Annual Report AVSI 2010 English

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AVSI Annual Report byGiampaolo Silvestri, Maria Teresa Gatti, Elena Riva, Elisabetta Ponzone, Dania Tondini, Anna Zamboni, Marco Sangiorgio,Andrea Nebuloni , Sheila Berti, Mariaregina Valdameri.

Translated byAntonio Pinna

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Cover: Haiti, nutritionalcenter in Port-au-Prince, courtesy Enrica Brame

South Sudan,courtesy Brett Morton

“[...] incremental progress is possible only in the material sphere.Here, amid our growing knowledge of the structure of matter and in the light of ever more advanced inventions, we clearly see continuous progress towards an ever greatermastery of nature.Yet in the fi eld of ethical awareness and moraldecision-making, there is no similar possibility of accumulation for the simple reason that man’s freedom is alway s new and he must always make his decisions anew.These decisions can never simply be made for us in advance by others - if that were the case, we would no longer be free. Freedom presupposes that in fundamental decisions, every person and every generationis a new beginning”.

“SPE SALVI facti sumus” (24) Encyclical letter on Christian hope

Benedict XVI, March 30th, 2007

4 Introduction 6 Who we are 8 Stakeholders 9 Network 10 Our organization structure 12 Where we are, what we do 14 Intervention areas 26 Fund raising 32 Our 2010 34 Economic data 38 Consolidated fi nancial statement

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Haiti: AVSI’s fi rst tents for the populationof Port-au-Prince,January 2010

The forces that change history arethe same as those thatchange man’s heartNew alliances for development

2010 WAS DEEPLY MARKED BY THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE. The earthquake hit the capital city Port-au-Princeand caused 250,000 deaths and as many as 600,000 homeless on January 12th, 2010. This forced AVSI, which had beenin that country since the late 1990s,to carry out emergency and rebirth efforts with contributions from tensof thousands of people.

Such an event affected us fi nancially, but especially made a difference in terms of our professional and human experience. We have slowly witnessed the miracle of hope unfold. In the face of destruction rose the search for life, personal commi tment of our Haitian and expat colleagues, sympathy by thousands of supporters, and the involvement of both public and private institutions.Following the fi rst emergency, we started 17 projects with the help of 40,000 people. Most remarkably, we laid the fundations for a long human reconstruction program.

2010 was also the year of newer and stronger alliances: fi rst of all, alliance with companies. This alliance was already written into AVSI’s DNA and it became stronger in terms of cooperation, with primary Italian corporations and with our typical small and medium enterprises. We have developed a project along with the Enel Cuore Foundation, likewise commenced a joint program with ENI on social impacts studies in some African countries. Such a cooperation

between private for-profi t and private not-for-profi t organizations will surely bring surprising benefi ts even in the toughest environments, where economic and human development can fi nd themeselves joined at the origin.

Alliances with the world of research and with the cooperation is linked to Italian military missions abroad. In Lebanon, a project developed by the Italian Cooperation Agency’s ROSS (Rehabilitation, Occupation, Services, Development) has involved the University of Milan: one major result was the identification of the Candidatus Phytoplasma phoenicium which jeopardize the production of peaches and almonds. This borderless natural phenomenon forces research centers all over the world to cooperate in order to stop it.

New alliances with international agencies already partners with AVSI, such as the UNHCR, which involved us in an educational intervention in Dadaab, Kenya. This effort had started out as an Italian Cooperation project then developed into a “temporary town”, a shelter to 400,000 fl eeing people. The project must adapt itself to an enormous growth, also due to the Horn of Africa famine. Critical and systematical refl ection on experience was confi rmed as AVSI’s commitment in 2010. While there is a lot of talk about aid effi ciency, AVSI made a series of evaluations and analyses on the cases, in collaboration with the Subsidiarity Foundation, in order to build

practice-based knowledge. The 2010 fi nal assessment of the OVC (Our Valuable Children) Program was very signifi cant: it was in fact one of the most important programs in the history of AVSI. Funded by USAID (United State Agency for International Development) within PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) and the Distance Support Program, it reached 14,000 children and adolescents, their families and communities in Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and subsequently in the Ivory Coast as well. It showed how crucial the role of family is in the child’s growth, especially in diffi cult conditions.

Finally, AVSI Board of Directors was renewed in 2010, with the appointment of President Mario Saporiti and the reduction in the number of Directors from 9 to 7. Mario Saporiti takes the place of President Arturo Alberti whose mandate lasted forty years, AVSI’s lifetime.

In the face of the crisis and its consequences that do not make big headlines, such as food crisis, in the face of the reduction of governmental funds for development and of private donations due to impoverishment, AVSI, secure with its value, has found allies of good will, large and small. “The forces that move history are the same forces that move the heart of men”. 2010 helped us meet many wounded hearts, but looking for a meaning, hearts with big responsibilities yet willing to question themselves. Hearts that even through a small act such as distance support change history. We are looking out for such hearts.

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AVSI who we are

Born as an associationin 1972 and recognized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a not-for profi t organization of international cooperation in 1973, as of 2010 AVSI holds General Consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), is a partner of some of the major international organisms (UNHCR, UNICEF, ILO) and cooperation agencies such as USAID and ECHO.

At present, AVSI is operating in 38 countries in the following sectors:• Social and educational• Distance support• Urban development• Healthcare• Work• Agriculture, food security and water• Energy and environment• Humanitarian emergency

guiding values CENTRALITYOF THE PERSONThe person is seenas a unique being in his or her fundamental relationships, family and society. The person cannot be reducedto a social category or a limitation such as poverty, diseaseor disability.

The mission To promote the dignity of each person through development cooperation activitieswith a special attention to education, according to the Catholicsocial teaching.

