the seed of solidarity
Feeding the planet Social report 2015 Limited edition
SUMMARY 1 Let’s be pragmatic! 2 From EXPO to Mozambique 4 CEFA in the World 6 Projects in the World 32 Organization chart 33 Our stakeholders 34 A community based approach 35 Financial statements 40 Reinventing ourselves to look forward
Let’s be pragmatic! From the energy of EXPO to the small rural communities of Mozambique
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by Filippo Ciantia, Chief Officer of Cluster Project in Expo 2015 Expo had a great success of audience attendance (more than 21 million of entrances) and participation of countries (138). The theme “Feeding the planet, energy for life” couldn’t be developed without the attendance and the original contribution of the civil society. CEFA picked up may chances: it attended the competition for the Best Practices of Expo 2015 and it won with Africa Milk Project as the best project in the category “Sustainable development of small rural communities”. Furthermore the last week of Expo 2015 was dedicated to Africa, with the participation of African organizations selected through an international call for tender with the title “Energy, art and sustainability for Africa”. Expo 2015 gave to Africa an absolute relevant role and for that reason CEFA had a leading role, thanks to the project “the Jumping Village”, that brought to Milan a group of very talented artists coming from the poorest neighbourhoods of Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. All of this pushes to continue and make stronger CEFA’s original contribution to feed the planet, following our great founder and master of cooperation and complete development of the people, Mr. Giovanni Bersani to whom goes all our gratitude. by Govanni Beccari, CEFA Chief Communication and Fundraising Officer Being pragmatic means having the ability to realise tangible and concrete actions in the different and specific contests where we operate. In other words, pragmatic people can turn ideas into reality; pragmatic people actually do what they say, even if they don’t necessarily say what they do, making facts and actions talk more than words. AfricHandProject is a concrete and pragmatic initiative promoted by the Italian international cooperation, agricultural and industrial sectors to develop a supply chain for the production of milk in Mozambique. Our partners are: CAM, Coopermondo, Granarolo, Alleanza delle Cooperative italiane, Federunacoma, AIA, Regione Emilia Romagna, Comune di Reggio Emilia. 2
The first step is to give livestock to the rural communities and to train farmers to make fodder to feed the cows using lands converted to agriculture. But start producing milk it is not enough. It is needed to process and sell it in the urban areas where the demand of milk, yogurt and cheese is growing. It will be a 100% African supply chain in the Beira area, second city of Mozambique, allowing to increase the local production and reduce the reliance from import. This will create a virtuous economic cycle, allowing farmers families to have new economic revenues and enabling their sons to go to school, which is the best long term investment for the future of the country. In addition the project will also promote food safety, almost halving the population suffering to malnutrition. Let’s give us a hand starting from a glass of milk! 3
CEFA in the World 2
MOROCCO
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Local personnel: 31 Expatriate personnel: 6 CIVILIAN SERVICE VOLUNTEERS: 2
ITALY
3 4 6
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Employees in Italy: 14 Headquarter volunteers: 15 CIVILIAN SERVICE HEADQUARTER VOLUNTEERS: 3 Branches volunteers: 48 Total personnel in Italy: 80
CEFA’s headquarter and branches ITALY
1 CEFA _Sede centrale
Via Lame 118 _40122 Bologna
2 Associazione AMICI del CEFA di MILANO Via M. Lutero 7 _20126 Milano
3 Associazione FRONTIERE NUOVE - CEFA Via della Rionza 6 _36014 Santorso (Vi)
4 Associazione MODENA CEFA
Via Marzaglia 164 _41123 Modena
GUATEMALA Local personnel: 4 Expatriate personnel: 3 CIVILIAN SERVICE VOLUNTEERS: 2
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Associazione AMICI DEL CEFA
TUNISIA Local personnel: 5 Expatriate personnel: 2 CIVILIAN SERVICE VOLUNTEERS: 2
5 di SAN LAZZARO
Via Bertelli 1 _40068 San Lazzaro di Savena (Bo)
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9 KENYA E somalia Local personnel: 45 Expatriate personnel: 6 CIVILIAN SERVICE VOLUNTEERS: 2
TANZANIA ECUADOR Local personnel: 8 Expatriate personnel: 2 CIVILIAN SERVICE VOLUNTEERS: 2
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Local personnel: 103 Expatriate personnel: 10 CIVILIAN SERVICE VOLUNTEERS: 2
317 28 9 223.840
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Countries
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World
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CEFA Morocco 2, Rue Maoussil APT 7 RT _022 Centre Ville 10000 Rabat
CEFA Tunisia Rue Hammadi Ben Ammar _Résidence Messina, int. 2 Petite Sicile _La Goulette 2060 _Tunis
10 CEFA Kenya and Somalia
EXPATRIATE PERSONNEL IN TOTAL:
196 Headquarter volunteers: 15 LOCAL PERSONNEL IN TOTAL:
CIVILIAN SERVICE VOLUNTEERS IN TOTAL (ITALY AND ABROAD):
15
Beneficiaries
Via Pontecchio 1 40037 Pontecchio Marconi (Bo)
South Sudan 9 CEFA Rumbek Lakes State
Employees in Italy:
CEFA STAFF IN TOTAL
Projects in 2015
10
Associazione FRATERNITAS 2003
Branches volunteers:
48
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General Mathenge _West land P.O. Box 1498 0060 Sarit _Nairobi
Tanzania 11 CEFA Old Bagomoyo road _Mikocheni B P.O. BOX 8055 _Dar ed Salaam
Guatemala 12 CEFA 1° Avenida 0-32 Zona 5 _S.ta Cruz del Quichè Ecuador 13 CEFA Barrio 10 de agosto _Calle Guayas s/n y Cañar Nueva Loja (Lago Agrio)
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MOROCCO It is one of the most stable countries of the southern Mediterranean, spared, in 2011, by the most violent acts of the Arab Springs, because it is governed by a monarchy with a bonding power whose legitimacy is recognized. Its strength is to combine public reforms with the attraction of foreign investments. In this country, the most relevant aspects in everyday life are considered family, the sense of belonging to communities, the warmth in personal relationships and mutual solidarity, things that we are familiar with and that we share as well. Islamic religion, which by the media gets often pictured as intolerant, in fact does not really ask to observe their principles to whose do not embrace the faith. In recent years the country has also ceased to be just a place of transit of sub Saharan migration towards Europe becoming itself a destination for many migrants, posing new challenges to acceptance and integration.
