Training course for farmers

Kenya

January 2010- February 2011

The project aims to delevop a micro farm in Meru district (north-easter Kenya) trying to help people, especially young people, to start a profitable business with the cultivation of bananas and corn. The project involves the cultivation of 14.000 bananas plants, three tons of maize, the installation of tanks to save water. The product will be marketed in the nearby market of Meru, so as to cause a relapse on income in the region and trigger a virtuous circle on the socio- economic development.

Farmers will also attend a training course held by the Ministry of Agriculture in Nairobi, through which they can learn the best techniques of planting, irrigation, harvesting, the fight against parasites and cope with drought. The project will, ultimately, the establishment of a revolving fund.

Rehabilitation of water wells

Somalia

February 2010 – October 2010

The project, carried out by Modavi in collaboration with the local NGO Maalin Brothers, provides for the rehabilitation, renovation, cleaning and sanitizing of eighteen water wells made in the city of Mogadishu before 2000, no longer used because of lack of an adequate and regular maintenance.

At the same time, Modavi has promoted the project in the region of Lazio, sensitizing the students on the need to avoid wasting water.

Italian Dermatological Centre

Etiopia

January 2009 – February 2010

Modavi and the International Institute of Medical, Social and Anthropological Sciences manage the operation of the centre of dermatology at the Italian University Hospital in Makalle (Ethiopia). The centre is a point of reference for diffusive-infective diseases in the region of Tigray.

The main objective of the project is to contribute to improving the health of the population through the enhancement of the treatment, diagnosis and the prevention of diffusive-infective diseases in support of the Ethiopian Public Health Service with particular emphasis on AIDS and dermatological diseases.

Building of a school

Democratic Republic of Congo

December 2008 – December 2009

The project involves the realization of a comprehensive school that can accommodate up to a maximum of six hundred students of Mont-Ngafula, southern district of the capital, Kinshasa – a city of over seven million inhabitants. The school will offer them a quality educational program and the chance to grow up in a peaceful and friendly environment.

The involvement of the local population throughout the design, construction and management of the school aims to active a process of appropriation of the initiative by the Congolese community.

Work camp Saharawi

Western Sahara

27 December 2008 – 4 January 2009

Volunteers were engaged in daily activities of child care in the refugee camps of the Saharawi people near Tindouf (Algeria), organizing and sharing fun activities with children. Activities included guided tours of the area to better understand vicissitudes, history and culture of this “peacefully rebel” people, which since 1975 has been invaded, abused, deprived of its territory of belonging. During the seven days spent in Western Sahara, volunteers were housed in typical houses (comfortable tents) and they have experienced the customs and traditions of Western Sahara, actively participating in local events.

The eyes of the war

Democratic Republic of Congo

February 2008

Modavi has collaborated on an exhibition that takes its cue from the book of photographs “ The eyes of the war” by Gian Micalessin and Fausto Biloslavo, war correspondents and Almerigo Grilz’s colleagues, the Italian journalist killed in Monzabique in 1987 which is dedicated the project. An exhibition to tell the places and protagonists of the conflicts that have raged around the world in the last quarter century. Last section of the exhibition is devoted to the description of the Modavi’s project that provide to build a health clinic and structure of first aid in Congo.

The project aims to improve the health of local population, whose dramatic mortality rates are derived mainly from the absence of basic health care.

For this purpose, during the exposure period of the exhibition, touring all over Italy, will be collected funds that will be used for the creation of the health clinic and the first aid facility.

Drops of freedom

Western Sahara

June 2003

Modavi decided to call this project “Drops of freedom” that includes the purchase, delivery and installation of a desalination for the Saharawi people, because make people self-sufficient as possible means to give him concrete contribution to attainment of freedom.

The desalination maker turns saline water in the ground into drinking water, in an amount that is between 600 and 800 cubic meters per day.

Thanks to this, 15 thousand people may take advantage of 50 liters of drinking water per day pro capita.