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 […]
The “informal” refugee camps
About 20% of refugees reside in camps, where they receive a card for food, water, medical care and education; the rest of them are scattered in so called “informal” camps, located between the Syrian border and the Jordan Valley. The largest refugee camp is Zaatari, in the Mafraq province, in northern Jordan, administered by a government […]
Vento di Terra in Jordan for Syrian refugees
Over 97% of Syrian refugees are hosted by neighboring countries and this involves a significant burden on the infrastructure, the economy and the society of the countries themselves. In Jordan there are about 550,000 Syrian refugees, including more than 291,000 children. About 20% live in the Zaatari refugee camp, in the province of Mafraq, in […]
How afghan silk scarves are produced
“The Women of the Silk Road” is the new line of afghan silk scarves, born from a project by Vento di Terra with the local NGO Raada (Rehabilitation Association for Afghanistan and Agriculture Development), involving more than 1,000 silk manufacturers in the Zinda Jan district (Herat), which follow the entire chain from the cultivation of mulberry trees, […]
The eggs arrived also in Herat
Massimo Annibale Rossi, President of Vento di Terra, attended the delivery of the silkworm eggs to a thousand women of the Zinda Jan district, selected for the project “The Women of the Silk Road.” The first step in the development of the project is done! Here is the witness of Massimo Annibale: “Yesterday I had the […]
Afghanistan and the Herat Province
CONTEXT The country in fact has never stopped the war and is still occupied by the NATO armies. The central government is weak and unpopular, considered by many as a US puppet. Very active in the country are the new islamic mujiaddin, that blend in many areas with clan militias. In the northwest of the country there […]
Vento di Terra for the afghan women rights
Vento di Terra NGO meets in Kabul Hawca, Afghan Association committed to the defense of women. In Afghanistan in 2012 there were 120 cases of self-immolation by women who reached the endurance limit. Vento di Terra joins the “Dark Flowers” campaign to protect Afghan women, launched by HAWCA.
#Italy4Palestine: l’appello di Vento di Terra al Governo Italiano
di Ilaria Brusadelli Ora che il nuovo Presidente della Repubblica è stato eletto, i deputati italiani dovranno riprendere in esame la questione, e nelle prossime settimane, dopo i Parlamenti di ormai buona parte dell’UE, anche l’Italia dovrà scegliere se mantenere lo status quo o intraprendere quel percorso di giustizia ed equilibrio che, pur con difficoltà […]
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 […]