Gift Matching Program 2021
In 2021, the Gift Matching Program (GMP) turned 19: a great opportunity to involve employees in the solidarity projects that are most important to them
€ 1,196,078 221 14
donated amount supported projects participating countries
The Gift Matching Program is a historic initiative for the Foundation, promoted since the very beginning of its activity.
The mechanism is simple: the Foundation doubles the donations made by groups of employees to Third Sector Entities chosen by the same colleagues, in all the countries where UniCredit operates.
The donation groups are coordinated and promoted by the employees, who become their Ambassadors. The Program Regulations require a minimum number of participants and a minimum amount of donation per group of colleagues, depending on the country. The initiative is in fact calibrated on the local characteristics and sensitivities, precisely to further stimulate employee participation. The year 2021 also saw a significant participation: 14 countries within the Group's perimeter involved, 221 projects supported, 6,622 donations and € 1,196,078 donated overall by colleagues and the Foundation.
In line with the current scope of the UniCredit Foundation, the Gift Matching Program 2021 has supported projects in favour of children and adolescents. However, given the emergency situation that also characterized 2021, it was also possible to submit projects aimed at countering the effects of the pandemic, regardless of the beneficiaries' ages. Most of the colleagues wanted to support initiatives in favour of children in hospital or with disabilities; and once again their hearts were warmed by projects carried out in developing countries.
To enhance the deep commitment made by colleagues over the years, the Foundation continued to consider retired colleagues as an active part, whose donations contributed to the doubling of the UniCredit Foundation.
As in 2020, this year too the initiative aimed to reward the voluntary work component that drives many of our colleagues, and the participation of younger colleagues;
In this way, the beneficiary organizations were allocated additional sums in the case of donors under the age of 35 or who volunteered for the organizations for which they
donated. There were no less than 1386 donations made by colleagues under the age of 35 (almost double those made last year); the youngest participation was registered in Romania; Italy, on the other hand, is the country that saw the most participated component of voluntary service.
Finally, the (Italian) membership through the so-called Employees Non-Profit Organisations, associations formed exclusively by retired UniCredit employees and former
employees, and coordinated by an employee in service, is significant. Their goal is to organize fundraising campaigns to finance organizations focused above all on the needs of the reference territories. This year the Employee No-Profit Organisations stood out for their real proximity to the communities strongly affected by the health emergency and the consequent situations of poverty.
Country | Non profit organization | Project Name | City | Project description | Total (Colleagues + Foundation) | |
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Austria | APC Help Association | Basketball integration project | Wien | Basketball Integration Project II, a follow-up project of last year's APC HELP SPORT AHOI (Integration Project I) project, aims to enable at least 50 children and young people to team up with basketball. |
8.200 € | |
Austria | CARE Österreich | Helps for Coronavirus in Nepal, India and Bangadesh | Wien | CARE distributes protective medical clothing, medicines and equipment and sets up COVID CARE Centres. Furthermore, CARE provides on-site support for vaccinations and education on hygiene protection measures for both the population and health workers to ensure the protection of the people. | 6.628 € | |
Austria | Caritas Österreich | Help for people in need in Austria | Wien | People who would never before have thought they would have to turn to Caritas for support are coming to our counselling centres more and more often. They simply no longer know how to go on, how to find a job again, how to to pay the bills. Children and young people, among others, are particularly affected by this crisis. Due to lockdowns and school closures, they in particular have suffered greatly from loneliness. Some socially disadvantaged children have lost touch with school. People in need can seek help and advice through our 53 counselling centres. In 62 learning cafés throughout Austria, we are currently helping 2,000 children to consolidate their educational path. |
8.767 € | |
Austria | CliniClowns Austria | Support for chronically and seriously ill children | Wien | Laughter is the best medicine! We visit chronically and seriously ill children and adults in hospitals and nursing homes as well as residents of geriatric centres to make their everyday lives easier and to support them in their recovery. and support them in their recovery. Our work is based on quality, empathy, discretion and respect for confidentiality. Equally important to us is a respectful and appreciative treatment both internally and externally, as well as loyalty and open communication. communication. The basic prerequisites for our assignments are social competence and love for and respect for fellow human beings. Give the gift of laughter! |
1.900 € | |
Austria | DEBRA Austria | Help for butterfly children | Wien | DEBRA Austria, Hilfe bei Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) was founded in 1995 as a self-help group of affected people, relatives and doctors with the aim of organising the exchange of experiences and help for people with EB. To this day, the mission is to improve the quality of life for those affected, to offer competent medical care and - through targeted research - to give hope for a cure. | 1.590 € | |
Austria | Light into the dark | Social and disability projects throughout Austria | Wien | The coronavirus crisis affects all strata of the population, not least children. They often receive less public attention, even more so if they have a physical or intellectual handicap. But it is these most vulnerable children - and their parents - who suffer the most from the crisis. "Licht ins Dunkel" annually supports around 400 social and disability projects across Austria and helps more than 14,000 children and their families. | 5.120 € | |
Austria | Menschen für Menschen | Measures against the corona pandemic | Wien | The coronavirus has long been part of everyday life in Africa and Ethiopia. Medical care is not comparable to that in Europe. In the whole of Ethiopia, there are just three hospital beds per 10,000 inhabitants (source: WHO 2015). Preventive protective measures are therefore particularly important to prevent a massive spread of the virus. Menschen für Menschen is working on a sustainable improvement of the situation on the ground. Our goal is to ensure that people have long-term access to clean water, sufficient food and basic medical care. Since the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, we have intensified our activities in individual areas. We inform the rural population about important prevention measures. We also support regional health authorities, health centres and schools in our project regions with protective masks, gloves, disinfectants and liquid soap, among other things. | 2.150 € | |
Austria | Austrian Red Cross | Red Cross tutoring | Wien | Since March 2020, children from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds have been particularly disadvantaged due to the discontinuation of face-to-face teaching in the Corona Lockdown. The Red Cross helps to prevent the educational gap from widening. The focus of the learning support is on language and reading support, help with homework and preparation for tests. Every year, about 3,500 children throughout Austria benefit from the Red Cross learning support. |
1.748 € | |
Austria | SOS Children's Village | SOS puzzle piece: Donate closeness in times of distance and uncertainty | Innsbruck | Distance, we have learned, protects us from the devastating effects of the pandemic. But at the same time we need meetings and contacts. Especially those children who have already had traumatizing experiences in their life need positive experiences and an obvious confidence that is comforting and now more than ever. The project helps to make up for the lack of closeness and allows for many constructive moments. |
4.892 € | |
Austria | St. Anna Children's Cancer Research | Research and development to improve cure rates from childhood and adolescent cancer | Wien | The aim of St. Anna Children's Cancer Research is "to contribute through research and development to improving the healing rates of cancer in children and adolescents". About half of all childhood cancers involve leukemia and lymphoma. Therefore, these diseases have been the focus of research from the very beginning. While the cure rate for leukemia was around 20% in 1970, today around 85% of young patients are curable! The central concern is to bring the healing rate to the 100 percent mark as far as possible. And it is also important to reduce side effects and long-term effects. Modern biomedical research is complex and only possible with sufficient financial resources. The internationally recognized St. Anna Children's Cancer Research is mainly funded by donations. Research successes in the future are only possible with the generous financial support of donors and sponsors. Each contribution helps secure funding for future research to further improve child survival. | 7.206 € | |
Austria | UNUM institute - Holistic trauma and pain competence center | Help for traumatized children and young people | Wien | The focus of the trauma and pain holistic competence center or the UNUM institute within the TrauMaTRIX trauma prevention project is that of young children whose families have suffered war, flight or expulsion, and children and young people who have had to be placed in foster care due to serious trauma in their families of origin. In collaboration with the Vorarlberg Children's Village and the Forum on prevention in South Tyrol, a specific trauma pedagogy course has been designed to deal with the traumatic experiences of early childhood (even before the child is able to speak) and to train staff of childcare, but above all to be able to offer these children an age-appropriate psychological emergency kit through specific techniques in order to avoid chronicity to prevent the consequences of trauma and consequent pathological disorders. | 5.140 € | |
Austria | Austria for Kenia kids support | Austria for Kenya kids support: schooling for orphans of the Amadeus Children's Home | Wien | Education in Kenya is a valuable (and expensive) commodity. The children of Amadeus Children's Home have been able to consistently get good grades in the final school year, particularly thanks to the support of donations from the Giftmatching program. The six oldest children completed compulsory school with very good and excellent results. Therefore, children can attend secondary schools. However, these are assigned by the state and are sometimes several days' travel from the children's home and are all run as boarding schools. In addition, the children must bring all the equipment to the boarding school themselves, from the mattress, bedding and linens to wash the trays, lockable metal boxes and cooking utensils, school books and teaching materials, different school uniforms and boots. | 8.730 € | |
Austria | Sterntalerhof | Sterntalerhof | Loipersdorf-Kitzladen | The Sterntalerhof is an independent non-profit association in Burgenland since 1999 and follows an interdisciplinary approach of therapy and education, psychology and pastoral care, combined with therapeutic riding. Families with severely, chronically and terminally ill children are cared for. At the same time, the farm is a hostel (original term of hospice!), in which confidence can germinate again and accompany families, especially at the end of the path, for the farewell of a loved one. The Sterntalerhof team consistently pursues one mission: the feeling of lightheartedness and happiness for children and their families who don't know how much longer there will be tomorrow together. A family is never rejected just because they cannot afford to stay at the Sterntalerhof. | 4.426 € | |
Austria | FREI.Spiel (Free game) - Equal future opportunities for all children! | FREE.Play in Middle School | Wien | Equal future opportunities for all children! Since 2013 the non-profit organization “FREI.Spiel – Freiwillige für Kinder” works towards improving the future opportunities of socially disadvantaged children to allow them to live a self-determined, fulfilling and successful life. The concept entails building relationships between volunteers (FREI.Spieler*innen), educators and socio-economically disadvantaged school children. FREI.Spieler*innen visit children on a weekly basis in afternoon childcare centers or during school time in their classes. In cooperation with two secondary schools in Vienna, FREI.Spieler*innen are able to mentor and support socially disadvantaged middle school children with learning deficits. |
4.630 € | |
Austria | Austrian Society for Health Mediation and Intensive Counseling | ZIL - "Back to life" | Wien | Who supports people who accompany seriously ill people in their close social environment? How do these people feel when they accompany a seriously ill person, and who cares about their individual support needs? This is exactly where the multidisciplinary counselling service comes in. The ZIL group includes seriously and chronically ill people and their relatives as well as, for example, cancer patients. The project closes a crucial gap in the Austrian health care system. |
1.090 € | |
Austria | Recreational PSO |
Holiday for children with disabilities | Schladming / Rohrmoos | Freizeit-PSO is a non-profit association based in Schladming / Rohrmoos with the purpose of offering sports and holidays for people with disabilities. In doing so, no disability is excluded. This year's donations will directly benefit the care weeks for children in summer and the ski courses for children. | 6.222 € | |
