26,226)
TOTAL COSTS OF OTHER ACTIVITIES OPERATING RESULT Other financial revenues From securities included in current assets Revenues other than above Interests and other financial costs
7 171,532
FINANCIAL REVENUES AND COSTS Extraordinary revenues Extraordinary costs EXTRAORDINARY REVENUES AND COSTS Adjustments of payables for projects in currencies other than Eur (Projects appreciation) Appropriation for the devaluation of projects' receivables Adjustments of receivables for projects in currencies other than Eur (Projects appreciation) ADJUSTMENTS ON PROJECTS
(258,768)
-
363,976
(151,381)
171,539 (78,928)
4,522 132,619
137,141 (45,369)
92,611
91,772
4,207 (131,700)
13,195 (5,328)
(127,493) 511,967 (527,483)
7,867 233,908 (1,281)
(229,375) (15,516)
3,252
RESULT BEFORE TAXES
313,579
(48,490)
Taxes of the year
(20,179)
(20,304)
RESULT OF THE YEAR
293,400
(68,794)
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