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THE WAR CONTINUES IN KIVU

THE WAR CONTINUES IN KIVU

  Pisa, March 21, 2025 To all friends and supporters of our association: Dear friends, After a long silence, due in part to waiting for the current crisis in North and South Kivu to evolve in some direction, I feel it is time to update you on the local situation,...

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I’m back in Italy

I’m back in Italy

  Pisa, 7.02.2025 Dear friends, it is with regret that I would like to update you on the tragedy once again being experienced by the people of eastern Congo. Given the precipitating situation in North and South Kivu, I had to quickly make the decision to leave. At...

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The sewing workshop has begun

The sewing workshop has begun

Dear friends and supporters, A big thank you to all who have supported and continue to support this project of ours, which is advancing in small steps! Donations, especially this Christmas season, have been very generous and I would like to thank everyone from the...

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The children arrived

The children arrived

Mwenga, 08/28/2024   Finally, on August 20, the first group of 18 children arrived, mostly loaded on 5 motorcycles from Kamituga (the rains have begun and the road has already become impassable for minibuses)! The work of preparing the home was very long, due to...

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The work has begun!

The work has begun!

I would like to sincerely thank everyone who participated in this project! Thanks to the help of so many people who contributed donations and other forms of support, from Italy as well as other countries, and the invaluable and patient on-site help of Dr. Darock, we...

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Scheduled events

15

May

“I, Francis.”

To celebrate the founding of the Association and to begin to make it known in Pisa, we have organized in collaboration with the Scuola Sant’Anna of Pisa a cultural event that will take place on May 15 at h 21 in the Church of Sant’Anna: “I, Francis. This is a reading of literary texts on the life of St. Francis, with musical accompaniment, Directed by Alessandro Braga

On the occasion of the birth of the Voluntary Organization

HOME FOR STREET CHILDREN ODV

in collaboration with:
Alumni Association and Alumni Association of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa.

Ensemble Unknown Recipients presents:

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Wednesday, May 15, 2024
9 p.m., Church of St. Anna, Via Carducci, 2 – Pisa Admission by free offer

in support of the project HELP THE STREET CHILDREN OF KAMITUGA, CONGO of the Association HOME FOR STREET CHILDREN ODV

Literary reading with the narrative voices of Alessandro Braga and Elisabetta Rivalta

Music of the period performed by harpist Giuseppe Ranieri

Director: Alessandro Braga

A simple narrative fabric, born of a compelling chronology, not a novel nor a fictionalized biography, but a historical reconstruction, faithful and careful
which draws a portrait of the saint as his contemporaries saw him.
Sixty-minute tale of the man who becomes a saint, without ceasing to be a man.

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