ACTIVITY ARCHIVE

The Gran Chaco is a vast area in the centre of South America involving Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. If they were once areas of…

In Chad in the Sila region – in the eastern part eastern part of the country – water scarcity is becoming more dramatic more dramatic,…

Three years after the end of military operations, Iraq is still unable to find stability and provide a dignified life for its inhabitants. The conflict…

The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country battered by decades of wars and infighting that contribute to the spread of extreme poverty widespread among…

The Central African Republic is a country torn apart by internal wars and violence that has been experiencing a major humanitarian emergency since 2013. Penultimate…

In Ethiopia, droughts cyclically put a strain on the population, which mostly earns its livelihood from small-scale farming and pastoralism. The situation is further aggravated…

The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country battered by decades of wars and infighting that contribute to the spread of extreme poverty among the…

The Sila province is an agro-sylvo-pastoral area. Its population is mainly composed of sedentary people (farmers and agro-pastoralists), sedentary nomadic shepherds and transhumant shepherds. These…

Three years after the end of military operations, people in Iraq are still living in conditions of emergency. The governorate of Salah al-Din, in the…

The Central African Republic is ranked at the penultimate place of the Human Development Index in the world. This means that this country lacks the…

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the people of the villages bordering the Upemba National Park are living in disastrous conditions: epidemics such as Ebola…

It was around 6 p.m. on 4 August 2020 when Beirut was devastated by the explosion whose tragic images were reported in the newspapers and…

Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Africa with around 110 million inhabitants. Additionally, there is an increase in the average population of around…

Supporters of the Child Project bring food, medicines, education and protection. Thank you for protecting children where there is hunger, war and violence In the…

The Friends of COOPI Suisse change stories: they provide food, water, security and education Millions of people worldwide are living in critical conditions: women, men…

We operate in the far North region of Cameroon. It is an area seriously affected by the crisis in the Lake Chad basin, which also…

In Mali 1 in 4 children suffer from stunting due to malnutrition, 1 in 5 children are underweight and 1 in 10 children suffer from…

Sport without barriers – Khartoum Offside, directed by Marwa Zein of Arabian origin, is one of the documentaries screened at the Film Festival of Human Rights in…

Connected Worlds The circuit of International Cooperation nights returns   UNESCO describes Global Citizenship Education (GCED) as a way to develop a sense of belonging…

How many planets would it take if the world’s population consumed at the rate of the average inhabitant of Switzerland?   This is one of…

This year, the good weather and the Ciani park welcomed the event “The world in a Park” – a day of international and local solidarity sponsored by…

At the fifth edition of the Film Festival of Human Rights in Lugano, Marco Loiodice, Head of Emergency Education and Childhood Protection Programs of the…

The challenge of freedom in the Gaza Strip   The screening of the “Gaza Surf Club” and meeting the Palestinian activist Mohammed Matter spoke straight…

Also, in 2017, COOPI Suisse participated at TraSguardi, an intercultural day promoted annually by the Department for Integration and Social Information (DIIS) and the Federation…

In September 2016, COOPI Suisse participated at TraSguardi, an intercultural day organized by FOSIT (Federation of Italian Swiss NGOs).   On a beautiful Saturday in…

During the debate, organised by COOPI Suisse, at the fourth edition of the Film Festival of Human Rights in Lugano, COOPI’s area manager Massimo Salvadori,…

Since 2013 COOPI Suisse has participated at TraSguardi – The world in a park.   It is an annual intercultural event organized by FOSIT, which wants…

During the edition in 2015, COOPI Suisse encouraged a debate entitled «Stories of migration, the lives of others?», with the students from the different schools in the…

In 2014, this important cultural event took off . Meetings, debates and projections that inform, sensitize and raise awareness about human rights in the world and in Switzerland…

Meeting “Emergency refugees from Syria: what can we do?”   An informative evening organised for the public at the headquarters of the Red Cross in Lugano, February…

On Monday, November 11th, 2019, the “Village for Peace“, an educational day on subjects of creating and maintaining peace dedicated to local schools, took place….