PROJECTS 1 OLIVE CULTIVATION 2 Voluntary
return
3 SALÉ
3 Right to healthcare 4
Rabat Casablanca
Women’s Empowerment
SETTAT ERRACHIDIA
4
Marrakesh
4
3 4
1 3 4
TADLA AZILAL
ESSAOUIRA
2 TATA
4 TIZNIT
4
ZAGORA
4
spread throughout the national territory
Cooperants and Civilian Service volunteers: Paola Chianca, Lorenzo De Blasio, Chiara Angeli, Gianpiero Carretta, Sofia Di Cocco, Jacopo Granci, Rosalia Angotti, Erika Ramanzini Women’s cooperatives in Tifwine from Akka in the Tata Province, Southern area.
In addition to having participated to the Expo held in Milan in 2015, the consortium of oil producers was selected in 2016 to partecipate to the Green Week held at the Berlin Fair. Thanks to the visibility of this event, the consortium sold the last olive oil batch (90 tons) on the international markets for 316 thousand euros.
655 50 t 325 6
TRAINED FARMERS SINCE 2011 EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL SOLD IN 2015 PEOPLE WHO RECEIVED LITTERACY COURSES
At work during olives harvesting time.
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OLIVE CULTIVATION
There are two components of the project, an agricultural one and a social one. Regarding the first, the focus was on the development of the olive oil sector to improve the income of farmers in the region, thanks also to the creation of a consortium of local producers. Modern techniques of cultivation and shredding of olives have been introduced and a higher quality of olive oil, suitable for export, has been obtained. The social aspect has instead focused on increasing the awareness on women’s rights and literacy, which involved 254 women together with the creation of a kindergarten, that benefits 112 children since 2011. Donors: Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Regione Emilia-Romagna Local partner : AIDECA - Duration: 48 months
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2
VOLUNTARY RETURN
The project has accompanied home from Italy, Moroccan migrants who were eager to build a future back in their own native land. Donor: Italian Ministry of Interior through the EU Return Fund Duration: 12 months
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RIGHT TO HEALTHCARE
The project involves three networks of associations created to coordinate the implementation of RAMED, a government program that should ensure access to medical care to the poorest and most vulnerable members of the population. Donor: EU - Local partners: AIDECA, ATMS, Espace Associatif Duration: 27 months
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70 97.000
ASSOCIATIONS WORKING IN NETWORK
MIGRANTS
beneficiaries
Literacy course in a rural area.
Spinoza cooperative is working the argan seeds to produce oil at Aglou, province of Tiznit, in the south of the country.
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MOROCCO
WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT
Beneficiaries of the project were 12 rural women’s cooperatives. The project has: • improved the quality of the food produced by the cooperatives (for example: dates’ jams, couscous, olives, herbs, soaps and cosmetics made with argan oil); • supported cooperatives with training courses and technical assistance for a total of 186 days of training; • provided a fund for micro-projects for the development of rural women’s cooperatives; • offered to womens, members of cooperatives, literacy courses designed for raising awareness concerning their rights; • created a partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture to promote specific actions targeted for women.
684
beneficiares
12
divided into rural cooperatives
349 literate
Donors: EU, Regione Emilia-Romagna Local partners: local associations and UAF REMESS and the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture and Maritime Fishin Duration: 42 months
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Training in the Mornag Eco Farm.
TUNISIA 2015 has not been an easy year for Tunisia, that was the target of three terrorist attacks (two of them in famous touristic location). Economy was brought to its knees: tourism, representing 10% of Tunisia’s GDP, has been severely hit just when the successful legislative and presidential elections were contributing to strengthen the democratic process. Indeed, the country is facing a delicate phase of its history, a democratic transition which raised high hopes with the Arab spring. The heterogeneous and complex Tunisian society is going through this moment of difficult transition divided between the enthusiasm, expressed by the younger and more active circles of artists, musicians, writers and students, for the new spaces of freedom, and the disillusion and frustration of the more popular classes, coping with growing difficulties in daily life, and somehow missing the stability and economic security of the past. Demonstration to defend the values of democracy, Le Kef, north-western Tunisia.
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PROJECTS
Tabarka 3 Ain Draham 3 Beni M’Tir 3
TERRITORIAL 1 MARKETING FOR EMPLOYMENT
1 Bizerte Tunisi
1
Hammamet
4 ZAGHOUAN 1 Beja GOVERNORATE
JENDOUBA GOVERNORATE
2
2 VOLUNTARY
RETURN
SPREAD TROUGHOUT THE NATIONAL TERRITORY
COOPERATION 3 BETWEEN LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND CIVIL SOCIETY GRAIN PRODUCTION
4 FOR ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
Cooperants and Civilian Service volunteers: Giuseppe Marando, Michela Zaghi, Laura Benetton
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TERRITORIAL MARKETING FOR EMPLOYMENT
This project promotes responsible and sustainable tourism, a sector representing a major source of subsidiary activities for local agriculture and craftsmanship. In 2015: • A common strategy has been negotiated with public and private actors of the region, such as local gastronomy, ecotourism circuits and craftsmanship, which all together started a training course to support local products. • In Ain Draham, a cultural and musical festival has been promoted. • Together with the Association Via Augustina, a stage of the route “in the footsteps of St. Augustine” will be realized, and the former church will be transformed into a centre of tourist attraction and a cultural space. • The platform EcoActors has been created in order to build up a network of artisans and small entrepreneurs for the protection and promotion of the territory with a 37-day training.
