It’s always a great joy talking about businesses which improve people’s lives. When there’s no more hope, a few would say that you have to look for it in a job. Nevertheless… Working can rebuild a broken life. I read it in an interview to Suor Rita Giaretta who, together with other nuns, founded the…
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New Hope. The hope of meeting again, one day, one’s family. The hope of having a future and being able to give one to one’s own child. This is the hope I want to talk to you about today. Blessing’s story is similar to those of thousands of young Nigerian women who left their devastated…
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Can I give you a piece of advice? Spend ten minutes reading this story, it will give you great joy. Recently a great interview to Suor Rita Giaretta was published on the Sole24Ore. Suor Rita told her experience at Casa Rut which, for more than 23 years, has been fighting against human trafficking in Caserta.…
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Two months have passed since the last amazing adventure of the young tailors of the Cooperativa NewHope, and you can still feel the excitement of it. After many difficult years where everything was missing – tools, funds, space and support – the Coop is now a very successful reality. This has been possible for two…
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When one believes in a project, one hopes that it will overcome the original goals. It’s like playing a match and hoping for the final victory. The whole team struggles to score the last point, thinking about all the training, the sacrifices, the difficulties, but also the beauty of playing all together to reach a…
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Last 25th November was the International Day against violence against women. This day has not been chosen at random. The same day of 1960, three sisters from Santo Domingo – Patria, Minerva and Maria Mirabal – were captured by the militia of Rafael Trujillo, the dictator who has ruled The Dominican Republic for 30 years.…
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Great news at the Cooperativa NewHope! Thanks to the support of smart businessmen, who believe in the Angelo Affinita Foundation and in the projects it sustains, the young migrant women of the Cooperativa NewHope could fulfill a dream. Any clue? It includes professionals in the field, an opportunity of career development and many, many meters…
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Last 10 April, the New Yorker published Ben Taub’s journalistic investigation on a hot topic: the trafficking of Nigerian girls in Italy. The same article has been translated and published on number 1221 of Internazionale magazine, and that’s how I knew about it. The headline reads: “Blessing’s story”, and suddenly I think about the migrant…
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Once upon a time there was a little woman, brave as a lioness. She arrived in Caserta in 1995, and she discovered a territory held hostage by unemployment, camorra, environmental degradation and several illegal activities. One of which was sex slaves trafficking. One street shocked her in particular: the Domiziana Street in Castel Volturno. This…
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Some days ago a new and unique shopping mall was inaugurated in Stockholm. The ReTuna Recycling Gallery is a mall with 14 shops and an organic, farm-to-table restaurant, where they only sell recycled products. Clothes, objects, furniture, but also computers and electronic devices are beautifully shown in this space, a wonderful homage to the green…
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