Austria | Stiftung Kindertraum (Children's Dream Foundation) | A dog for Vinzent | Wien | Heart's desire: Assistance dog to support him in everyday life Vinzent, 4, Vorarlberg, has severely limited mobility and vision due to oxygen deficiency at birth. For a long time, his parents have wanted an assistance dog as a loyal friend and companion for their son, who can playfully train various movements with the boy. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, a previously planned training had to be postponed. Now the time has finally come and a suitable dog named "Bello" will also learn to report impending epileptic seizures. The future four-legged friend will be specially trained to meet Vincent's needs and will certainly bring motivation and new zest for life to the family. Bello would thus be a huge support in all developmental steps, because he can stand by Vinzent in various everyday situations for many years to come. |
3.860 € | |
Austria | ÖRSG Austria Rett Syndrome Society | Silent Angels | Selzthal | Rett syndrome is a very rare neurodevelopmental disorder that mainly affects girls. In Austria, 3 to 5 children are born with this incurable disease every year. The main criteria for Rett syndrome are loss of the purposeful use of the hands due to the appearance of stereotypies, compulsive hand-washing, flapping movements, gait disturbances or the inability to walk, and loss of speech. They very often suffer from scoliosis, breathing and sleep disorders and various forms of epilepsy. | 3.040 € | |
Austria | KiB children care | Take a break and breathe | Ungenach | Notfallmama initiative - everyday help for children and parents during the corona pandemic. The corona pandemic has placed a heavy burden on many families. KiB children care association has launched the “Time out and get some air” project. When parents reach the limits of their resilience, emergency moms/dads support and take over the childcare for a few hours. | 1.850 € | |
Austria | Kinder-Krebshilfe Wien-Nö-BGLD | Help for children suffering from cancer, Mobile Oncological Nursing Service and Mobile Psychological Service | Wien | Every year more than 320 children and teenager in Austria are diagnosed with cancer. The organization offers services such as External oncologic nursing service and Psychological care. Due to the pandemic the demand has increased considerably. External oncologic nursing service spares them the tiresome way to the hospital and help them with great dedication at home. Qualified pediatric nurses change dressings, take blood samples, care for catheters, ease the pain and relieves children and their family from exorbitant burden. This project “Mobile psychological Care” is unique in Austria and improves the psychological status of parents and children.ng their exhausting time of therapy. | 5.600 € | |
Austria | Wiener Tafel | Wiener Tafel: supply instead of dispose of! | Wien | Even if many people don't want to believe it - we too, in one of the richest countries in the world, have hunger. While tons of good food are thrown away carelessly every day, some people barely have anything to eat. Only with the help of committed people from politics, business and civil society the Wiener Tafel has been able to fulfill its task as a donation-financed voluntary organization with over 350 volunteers for over 21 years and meanwhile save and distribute around 600 tons of food per year. Around 200 donors are now on board, around 4 tons of food are saved every day and distributed to around 10,000 people in poverty in 100 social institutions. In Austria, around 483,000 people were already affected by moderate or severe food insecurity before the Covid-19 crisis. At the same time, around 1 million foods that are still edible are thrown away in the trash every year. Because in times of Covid-19, the Wiener Tafel expects a sustained increase in the need for food for people in need in the coming months. | 10.460 € | |
Austria | Caritas of the Archdiocese of Vienna | Girl center *peppa | Wien | The Peppa Center for Girls*, managed by Caritas, supports girls and young women between 10 and 20 years of age, with and without precedent of migration or flight, with its counseling, education, entertainment and information services. Recreational activities, excursions, project work on specific topics are carried out, as well as didactic and consultancy activities. For three days, visitors can use the *peppa Girls Talk learning aid for individual counseling or group discussions. There are, for example, conversations of relief in difficult life situations. In addition, knowledge and ability to act in relation to various forms of violence and protective equipment are offered and imparted. The goal of *peppa is to reduce inequalities, promote gender equality and support the personal responsibility and self-determination of young women. |
2.260 € | |
Austria | Kinderhospiz Netz | Children's hospice network | Wien | The children's hospice network enables comprehensive care for severely and terminally ill children and young people at home, in a family setting, and in the day and weekend hospice. | 3.328 € | |
Austria | BONsurpise | BONsurprise Association for the support of seriously ill children and their families | Wien | Security in troubled times! On the recommendation of the Vienna General Hospital, BONsurprise offers families with seriously ill children PINGUIN apartments suitable for temporary and free nursing care. PINGUIN apartments are fully adapted to the needs of little patients and allow them to be together in a family atmosphere. Not at home ... yet at home! |
2.860 € | |
Country | Non profit organization | Project Name | City | Project description | Total (Colleagues + Foundation) | |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina | Ensemble of folk dances and songs "Veselin Masleša" Banja Luka | Getting to know the cultural heritage of BiH, through the installation of new choreography from BiH with the active participation of young people under 18 | Banja Luka | The aim of the project is to perform a new choreography for the upcoming annual concert with the active participation of young people under 18. Their participation is planned from the very beginning, sewing and assembling costumes, learning and performing the choreography for the annual concert. Funds are needed because making folk costumes is very expensive. | 2.486 € | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Association of Cancer Patients "Behar" | Creative workshops for the production of canvas toys | BIHAĆ | Founded in 2011, the Association of Cancer Patients "Behar" brings together women from the USK canton who are undergoing or have undergone cancer therapy. It all started in the hospital waiting rooms, where they talked about it and exchanged their experiences. There was a need to fight for their rights, to start workshops so that their everyday life was "easier", to socialize and talk to each other. That's why they formed a self-help group. Immediately, they had Sarajevo's support through the WHEP project to strengthen women's health, which is now called "Think Pink - Together we are one". In addition to being brave heroines, these smiling and positive women have set up a creative workshop where they make canvas toys. | 1.398 € | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | SOS Childrens villages | SOS Childrens villages | Sarajevo | SOS Children's Villages BiH is a humanitarian organization that cares for children and young people left without parental care and gives them a chance for a happy childhood and a better future. In SOS families, with siblings and SOS parents, children grow up in a family environment with parental love. Because every child deserves to belong somewhere, to be loved and safe. SOS Children's Villages BiH has been operating in BiH since 1994 and is part of SOS Children's Villages International, an international organization that has been operating in 136 countries around the world for more than 70 years, on all 5 continents |
688 € | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | UG C.E.Z.A.R. Srbac | Cezaromobil | Srbac | The "CEZAROMOBIL" initiative aims at the inclusion of children in the rural area of the municipality of Srbac, with particular attention to vulnerable children from large and / or socially vulnerable families or from ethnic minorities. Children from rural areas rarely participate in the regular activities of the C.E.S.A.R. The "CEZAROMOBIL" activity includes a week of activities in a school and / or local community: English language school, creative, culinary and research workshops, modern dance and zumba lessons and a sports school. Older students would also take training courses on volunteering and youth activism, as well as career guidance seminars. The final event of the "CEZAROMOBIL" initiative was conceived as a sort of Friendship Festival, through the organization of the central event "Games without borders, with students from all primary schools in the municipality of Srbac. | 372 € | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Let's help the children | Art therapy in an air spa | Banja Luka | We Help Children is a non-profit organization that provides children with climate therapy, music therapy, dance and movement therapy, art therapy and remedial gymnastics. The "Art Therapy in the Air Spa" project, scheduled for the winter holiday period, is aimed at children with allergic diseases. According to the association, the most common causes of psychosomatic illnesses in children are unexpressed emotions and Art Therapy in the thermal air will mainly focus on developing creative ways to express repressed emotions. The subalpine climate, the abundance of forests and clean air are ideal conditions for rebalancing body, mind and spirit, and the whole process will be accompanied by interviews with a psychologist. |
808 € |
Country | Non profit organization | Project Name | City | Project description | Total (Colleagues + Foundation) | |
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Croatia | Croatian Down Syndrome Association | We are ready for new challenges - children and young people with Down syndrome | Zagreb | The Croatian Down Syndrome Association was founded in 2005 in order to align and integrate the activities of Croatia’s smaller and regional Down syndrome associations. The Association provides support to persons with Down syndrome and their families through educational activities for parents, teachers, and speech and occupational therapists, as well as through the promotion of better employment and education standards among adults and children with Down syndrome. The Association currently encompasses eight regional organizations, whose work jointly helps persons with Down syndrome across Zagreb, Rijeka, Split, Međimurje County, Osijek-Baranja County, Zadar County, Dubrovnik-Neretva County, and Virovitica-Podravina County. | 10.110 € | |
Croatia | Karate Club Alfa | “Need balance? Karate can help in taking control of your body, mind and heart!” | Zagreb | Karate Club Alfa takes care of people of different age, as well as persons with disabilities. Through a variety of exercise and training programmes, they were there to help our members in navigating the pandemic with ease. Results in 2021 include seven gold, three silver, and six bronze medals, including the bronze medal our cadet Dino Huić won at the European Championship in Finland, and the bronze medal our senior para-athlete Daniela Topić won at the European Championship in Poreč, earning herself place at the World Championship in Dubai. The new programme focuses on activities aimed at boosting immunity, mental health, lung health, diabetes prevention, and coordination. | 1.732 € | |
Croatia | Udruga Kolibrići -The Hummingbirds Association | Special Needs Kids- Pediatric Adaptive Equipment | Zagreb | The Association Kolibrići (The Hummingbirds) was founded at the initiative of parents of critically endangered children, with the aim of ensuring and improving basic living conditions. Most children are unable to speak, move, breathe independently and are dependent on the appliances that keep them alive. Parents have been trained in intensive care units so that they can take care of their children at home instead of putting them in an institution. The Croatian Health Insurance Fund covers the costs of required aids up to 40%, the rest of the amount is expected to be covered by parents. The Association helps parents to get medical beds, transfer elevators, bathing aids, adjusted car seats, stand aids, cough assist machines and back up devices so that potential break down would not additionally threaten the child's life. | 3.970 € | |
Croatia | Vukovar butterflies | Igraonica za Vukovarske Leptiriće | Vukovar | The aim of the project is to ensure that the ability to socialize in children with disabilities and children in economic conditions is realized, introducing recreational activity to increase the potential of physical, psychological / cognitive capacity, due to the fact that of motivation, reduction of stress, ecc.), socialization and, in definite, a crescendo of felice. | 1.730 € | |
Croatia | Big Heart Small Heart | Big Heart Small Heart | Zagreb | Raccogliere le risorse materiali necessarie per l'acquisto di attrezzature mediche e ausili per la diagnosi e il trattamento adeguato dei bambini con cardiopatie congenite e altre gravi malattie cardiache. Organizzazione e costi di viaggio, alloggio e cardiochirurgia in patria e all'estero. | 1.134 € | |
Croatia | Krijesnica - Firefly - association for helping children and families facing malignant diseases | Support for parents with hospitalized children | Zagreb | L'Associazione Krijesnica fornisce gratuitamente supporto psicologico e sociale ai bambini e alle famiglie che affrontano patologie maligne. La priorità è il costo dell'alloggio per genitori e figli durante il ricovero a Zagabria e l'assistenza finanziaria una tantum per coprire il costo del trattamento all'estero. | 3.229 € | |
Croatia | Parents' Association Angels | Association Angels | Split | The Association of Parents for Children with the Most Severely Physically Handicapped and Children with Developmental Disabilities "Angels" has been operating as an independent association since July 8, 2005. The idea of founding the Association came from the fact that children with the most severe physical disabilities (completely immobile children) are not cared for by anyone but their families and that such children are completely cut off from society. The main purpose of the Association is to improve the quality of life of children with severe disabilities, both in Split-Dalmatia County and throughout the Republic Croatian. | 1.644 € | |