BENEFICIARIES YOUNG PEOPLE
80 30 20
ARTISANS GROUPS OF FARMERS
Donors: EU, Regione Emilia-Romagna Local partners: Fondation Atlas Duration: 36 months
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2
VOLUNTARY RETURN
Several Tunisian migrants have been accompanied from Italy back to their country with micro-entrepreneurial activities. Donor: Italian Ministry of Interior through the EU Return Fund Duration: 12 months
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CO-OPERATION BETWEEN LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND CIVIL SOCIETY
This project strengthens the co-operation between local authorities and civil society by means of specific training courses which aim to define public policies in three municipalities on the border with Algeria. Donors: Eu, Regione Emilia-Romagna Local partner: Fondation Atlas Duration: 24 months
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MIGRANTS BUSINESS CURRENTLY ACTIVE
BENEFICIARIES LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS
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ABOUT
150
PEOPLE
Association of Tunisian women, Le Kef, north-western Tunisia.
Working in a wheat field, Zaghouan, north-eastern Tunisia.
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TUNISIA
GRAIN FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
• Strengthened the organizing structure of the local partner Synagri, an independent syndicate of farmers born in 2012 and now present at national level. • Enhanced local grain production in the Zaghouan Governorate thanks to training courses and technical assistance provided to farmers, and the introduction of ecofriendly techniques, crop rotation systems, selected seeds and organic fertilizers.
8 6.085 kg PILOT FIELDS
OF GRAIN SOLD Donor: Regione Emilia-Romagna Local partner: SYNAGRI - Duration: 15 months
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SOMALIA In the last ten years, the lack of a central Government and the riots started in 1988 among the different groups that compete for power, have brought the country to isolation and extreme poverty: more than one million internal refugees live in inhuman conditions . Despite a dysfunctional public administration and lack of public services, the Somali citizens show an extraordinay capacity of resilence and self organization, creating a dynamc informal economy. Starting from 2011 a military operation has started against Al-Shabab, a radical Islamic group, active in the south of the country threatening the stability of the adjacent countries.
Bossasso Hargeisa
PROJECT IRRIGATION CANALS
Lower Shabelle REGION Mogadiscio Cooperants: Marco de Milato, Tony Gikuhi Rebuilding of the irrigation canals, close to Mogadiscio.
Refugees waiting for a meal.
IRRIGATION CANALS TO CULTIVATE CORN AND SESAME THROUGHOUT THE YEAR The project has been created following the worse drought of the past 16 years in the Lower Shabelle. The irrigation canals have been Rebuilt to cultivate corn and sesame throughout the year. The community has been trained in order to guarantee the correct level of maintenance of the canals in the future. The sesame farming practices has been improved: from seeds, cultivation and harvest; including a seed selection for commercialization and export. Through a process of training to the local personnel, 2000 silos for cereal storage, have been built and distributed to 2000 local families. Thanks to a partnership between public and private a business has been created in Mogadiscio: it selects. commercializes and exports the sesame seeds. The selection of the best seeds has decreased the transportation costs. 14
The partnership among local farmers, CEFA and local businesses, has brought to an increase of the sesame price: this has benefitted the farmers generating a gross revenue of 4,5 million dollars.
20.454
Farmers beneficiaries Sesame INCREASED production: Corn INCREASED production:
93% 146%
Donor: EU - Duration : 60 months
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TANZANIA
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It is a model of peace and stability in Africa. Although more than 120 tribes and languages, the Swahili language is a key factor for the socio-political cohesion. The political debate for the last elections (October 2015) has been absorbing: everywhere, people were talking about the next president. The main challenge is the youth employment, since the two thirds of the population is aged under 24 and every year around 800,000 youngsters enter in the labour market. Tanzanians are cordial and, even if they argue, they usually end the discussion with a laugh. This attitude has been analysed and, finally, defined “the jokingly conflict resolution in the Swahili culture”.
Donors: ACPC Cultures+, EU, Frontiere Nuove Local Partner: Vijana Vipaji Foundation Duration: 25 months
180 2
ART AGAINST POVERTY Bagamoyo Dodoma
Peace
4 AFRICA MILK PROJECT 5 Sustainable
agriculture
6 ENERGY 16
MILK
FARMERS MARKET
CEFA has organised 10 farmers markets which have become an important appointment on Dar es Salaam’s social calendar, registering more than 500 visitors per event.
Kigoma
3 Preserving
trained artists
Pomerini village in the District of Kilolo.
PROJECTS
2 Farmers Market
ART AGAINST POVERTY
The project aims to promote art and culture as means of economic and social development throughout a capacity building programme addressed different groups of artists from Dar es Salaam.
Cooperants and Civilian Service volunteers: Dario De Nicola, Marina Mazzoni, Giovanni Spata, Roberta Alonzo, Francesca Baravelli, Flavio Levati, Melcor Olivier, Giorgio Bellamoli, Caterina Comisini, Jacopo Pendezza, Martina Palazzo, Mattia Domenicali, Stefano Severino, Matteo Difonte
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Doctor Clowns from the Art Against Poverty project in a hospital of Dar es Salaam.
Kilolo 5 Njombe 4
6 Ikondo
3
Zanzibar
1 2 3 Dar es Salaam
Donor: World Food Programme Duration: 12 months
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vendors coming from all around the country
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PRESERVING PEACE IN TANZANIA
The main objective of the project has been the promotion of a peaceful coexistence and a spirit of dialogue during the last presidential elections. The initiative has foreseen the organization of 6 peace concerts and 19 shows of the theatre of the oppressed. The video of the project has registered around 250,000 views. Donor: Swiss Development Cooperation Local partners: Global Network Religions Children (GNRC), Inter Religious Council for Peace Tanzania Duration: 12 months
8.680
reached people 17
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6
AFRICA MILK PROJECT
In collaboration with the Njombe Milk Factory Ltd, CEFA has promoted the pasteurized milk for a healthier children diet in 65 primary schools. Within the framework of this initiative, 33.000 litres of milk have been distributed in 2015. The pupils of the primary schools in Njombe District drink pasteurized milk. Fra Paolo in the District of Kilolo, Diocese of Iringa.
