Preparations for the Children’s Land reconstruction
Here we are, everything is ready to lay the first brick! The new project of the Children’s Land center will be modular and will include the essential units to restore all the services implemented in the old center, from children education to women support and the pediatric clinic. The first unit to be built is the […]
A pile of rubble
Yes, our kindergarten is a pile of rubble. One can see our precious books, educational games, a piece of a laptop with the sticker Vento di Terra on it. There’s a lot of us in this scrap and if you stop too long to the voice of memory will come as a blow, the opening day, […]
First Clean Water Kits delivered in refugee camps
In June the first prototypes of CLEAN WATER KITS were delivered to the families: with the collaboration of ACQUATRAVEL Ltd., Fabio Viviani, a water expert, and Massimo Annibale Rossi, president of Vento di Terra NGO, visited two informal camps, working on water analysis, training to the families and how to use the kit properly. “Vento di Terra […]
Born in informal refugee camps
In the informal refugee camps in Jordan, access to health services becomes impossible even for a mother who needs a caesarean. Because of the numerous difficulties accessing the hospital in Amman, Vento di Terra has financially supported the medical costs for the young mother of Najla at the clinic of Mafraq: cesarean delivery went well and […]
Educational activities with Syrian children
It’s time for classes in Jordan. Indeed, the school has never stopped, not even during the summer heat in the unusual school desk of Al Mafraq camp. The history of these children starts from far away, from the border they crossed to the north of Amman to rescue their lives, together with their families. In their home […]
Gaza Staff in EU Representative Office in Jerusalem
Among the many benefits one can have working for an international NGO was the chance to do what was once considered impossible. This can be confirmed wholeheartedly by VdT local coordinator, Mss. Sara Alafifi, working on the project: “Promoting the Bedouin Center “Children’s Land” as a participatory lab for community development in Gaza Strip. Cod: DCI-NSAPVD/2013/333-872” […]
Distribution of family kits in syrian refugee camps
Winter’s coming in Jordan. The first real cold with even the first sandstorm hit in recent weeks the refugee camps in Al Mafraq. The cold in the self-allestiste tents in makeshift settlements is even more rigid and the night is the worst time. The refugee families, fled from the war in Syria and arrived in Jordan […]
Israeli forces seize solar panels, injure child in village raid
JERICHO (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Wednesday injured a child during a raid on a West Bank Bedouin village in which they also confiscated solar energy panels donated to locals by a local sustainability organization, a local official said. A Fatah party official in Jahalin, an area in the central West Bank near Abu Dis […]
Syria Emergency: don’t leave them alone!
More than 600,000 Syrians fled to Jordan since the beginning of the civil war in 2011. Forced to abandon everything and quickly, arriving in extreme vulnerability, with a growing need of care services and primary goods. Most of them moved in search of better living conditions and the possibility of a job. They thus created the […]
Urban Lab, un hub sociale per Divjake
Divjake è il centro agricolo sulla costa albanese, situato a un centinaio di chilometri a sud di Tirana che ospita Il progetto Urban Lab, realizzato da Vento di Terra ONG con il finanziamento dell’Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo. Il comune ha recentemente assorbito le frazioni vicine e conta ora 40 mila abitanti. Qui […]