The World Peace Forum is an annual event which unites various associations based in Ticino, bringing education and awareness-raising activities to students from different schools…

COOPI Suisse has actively participated at the «Notte Bianca delle Carriere», an event organized by the Career Services of the University of Southern Switzerland, which…

Together with the students from Ticino against the recruitment of child soldiers.   The drama of child soldiers was at the centre of the workshop…

“I still don’t know how, but I want to be a professional who helps to improve the conditions of people who live in the poorest parts…

An experience at the secondary school in Minusio, March 17th, 2015.   On a Tuesday morning we met the two illustrators Barbara Boldrini and Giovanni…

We took part at the “Memorial Day” at the Primo Liceo of Lugano.   On January 27th 2014, the official Memorial Day in Ticino was celebrated,…

Every year the University of Southern Switzerland organizes orientation days for students’ professional future, inviting representatives from both the profit and non-profit sectors from the…

From 2013 to 2016 COOPI Suisse organized two courses a year on the “Introduction to International Cooperation”, open to students and whoever interested to learn more about…

To strengthen teachers’ skills in a region where almost half of the children aged 6 to 14 do not go to school,is the goal of…

In Chad, the use of soil and water is an important factor for peaceful coexistence between shepherds and farmers and entire communities.   In the Sila…

Ethiopia is one of the African countries most affected by migrating populations. In Ethiopia, many young people depart for non-African states (to the Gulf and…

COOPI Suisse’s project against child malnutrition in Niger has concluded.   It is estimated that over 8 million children under the age of five require…

In the Eastern part of Chad, peoples’ lives are essentially based on agriculture and livestock. That said, technical resources, local expertise and conventions that manage…

  Four years of civil war in Iraq strained an entire population. More than 11 million people require some form of assistance, of which 3.5…

In the State of North Darfur – Sudan – one out of two people is poor. Here people have access to less than 15 liters…

Almost 80% of the Chadian population lives in rural areas and about 40% depends on farming, the only source of income for some of the…

The Dosso region of Niger is considered among the areas with the highest numbers of people exposed to food insecurity due to climatic shocks (drought…

  The intervention was aimed at women living in the rural areas of Soucoucoutane and Dogonkiria, in the Dosso region, with little chance of economic…

  In Dolo Ado, a woreda of about 145.000 inhabitants – which has started to host also thousands of refugees from Somalia since 2011- there…

  The Chadian capital N’Djamena has become the destination for many children originating from rural areas, all at risk of being trafficked or other irregular violations of…

    Chad is one of Africa’s poorest countries and ranks 186th place (out of 188 countries) for its very low Human Development Index (UNDP, 2016). The…

  The project took place in the central-southern part of Somalia, more precisely in the regions of Bay and Gedo, in the villages of Baidoa,…

  Thanks to the partnership between COOPI Suisse and the Alta Mane Foundation of Geneva, in January 2017 the project “Training and cultural development in…

Thanks to the AIL and the Municipality of Collina d’Oro we were able to build three wells to bring clean water directly to 1.500 beneficiaries and 7.500…

  The Central African Republic continues to be subjected to the weakness of its economic and social context, to accessibility problems and to its fragile…

  Every day, COOPI Suisse’s battle against malnutrition in Chad continues, particularly in the Dagana department located in the Hadjer Lamis region: it is a…

To support food security and for the prevention of conflicts between farmers and shepherds the following project involved the construction of 6 agro-pastoral wells in…

  The Republic of Chad, region of Sila, canton of Mouro, canton of Habile Wara.   Despite Chad’s strong agricultural potential, 21% of the population…

  The refugees in Lebanon, approximately 1.2 million registered and recorded by the UNHCR, are distributed over the entire Lebanese territory, with the largest numbers…

Electricity coverage in Ethiopia is very limited and in rural areas only 0.4% of the population has electricity for private use. Overall, electricity reaches 27%…

A difficult environment, a complex political situation and low economic growth makes children in Chad a vulnerable category whose rights are systematically violated.   The…