Donors: Granarolo, SAD Cefa - Local partner: Njombe Milk Factory Ltd Duration: 48 months
2.858 5
MILK
children receiving milk
MILK
FOR A SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN KILOLO
The project aims at fighting malnutrition in rural areas in Kilolo District, involving 7 villages. In collaboration with the local association “Mawaki”, CEFA has organised 56 seminars in training and technical assistance for agriculture and livestock sectors with the intent of improving the production capacity and the commercial skills of farmers’ families. CEFA has also organised specific campaigns for a healthy and balanced diet, as well as distributed chickens, fruit and hardwood trees to disadvantaged people (elders, orphans, people with AIDS and disabilities). Rosy Winie in her potatoes field in Pomerini, a village in the District of Kilolo.
ENERGY FOR CHANGING LIVES
The project’s mission has been the promotion of a social and economic development in 5 villages in Ikondo area, through the production and the distribution of electricity to households, companies and public service suppliers (nurseries, schools and offices). The project has also foreseen the construction of a new pipe for a 350Kw turbine. There are 40 km of medium voltage line and 11 transformer towers. CEFA brings the electricity up to the transformer towers where users can be connected. A system of micro-credit has been conceived by CEFA in order to support economically the users to be connected: it pays in advance up to 50% of the total amount.
Donors: EU, Rural Energy Agency (REA), Regione Emilia-Romagna, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Frontiere Nuove Local partner: Matembwe Village Co. Ltd - Duration: 60 months
Beneficiaries connected to the electricity public service suppliers
14 61 280
SCHOOL
(nurseries, primary schools, offices)
companies households Working for bringing electricity in Ikondo area, in the South-West .
Donors: Media Friends (2015-2016), Regione Emilia-Romagna, , MCL Casalecchio di Reno and Sasso Marconi . Local partners: Mawaki, District of Kilolo - Duration: 108 months
1.000 130.000 € trained farmers
TANZANIA
of income from the agricultural production 19
KENYA It’s hard to classify the Kenyan population in unique categories as they are divided into 70 different ethnic groups. The population is growing quickly: the number of youth below 15 years old has almost doubled in the last 20 years. The slums in Nairobi, highly populated with unemployed (the unemployment rate is 61%), keep growing year upon year. On one side the economy is growing on the other a strong inequality still remain. For the majority of the population it is still a huge problem, to access daily basic medical support and food. The political scenario has recently settled down, after the 2008 and 2009 violent interracial episodes. Islamic movement Al-Shabab, active in Somalia, is the main threat to the stability of the country.
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PROJECTS 1
SANDDAMS TO FIGHT DROUGHT
2
ART AGAINST POVERTY
3 4
SPREAD TROUGHOUT THE NATIONAL TERRITORY
HUMAN
3 RIGHTS
IN PRISON
JUVENILE 4 JUSTICE SYSTEM AGAINST 5 THE CHILD LABOUR
5
2 NAIROBI
1 Kitui Malindi Mombasa
Cooperants and Civilian Service volunteers: Marco De Milato, Giulia Della Casa, Simone Cicolin, Luz Yenifer Paoletti Quaresima, Luca Innocente, Silvia Randazzo, Maddalena Bucciarelli, Giorgio Berardi
SAND DAMS TO FIGHT AGAINST DROUGHT
Local farmers have been supported to diversify their farming practices, introducing resistant cultivations such as grain sorghum and mung beans and with beekeeping, to reduce the risk due to the long periods of drought. The community has been involved in the identification of the areas where the dams for the rain water collecting (sand dams) had to be built and in the creation of the sales teams, responsible for the products commercial activities. In order to guarantee continuity to the project, CEFA has organized training courses with the aim of reducing the water waste, improving farming knowledge and team work capability. Donors: EU, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Partner: Sasol Duration: 36 months
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Art against poverty
The project promotes art and culture as means to achieve both social and economic empowerment, providing training and sponsoring of several groups of artists in Nairobi. Donors: ACPCultures+, EU Local partner: Cultural Video Foundation (Kenya) Duration: 25 months
139
Trained artists
Jumping Village ballet company dancers, performing at EXPO 2015.
10 1.030
Sand Dams under construction
Families with DIRECT access to water
11,2 t
mung bean seeds distributed to
Correctional Facility for minors.
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2.800
beneficiaries 21
3
HUMAN RIGHTS IMPROVEMENT IN PRISONS
24 2.090
Correctional Facilities
PRISONERS ACCESSING PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
208
TRAINED PRISON OFFICERS
CEFA inaugurated 2 public events in Kenya: the International Day of Human Rights (10 December) and the Prisoner International Day (10 August), moreover it has celebrated the International Day Against Child Labour (12 June).
The project opposed the human rights violations in the correctional institutes and facilities. Training related to human rights protection, legal and psychological support for prisoners have been organized for judges, court officials and prison staff. After detention activities for the prisoner’s recovery have been organised, some prisons have been restored in order to implement areas for the psychological, social and legal consultancy. For each structure it has been introduced a new dedicated position, the “Human Right Defender”, chosen among the prison workers, in order to give a stronger voice to the prisoners and monitor any possible violation to human rights in correctional facilities. Donors: EU, Waldensian Evangelical Church Partners: LRF (Legal Resource Foundation), IJJO (International Juvenile Justice Observatory), FARAJA, Fr. Grol’s Welfare Trust, Probation Department, Prison Department, National Council on the Administration of Justice (NCAJ) Duration: 24 months Women’s Correctional Facilty of Meru, located in the central area of the country.
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JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM REFORM
The project has improved the life conditions of minors under custody through an effort on structural reforming to build a judicial system free from abuses and violence. We have trained the police employees, social services and local administration so that they can provide legal and psychological support to the juvenile under detention. Infrastructural maintenance work has been done and some “talking walls” have been created : the children have colored the walls of the institute to give space to their creativity and raise awareness of families and community. As support for the juvenile recovery and reinstatement, it has been improved the farming , professional and psychological support training in the Children’s home of Cafasso in Nairobi, where some of the kids live after the detention period.
