ANLAIDS

ANLAIDS is the National Association in the Fight Against AIDS, founded in 1985 and awarded moral agency in 1988, from 1998 it became known as onlus (Non-Profit Organization of Social Needs). ANLAIDS promotes studies and research on the AIDS virus through sponsoring for scholarships, doctorates of research and scientific prizes;

• it carries out prevention campaigns and health education with the publication and the distribution of informational material and through conferences, through targeted debates and interventions, in schools as well as in places of youth aggregation;
  
• it organizes formation and modernisation courses for the health and social workers and volunteers alike;
  
• it supports the set up and maintenance of housing for people with AIDS;
  
• it co-operates with the National Health Service, the National Institute of Health, universities and research institutes, agencies and associations of volunteering, through targeted project and interventions;
  
• since 1986 it organises the "AIDS and related illnesses" convention on a yearly basis;
  
• it implements informational services, phone counselling, psychological, legal, social and medical counselling and assistance.

Anlaids pursues the statutory goals by means of donations from its own associates, contributions made by the citizens, funds collected through public caimpaigns, such as Bonsai Aid AIDS.

http://www.anlaids.it/

Bandiere di Pace (Peace Flags)

We invite all citizens, associations, movements, institutions, agencies, public or private, whether religious or not, to keep the flag exposed to make their NO to war visible, and their YES to the promotion of a peace culture and a route to the dialogue for a solution to all conflicts.

"Peace from all balconies!" is part of the national campaign "Fuori l'Italia dalla guerra" promoted by Emergency, Libera, "Rete di Lilliput" and "Tavola della Pace".

http://www.bandieredipace.org/

The Italian Alliance for the Fight Against Cancer

The Italian Alliance for the Fight Against Cancer is a public agency under the "Alto Patronato del Presidente della Repubblica". For over 80 years the alliance operates in the cancer field on national territory concentrating on prevention, early diagnosis, assistance, rehabilitation, health education and research.

http://www.legatumori.it/

The Italian Association for Cancer Research

The Italian Association for Cancer Research, a private and non-profit company, was founded in 1965 thanks to the initiative of a few researchers from the Institute of Tumors in Milan, such as Professor Umberto Veronesi, and the support from well known entrepreneurs from Milan. From the year of its foundation the AIRC has always been engaged to promote oncology research in our country and has organically grown, counting 17 regional committees today and over 1,800,000 associates, many people who support the association through their generosity allowing it exist and progress.

http://www.airc.it/

Emergency

Emergency is an Italian humanitarian association for the cure and the rehabilitation of war victims and landmines survivors.
Emergency bases it decision-making on two criteria: the effective needs of the population of specialist doctor-surgical attendance and the sparsity or the lack of other analogous humanitarian participations in the country.
Emergency creates and manages all of the following:

• Hospitals for the war victims and surgical emergencies;
  
• Centres for the physical and social rehabilitation of the landmine survivors and other war related traumas;
  
• Places of first aid (FAP, First Aid Post) for the immediate treatment of the injured;
  
• Health centres for basic medical care;
  
• Trains local staff to a high standard and a high degree of professionalism;
  
• makes humanistic intervents in order to assist prisoners in conflictual contexts;
  
• carries out development projects in the countries in which it operates.

http://www.emergency.it

Amnesty International

The goal of Amnesty International is to promote the knowledge and adherence of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" and prevent specific abuse.

On 10 December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For the first time in the history of humanity, a document encompassing all peoples of the world, without distinctions, had been written. For the first time it was written that there are human rights which every human being should have access to for the mere reason of existing. Nevertheless the Declaration is still disregarded, because it still remains vastly unknown.

One of the goals of Amnesty International is to inform about the history and contents of this document, through all possible mediums.

http://www.amnesty.it

Constitution of the "Union for the Freedoms of Cuba"

The goals of the union are:

• To promote the democracy in Cuba through the relationship with organizations and people interested in the process of democratization of the island;
  
• To devise project plans of civil, moral, social and material reconstruction for the post Castro regime;
  
• To promote the cultural values of the Cuban people through meetings, conferences, translations and the publication of Cuban works;
  
• To develop the relationships of friendship and cooperation between Italians and Cuban residents in Italy, serving as a point of reference;
  
• To help the integration of Cuban people in the Italian society;
• To inform about Cuban reality, present and past, focusing in particular on the social aspects and on the issues that the regimen tries to hide through censorship;
  
• To support groups of families in special need isolating the most dramatic cases, political dissidents, and the relatives of political prisoners.

http://www.cubaitalia.org

Greenpeace

Greenpeace is an international organization that operates for the salvation of the planet wherever necessary or possible. It promotes campaigns in order to fight the problems that threaten our earth and risk to cause irreversible damage: climate change, genetic loss of the biodiversity, manipulations, industrial pollution, nuclear waste. Greenpeace proposes the solutions needed to guarantee a better future to the next generations and of our planet.