Croatia | Life with celiac disease | A project to establish comprehensive care for children with celiac disease | Zagreb | The project of establishing comprehensive care for children with celiac disease includes a series of activities aimed at key stakeholders in child care, with the aim of increasing their skills and creating inclusive practices and policies in general, to protect the physical and mental health of children as vulnerable groups. The aim of the program is to sensitize children in the environment of a sick child (kindergarten group or classroom), ie to ensure the preservation of his health, normal psychological and emotional development, unhindered socialization and prevention of child’s resistance to a gluten free diet, especially in puberty. |
636 € | |
Croatia | Mary's Meals | School meals for Mkawu Primary School, Neno Region, Southern Malawi | Zagreb | The goal is to raise funds for 2 classes of children / 80 meals in Malawi. Mary's meals provides children with a hot school meal and educational opportunity, thus giving the prospect of a way out of poverty. Even under the conditions of COVID 19, we have not stopped activities to support children to attend school, or, if this is not possible, to receive a meal by delivery. |
5.220 € |
Country | Non profit organization | Project Name | City | Project description | Total (Colleagues + Foundation) | |
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Czech Republic | Hospice of St. Štěpána | End-of-life patient care | Litoměřice | The end of life is a difficult but also an important period. Important for those who leave and for those who stay. And we at the hospice believe that it can be beautiful. After all, just as the setting sun paints the most beautiful contours in the landscape, so the early evening of life can shed new light on the life lived. | 3.819 € | |
Czech Republic | Helppes | Helppes - integration of people with disabilities into society | Praha 5 | The mission of our organization is the integration of people with disabilities into society and the team, their return to active life, inclusion in the educational or work process, expanding opportunities for their autonomy, gaining greater self-sufficiency, independence, and self-confidence. | 3.465 € | |
Czech Republic | Lvíčata section - STTO - Association of tourist and camping sections | Contribution to new washbasins | Praha 4, Lhotka | The washrooms at the camp are coming to an end, the department would like to buy new ones in stainless steel (approx. CZK 30,000) or at least galvanized steel (less than CZK 20,000). | 1.704 € | |
Czech Republic | Mobile hospice Ondrášek | When children leave...before should... | Ostrava - Zábřeh | Association aims: - make terminally ill children their days better - help to prepare home conditions for the care of the patient - treat, apply palliative care, provide relief - show how to care - accompany the whole family - provide psychological care for adults and children and their parents - be always ready to go and help - care 24 hours a day - help during the mourning period |
14.363 € | |
Czech Republic | Mozaika z.s. | Support for families with children or "Discover the world with Mosaic" | Lovosice | Non-profit organization, established in 2010, aimed to support families with children, strengthen parental competencies and values, educate entire families and offer quality leisure time. | 400 € | |
Czech Republic | Laguna Psáry | Laguna Psáry Home | Psáry | Support for children with mental disabilities | 5.376 € | |
Czech Republic | Culture in the palm of your hand | Culture in the palm of your hand | Praha | Support for children's leisure activities | 2.438 € | |
Czech Republic | Lata - programs for youth and family | Two are better than one | Praha 1 | Most of us surely remember someone who at some point in our lives was a guide to confide in, a source of inspiration, a role model, someone in the right place at the right time. But what would it be like for us if such a person hadn't been there? The people involved in the Two Doe program answer this question best. Children and adolescents from 12 years of age who do not have close people in their lives to help them cope with difficult life situations, be they family, friends or peers. The relationship quality deficit can be well compensated for by peer mentoring, in which a young person and a volunteer mentor of the same age carry out joint activities and create a friendly relationship based on a sense of security, acceptance and trust. This is why for over 25 years in Lata tutors have been trained by trained volunteers (70 per year, for as many young people), who are much closer to young people than professionals and adult authorities. |
3.670 € | |
Czech Republic | Ramus, z.s. | Ramus is and will be | Prague | Ramus organizes free-time events for young people with and w/o disabilities such as summer camps under teepee, weekends at vicarages and scout clubhouses or evening activities in Prague. Since start of pandemic, some events for clients has had to be shortened or cancelled as well as fundraising events. Therefore, UniCredit has become the largest donator by far last year. | 5.987 € | |
Czech Republic | ALDENTE Theater | "You're normal! (?)" - children with Down syndrome play theater with the support of professional actors | Brno | For seven years there has been a theater in Brno that blurs the line between what is normal and what "deviates" from what is considered standard. The theater involves child actors with Down's Syndrome, who are gradually growing as co-creators of theatrical performances with distinctive theatrical poetics. | 4.537 € | |
Czech Republic | Endowment fund Chances for oncocks | Endowment fund Chances for oncocks | Přeštice | The Chances for Oncocks Foundation was established in December 17, 2014 with the intention of materially and financially help children with birth defects, children with other serious ones disease, children in cancer treatment and 2 years after its termination. | 5.835 € | |
Czech Republic | Green Life Foundation | Support for young footballers | Praha 8 | Support for young players between 5 and 15 who grow up in difficult social and economic conditions. | 2.300 € | |
Czech Republic | Klub Art 4 People | Klub Art 4 People | Praha | Dance Club is a non-profit organization that aims to promote physical development, sportsmanship, social ties and a healthy lifestyle in children and adolescents, even online at the time of Covid-19. | 4.570 € | |
Czech Republic | HALAHOJ | Helping small campers with the acquisition of a camp kitchen | Třebíč | The student club has been involved in "quality leisure time" and the development of children and young people for two decades. Organize camps, regular meetings, a tea room, dance nights, and nature and adventure trips. Now he needs help in purchasing the new kitchen and dining room in the camp, which will be needed by the young people at the entrance. | 2.470 € | |
Czech Republic | La Vida Loca | Life in a suitcase | Praha 10 | A project to support the healthy development of children who are placed in infant care or foster care; a symbolic briefcase with unique contents for each abandoned child, containing, among other things, the Book of Life - in which all important data from the child's first years are entered. The project is enthusiastically welcomed by social workers, foster parents and adoptive parents - so far they have not received any information about the child (except health data) and it has not been possible to follow up on the child's life story. La Vida Loca aims to expand the project to all 60 maternity hospitals in the Czech Republic, so that it becomes an automatic part of the practice at the birth of a baby intended for adoption. | 3.870 € | |
Czech Republic | Doctor clown Association | Medical clowns for seriously ill children | Praha 9 | The Medical Clown is a charity that has been helping pediatric patients through the smiling treatment process since 2001. There are 86 professional Health Clowns in the Czech Republic, who regularly visit 62 hospitals. The mission of the Medical Clowns is to create a relaxed environment not only in medical facilities, but to bring joy and good mood to places where there is not much of them. The medical clown wants to reduce the stress not only of the patients, but also of their parents and relatives, and at the same time bring the medical staff themselves out of the stereotype. The medical clown has a number of programs for sick children. As part of the Health Clown Festival, health clowns come to children's wards of hospitals to prescribe laughter, dispel stress and sadness, encourage small patients and prescribe more than a large amount of humor. The aim of such a Clown is to mentally separate the child patient from his illness and mental discomfort, to engage him with the game, to involve him in it and thus conjure a smile on the child's face. In the NOS program, medical clowns accompany small patients and their parents to the operating room. The Child Program is an individual program where a medical clown becomes a long-term support and partner of a child with a serious diagnosis who is hospitalized for a long time. In the Slippers program we have medical clowns behind a seriously ill child right to his home. |
5.775 € | |
Czech Republic | Sportovní club Jedličkova ústavu Praha z.s. | Sports club of the Jedlička Institute in Prague | Praha 2 | Support for sport for disabled children | 4.740 € | |
Czech Republic | The road to the dream, z.s. | Lioness 2021 - sports trainers for handicapped children | Praha 6 | A fundraising for payment of multifunctional trainers that help in the complete rehabilitation of handicapped children, namely children with mobility problems, often in wheelchairs. | 6.080 € | |
Czech Republic | Archdiocesan Charity Prague | Asylum Home of St. Terezie in Karlín | Praha | Help for the socially disadvantaged and the homeless during the covid, including help with vaccinations and the acquisition of respirators. | 5.335 € | |
Czech Republic | DOBRÝ ANDĚL (Good Angel) Foundation | Support for the DOBRÝ ANDĚL foundation helping families with children in difficult life situations | Praha 5 | The goal of the Dobrý anděl Foundation is to help overcome the difficult life situation that families with children find themselves in very quickly after the onset of an oncological or other serious illness. I contributi degli Angeli Buoni vengono ridistribuiti ogni mese fino all'ultimo centesimo |
3.563 € | |
Czech Republic | Home - Plzeňská hospicová péče, z.ú. | Let´s help keep mobile hospice care of "Domov" in the full extent | Plzen | "Domov" is the only mobile hospice care in Pilsen region, helping families of pacients with an incurable disease to take care of their beloved ones for the final phase of their lives in their homes. "Domov" is a small organisatisation; due to pandemic, many donors lost their income and as such, hospice "Domov" lost the main source of income, meaning they are forced to limit their services to the very minimum. | 10.644 € |
Country | Non profit organization | Project Name | City | Project description | Total (Colleagues + Foundation) | |
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Germany | Doctors without borders | Doctors without borders | Berlin | Doctors Without Borders is active in more than 70 countries in the fight against Coronavirus. Activities were tailored to individual countries based on the course of the disease. European countries such as Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Ukraine and the Netherlands were helped to an unprecedented extent. | 22.980 € | |
Germany | Angelman e. V. | Angelman-Syndrom | Korschenbroich | The Angelman Association is a self-help association of parents for parents whose children were born with Angelman syndrome. The result of the genetic defect is a severe mental and physical disability. The aim of the association is to establish an Angelman Centre in Germany. Here, the children will have the opportunity to be treated symptomatically by specialists for the first time. | 7.890 € | |
Germany | Initiative krebskranke Kinder München e. V. | Initiative Children with Cancer Munich | München | Giving strength together - Founded in 1985, the initiative supports the cancer ward of the Schwabing Children's Hospital by funding specialist staff in paediatric oncology. |
12.138 € | |
Germany | Jambo Bukoba e. V. | Jambo Bukoba | München | Education, health and equal opportunities for children and young people in Tanzania. | 28.030 € | |
Germany | KlinikClowns Bayern e. V. | KlinikClowns Bayern e. V. | Freising | Putting the smile back on their faces! The Klinik Clowns aim to relieve the stress of sick children while in hospital. | 8.980 € | |
Germany | OPC Deutschland Hilfe für Kinder in Thailand e. V. | Germany Help for Children in Thailand | Hamburg | Aid for children in Thailand and Myanmar. Founded in 2009 by HVB employees and their dependents, O.P.C is a nonprofit organisation that aims to help socially disadvantaged and politically persecuted children (with and without parents) in Thailand and Myanmar. | 11.890 € | |
Germany | Patenprojekt Atiquizaya e. V. | Sponsorship project Atiquizaya | Berlin | "Education is the best chance to secure a future for yourself and your country". Education project in El Salvador. | 9.980 € | |
Germany | Humedica e.V. | Humedica | Kaufbeuren | The association gives children real Christmas joy with a lovingly packed gift package (20 Euro per package). | 5.460 € | |
Germany | Von Philipp Foundation | Von Philipp Foundation | Neuburg a. d. Donau | The Von Philipp Foundation, founded in 1999, is operating effectively and unbureaucratically in Germany and abroad. One focus of the foundation is education. Since 2008 the V.P. Foundation is supported by HVB employees via GMP. Since that time there are sponsorships by HVB employees for orphans and children from broken homes at "Rainbow Children Home. Pokhara, Nepal". | 4.242 € | |