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AGAINST EXPLOITATION OF CHILD LABOUR
Through a research on the field, the project has analyzed the child labour phenomenon in Kenya as well as in other African countries in order to develop possible solution and intervention. Donor: EU Partners: IDAY (Capofila); Palm Directorate for Adult and Continuing Education, Educational Ministry Duration: 36 months
Donors: EU, Swiss Cooperation, Italian Episcopal Conference Partners: Kenya Government - Probation Department, CESVI (leader), Legal Resources Foundation (LRS) , Child Welfare Society del Kenya (CWSK); Department of children services, Kenya Magistrates and Judges Association, Watoto Ciao - Duration: 30 months
2.500
people interviewed in 15 counties IN KENYA
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Correctional Facilities for minors
2.000
minors beneficiaries
714 KENYA
Governmental officer staff trained Correctional facilicy for minors.
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GUATEMALA Over twenty-five different ethno-linguistic groups and various indigenous populations never received compensation for the violence endured during the conflict which lasted 36 years and ended only in ‘96. CEFA is collaborating with a population named k’iche’ which embrace the Maya culture to the fullest as noticeable by their colorful traditional outfits as well as by their profound spiritual connection with nature and their ancestors. Here, Christian religion fuses with ancestral rituals where ceremonies are invoking God and deceased whom may protect their descendants. The real challenge today is represented by the climate change: in the last couple of years raining season has been characterized by a severe drought. Many people felt the urge to abandon their land and fields seeking for job opportunities in big cities. Women are often confined and forced within their family nucleus becoming victims of domestic abuse.
Crop diversification in the Community of Mactzul II, Quiché district.
Delivery of Pelibueyes (indigenous breed of sheep) in the community of Semejá III in the Quiché district.
PROJECT RURAL DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND EDUCATION Huehuetenango
Quiche’s District Guatemala City Antigua
Cooperants and Civilian Service volunteers: Valeria Pontalti, Eleonora Maresca, Lavinia Traina, Francesco Mari
Workshop with mothers belonging to the Community of Chichá, Quiché district.
RURAL DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND EDUCATION
After school’s students who benefit by the project in the Community of Mactzul II in the Quiche’s District
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The project has been managed and organized at many levels: • Right of education: guaranteeing the access to education to indigenous young girls; • Food safety: thanks to a network of agro-ecological activities which conjugated agricultural development with the respect for the environment as well as the protection of human health; utilizing ecosustainable approaches, such as the use of natural fertilizers. In this project, the most involved participants were the mothers of the girls who were the recipient of the scholarships. Also, it has been organized a Regional fair involving 250 women who were producers in Santa Cruz, and in which 50 women’s groups took part. • Protection/promotion of human rights and gender equity: through the education of mothers in collaboration with the “Theatre of the oppressed”, that encouraged the audience to elaborate the given messages as well as actively participate to the discussion.
152 152 IN
GIRLS EDUCATED Mothers educated
15 rural communities
Donor: Italian Episcopal Conference Partner: CARITAS, Asociación Payasos Duration: 24 months
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Ecuador The country economy depends on oil industry, which, on one side, represents a hazard to Ecuador’s precious biodiversity and a health concern for its populations, extremely heterogeneous within its several ethnic groups; but, on the other side, it represents one of the few sources of income. The collapse of oil prices has reduced the employment rate as well as caused the increase in price of consumer goods (particularly in Agrio’s Lake where CEFA works and where there is no other revenue stream). The unfair distribution of wealth breaks the country into two; on the one hand the few rich and on the other, those who earn little without any security. Women, society pin, are even more disadvantaged: the majority are bound to raise their children and take the burden of all the housework. Despite the difficulties, the Ecuadorians are, however, a “resilient” population and open to those who are foreigners. Campesinos carrying coffee and cocoa for sale in Guayaquil, on the Pacific Coast
ProvincE OF Sucumbios
Quito
PROJECT
1 2
1 COCOA
PROVINCE OF Orellana 1
AND COFFEE
2
Guayaquil Cuenca
2 Farmers’
Associations
Cooperants and Civilian Service volunteers: Corrado Scropetta, Martina Serra, Arianna Sansonetti, Giulia Giovagnoli Cocoa’s fruit.
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SUPPORTING COCOA AND COFFE PRODUCERS
The project is based on: • Improving the production and commercialization of Robusta Coffee and Cacao Nacional or Fino de Aroma, among the best quality of cocoa in the world • Preserving the environment and bio-diversity • Strengthening of civil society: local associations have been started and managed in order to effectively market their products. As a consequence, revenue for member families has increased. • Support for local small businesses run by young people and women, through 56 microcredits (for a total of $ 61,150), thanks to a private fund and local banks that financed farming activities and cultivation of cocoa and coffee. Donor: Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Local partner: FEPP (Fondo Ecuatoriano Populorum Progressio) Duration: 48 months
By removing commercial intermediaries at the local level, associations of producers have received a 22% increase of the selling price for each quintal of cacao sold.
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FARMERS associations for local development
Associations of farmers of cocoa and coffee have been strenghened and consolidated with the production of 5050 quintals of cocoa sold for 640 thousand dollars and 4100 quintals of coffee sold for 360 thousand dollars, with no more intermediaries and market principles that may reduce their earnings. Donor: European Union Leader: Oxfam - Duration: 24 months
BENEFICIARIES
3.400
FAMILIES
Cocoa placed to dry in the north of the country. Coffee Plant.
BENEFICIARIES
3.500 1.012
famiLIES
TRAINED FARMERS
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CHILD SPONSORSHIP
2 1 GUATEMALA TANZANIA
Child Sponsorship program (SAD) wants to ensure for children a better future in their own countries, among their own people, within their own families. The contribution of each one of us can help CEFA to provide for them food, health coverage, education and support in the growth path. CEFA always considers Child Sponsorship as part of larger projects for the community in which these children grow up into, in order to guarantee a better future for them also when they will be adults.