Greenpeace is independent from all political parties, does not accept funding from governments or private organisations. It survives thanks to the contributions and support of private individuals that share its goals; for this reason your help is essential!

http://www.greenpeace.it/

United Nations

The United Nations is the public square of the entire planet. Virtually all the problems of the world are studied, negotiated and dealt with by this Organization. Its decisions influence our daily life. The United Nations also constitute the most important reference of world knowledge. Every year the United Nations publish hundreds of reports, books and statistics.

http://www.onuitalia.it/

UNICEF

UNICEF, The United Nations Children's Fund, is an Agency of the United Nations founded in 1946 in order to help child victims of the Second World war. In the period between 1946 to 1953 it was present in several European countries, including Italy, with very many participations to the defence of children. The situation was dramatic: in 1949 more than 72 children died every thousand born and in poorer regions such as Basilicata the rate was in the region of 110 deaths every thousand.

The UNICEF helped Italy of the post-war period in massive way: as an example, supplying 800,000 shoes to children and 700,000 square meters of material for clothes, building milk factories in many Italian provinces, supplying the first incubators to the paediatric units of many great hospitals in particular in the south of the country, distributing milk in powder and vitamins, medicines and antibiotics, in those days rare and extremely critical to combat infectious diseases, helping catering in schools and re-establishing courses of mass education (in 1950, 11 % of the Italians were illiterate, and in some areas of the south it was around 30%!). In the spring of the 1950 UNICEF aid had reached, in Italy alone, 1,300,000 children and mothers! With the gradual improvement of the economy of European countries, the Funds' activities turned towards children of the underdeveloped nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America, until 1953 when following the results obtained, the United Nations decided to indefinitely prolong the mandate of UNICEF.
In 1965 the UNICEF receives the Nobel Prize for peace. In 1989 the Convention on the Rights of Infancy is approved where it states that UNICEF is partly responsible for guaranteeing respect for children's human rights around the world. UNICEF has staff in 158 countries.

http://www.unicef.it/

FAO

The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in 1945 with the mandate to improve levels agricultural productivity, standards of life and feeding of rural populations.

Today FAO is one of the leading specialised Agencies of the United Nations, the most important in the agriculture, forest resources, fishing and rural development fields. FAO is an intergovernmental organization that counts 180 states members, also joined by the European Union.
Since its foundation, FAO has aimed to alleviate poverty and hunger through the promotion of agricultural development and the improvement of nutrition and food security, defined as being accessibility for anyone, anytime, of the food necessary to lead a healthy and active life.

Food production has increased with a rhythm, unseen prior to 1945 when FAO was formed, a better rhythm that the one at which the world growth reached the doubling of the population, in the same period of time. Since the '60's the percentage of people suffering hunger in developing countries has decreased from 50% to 20%. Even so, more than 790 million people worldwide - more than the population of Europe and North America combined - are still suffering hunger.
The Organization has the peculiar priority to encourage a rural and agricultural supportable development, and in the long term develope strategy to increase the alimentary production and the emergency that concurs of preservation and managing the natural resources. The goal is to satisfy the needs of the present and future generations promoting a development that do not degrade the habitat and that is technically appropriate, supportable and economically and socially acceptable.

http://www.fao.org/

L’Albero della Vita (The tree of Life) - onlus

L’Albero della Vita - onlus, is a not-lucrative humanitarian organization, of social usefullness, engaged - since its foundation - in the protection and the safeguard of the rights of the children, through campaigns of information and sensitisation of people on a national level, by organization of meetings and conventions.
This organization builds houses of acceptance and centers of socialization for minors who live in serious conditions of social marginalization.
The children are sensitive and vulnerable creatures, and they very suffer the consequences from the marginalization contexts and degradation in which they find themselves to be born and to living.
Our main goal is to accept them in order to help them to forget their traumatic experiences and to bring them to an inner, familiar and social life rich of opportunity, affection and goals to catch up.
"L’Albero della Vita" supports the protection and the growing of the children and the adolescents as an essential base for the development of the future man.
The priority of our engagement is guaranteed to the children, to the boys and the un-advantaged adolescents and in the geographic areas with more necessity.

• reaching for ethical and of human progress goals, as the world community suggests;
• the realization of peace and social progress principles;
• contribute to building a society that really takes care of the most weak people;
• promote the right of infancy and youthfulness protection against abuses and exploitation;
• actively participate to the development and to the quality of the communication and of the information on the great topics such as solidarity, research and assistance;
• sensify and inform the masses about progress obtained by "L'Albero della Vita" in its ethical and humanitarian prevention action, acceptance and research;
• collect economic and human resources in supporting of projects of social importance.