Germany | "The Ark" children's foundation Christian children and youth work | "The Ark" children's foundation Christian children and youth work | Berlin | In the fight against child poverty in Germany, Arche is particularly committed to children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds. The association was founded in 1995 in Berlin-Hellersdorf on the initiative of Pastor Bernd Siggelkow. In the meantime, there are about 25 locations nationwide, where more than 4,000 children and young people are reached. |
5.400 € | |
Germany | Mercy Ships Deutschland e.V. | Mercy Ships Germany | Landsberg | Our little patients: children on board. The aim is the treatment of cleft lip and palate and the orthopedic correction of deformed limbs. All children are accompanied by a family member and lovingly cared for by our pediatric nurses and caregivers. Many of them can finally return to school after their recovery on board and thus have the best prerequisites for a successful future. |
2.000 € | |
Germany | Pfennigparade Foundation | Pfennigparade Foundation | München | Create opportunities. Shape the future. The Pfennigparade runs nurseries, schools, outpatient and inpatient housing facilities, as well as workshops for physically disabled children and young people. | 3.030 € | |
Germany | World Vision Deutschland e. V. | World Vision Germany | Friedrichsdorf | World Vision is a Christian aid organization with 70 years of experience in development cooperation. Through targeted help for self-help, we support children, families and their environment in the fight against poverty and injustice. | 9.393 € | |
Germany | Plan International Deutschland e. V. | Plan International Germany | Hamburg | Plan International is an independent organization for development cooperation and humanitarian aid. Girls and boys should have the same rights and opportunities worldwide and the chance to actively shape their future. | 18.514 € | |
Germany | Evangelical Lutheran parish of Ismaning/Unterföhring | Förderkreis Tansaniahilfe - Tanzania aid | Ismaning | The “Tansaniahilfe Ismaning/Unterföhring” is an institution under the umbrella of the Protestant Church, which carries the partnership with Kitandililo in southern Tanzania. The aim of the project is the subsidiary assumption of training costs for school leavers to become mechanics. This very comprehensive and broad education leads to the fact that the graduates can then take over a wide variety of manual tasks in their villages and thus contribute to the family income. Half of all trainees are girls, who contribute to changing the sometimes very traditional social thinking of society in the long term. |
4.210 € | |
Germany | Mc Donald's children help | Ronald McDonald House Munich at the German Heart Center | München | The Ronald McDonald House Munich at the German Heart Centre offers families of seriously ill children a temporary home. Since 1995, the relatives of young heart patients have been able to live here during their treatment. The completely rebuilt new building with 24 flats was occupied at the end of December 2012. The families in the Ronald McDonald House are united by the common fate of their children. Parents, sometimes also siblings or grandparents of children with heart defects who are being treated at the heart centre live here. This bond brings the families together particularly strongly. In the Ronald McDonald House, they support each other and are happy about small and big progress together. |
2.280 € | |
Germany | Fruchtalarm gGmbH | Fruchtalarm | Bielefeld | "Fruchtalarm' is a project against children's cancer. Once a week, a mobile children's cocktail bar runs along the corridors of many children's cancer wards in Germany. Various colourful and tasty fruit cocktails are created with various juices, nectars and syrups. Young patients mix the delicious drinks directly at their bedside according to their wishes. "Fruchtalarm" thus promotes activity, self-determination and joie de vivre and offers a moment of entertainment for seriously ill children and adolescents in their daily clinical routine. | 1.750 € | |
Germany | Care-for-Rare Foundation Kinderspital der LMU | Research on rare diseases in children and adolescents | München | The Care-for-Rare Foundation was set up to give children with rare diseases faster access to modern diagnostics and innovative treatment methods. Their diseases are so rare that young patients do not receive the attention they need from society, politics and the pharmaceutical industry in order to be cured. One of the ongoing projects is under construction in Munich: Bavaria's first special clinic for children and young people suffering from "Long-Covid". | 4.950 € | |
Germany | Stiftung Kinderklinik München Schwabing | Design and equipment of playrooms in the new building of the children's clinic | München | The Foundation of the Schwabing Children's Clinic in Munich is committed to child-friendly design in the new building of the Schwabing Children's Clinic. The project includes colourful corridors and playrooms and equips them in a child-friendly manner. Further projects of the Foundation are the construction of a parents' house on the clinic premises, care for siblings of young long-term patients and the construction of new playgrounds in the area of the new clinic building. | 2.710 € | |
Germany | Foundation Scouting | Try to leave the world a little better than you found it | Giessen | Going on a trip together, setting up camp, living in nature, doing sports and making music - this and much more inspires young people in scouting. Those who are involved with the scouts can discover their strengths, get involved in the community and learn to take on responsibility at an early stage. The Foundation supports projects throughout Germany to integrate the socially disadvantaged or young people with a migration background, to deal with new media and technologies, to protect the environment or to set up new scout groups. | 2.100 € | |
Germany | Mary's Meals Deutschland e.V. | A simple solution to world hunger | Mainz | Mary's Meals is a charity with a simple idea that works: by providing one good meal in a place of learning, children are drawn into the classroom where they can receive an education that could one day free them from poverty. It costs only €18.30 to feed a child for one year. | 15.651 € | |
Germany | Future for Children of the World e.V. | School project | Diessen | "Future for the children of the world e. V." is a politically and confessionally independent registered charity, particularly committed to helping children in need in Cambodia and Myanmar (Burma). | 6.350 € | |
Germany | German Committee for UNICEF e.V. | German Committee for UNICEF | Köln | Every child in the world has the right to a childhood. UNICEF is there to make that right a reality, at the side of girls and boys in over 190 countries. Together with its supporters, UNICEF provides every third child worldwide with vaccines, equips schools and advocates politically for children's rights. | 5.892 € | |
Germany | Learning to live together | Learning to Live Together, Integration Living Communities and Outpatient Service | München | In Munich, the association is committed to ensuring that people with disabilities live integrated in our society. Not in special worlds, but just like everyone else. Outpatient service supports and advises families with a disabled relative. Through this offer of support, children with disabilities can participate in life in school, leisure and culture. People with and without disabilities live together in our flat-sharing community. "Learning to leave together" is a lively association of people with disabilities, their families and friends. A place of encounter, exchange and solidarity. | 1.960 € | |
Germany | Phoenix Foundation e.V. | Phoenix Foundation | München | The Phoenix Foundation e.V. is a charitable funding organization that financially supports children and youth projects. Central to the initiative, which was founded in 2016, are welfare, development and education to help create a better livelihood and well-being for less privileged children and youths globally but also on our own doorstep. The Phoenix Foundation wants to provide the opportunity to bring funds to the places and projects that need them the most – without being lost in the complex machinery of bureaucracy. That is why they work closely with established local partners, that are able to find timely solutions together with the people concerned and are guided by their interest in the holistic well-being of all humans. One example of such a project is the cooperation with the Munich-based association ghettokids - Soziale Projekte e.V., which supports children and young people from Turkey, Greece, Albania and Kosovo with a variety of programmes. | 2.600 € | |
Germany | Tür an Tür – Digitalfabrik gGmbH | Digital bridges for integration work | Augsburg | The "Door to door digital fabric" builds digital bridges with numerous projects to facilitate integration work. Projects such as the expansion of WLAN in refugee accommodations, computer courses for children, the vocabulary trainer "Lunes", or the app "Integreat", which provides local Corona information, among others, support children and young people and especially families in arriving and settling in Germany. | 2.240 € | |
Germany | Assisi Solidale con i Bambini del Mondo Onlus | Assisi in Solidarity - A path of hope for the children in the world aided with devotion by the Franciscan Sisters of Assisi | Assisi | The program is carried out by the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Assisi who help children in 14 countries with food, medicine and education. In addition to single donations, also children sponsorships are possible. | 5.780 € | |
Germany | Tusiima Nawanyago e.V. | Lending library for Nawanyago | Gemmingen | Tusiima Nawanyago e.V. is a registered non-profit association for the sustainable improvement of the living conditions of the people in Nawanyago, a village in eastern Uganda. The idea for the project was born after Florian Kistler from Gemmingen did his voluntary service at the Nawanyago Health Centre in 2012/2013. In order to be able to provide sustainable aid in the long term, the association Tusiima Nawanyago e.V. was founded in 2017. Its goals include promoting the education of children and young people as well as promoting and maintaining the health of the people in Nawanyago. With the donations from the Gift Matching Program, the association would like to provide a small library with picture and reading books, but also non-fiction books, for the children of the village, in order to sustainably improve the local living conditions through education. There is no library in the far vicinity, but only in the capital Kampala, 130 km away. | 2.802 € | |
Germany | Lebenshilfe Leipzig e. V. | Lebenshilfe Leipzig e. V. | Leipzig | Lebenshilfe Leipzig e.V. is an association for people with disabilities and their families and relatives. It runs a laboratory in the field of integration assistance and trains mentally disabled young people in the professional field. It manages three residential houses, several residential groups and also provides outpatient care for people with disabilities in and around Leipzig. | 3.550 € | |
Germany | Great moments Association | Sternstunden | München | For around 28 years, Sternstunden has been taking responsibility for sick, disabled and needy children - in Bavaria, in Germany as well as worldwide - and providing help as quickly and straightforwardly as possible. | 7.890 € | |
Germany | Stoffwechsel e.V. | Natural Horsemanship for Children | Dresden | For some children, being in contact with horses is a pipe dream because families do not have the financial means, or the stables are far from home. With the support offered, it will be possible to offer a weekly pedagogical-therapeutic riding activity. Through the relationship with horses, children learn social skills such as frustration tolerance, perseverance, error management, empathic communication. | 2.380 € | |
Germany | Hand in Hand for Kenia e. V. | School program in Kenya | Edling | Children's home for orphans from the slums of Nairobi. The donations will be used to build a boarding school. | 3.122 € | |
Germany | Aufwind-Mannheim e.V. | Child poverty in Mannheim is more real than you think | Mannheim | In the AUFWIND premises, children share their daily life. Lunch together, supervised homework, play. If a child's shoes are broken, they are replaced. If a child always has to go to the dentist, they practice brushing their teeth together. The work doesn't end with basic services. You work on self-confidence and self-esteem, because this is how children become people who successfully master their own lives: they feel part of the community, they are assigned a task, they learn new things. | 2.450 € | |
Germany | Foundation outpatient children's hospice Munich | Munich Outpatient Children's Hospice Foundation | München | Since 2004, the Outpatient Children's Hospice Foundation Munich - AKM has been caring for families with terminally ill and life-threateningly seriously ill unborn babies, newborns, children, adolescents and young adults in Munich and throughout Bavaria. The team of full-time doctors, psychologists, nurses and social workers is supported by over 250 volunteers. The aim is to be a firm support for families during this difficult time and to provide moments of safety, security and normality. |
3.890 € |
Country | Non profit organization | Project Name | City | Project description | Total (Colleagues + Foundation) | |
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Hungary | Hospital School Foundation | Hospital School Program | Vecsés | Hospital School helps children who take months to recover from hospitalisation and subsequent rehabilitation to keep up with their peers in learning. The children are helped to learn and maintain a peer group during their illness and to reintegrate more quickly after recovery. | 2.794 € |
Country | Non profit organization | Project Name | City | Project description | Total (Colleagues + Foundation) | |
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Italy | WeWorld Onlus | Education Builds Bridges | Milan | This is an educational multi-project that wants to boost the commitment for a fairer educational environment. On this purpose, amongst others, WeWorld Onlus is hardly working on two sub-projects that we included in a single Gift Matching Program: 1) the former in Italy: our national project against early school leaving and educational poverty consists of a series of centers dedicated to children and young people at risk of early school leaving, as well as to their families. 2) the latter in Benin: it is aimed at ensuring quality education and intervening against all forms of violence against children, a very common phenomenon in Benin, both in the family and in the community. |