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3 4 MOZAMBICO 2
CEFA is present since 2000 in Guatemala with the project for indigenous girls in the rural area of Quiché. (See Guatemala)
Beneficiaries: GIRLS BETWEEN 7 TO 20 YEARS OLD
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123 ATTENDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 20 HAVE COMPLETED THEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROGRAMS
6 HAVE COMPLETED MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDIES 1 GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL 3 ATTENDING THE UNIVERSITY THANKS TO SCHOLARSHIPS
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Afterschool in the Community of Saint Antonio Sinaché, Quiché area. Kindergarten in Mozambico.
Beneficiaries
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CEFA, in collaboration with the children CAM, operates two kindergarbetween 3 to 6 years tens (Escolinhas) in Caia to help old, 1/3 OF WICH are with the large number of orphans orphans living in hardship. These are children who have lost one or both paPartner: CAM (Consorzio Associarents (often due to AIDS) and were zioni con il Mozambico Onlus) entrusted to the care of relatives Cooperant: Guido Manneschi who are not always able to provide for and educate a child. In these kindergartens the children have a guaranteed meal, they learn Portuguese and socialize with each others. One of this year’s activities was to grow gardens: the children have observed the growth of seedlings and learned some notions on agriculture. More than half of what we receive goes to towards the payment of educators and more than 20% is spent for proving the children’s meals.
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RIGHT TO EDUCATION IN GUATEMALA
ESCOLINHAS MOZAMBICO
A GLASS OF MILK FOR SCHOOLS - NJOMBE
With this project an entire primary school class receives fresh and safe milk. The milk is distributed by the local Njombe Milk Factory Ltd, a dairy which born after the collaboration between CEFA and Granarolo (Bologna, Italy) that allows families to Tanzanian farmers to increase their income. (See Project Africa Milk Project in Tanzania)
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Kindergarten in Mozambico.
Pasteurized milk produced by Njombe Milk Factory Ltd. MILK
MILK
Beneficiaries
2.858 BAMBINI
65 scuole)
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School in the Njombe district.
IKONDO NURSERY Beneficiaries SCHOOLS
This project has supported several kindergartens which welcomed all the children who would not have had a place where to play with each other and learn basic notions and skills, but would have been otherwise forced to join their parents in the fields.
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children
between 3 to 6 years old Kindergarten in Ikondo.
DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION For several years now CEFA participate in proposals of some Italian and European networks on the themes of Global Citizenship, turning its attention to matters related to intercultural education and the recognition of migrants’ rights. Schools of all levels were involved in several projects carried out in collaboration with local associations active in the territory as well as local authorities and research centers. In 2015, particularly, CEFA has organized within the territory of Bologna, Palermo and Trapani some activities related to the project “One world, one future. Educating about the concept of global citizenship in schools” promoted by a consortium of 20 non-governmental organizations, with CISV Turin as the leader, in 15 regions and in 46 Italian cities, with the recognition of the Ministry of Education.
ONE WORLD ONE FUTURE
Migration, food sovereignty, global economy are the themes addressed by teachers and students. The project’s major goal is the propagation of a culture of solidarity and sustainable development through training and learning processes. In parallel, CEFA has initiated the project “Migra-Lab”, with funding coming from the “Foundation of Monte di Bologna and Ravenna”, which includes the involvement of a group of students from schools located in Ravenna, taking part of a workshop organized in a theatre, with actors and trainers from the Association “Cantieri Meticci” on the theme of inclusiveness and acceptance of migrants in our cities.
Donor: Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
Civilian Service volunteers: Noemi Ronsini, Sabrina Cabiddu, Chantal Ionni
BOLOGNA
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PALERMO TRAPANI 3 30
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BOLOGNA
16 schools 90 teachers
72 classes 1512 students
Palermo
15 schools 52 teachers
41 classes 800 students
TRAPANI
17 schools 39 teachers
43 classes 821 students 31
Senator Giovanni Bersani Founder
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Patrizia Farolini President Vera Negri Zamagni V. P. Roberto Zanzucchi Luciano Sita V. P. Afro Stecchezzini Lorenzetti Marco Conte Davide Francesco Tosi Gut Giovanni
BOARD OF AUDITORS Roberto Rizzoli Pres. Ivanoe Tozzi Golinelli Massimo SUPERVISION AND TRANSPARENCY (Legge 231/2001)
PRESIDENT Patrizia Farolini
Gaetano Geranio
GENERAL MANAGER Paolo Chesani
ITALY and DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION Andrea Tolomelli Giovanni Guidi Aloys Rutakamize
LATIN AMERICA ECUADOR GUATEMALA Alice Fanti
NORTH AFRICA MOROCCO TUNISIA Andrea Tolomelli
SUBSAHARIAN AFRICA TANZANIA Marco Benassi Luciano Tabarroni KENYA - SOMALIA SOUTH SUDAN Luciano Centonze
The map of our stakeholders is constituted by all the people interacting with and influencing the activities of CEFA. All of them gravitate around our headquarter in Bologna, in Via Lame 118, in the headquarters of groups and associations born for supporting CEFA and in CEFA subsidiaries all around the world. In order to captivating stakeholders, we give out a monthly newsletter and we publish the periodical “Il seme della solidarietà (the seed of solidarity)” three times per year. We opened 11 facebook pages: CEFA il seme della solidarietà onlus, Africa Milk Project, Seminiamo per l’Africa, CEFA Kenya,CEFA Marocco, Dal Seme al Cibo, CEFA Tunisie, Art against Poverty,My name is Jina Langu ni, Oyster Bay Farmers Market e Reseau 31. We have a twitter page @Cefaonlus and a page on Flickr Cefa Onlus.
PUBLIC CONTRIBUTORS
MANAGEMENT CONTROL Paolo Chesani Luigi Mangiarotti
LOOKING FOR TRAVEL MATES
OUR STAKEHOLDERS
COUNCIL OF SHAREHOLDERS
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE Maurizio Tarozzi
by Giampiero Calzolari, Chairman of Granarolo “We bolstered a project that reproduces the same cooperative model on which Granarolo itself is founded, in one of the more disadvantaged zones of Tanzania. We have been keeping our commitment there through time with the tenacity of who want to see this project taking off, inspired by the senator Giovanni Bersani, historical founder of CEFA and of its team, who was constantly near to us spurring us in undertaking missions having a wider context of the one of mere subsidy mentality. Nowadays, the diary of Njombe is fully self-reliant. We strongly believe that this model could be spread, providing real job opportunities to other farmers and cheese makers and a production of pasteurized milk, bacteriologically safe, for many children all around the world. AfricaHandProject is starting in Mozambique. We are looking for travel mates in a travel for the life”.
