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OUAGADOUGOU, 21 March 2023. Over a million children in Burkina Faso are currently affected by school closures with 6,134 academic institutions shut as of February 2023, an increase of over 40 per cent since the end of the last school year. Nearly one out of four schools country-wide are now out of service due to […]

The war in Ukraine has forced millions of families to flee their homes. Since the beginning of the conflict, 17 million people are estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance and protection throughout Ukraine. In Europe, 8 million refugees have been registered, most of them in neighbouring countries such as Moldova, Poland, Romania, Hungary […]

The SPEAK-UP Jean Monnet Module, started in January 2021, is a multi-interdisciplinary training course concerning EU studies on gender discrimination and violence. It is offered to both higher education students coming from Italy, Turkey, and Germany who do not automatically come into contact with EU studies, and operators working for international organizations representatives of the […]

The violent earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6th has resulted in more than forty thousand casualties. In Syra, after nearly 12 years of conflict, most of the buildings of the affected areas were already crumbling. This earthquake marks another disaster for the country: on February 17th, the numbers speak of […]

Thanks to the European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps initiative promoted and financed by the European Union and part of the European Solidarity Corps (ESC) programme, you can apply for a unique volunteering experience with WeWorld in the humanitarian aid sector in different countries in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. The initiative is […]

In the framework of the YouLead project and the “Exponi le tue idee!” debate contest, in December 2022 4 local meetings were organized in which a total of 52 teachers and other relevant stakeholders of the educational community participated (school principals, educators, student representatives, representatives of local associations). The 4 local meetings took place in […]

While the humanitarian situation keeps deteriorating in Afghanistan and temperatures are decreasing to -20 Degrees Celsius, there are no positive developments concerning the ban of female Afghan NGO employees imposed by the Taliban administration. At the moment it is extremely difficult and unsafe for aid to reach women and children without the presence of female […]

Banning women from working with NGOs further endangers the future and security of people in Afghanistan, especially women and girls, the most vulnerable to malnutrition, poverty and lack of human rights. WeWorld, a member of ChildFund Alliance, has decided to temporarily suspend its activities in the country, with the exception of those considered lifesaving, in […]

15 days in East-Africa with humanitarian aid workers of WeWorld NGO. Mozambican children have dreams and hopes but they also face several challenges in a country that is dealing with an armed conflict and an unprecedented climate crisis. Their stories and those of their families often remain unheard, but Italian-Tunisian cartoonist Takoua Ben Mohammed is […]

Natural disasters, extreme poverty, corruption, insecurity, and popular uprisings are just some of the factors that pour the Haitian peninsula into a state of persistent crisis. The context Haiti was already in a situation of institutional fragility, lack of basic services and infrastructure, vulnerability to hurricanes and tropical storms, when a magnitude 7 earthquake struck […]

Recently, and especially since August 2021, most families in Afghanistan have been surviving in very harsh conditions, due to persistent droughts and unprecedent compounding crises. Numbers speak for themselves: from 2021, the people in need of humanitarian assistance have increased by more than 50% and they are estimated to be 28.3 million in 2023 – […]

Many youngsters are looking for tools and opportunities to make their voices heard and to be drivers of a concrete change in our society. According to the Survey carried out as part of the European People & Planet project and promoted by WeWorld in Italy among more than 300 young people, nearly two-thirds of respondents […]