3.040 € | |
Italy | Toolou Khady - Il giardino di Khady Onlus | Toolou Khady - Khady Onlus garden | Milan | Toolou Khady - Khady Onlus' garden with child sponsorships helps families living in the banlieues of Dakar (Senegal) that cannot attend the school, taking in charge the enrollment in kindergartens / primary / secondary / high schools / vocational training courses. |
4.640 € | |
Italy | Fondazione Francesca Rava – N.P.H. Italia Onlus | Give again a home to children of NPH schools in Haiti | Milan | The aim of the project is to give again a home to the families of children attending NPH schools in the department of Grand Anse, in Haiti. The Francesca Rava Foundation tirelessly continues to provide relief and organize the first reconstruction interventions after the 7.2 intensity earthquake that struck the western provinces on 14 August; the tremors were felt throughout the island and it is estimated that it caused more than 2.200 deaths, 12.000 injuries, 136.000 buildings destroyed or damaged. | 3.690 € | |
Italy | Fondazione Piero e Lucille Corti | Lacor Hospital Uganda - Supporting most fragile | Milan | Lacor Hospital (Northern Uganda) yearly vaccinates and takes care of 80.000 children and assists 10.000 births. In a country where the infant mortality rate is still very high (52 out of 1,000 children do not reach the age of 5 years), about 80% of the hospital's patients are mothers and children under the age of 6. The funds raised will support the operating costs of the hospital wards and clinics. The ongoing Covid-19 epidemic makes even more important Fondazione Corti’s work in favor of the most vulnerable part of the population. | 3.214 € | |
Italy | Associazione Pro Terra Sancta | Children Home | Milan | "Safe place for the little ones of Bethlehem": support for the Franciscan House of the Child in Bethlehem. | 4.596 € | |
Italy | AIPLM - Associazione Italiana Pazienti Leucemia Mieloide Cronica | Cooking Academy for Family and Kids against Covid-19 | Milan | We want to devote time to conviviality during meals with the whole family, preparing meals together, the table and encouraging toddlers and children to have a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and legumes by good example. Healthy eating shared with loved ones brings wellness to the body and mind. Knowing the foods allows to choose what to prepare and what to eat in order to strengthen our immune system and to better fight viruses and bacteria, especially Covid-19. | 3.980 € | |
Italy | Amici dei Popoli ONG | Are you still taking me to school? | Bologna | Amici dei Popoli NGO aims to raise awareness of the issues of poverty and inequality that still affect many countries and the fundamental role of civil society and individual citizens to promote a path of transformation of the global society in which we live. In particular, it aims to ensure the education and schooling of the younger generations. | 12.450 € | |
Italy | Associazione IRIS ODV | Let's give a future | Casalnoceto (AL) | Iris Association follows patients with CAPS-CINCA (rare genetic diseases). The project "Donate a future" wants to give a future to Katia and to six children suffering from CINCA (rare genetic disease) followed in Ukraine by dr. Yuri Stepanovsky at the Ukrainian Association of Pediatric Immunology NGO in Kiev. With this contribution we will be able to give hope, while waiting for the medicine to become available in Ukraine. Katia is one of the 4,000 children closely followed worldwide by the Giannina Gaslini Institute in Genoa regarding the aforementioned pathology. | 1.420 € | |
Italy | Associazione di Volontariato Il Noce ODV | Casa Mamma Bambino del Noce | Casarsa della Delizia (PN) | Casa Mamma Bambino del Noce has been operating since 2012. It has welcomed 28 mothers with 46 children in 4 apartments. Mothers in need are supported in the search for economic independence, through the search for a job and with interventions to support parenting. | 8.250 € | |
Italy | CBM Italia Onlus | AAA Let's go further with Born to see | Milan | In Latin America premature babies are at risk of going blind forever due to Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP), a disease that affects 15 million newborns every year but which only 0.5% of ophthalmologists in the world are able to treat. To prevent children from losing their sight, periodic visits and timely treatments with lasers or medications are essential. Last year thanks to the GMP 2020 4,820 € were collected that helped to visit and treat in Bolivia about 600 premature babies. This year we want to continue on this path and to contribute helping more than 1800 premature babies in Bolivia and Guatemala. |
2.830 € | |
Italy | Associazione Mercurio | The colors of emotions | Milan | The pandemic has affected all of us - adults, young people and children - emotionally and in situations of discomfort. Recent studies reveal a significant increase in fears in children, highlighting the importance of implementing interventions aimed at contributing to a renewed collective well-being. Since April 2021, the project "The Colors of Emotions" brings in some elementary school in Lombardy (in Milan and Pavia, soon in Bergamo) creative workshops designed to help children to deal with their fragility, to counteract psychological distress, to open a space for sharing and listening, to know and express emotions. | 1.984 € | |
Italy | Comunità Promozione e Sviluppo | Yambangai for the children of the Congo | Castellammare di Stabia (NA) | The Development Promotion Community is a non-governmental organization (NGO) recognized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, operating in various Emerging Countries. In Congo Brazzaville supports the Yambangai Orphanage where it helps, without distinction, all the orphaned children of the numerous civil wars that have devastated the country and other indignant children who are saved from starvation and who receive affection, care and food. | 3.130 € | |
Italy | Associazione Nassigh per la Cura di chi Cura – CxC | Comuni-care | Milan | The association CxC promotes in society a different vision of disability and the full realization of all abilities. The project "Comuni-care" offers a free course of support to the relationship and communication for children and young people with disabilities, non-verbal. The aim is to support the family in recognizing the communication potential and thinking capacity of children even when verbal language and motor skills are severely impaired and to help them understand messages and languages beyond traditional communication patterns. Meetings are scheduled with the child/youth and parents to learn alternative communication strategies, including literacy, as outlined in the ISAAC (International Society for Alternative Communication) guidelines. | 3.940 € | |
Italy | STEM (Associazione per lo studio del malato ematologico) | STEM against the pandemic | Milan | The association STEM (Association for the study of haematological patients) has been working since 1997 in the field of haematological pathologies, in particular of the rarest forms, sometimes little known and therefore difficult to diagnose. Thanks to the valuable collaboration of its volunteers, STEM aims to welcome and assist patients from the first contacts with the hospital, offering adequate information to them and their families. In addition, the association supports research and training of doctors, biologists, health workers and volunteers in the field of rare hematological diseases. The funds received through the Gift Matching 2021 initiative will contribute, in this moment of pandemic, to enhance the telemedicine activities for patients with hematological diseases (sending exams and reports via email with therapeutic advice, teleconsultations via telephone and teleconferencing with common platforms), with the benefit of reducing the movement of people (family members, care-givers, etc.). |
3.710 € | |
Italy | Fondazione ADVAR Onlus | Support with us the dignity of life | Treviso | AdVar Onlus Foundation, takes care of terminal cancer patients and their families, both at home and in the Hospice Casa dei Gelsi. After the Covid-19 pandemic, it had to bear, and still sustains, huge expenses to equip itself with all the devices necessary to ensure maximum safety both for the hospitalization of the patients, for staff services, for access to the Hospice of family members and volunteers. To ensure maximum disinfection of the environments, and to comply with all anti Covid-19 regulations, it was necessary to increase the cleaning shifts and to adopt a whole series of measures which involved a considerable waste of energy and financial resources. |
13.410 € | |
Italy | F.O.P. Italia ODV | Spring Seed Grant 2021 | Sabbionara d'Avio (TN) | The Spring Seed Grant initiative provides funding for a research project on Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiv (a rare pediatric disease) lasting up to one year, in collaboration with Fondazione Telethon, with a budget of € 50.000, open to all researchers working in Italian public or private non-profit research facilities. | 6.360 € | |
Italy | Madian Orizzonti Onlus | Supporting poor children in Haiti | Turin | Supporting the poor children in Haiti | 9.550 € | |
Italy | Caritas Children Onlus | Children sponsorships | Parma | The purpose of the Association is to promote and carry out any action and initiative aimed at protecting the rights of children and youth regardless of ethnic, social, religious, gender and age, mainly through the promotion and implementation of child sponsorships. | 3.264 € | |
Italy | Associazione Italiana sulla Sindrome di Wolf Hirschhorn (AISiWH OdV) | WHS-Epilepsy Project | Montecosaro (MC) | The Italian Association for Wolf Hirschhorn Syndrome (AISiWH) promotes a series of activities aimed, among others, at the dissemination of information on the syndrome. It is a point of reference for all new families who may have children with the syndrome, in order to provide them with cognitive support, share experiences, and provide human support for the acceptance and management of issues related to disability. Among the various problems that afflict individuals affected by Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome, there are several ways of manifestation of the epileptic illness that afflicts patients generally from the earliest years of life until they reach puberty. The WHS-Epilepsy Project, which AISiWH intends to support through fundraising made possible by participation in the Gift Matching Program, will support the main Italian research centers and their international collaborations. | 4.380 € | |
Italy | Fondazione SERMIG | Arsenale della Piazza | Turin | Animation and education project of Sermig-Arsenale della Pace, aimed at children living in the multi-ethnic neighborhood of Porta Palazzo, in Turin, and their families. In an area characterized by widespread problems of illegality, with a high number of families with economic, housing and social difficulties, it is a space for dialogue where everyone speaks Italian, where children and young people with different cultures and religions meet every day, learning to respect and love each other, to become good Italian citizens. The recipients of the project are 90 children from elementary school, 60 pre-adolescents from secondary school, 80 adolescents from secondary school or university students. Recipients are provided with school support in a ratio of 1:1 or 1:2, educational workshops with playful and experimental methods; sports club A.S.D. Sermig: 6 five-a-side soccer teams and 2 volleyball teams registered in the FIGC and UISP championships of the category; psychomotricity workshops, social circus, singing and music, basketball, aikido, street education, social secretariat service, psychological support desk, workshops for families. | 21.954 € | |
Italy | Associazione Amici della Bolivia ODV | Guarderia Divino nino | Verona | In Santa Cruz, plan Tres Miles, the association supports a creche/nursery wich accomodates about 100 children (1/3 years), contributing to the payment of the Guarderia workers salaries, electricity, gas bills and food for the children's canteen. | 18.740 € | |
Italy | Bhalobasa Onlus | Providing food and education for India's children | Perignano (PI) | For 30 years the Bhalobasa Non-Profit Organization has been helping poor children in the city of Calcutta (India) and in the surrounding rural areas by paying for their meals and education. Many thousands of long-distance supports have been activated, allowing children to attend schools (lower, higher and even university) and escape ignorance and child labor, especially in the "slums": clusters of shacks where thousands of families have arrived from the countryside to escape extreme poverty. With this economic aid children can attend school. | 3.050 € | |
Italy | Associazione Albero di Cirene ODV | Aurora | Bologna | The Association Albero di Cirene ODV is a voluntary association for the protection of life and the promotion of the dignity of the person. It has among its projects also AURORA. This project aims to help families with children from 0 to 3 years, through the provision of various products for children that families would have difficulty in buying. Clothing, shoes, food, toys and diapers are delivered directly to them every fifteen days. |
11.810 € | |
Italy | Banco di Solidarietà di Como – Onlus | Let's radiate hope | Como | In these months of the Covid-19 pandemic, the most fragile families find themselves in difficulty also for the educational, social and psychological needs of the children. With the " Irraggiamo speranza " campaign in support of the " Pomeriggio insieme " project, the Banco di Solidarietà wants to combat educational and relational poverty by providing a space for study and play in which volunteers and educators welcome children, offer them help for homework and involve them in moments of socialization through play. The funds will be used to set up the spaces with the necessary furnishings and tools and to support homework and socialization activities. Each child will be given a "school kit". Furthermore, to support 350 families in difficulty, already helped with the monthly food package, the Banco di Solidarietà di Como launches the “Più luce per tutti” initiative by distributing school materials. | 1.300 € | |