ENTERPRISES ASSOCIATES
VOLUNTEERS PARTNERS PROVIDERS
COMMUNICATION and FUNDRAISING Giovanni Beccari Giulia Maria Fiorita Sara Laurenti Irene Torre Elisa Lolli
FUNDATIONS SECRETARIAT Rosa Cicala Ornella Martinetto
CONFEDERATIONS OTHER NGO’s
HUMAN RESOURCES Marco Benassi Luca Rondini
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ISTITUTIONS
LOGISTICS and PURCHASING Sergio Trocchi
PRIVATE CONTRIBUTORS
SUPPORTING GROUPS LOCAL COMMUNITIES 33
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Events and Fundraising
Operational costs and financial charges​
12%
1%
Projects in Italy 4%
Expenditure allocation
A COMMUNITY BASED APPROACH
Projects in developing countries
by Patrizia Farolini, CEFA President The experience of the previous year, characterized by Expo, has strengthened into us the idea of keeping on in being coherent and determined promoter of a cooperation system having at its center the local communities, accompanying them in their changing toward a better life condition. Thanks to comparison of different realities, and dedication of time and passion to countless events, conferences and debates of Expo, we had the opportunity to tell and to remark how is crucial to heed communities’ voice and engage them so that they could be the driver of their own changing.
83%
Private Resources
EU
54%
27%
Source of revenue International organisation
2%
5x1000 3% Ministry of Foreign Affairs
9%
Local authorities
2%
Ministry of the Interior
3%
Global citizenship OTHERS 3% education
5%
Strengthening civil society 6%
Agricultural development
42%
Gender equality
13%
EXPENDITURE FOR PROJECTS Human rights and protection of minors
25%
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ENERGY 6%
BALANCE SHEET ASSETS (2015)
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2015 2014 A) ASSOCIATIVE SHARES STILL TO BE DEPOSITED TOTAL A 0,00 0,00 B) FIXED ASSETS I - Intangible assets 1) constitution & upgrade expenses 2) developing costs 3) rights & licences 3.122,75 1.171,20 4) improvements of third party goods 5) others Total I 3.122,75 1.171,20 II - Tangible assets 1) lands & buildings 251.041,70 2) plants & machineries 3) equipments 2.281,91 1.367,05 4) other goods Total II 253.323,61 1.367,05 III - Financial assets 1) shareholdings 3.950,90 3.950,90 2) credits 317,56 35.381,44 3) other stocks Total III 4.268,46 39.332,34 TOTAL B 260.714,82 41.870,59 C) CURRENT ASSETS I - Surplus 1) consumable materials Total I 0,00 0,00 II - Credits 1) versus public donors 755.398,27 878.523,13 2) versus private donors 216.828,99 275.954,27 3) versus treasury 3.475,20 1.676,56 4) versus social security and insurance institutions 5) deposits for projects 343.170,62 276.062,02 6) accruals and rediscounts 7) versus others 205.920,60 14.522,42 Total II 1.524.793,68 1.446.738,40 III - Financial non fixed assets 1) shareholdings 2) other stocks Total III 0,00 0,00 IV - Cash or cash equivalent 1) postal and banking deposit 1.027.673,60 1.419.525,46 2) cheques 160,00 3) liquid assets 5.453,41 2.829,00 Total IV 1.033.287,01 1.422.354,46 TOTAL C 2.558.080,69 2.869.092,86 TOTAL ASSETS 2.818.795,51 2.910.963,45
TOTAL BALANCE SHEET LIABILITIES (2015) A) EQUITY I - Endowment capital Total I II - Limited capital 1) statuatory reserves 2) reserves limited by institutions 3) limited reserves destined for third parties Total II III - Unlimited capital 1) current year result 2) solidarity reserve Total III TOTAL A B) RISKS AND CHARGES PROVISIONS 1) for quiescence treatment or assimilable 2) for taxes 3) other funds TOTAL B C) RETIREMENT AND OTHER EMPLOYEE LONG-TERM BENEFIT PROVISIONS TOTAL C D) DEBTS 1) versus banks 2) versus other financier 3) deposits from donors for projects 4) versus providers 5) tax debts 6) versus social security and insurance institutions 7) accruals and rediscounts 8) versus others TOTAL D TOTAL LIABILITIES
2015
2014
38.358,41
38.358,41
0,00
0,00
-2.837,07 157.079,60 154.242,53 192.600,94
-5.023,24 107.102,84 102.079,60 140.438,01
48.458,07 48.458,07
91.468,08 91.468,08
357.082,87
328.958,01
186.536,02 1.694.830,48 158.176,08 21.678,33 25.504,74
1.742.431,90 421.705,78 21.915,80 22.591,20
133.927,98 2.220.653,63 2.818.795,51
141.454,67 2.350.099,35 2.910.963,45
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MANAGEMENT REPORTING 2015 LOSSES 2015 A) EXPENSES FOR CHARACTERISTIC ACTIVITIES 1) Projects in developing countries a) UE 1.567.006,39 b) MAECI 255.612,25 c) local institutions 45.649,20 d) OOII 48.577,06 e) Ministry of Interior 87.002,41 f) 5x1000 98.426,20 g) UNSC 18.439,93 h) private bodies 971.400,44 Total 1 3.092.113,88 2) Italian projects a) UE b) MAECI 12.284,04 c) Local institutions 1.423,54 d) privati 143.997,94 Total 2 157.705,52 3) Events and fundraising Total 3 51.857,61 4) Other expenses Total 4 TOTAL A 3.301.677,01 B) GENERAL SUPPORT EXPENSES 1) purchases 1.270,42 2) services 38.257,52 3) use of third parties’ goods 6.600,50 4) for employees 342.799,12 5) amortization & depreciation 2.926,59 6) risk and charges fund reservations 12.000,00 7) taxes 13.119,34 8) other charges 18.176,66 TOTAL B 435.150,15 C) FINANCIAL AND PATRIMONIAL CHARGES 1) financial charges 6.488,04 2) patrimonial charges TOTAL C 6.488,04 TOTAL EXPENSES 3.743.315,20 POSITIVE MANAGMENT RESULT BALANCE (IN CONTEXT) 3.743.315,20
