The year 2020 sees the materialisation of all the work carried out since 2012, the year our Association was founded. It took time, but creating solid foundations was indispensable for future projects to be sustainable over time.
Too many times in solidarity activities you can find associations that start with great enthusiasm and then fail to complete projects, even if of great quality, due to superficiality, defections of members, unforeseen economic difficulties, insufficient knowledge of places, territories, regulations.
We claim to be small, but this cannot become synonymous with inefficiency or incompetence.
So, first we found competent members, set up a website, evaluated different forms of fundraising, prepared an outline project, met many people in the places where we wanted to realise it, travelled directly to those places and finally submitted the final project to the local authorities.
In Botswana, despite our efforts and repeated travels for over three years, as you can read in detail on other pages of this website, we were unable to complete it; in Cape Verde we soon realised that the conditions were not met.
The encounter with Mr. Aldo De Michele in 2019 and later with Mr. Enrico Carretta, a resident of Zambia for more than 20 years, made immediate, efficient and helpful operations possible for helping the children in the Chipangali area, in the Eastern Province, north-eastern Zambia.
Basically, we consider indispensabile to have an absolutely transparent relationship with our donors, those thanks to whom our projects can materialise, and for this reason, we will publish our balance sheet every year from 2020 onwards.
A budget, not made up of technicalities, but understandable to everyone, made up of a few items that simply illustrate how much money we raise and how we use it and in what percentage.
So, for income: donations, events, handycraft markets , 5 x 1000; for outlays: contributions to projects, bank charges, administrative expenses, travel expenses, event expenses.
Numbers never lie, they testify to who we are and what we do.
You can see that, apart from the 5 x 1000, we do not receive any contributions from institutions or public organisations.
You will also be able to see that contributions to projects are over 95 per cent annually.
Thank you in advance to those who place their trust in us and decide to support us.