Italy | Associazione Variopinto | Our ME TOO: 3,000 euros to double the Atelier de Couture Nyampinga, a small workshop for the great future of special girls | Limbiate | There are girls for whom Covid was just another wall to climb towards the future. A wall that came after poverty, abandonment, the streets and prostitution. In the suburbs of Kigali, in Rwanda, for some of them the hope of a future is called Atelier de Couture Nyanpinga, a sewing workshop, created with the aim of reintegrating these girls through employment. Here, the girls first attend a literacy course, then a professional sewing course and then begin to work. Today, the Atelier makes traditional clothes and school uniforms and, with the colored scraps of the magnificent African fabrics, the bags that enclose Variopinto's solidarity panettone cakes. Today, the atelier has 11 stations and there is a great desire to double them. We can do it by raising 3,000 euros. This is the amount needed to install 10 "almost new" manual sewing machines, enlarge the atelier and prepare what is necessary to welcome and host the girls who knock on the door every day. | 4.290 € | |
Italy | Project For People Onlus | Cultivate the future | Milan | This project is aimed at fighting educational poverty that involves setting up one or more outdoor classrooms at the Istituto Comprensivo Statale 'Alda Merini' in Milan, where problems of social and economic hardship are rampant, with very negative consequences on the education of children. | 2.310 € | |
Italy | Fondazione IEO-Monzino | If I smell you, I'll help you | Milan | Teaching dogs, through their sense of smell, to identify the presence of the virus and recognize asymptomatic subjects affected by Covid 19 represents a rapid, non-invasive and versatile screening method to reduce the spread of the virus. For this reason, the European Institute of Oncology, in collaboration with the University of Milan and with the support of Confindustria Cisambiente, has started the clinical study "Se ti fiuto, ti aiuto" (If I sniff you, I help you), which involves training some dogs to sniff out Covid in asymptomatic people, exploiting the extraordinary power of their sense of smell. | 1.600 € | |
Italy | Scholé Bologna ODV | Together against educational poverty | Bologna | Scholé Bologna odv is a third sector association that manages a study help center thanks to the contribution of volunteer teachers. In this space, open to all and free of charge, students are helped to overcome school difficulties, receiving individual help or in small groups. Over time, the growing participation of new Italians from abroad has made Scholé an important point of social cohesion and integration. The situation determined by the health emergency has exacerbated the condition of discomfort and educational poverty in which most of the children who attend our center find themselves. Scholastic difficulties, and in particular the language difficulties of many of our foreign students, have worsened and the gaps are increasingly difficult to fill. | 4.455 € | |
Italy | Associazione Don Bosco 3A | Anti Covid 19 Security Protocol - "Señor de Pumallucay" School - Yungay Peru | Faenza (RA) | To allow the children of the school of Yungay in the Peruvian Andes managed by the association Mato Grosso to return to class in the upcoming new school year, it is necessary to adapt the school environments by dividing the library to prepare a new room to be used as an infirmary and to separate at least 3 of the current classrooms that, with the purchase of about 40 new single desks, would allow to divide the number of children in the classes and ensure their spacing. | 3.650 € | |
Italy | Associazione L'abilità Onlus | Read’n’play | Milan | The Read'n'Play project aims to use reading and play to design new training, inclusion and educational pathways for children with disabilities. Play and reading are not usually considered activities suitable for children with disabilities, but all children have the right to enjoy the pleasures of play and reading. However, children with disabilities need the right tools and the best conditions to do so. | 1.200 € | |
Italy | Il nodo infinito Onlus | Sakina School | Carugate (MI) | Sakina had been nicknamed "The blue girl of the Himalayas" in 2011 when Annalisa Fioretti (pulmonologist, mountaineer and founder of 'Il Nodo Infinito onlus') managed, by promoting a fundraising, to get her from Pakistan to Milan where she was operated for a serious heart malformation. Now Sakina is 13 years old and has expressed the desire to be able to STUDY: to attend the high school she must reach Skardu, the village closest to the village where she lives; the school lasts six years and the costs for transport, uniform, books, etc amount approximately to a thousand euros for each year. Il Nodo Infinito is a non-profit organization financing humanitarian projects in Nepal and providing help and education to school-age children. |
1.830 € | |
Italy | O.D.V. P.A.S.S.I. per il mondo | Guatemalan children | Selargius (CA) | Supporting the attendance of young people at the Dominican College San Martin de Porres in Dolores Peten, Guatemala; supporting the Peten Nutritional Center, coordinated by the Sisters of Charity, for malnourished children arriving from villages in the area. | 5.040 € | |
Italy | Fondazione Santa Rita da Cascia Onlus | Beehive of Santa Rita | Cascia (PG) | For over 80 years, the Monastery Santa Rita has been giving a nest to those who do not have one. The reception project of the Monastery Santa Rita da Cascia, hosts, every year, about 60 boys and girls in need of assistance and help. | 2.186 € | |
Italy | CIAI - Centro Italiano Aiuti all'Infanzia | Educational Support Italy | Milan | Take action against new vulnerabilities and, in particular, combat educational poverty and school dropout through territorial educational centers, afternoon centers where children reported by schools as particularly vulnerable are followed by educators, psychologists and expert operators. | 4.230 € | |
Italy | Sos Bambini Onlus | Waiting for the school | Milan | The project ”Waiting for school” has been active in several peripheral quarters of Milan since 2015 and aims to welcome children aged 3 to 5, free of charge, who are excluded from public kindergarten for various reasons. The main objective of the project is the development of the language and of the necessary skills to facilitate the subsequent inclusion of children in public primary school of the neighborhood. |
6.170 € | |
Italy | Associazione per gli Angeli ODV | An extra hand | Verolanuova (BS) | The Association has been operating since its establishment in 2013 in activities of social inclusion and support of various kinds towards disabled people from childhood to adolescence. The project aims to put activities and initiatives in support of children and adolescents with disabilities and their families, the subjects involved and beneficiaries of the initiatives are aged between 3 and 16 years and suffering from disabilities both mental and physical, the area of action is aimed at residents in the province of Brescia. Specifically, the project provides to create around each disabled person a network of people substantially composed of volunteers and therapists depending on the type of disability. The project simply foresees to support the families in the free time activities of the disabled subjects, to follow them in the activities of therapeutic sessions as well as to create initiatives and activities of socialization and social inclusion. | 8.700 € | |
Italy | Associazione Via Pacis Onlus | Training course in the Philippines | Arco (TN) | Child sponsorships and study support for children in Asian countries | 6.054 € | |
Italy | A.S.D. La grande sfida Onlus | The great challenge is knowing how to meet each other | Colognola ai Colli (VR) | Very often some boys/girls exclude themselves in order not to experience excessive frustration. Adapting sport to people means favoring the active participation of all, adapting spaces, times, rhythms, materials and rules to the abilities of the participants, looking for creative solutions that do not distort the essence of the preferred sport, but rather broaden its meaning and practicability in an inclusive perspective. This is a new way of experiencing sport and the limit as a generative opportunity. | 5.114 € | |
Italy | Fondazione AVSI | Remote support: find out how to become the protagonist of a friendship from another world! | Cesena | With child sponsorships each child is supported by an educator who tries to understand his or her needs and provide for his or her requirements: a personalized support, focused on the care of each child, which contributes to generate a positive change also for his or her family and community. Thanks to the donation of a supporter - a family, a school, an Italian company - AVSI ensures: the possibility to go to school, basic necessities (food, medicines, water, hygiene kits) and psychological and social support to the child; support to caregivers; community-wide actions such as awareness-raising campaigns on children's rights and the creation of savings and credit groups. | 30.604 € | |
Italy | Gruppo di solidarietà per il Brasile Vila Esperança | Vila Esperança: didactic material for online school | Verona | Vila Esperança runs several activities including a free elementary school, and offers the opportunity for these children to attend elementary school and guarantee three meals a day and school supplies and all complementary activities. It has been confirmed that the school that started in January has been closed in Brazil because the Covid situation is very serious. Vila Esperanca has taken steps to provide online school and extracurricular activities, such as capoeira, music, dance, etc.. |
15.180 € | |
Italy | Progetto Mondo | Amici di Keoogo | Verona | Support (through child sponsorships and donations) to the schooling of children and adolescents in Burkina Faso, providing material and psychological support to children and their families. | 6.030 € | |
Italy | CEFA Comitato Europeo per la Formazione e l'Agricoltura Onlus | Seeds of Future in Ethiopia | Bologna | CEFA "Seeds of future" project, Ethiopia. With a malnutrition rate of over 32%, food security is a major challenge for Ethiopia. 4.5 million people suffer from hunger due to the civil war, climate change and drought. Ethiopia has a population of around 100 million inhabitants of which 83% live in rural areas where agriculture is the only source of sustenance and income. CEFA intends to improve correct diet and efficient nursing styles that prevent child malnutrition in Oromia. CEFA will provide seed kits, tools and agricultural training in favor of a nutritious and sustainable diet: more than 600 families will be able to have better productions, greater variety diversification and a general healthier nutritional supply. | 3.640 € | |
Italy | Associazione Missionaria Sud chiama Nord | Girls' school in Lunsar, Sierra Leone | Reggio Emilia | Re-roofing of an area of the Our Lady Guadalupe Secondary Girls' School in Lunsar, Sierra Leone. | 7.050 € | |
Italy | Punto Missione Onlus | Cultivating Hope | Rodengo Saiano (BS) | Extension of the project Training of adolescents and young people in the agro-alimentary sector to provide them with a job and a future far from drug traffickers. An educational farm, known today as La Granja Sostenible, has been set up, where vegetables, eggs, chickens and cattle have a different look and taste from the conventional ones. The protection of the landscape, the environment and the territory has been promoted, and we have worked tirelessly with children and young people staying at the "City of God" run by the Carmelite Sisters, so that they could finish their studies and in some cases start a university career or their own productive activity. | 2.930 € | |
Italy | Ronda della Carità ODV | Pandemic emergency for the homeless | Verona | The health emergency has forced the association to radically change its service to the homeless. Before, only hot meals were served in bulk, prepared by friendly associations such as alpine troops, parish associations, etc.. Now the meals are served in single-serving containers sealed in cellulose pulp. The result has been to serve in a more dignified way meals of higher quality reducing waste and eliminating plastic, in full compliance with directives aimed at containing contagions. When the watchword was "stay at home", the patients, who do not have a home, found their only comfort in the Ronda della Carità. The number of meals per day has risen from an average of about 80 to almost 300. In addition to hot meals, volunteers distribute masks, gloves and medical supplies. Clothes are distributed only after careful disinfestation. Volunteers have also worked and are working in the health facilities in charge of vaccines. The number of families assisted with food parcels has doubled, putting a strain on the volunteers assigned to this service, which is also carried out at home. |
6.300 € | |
Italy | Golfini Rossi Onlus | The "Pappa di Parma" to combat child malnutrition in Tanzania | Bareggio (MI) | Child malnutrition, in rural areas of the Rukwa Region, represents a real social scourge with over 35% of children under five suffering from stunted growth, an indicator of chronic malnutrition, while 5% suffer from malnutrition acute. A scientific study by the University of Parma has shown how malnutrition can be countered, substantially reducing the use of water, too often contaminated, in children's diets to a minimum. This is how Pappa di Parma was born, a mix of local nutrients, calibrated to ensure correct nutritional intake. Golfini rossi onlus has been involved in activities for children in the Rukwa area for over 6 years. It has recently defined an education plan for the health personnel of the Mvimwa Dispensary, aimed at new mothers who give birth in the dispensary, but also for those who give birth at home in the adjacent rural areas. The project budget is 14,400 euros, including the training plan for the new mother (made by the cultural mediators and health personnel of the dispensary as well as by the 3 volunteers of the non-profit organization who will be in Mvimwa for this specific project in 2022) and a kit of equipment of Pappa di Parma for the first month of weaning of intercepted children (estimated at about 400). Economic value of the single production of Pappa di Parma 0.40 cents x 3 meals a day. |