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MANAGEMENT REPORTING 2015 GAINS 2014 1.952.206,98 540.535,72 96.188,67 18.704,70 164.960,43 92.506,60 1.202.527,70 4.067.630,80 2.312,45 68.228,55 81.619,54 152.160,54 40.286,17 4.260.077,51 61,00 41.325,89 9.797,25 330.415,57 2.257,11 12.722,85 17.139,98 413.719,65 2.978,33
2015 A) INCOMES FROM CHARACTERISTIC ACTIVITIES 1) Projects in developing countries a) UE 1.567.006,39 b) MAECI 255.612,25 c) local institutions 45.649,20 d) OOII 48.577,06 e) Ministry of Interior 87.002,41 f) 5x1000 98.426,20 g) UNSC 18.439,93 h) private bodies 794.353,75 Total1 2.915.067,19 2) Italian projects a) UE b) MAECI 12.284,04 c) local institutions 1.423,54 d) private bodies 4.145,65 Total 2 17.853,23 3) Events and fundraising Total 3 131.799,11 4) other gains Total 4 472.255,89 TOTAL A 3.536.975,42 B) GENERAL SUPPORT GAINS 1) UE 144.280,07 2) MAECI 53.696,48 3) Ministry of internal affairs 4) local institutions 5.457,24 TOTAL B 203.433,79 C) FINANCIAL AND PATRIMONIAL GAINS 1) financial incomes 68,92 2) patrimonial incomes TOTAL C 68,92 TOTALE INCOMES 3.740.478,13 NEGATIVE MANAGMENT RESULT 2.837,07 BALANCE (IN CONTEXT) 3.743.315,20
2014
1.952.206,98 540.535,72 96.188,67 18.704,70 164.960,43 92.506,60 1.000.845,07 3.865.948,17 2.312,45 68.228,55 7.787,44 78.328,44 91.064,09 340.426,75 4.375.767,45 173.421,91 113.314,26 2.279,82 6.902,37 295.918,36 66,44 66,44 4.671.752,25 5.023,24 4.676.775,49
2.978,33 4.676.775,49 4.676.775,49
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REINVENTING OURSELVES TO LOOK FORWARD
WORK: AN EQUAL RIGHT EVERYWHERE by Carlo Costalli, President of MCL
by Paolo Chesani, Executive Director of CEFA This year the social report changes look. After the experience of Expo, that has seen us as protagonists in an international context, giving us visibility and a great impetus, we are ready to reinvent ourselves. We have taken up the challenge, keeping our spirit of openness, of spreading the important activities we are undertaking both in Italy and in the south of the world with a new style. We have done it through the infographic, highlighting figures and adding visual elements that catch reader’s interest and allow an easier comprehension if compared with plain text. In addition, we have also changed the document’s format in order to rationalize the expenses without losing, we hope, quality and attraction. We hope you like it too.
MOVIMENTO CRISTIANO LAVORATORI International cooperation is a commitment taken by a movement of mcl.it workers inspired by the Catholic Church’s social value. It che is ispira a challenge Dal 1972 MCL è l’associazione di promozione sociale la sua testimonianza e la sua azione ai principi della Dottrina sociale della Chiesa impegnando gli Associati a una coerente assunzione throughout di responsabilità in campo educativo, formativo, sociale.who Con circoli we are taking, together with many workers the world, e sedi provinciali e regionali in Italia, è presente in Europa e nel resto del mondo anche Paesiimprove di nuova immigrazione. Per missione statutaria mira a the formare presenza attiva have the right to get a job in orderneiresponsabile to their life and life ofe in tutti gli ambiti in cui vadano affermati democrazia e partecipazione, giustizia sociale e libertà, pace e diritti per i lavoratori e le loro famiglie, anche lanciando specifici their family. progetti e iniziative. This is the source of dedication to CEFA, with the campaign ‘from seed to food’, started two years ago, to defeat starvation and indigence of 10.000 families, bringingCEFA in South Ecuador, Marocco – Il seme Sudan, della solidarietà cefaonlus.it and Somalia, the means for a future of autonomy: seeds, farming tools CEFA – Il seme della solidarietà Onlus è un’organizzazione non governativa di volontariato internazionale. Fondato a Bologna oltre 40 anni fa per iniziativa di Giovanni Bersani e Padre and formation. Angelo Cavagna, da un gruppo di cooperative agricole aderenti al Movimento Cristiano Lavoratori. CEFA ha come obiettivo la lotta alla fame e alla povertà, promuovendo lo sviluppo Our common founder, Giovanni Bersani hasruralialways been sostenibile delle comunità nelle quali opera. CEFA aiuta icommitted contadini a valorizzare le loro nel pieno rispetto delle culture originarie, coinvolgendoli e rendendoli protagonisti to strive to solve the real problemsrisorse people thedellework. This is delof proprio sviluppo. Signifithrough ca promuovere la capacità popolazioni locali di prendere autonomamente ed efficacemente in carico, una volta terminata la presenza dei volontari nel le attività progettuali mantenendo edifficulties, potenziando quanto realizzato. CEFA non ha fini what we are pursuing, despite ourPaese, limitations and in Italy di lucro e si avvale dell’aiuto di privati cittadini, imprese ed istituzioni. In termini di utilizzo razionale delle risorse è certamente tra le associazioni più virtuose: basti pensare che riesce and with CEFA in developing countries. ad elargire ben il 90% dei contributi raccolti e ad impiegare solo il restante 10% per le spese di gestione ed organizzazione.
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