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World Refugee Day. More than 70 million people are fleeing

In 2018, 70.8 million people fled war and persecution – this is the highest number ever recorded by the United Nations Refugee Agency in the Global Trends report, released annually on June 20 th, World Refugee Day. But who are these 70.8 million people? 25.9 million are...

Together against crises: COOPI Meeting begins!

From 24 to 29 October the 11th COOPI Meeting will be held in Milan at the headquarters of COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale. It is an event where all COOPI managers in the world will meet: about sixty people from Italy and about fifty from 25 different countries (Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon,...

The European Union invests in the future with COOPI

COOPI , together with other Humanitarian organizations, will carry out education in emergencies-related projects financed by  the new funding for humanitarian help  announced  by the European Commission (ECHO) to support more than 2 millions children in 42 countries. What follows is...

Somalia: mobilizing communities against famine

36-year-old Farah Cabdi Raage is the household head and a father of 8 children (4 boys & 4 girls). His family consists of 12 members, including his elderly mother and young brother who live with him. Farah is a resident of Buqdharkayn village, located in Aynabo District, Somalia. Due to the...

Somalia: learning to react to the crisis looking at the future

Natural calamities and man-made disasters. For people who live in a crisis, forced to survive with little resources or displaced from their abodes, the past has no more importance. The emergency situation forces everybody to look constantly at the present. In South Central Somalia, in relation...

Somalia: empowering returnees and IDPs through vocational training skills

Through the funding from UNHCR (the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), the “Livelihood support for returnees in Mogadishu” project has allowed COOPI to provide training courses to 160 people between former refugees returned in Somalia and Internally Displaced Persons...

Somalia: child bride freed thanks to COOPI

Because of the severe droughts in Southern Somalia, Abdir Hussein, head of a family of 27, had lost everything: goats, cows, donkeys. She had one last chance to save her family from starvation: selling her beautiful daughter Zeinab into marriage at the untimely age of 14. Last year, an old man...

Somalia: a sigh of relief for Dahabo

Gabaa is one of the villages in Luuq district, Somalia. It is now home to hundreds of pastoralist households who lost all or some of their livestock in remote and dry areas and have therefore moved here to search casual labor opportunities, to stay with their better off relatives and to access...

Somalia: a brighter future for Mohamud

45-year-old Mohamud Madey Bula is a father of 15 children (8 boys and 7 girls) living in Sadhumay village, located in Dollow district, Somalia. As a result of the challenges caused by the frequent droughts in the area, products from his small farm always ended up falling short, which impacted...