4.340 € | |
Italy | Sorrisi O.D.V. | Spirulina for Kimbondo | Tollegno (BI) | Project to build a spirulina seaweed production plant for the children of the Kimbondo Pediatric Foundation. - In the Democratic Republic of Congo from 2018 to date, people affected by acute hunger have increased from 12.5 Million to 27 Million. - More than half of children in Congo suffer from malnutrition, which causes stunting and serious diseases such as rickets and anemia - Undernourished children have a very high risk of dying from normally treatable diseases. Clinical trials conducted in other African countries, including Benin and Cameroon, have ascertained that the daily administration of dried spirulina significantly improves recovery programs for malnourished patients, reducing mortality rates, especially in pediatric patients. According to FAO, spirulina is the super food of the future. Donations will help children receive an important nutritional supplement that will allow them to grow healthy every year! |
2.420 € | |
Italy | Hanuman Onlus | Happy Child - Happy Home 2021 | Vago di Lavagno (VR) | The Association has been working for 20 years in favor of disadvantaged children, with a focus in Eastern countries, in particular Nepal. During 2021, in addition to the long-distance support of 80 children with serious family problems, has undertaken extraordinary maintenance works of the "Happy Home", a Family House 4 hours by road from the capital Kathmandu. a Family House 4 hours by road from the capital Kathmandu. Realized 10 years ago, it welcomes 30 children; unfortunately the structure suffers from the erosion of monsoons and hot summer temperatures, and it needs a renewal of the waterproofing of the roof and the replacement of solar panels. The investment is supported thanks to donations from friends and colleagues. | 27.790 € | |
Italy | Cometa - Il Manto SCS | Close to you | Como | The territorial area of intervention of the project is located in the Lombardy Region, the Italian region most affected by the Covid-19 epidemiological emergency. In this general picture, the families of the area are slipping more and more into alarming levels of poverty. Every day, the children communicate forcefully: "We are hungry", "Don't leave us alone", "We want to continue studying". In the emergency, Il Manto has never stopped and does not intend to do so now: the children's words are ringing the alarm bells about their right to food, to psychological and relational health and to a quality education on which we must intervene promptly. Thanks to its decades of experience, its strong roots in the territory and its daily integrated work with local actors and services, Il Manto can monitor and respond to emerging needs in a resilient, flexible and immediate manner. | 1.900 € | |
Italy | ODV Luce sul mare | STXBP1 | Porto Tolle (RO) | STXBP1 is one of the proteins that allows neurons to communicate with each other through the release of neurotransmitters. The mutation and "malfunction" of this gene causes abnormalities in brain function. The first symptom that manifests itself are epileptic seizures, often in the first days of life of the child. From a developmental point of view, we see a wide spectrum of situations ranging from the acquisition, albeit incomplete, of certain activities (walking, saying a few words, eating alone) to the total absence of muscle tone and eye contact with, sometimes, the need for artificial nutrition. The diagnosis of this rare anomaly often arrives late and there is no shared protocol for the treatment of affected people. It is for this reason that the association STXBP1 Italy was born, aimed at protecting the right to social life of people affected by this anomaly. STXBP1 Italy and the voluntary organization "Luce sul Mare", born to protect the right to social and civil life of people with disabilities, collaborate to initiate initiatives to raise awareness through meetings, public initiatives and dissemination material on STXBP1 mutation, the problems and difficulties of people with this mutation and their families. | 1.020 € | |
Italy | L'Aurora Opere Educative Cooperativa sociale | Let's put them in wings - Support for disabled children | Cernusco sul Naviglio (MI) | The project stems from the discovery that children with disabilities who attend an equalitarian school no longer have the support paid by the Italian State from the first grade onwards, while it is partially covered in state secondary schools, but not in high schools. The choice of an equalitarian school by a family does not arise from the need for status but to ensure their child with special needs a support teacher appointed from the first day of school and not only from November as happens in state schools; in addition, in equalitarian schools, the support teacher tends to remain the same throughout the educational cycle and is not changed every year as happens in state schools. This means that in paritarian middle schools the support remains completely at the expense of families and corresponds to the payment of an annual salary of a teacher, a cost difficult to bear for an average family. For this reason, the project "Mettiamogli le Ali" (Let's give them wings) was created to give children with special needs the opportunity to attend a school that is closer to their educational needs while having a support teacher paid for by the solidarity of all of us. |
2.600 € | |
Italy | Centro Studi Platone Onlus | Peace Schools in India and Nepal | Rome | Support to underprivileged populations of small communities in Kerala (India) and Nepal with particular attention to children through economic support projects and in the socio-health field as well as didactic and educational activities. All work is based on principles of democracy, freedom and autonomy of confessional and party, without any discrimination of caste or creed, to reaffirm a philosophy of material and ideal cooperation and coexistence between different cultures and religions. | 10.320 € | |
Italy | Ronda della Carità e Solidarietà ODV | On the empty streets: support for homeless people and families in difficulty during the Covid-19 emergency | Milan | The Covid-19 pandemic has had the impact of an emergency within an emergency on the phenomenon of homelessness in Italy, making life on the street increasingly difficult and risky for the health of individuals. In this difficult moment, the commitment to support homeless people has been renewed by supporting the Mobile Night Unit service. For four evenings a week, hot meals, personal hygiene products, blankets and other basic necessities, including surgical masks, disposable gloves and disinfectant gel, are distributed on the streets. During the service, we are committed to disseminate among the people we meet the rules and suggestions for prevention from Covid-19 infection transmitted by the competent bodies and to monitor the health conditions of the most vulnerable. Starting from the encounter on the street, in the places where homeless people live, we try to build relationships with them and motivate them to emancipate themselves from street life, offering support and accompaniment in undertaking paths of social inclusion. In the last year, the suspension of activities and services due to Covid-19 for many has meant intermittent work or loss of employment. Many families have found themselves in need of help for the first time to sustain the costs of everyday life and not all have found answers in institutional support measures. From information on how to take advantage of services and facilities in the area to the distribution of food parcels, shopping cards and PPE and individual protection, we aim to be there for these people as they face this difficult period. |
1.930 € | |
Italy | Fondazione ARMR ETS | ARMR for Istituto Mario Negri | Ranica (BG) | Study of the mechanisms responsible for the protective effect of anti-inflammatory drugs against SARS-CoV-2 infection. Although vaccines have proven to be an excellent weapon to prevent severe forms of the disease and deaths, the identification of effective and safe treatments to be administered in the early stages of Covid-19 could play a key role in halting disease progression and limiting the occurrence of new health emergencies should vaccination-resistant variants of SARS-CoV-2 emerge. To date, several classes of anti-inflammatory drugs, including aspirin, nimesulide, and indomethacin, have been shown to prevent the need for hospitalization when administered in the early stages of disease. The mechanisms by which these drugs may exert this protective effect against SARS-CoV-2 remain unclear. In the present proposal, the Mario Negri Institute aims to investigate the molecular mechanisms by which anti-inflammatory drugs limit the infective capacity of SARS-CoV-2. As a further objective, the project aims to evaluate how anti-inflammatory drugs are able to alter and slow down the replication of the virus within the cells that are affected by the virus. |
3.425 € | |
Italy | Associazione Cicognasolidale Onlus | Aid to Belarusian children living in the Chernobyl area | Induno Olona (VA) | The project financially helps Belarusian children who live in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and live in orphanages, foster care houses or with their parents but in difficult conditions. Usually children are hosted in Italy with solidarity welcome projects twice a year but due to the pandemic, everything has been blocked for two years. We want to help these children there, with financial aid to buy food, warm clothes, items for school and for medical care. | 3.368 € | |
Italy | Associazione di Volontariato Seven Colours Onlus | Solidarity Charity Project | Messina | Donations to needy families with minor children | 4.760 € | |
Italy | Associazione Maruzza | It's better at home | Fontanafredda (PN) | The association provides support to the families of children affected by serious and incurable diseases through a series of social, health and psychological interventions, in order to deal with the complex situation that arises with a seriously ill child; it supports the right of home care and the application of law 38/2010 that provides for the creation of a regional network of pediatric palliative care and pain therapy; it carries out information and awareness activities, organizing events and participating in events where the theme of pediatric palliative care is treated in a comprehensive manner but with a less tragic approach as possible. The Breathing Modules are hours of assistance, to the sick child to give parents and family the opportunity to get away for a few hours a day, thanks to the intervention of nurses specialized in pediatric palliative care and / or professional educators trained in home care. | 1.910 € | |
Italy | Associazione Caritro per la solidarietà Trento | Employees' non profit organization | Trento | Support to 1 social inclusion project | 31.560 € | |
Italy | UniSolidarietà - UniCredit Vicenza per il sociale Onlus | Employees' non profit organization | Vicenza | Support to 9 social inclusion projects | 20.395 € | |
Italy | Credito & Solidarietà onlus | Employees' non profit organization | Turin | Support to 3 social inclusion projects | 38.048 € | |
Italy | N.O.I. di UniCredit - Nord Ovest Insieme Onlus | Employees' non profit organization | Turin | Support to 19 social inclusion projects | 25.063 € | |
Italy | UniVerona Onlus | Employees' non profit organization | Verona | Support to 2 social inclusion projects | 15.073 € | |
Italy | Associazione UniCredit FVG per la solidarietà | Employees' non profit organization | Trieste | Support to 3 social inclusion projects | 22.710 € |
Country | Non profit organization | Project Name | City | Project description | Total (Colleagues + Foundation) | |
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Poland | Empowering Children Foundation | Empowering Children Foundation | Warszawa | For 30 years, the Association has been protecting children from violence and sexual abuse. It provides care givers with professional psychological and legal support, assistance and care. It teaches adults how to respond to violence against children and what to do when they suspect a child has been abused. Every child deserves a childhood free from violence! | 852 € | |
Poland | Fundacja Avalon | Kajetan Majewski 2964 | Warszawa | Autism is the most serious and difficult to rehabilitate syndrome among developmental disorders, manifesting itself in every sphere of life and in every aspect of functioning. Without specialised therapy, autism impedes development, excludes people from society and condemns them to solitude. Therapy must be systematic, varied and conducted simultaneously in many directions. Therapy with specialists - which is very expensive - and daily work at home are the only way for Kajtuś to cope with the disorders and gain independence. | 702 € |
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Romania | La Primul Bebe / At the first baby | #Mumishere | Bucharest | Through #Mumishere campaign, LaPrimulBebe Association wants to equip the Neonatology Department of Sibiu County Hospital with an over-monitoring system, which reduces the mortality rate in the neonatal intensive care unit and increases the doctors' ability to intervene faster. It is also necessary to purchase a neonatal ambulance, which does not exist in this area of the country yet, as well as a tele-consultation system through which babies can be remotely consulted when possible. The campaign is called #Mumishere because it wants to equip the department with a video system through which the mother can see her baby in the incubator and also the baby can hear his voice whispering #Mumishere. |
9.942 € | |
