Start of the construction works in Makili
October 25 2023
Makili is a village located on Atauro Island, in East Timor, where due to climate change, access to water has drastically decreased since 2020: in fact the two main water sources in the village have mostly dried up, due to long periods of drought followed by catastrophic rains, which make the natural absorption of water difficult.To meet the need for…
POEMA gets to the schools
October 18 2023
The POEMA project (Project for Opposing Early Marriages) takes place in the mountainous areas of northern Vietnam with the aim of reducing early marriages and school dropouts through education.At the end of September the meetings began in Lien Viet Secondary School and Xin Man High School in the commune of Coc Pai, which have a total of 1048 students aged…
The project to support women farmers in the Xin Man district ended in August, with the third delivery of goats. The project involved around sixty women in various types of training courses, such as how to follow a balanced diet, agriculture, basic accounting and finally, animal husbandry. The last goats were distributed to the participants, two each. By delivering female…
Distribution of zinc for more resistant houses
October 11 2023
In the framework of the project "More resilient Cambodian and Vietnamese communities after the Kampong Chhnang floods", financed by the Autonomous Province of Trento and Comet Pelli, in recent weeks, the local partner KCD (Khmer Community Development), in collaboration with the local authorities Kampong Chhnang, distributed galvanized sheets to 126 families, who had seen their homes destroyed or compromised by…
Medical check-ups and distribution of rice to sponsored families
October 04 2023
As in the past years, the sponsorship program allows sponsored children from the towns of Coc Pa, Ta Nhiu and Nam Dan to undergo medical check-ups without having to face the long journey to the nearest hospital. The news for this year is that this opportunity has been also given to the siblings of the sponsored children, resulting in 116…
POEMA - a project against early marriages
May 11 2023
(Feb 27 2023)POEMA is an acronym that stands for 'Project for Opposing Early MArriages'. Indeed, despite the fact that the Vietnamese government has banned marriages before the age of 18 for girls and before age 20 for boys, the phenomenon is still widespread, especially in the isolated areas where GTV operates in northern Vietnam. Unicef data shows that between 2020…
Training courses for women farmers ended
February 07 2023
Trainings targeting women in Chung Trai, Sung Sang, Na Pan, and Suoi Thau villages on nutrition, agriculture and fertilization, animal husbandry, and bookkeeping are completed. Courses on nutrition were held at the beginning of November, focusing on learning, both theoretically and practically, the nutritional values of foods, the construction of balanced meals for various age groups following the products grown.…
Stateless communities in Cambodia
January 30 2023
The Christmas market this year had a specific purpose: to raise funds to support a new GTV project which aims to support stateless communities of Vietnamese origin residing in Cambodia, in the Kampong Chhnang Province. Some members of the GTV board have come into contact with these communities after the recent floods that have heavily affected them, and given…
The VOLARE project comes to life!
January 30 2023
The first thematic seminar of the VOLARE project was held on Thursday 17 November 2022, within the Department of Sociology and Social Research. The theme "Conflicts and emergencies" was treated thanks to the interventions of Professor Vincent Della Sala and two external guests, Francesco Baietti of Moses Onlus and Fabrizio Bettini of Operazione Colomba. 11 students were present at…
Welcome back travellers!
January 24 2023
After two intense weeks, the solidarity trip to Vietnam in October 2022 has officially come to an end and our 12 travelers have returned to Italy. This trip differs from other tours of Vietnam for the attention to sustainability and authenticity of the experiences, managing to combine the tourist side with the support of local populations thanks to the…