Romania | Fencing for all Foundation | Sport in the pandemic | Otopeni | The project "Sport in pandemic" has as general objective the "Management of free time during school in the conditions of online activities and school holidays". Specific goals are: awareness among parents; promoting the values of a healthy diet; the increase of school performance, directly proportional to the healthy lifestyle; social integration of children and young people, on a long-term basis through sports activities and the approach of specialists in the field: courses, activities, workshops, educational camps will be organized, all considering the harmonious development of children and young people in this pandemic period. A minimum of 60 children and adolescents will participate. | 22.538 € | |
Romania | Asociatia Faborisa | Caring for the children - renovation of pediatric section in CF2 hospital | Bucharest | This year, the renovation of 2 halls of the pediatric ward of the CF2 Hospital in Bucharest was completed (for a total of 6 halls, a bathroom and the nurses' office); the intent is to renovate another office, a bathroom, the hallway and the entrance to the pediatric hall, in order to make the place as welcoming as possible. The support to this department is very important: at the moment it is underutilized due to its conditions. | 13.549 € | |
Romania | Together for Cosmin Association | Help us bring their childhood back | Bucharest | The Impreuna Pentru Cosmin Association is a non-profit organization whose main purpose is to improve the lives of children with various disabilities and health problems - as well as their families - to provide financial support for specialist care, recreational therapy, psychological support and counseling. The association was founded in 2018 for Cosmin, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at the age of 2 and now, as others are doing well, we do our best to help children facing heavy diagnoses use a treatment. dignified, taking them back to their childhood. The goal is to fill the void left by Romanian institutions: these children have no chance of recovery in Romania. The parents of the children helped always return and encourage other parents, creating a virtuous circle. In 3 years, 16 children with severe diagnoses were financially supported. |
7.512 € | |
Romania | Asociatia Atelierul de Bine | Santa Claus shares joy! | Buzau | Every year, since 2015, Santa's trusted elves help the wonderful people of the Atelierul de Bine Association to bring the magic of Christmas on dark and cold streets, in the rural areas shabby houses where hundreds of children are waiting for a miracle. The joy of unwrapping a beautifully wrapped gift is indescribable, and the cheerful screams of the children make the idea of an important goal: Deliver Happiness! | 9.104 € | |
Romania | Asociatia Pro Vita Sfantul Brancoveanu | Integrated Community Center of the Holy Martyrs of Brancoveni | Comuna Posesti | For 30 years "The Poppy Valley Phenomenon" has been administering what has been received by countless benefactors. The practical aspects (raising children saved from abortion) were taken over from the legal point of view by Nicolae Tănase in Valea Plopului of the Pro Vita Association. The association also takes care of people who are victims of domestic violence, people with disabilities and the elderly. | 3.146 € | |
Romania | Fundatia Mihai Nesu | Innovative recovery complex dedicated to children and young people with neuromotor disabilities | Oradea | The Mihai Neșu Foundation is an organization from Mihai Neșu for children with neuromotor disability therapy, so that through specific therapies such as physical, speech therapy, occupational therapy, hydrotherapy, hippotherapy, Therasuit can recover, grow, happy, secure and create childhood, just like children and healthy people. The Sfantul Nectarie recovery center, created 5 and a half years ago, is located in Oradea and offers therapies to children from 2 to 14 years old. Mihai Nesu aims to create opportunities for indoor work for young people with disabilities (gardener, farmer, cook, waiter) and thus integrate them into society. 'Joy is the true measure of health'. | 3.092 € | |
Romania | Fundatia Filantropica Metropolis | Day care center for children and parents from poor families | Bucharest | The main objective of the Metropolis Philanthropic Fundatia is to protect abandoned children and ensure their future integration into society. Starting in 2020, the association is also helping to renovate public hospitals in Romania and equip them with vital medical devices. The Day Center for Children and Parents project aims to support children and parents of poor families by offering them meals, clothes, educational support, social, legal and psychological guidance and medical care. | 3.972 € | |
Romania | Association for the education and the integration of all | Ain't no mountain high enough | Bucharest | In Romania, 1 in 20 children are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder every day. From the moment of diagnosis until recovery, which is never 100%, parents strive to provide them with everything they have. This project is about the inclusion and well-being of 22 children with autism spectrum disorders and their mothers. It is about allowing them a "break" from doctors and therapies; often they have never been to the mountains, and through this project, it will be possible to offer them a weekend in Baia de Fier, EVA Guesthouse, Targu Jiu area, with a bonfire, a party in which to socialize, and maybe a lot of snow. During the weekend, activities will be organized for the children's group and their parents, including a workshop for parents to learn how to deal with the different types of anger attacks in children. The total estimated cost for this trip is about 15,000 lei, of which 3000 lei is the cost of transport. |
2.752 € | |
Romania | Ana and Children Association | Santa Claus comes to every child | Bucharest | The Ana and Children Association is a humanitarian, non-governmental, apolitical and non-profit organization, whose mission is to prevent family and school dropout through educational programs, social, medical and legal assistance, recreation and socialization activities, information activities, awareness and sensitization measures and the establishment of social services. | 12.718 € | |
Romania | Royal Margaret Foundation of Romania | Fund for the Elderly | Bucharest | The Special Fund for the Elderly was launched in March 2020, as an emergency fund to respond to the urgent needs of the elderly in Romania and to manage the social isolation caused by the coronavirus. The Fund for the elderly reaches to support the elderly in any area of the country, especially those affected by loneliness, physical immobility, poor health, poverty or social exclusion, difficult situations exacerbated in the current context. Needs identified among the elderly affected by the coronavirus crisis include the purchase of basic necessities, hygiene products, material support, emotional support and psychological counseling, up-to-date information on active social services in their community, various home services . |
3.806 € | |
Romania | Smile for smile Association - Floreni | Family house "Sf. Filoteia" - Floreni | Raiu | In the north-east of Moldova, a region with poor economic, financial and social stability, a group of children has been created, who under the guidance of a professional, participate in educational, sporting and cultural activities, go on trips and learn to help themselves each other. After several years of activity, in which significant progress was noted in children's attitudes, behavior and mentality, it was decided to take a new step and help other children: abandoned children from Vaslui County. In Romania there are about 50,000 institutionalized children, entrusted to the Romanian state, aged between 0 and 18 years. Within them, nearly 2,000 people leave the state system each year, with no future or opportunity for integration into society. Thus was born the idea of creating the “Santa Filoteia” Social Center, in Floreni, in the province of Vaslui, with 18 direct beneficiaries and about 200 indirect beneficiaries. |
9.024 € |
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Russia | Charity Foundation Children of Russia | Cozy Warm Home | Creation of the specially equipped playground for disabled children in Rehabilitative Center «Talisman» (Ekaterinburg) |
4.140 € |
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Slovakia | Civic Association Do sedla | When the children's hobby is real KONE:) .... | Bratislava | The horse is a beautiful, majestic animal, that combines love, courage, but also rebellion, real strength. These animals require a special approach. And you will find such a person in the Do sedla Civic Association under the leadership of Mrs Andrejka, who looks after almost 30 horses with the help of young volunteers, housed in rented premises at the Petržalka Racecourse. Thanks to her organisational and managerial skills, our city children have the opportunity to get to know these beautiful animals better, to experience the saddle. The big dream is to build an indoor riding arena where children can spend time during the winter months. | 1.932 € | |
Slovakia | Delphinus - support for talented swimmers | Support for young swimmers from socially disadvantaged families | Košice | For 13 years, the civic association has been helping swimmers in the east of the republic with the PK Prešov and ŠKP Košice swimming clubs in financing their sports training and helping to organize swimming events (J. Baláž Memorial in SNV and Ludovít Kukorelli Memorial in Košice). Monthly fees per swimmer for training, races, training camps, etc. range in the hundreds of euros. Delphinus gives everyone a chance, regardless of the financial situation in the family. |
13.236 € | |
Slovakia | VIA ABA civic association | Air conditioning for the VIA ABA Center | Zvolen | The civic association VIA ABA was established by parents and professionals to improve the comprehensive care and quality of life of children with autistic disorders spectrum (PAS) and their families. Applied behavioral analysis is currently in considered the most effective approach to education of children with autism. VIA ABA operates only on the basis of contributions from parents and sponsors, without state support. Last year a playground has been built thanks to the GMP donations; this year the aim is to put air conditioning in the center. | 9.226 € | |
Slovakia | On the track, o. z. | Hippotherapy for children with autism | Trnava | For the third year the organization continues to provide hippotherapy. Children with autism respond very positively to the therapy, reducing the stress of frustration in particular and shifting in verbal communication. | 10.456 € | |
Slovakia | Basketbalový Klub Slovan Bratislava | Support of development of young ladies basketball talents | Bratislava | The Basketball Club Slovan Bratislava focuses on the activities of children and youth, and actively participates in the education of the new generation of women's basketball in Slovakia. | 7.226 € | |
Slovakia | Parents' Association of the Hrnčiarovce nad Parnou Kindergarten and Primary School | Revitalization of the school playground | Hrnčiarovce nad Parnou | The project is focused on the revitalization of the school playground, promoting and popularizing sport and encourage children and young people in particular to re-establish a positive attitude towards movement and sport. Thus, the goal is to mitigate one of the effects of the crisis caused by the Covid-19 disease, namely the passive way of life. | 4.366 € | |
Slovakia | Together Association | Support for a rehabilitation centre providing care for people with Down syndrome | Bratislava - Petržalka | ogether helps people with Down syndrome and other forms of intellectual disability to develop independence and work skills in the day centre, providing day care, various therapies and training in textiles. Due in part to the pandemic, the centre has lost sources of income and several clients. | 1.076 € | |
Slovakia | OŠK TUŠICE - TNV civic association | Returning sports to all children | Tušice | The civic association OŠK TUŠICE - TNV helps to bring the sport back to all children, to make them go to the playgrounds and playball games instead of sitting at TV and computers. It tries to help mainly children from socially disadvantaged families who cannot afford to buy equipment and to pay monthly fees for the club. | 9.146 € | |
Slovakia | Jua for Children | Support for Children in Kenya | Nitra | JUA is focused on supporting children in Kenya in difficult life situations, trough supporting their education, food provisioning and other needs needed for a proper development and upbringing. JUA is led by a Slovak doctor who established a supporting center in Kenya and lives there with her family. JUA is present in Kenya for more than 9 years and during this period helped more than 500 children to provide better environment and education. | 5.638 € |
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Slovenia | Association of Friends of Youth Ljubljana Moste-Polje | Association of Friends of Youth Ljubljana Moste-Polje | Ljubljana | Association of Friends of Youth Ljubljana Moste-Polje is a non-governmental, voluntary, philanthropic and non-profitable organization. Its basic aim is to raise the quality of life for children, young people and families to represent their interests, assert to their needs and protect their rights. The organization has several decades of tradition and its programs are marked by a high degree of professionalism, quality and success. It is dedicated to promote the values of voluntary work and quality human relationships. | 4.100 € | |
Slovenia | Humanitarček - Association for the Promotion of Humanitarian Action | The Vida Project | Maribor | A socially responsible and at times socially critical project, which seeks to draw attention to the plight of the elderly in Slovenia, while at the same time providing them with dignified assistance. It is focused to elderly, since 2020 especially to those affected by epidemic (hospital transport, costs, groceries, post offices and similar, etc.). |
770 € |
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United States | City Harvest | City Harvest NY | New York | City Harvest program brings fresh, nutritious food to communities across the five boroughs of New York City, free of charge, to help feed New Yorkers who are experiencing food insecurity also due to the Covid19 impact. We are working to feed our city, one day, one meal, and one New Yorker at a time. | 9.391 € |