Education in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp, home to 400,000 people. AVSI operates here in collaboration with international agencies,

UNHCR and the Italian Cooperation.

STARTING FROMTHE POSITIVEEvery person and every community represents a potential resource, regardless of their vulnerability. This means valuing and strengthening all that has been made by people and also helping people to understand their own value and dignity.

DOING WITHStarting froma relationship withthe people to whom the project is directed and building with them on the basis of their development path.

DEVELOPMENTOF CIVIL SOCIETYAND SUBSIDIARITY Development projects must favor associations, ackowledge and value the establishment of intermediate bodies along with a responsible and engaged social fabric.

PARTNERSHIPPromotion of partnerships withall the actors in the fi eld in order to favor synergies and optimize available resources.

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stakeholders

38.642

In Italy 57 permanent collaborators; 2 consultants; 14 volunteers; 12 interns

Abroad 1.396

By the term stakeholders the subjects are meant, both inside and outsidean NGO, who share interest with the activityof the organization.

Among others arepersonnel, local partners, international partnersand sponsors.

human resources(collaborators, expatriates, consultants, volunteers and interns)

Distribution of personnelabroad, by area:

local partners (governmental, educational, healthcare institutions, non-governmentaland religious organizations)

donors9.907 private (companies, individuals, banks, foundations, schools and families) 28.656 distance support sponsors(may coincide with private donors)79 public (municipalities, counties, departments, regions, provinces, Italian Government, European Union, bilateral cooperation, international organizations, development banks.

asia 3%

middleeast 3%

easterneurope2%

africa59%33%

latin america and caribbean

AVSI network

More than 60 organizations now make up the informal AVSI network, which works systematically on the implementation of projects, common refl ectionon development, to share methods and experiences. The network includesfounding members and participating members, but also partners.A network bound by operative friendship.

Italy> Associazione Famiglie

per l’Accoglienzawww.famiglieperaccoglienza.itfounding member

> Associazione per l’Uganda> AVSI Alto Adige Südtirol

http://users.south-tyrolean.net/avsi-aast

> CBAU - Comunità Biellesi Aiuti Umanitari - www.cbau.net

> DIESSE - www.diesse.org> EDUS - www.educazionesviluppo.org > FOE Federazione Opere Educative

www.foe.it> Fondazione per la Sussidiarietà

www.sussidiarieta.netfounding member

> Fondazione Sacro Cuore di Cesena founding member

Albania> SHIS www.shisalbania.org

founding member

Argentina> ACDI Asociación Cultural

para el Desarollo Integralwww.acdi.org.ar - founding member

> Obra Padre Mario Pantaleohttp//padremario.org

Angola> A Semente do futuro

Brazil> CODESC founding member> CDM - www.cdm.org.br

founding member> AVSI Nordest > Ceduc > Obras educativas Padre Giussani

www.obraseducativas.org.br> CREN di San Paolo

www.unifesp.br/suplem/cren/> Cantinho da Natureza di Rio

www.cantinhodanatureza.org.br/ > Scuola Agricola Rainha dos

Apostolos di Manaus

Bulgaria> APSI Associazione per il sostegno

delle iniziative sociali

Canada> AVSI Canada - http://avsi-canada.org

founding member

Chile > Fundación Domus

www.fundaciondomus.clfounding member

Ecuador> Fundacion Sembrar> CUET

Germany> Support International V.

www.supportinternational.defounding member

Haiti > Université Notre Dame d’Haiti> Commissione Episcopale Nazionale

Giustizia e Pace

Kenya> St. Kizito Vocational Training

Institute www.stkizito.comfounding member

> COWA founding member > Cardinal Otunga School

Kazakhstan> MASP

Kosovo> SHPRESA E JETËS> Agrodukagjini

Lebanon> La Libanaise> Caritas Lebanon

www.caritas.org.lb/

Lithuania> SOTAS - www.sotas.org

founding member

Mexico> CRECER DIJO founding member> CSJ founding member

Myanmar> Ayeyarwaddy Homeland

Mozambique> Khandlelo Associaçao Para Desevolvimento Juvenil

Nigeria > St. Kizito Clinic founding member> The Seed founding member

Palestine> Effetà> ATS e Custodia di Terra Santa

www.terrasancta.org

Paraguay> Fundacion San Rafael

www.sanrafael.org.py

Peru> Universidad Católica Sedes

Sapientiae - www.ucss.edu.pe

Poland> AVSI Polska - www.avsipolska.org

founding member

Portugal> VIDA - www.vida.org.pt

founding member

Romania> Fundatia Dezvoltarea Popoarelor

www.fdpsr.rofounding member

Russia> Maksora - www.maksora.ru

founding member

San Marino Republic- AVSI San Marino

www.avsisanmarino.smfounding member

Spain> CESAL - www.cesal.org

founding member

Sierra Leone> Family Homes Movement

www.thefhm.org/ITA/Benvenuto.html

Switzerland> AVAID Founding member

Uganda> COWA (Companionship

of Works Association)www.btvet-uganda.org/training-provider/homepages/cowa-vocational-training-centerfounding member

> Meeting Point Internationalwww.meetingpoint-int.orgfounding member

> Meeting Point Kitgumhttp://meetingpointkitgum.orgfounding member

> Permanent Center for Education> Luigi Giussani High School> Meeting Point Hoima

USA> AVSI USA

www.avsi-usa.org founding member

Venezuela> Fundación San Antonio


our organizational structureAVSI Foundation manages activities throughthe following institutional bodies:

bodies members

BOARD OF FOUNDERS It gathers twice a year, approvesand defi nes the activities of thefoundation which are suggestedby the Board of Directors: It appointsthe directors, the president of thefoundation, the board of auditors,decides on statute changes,and approves both fi nal andbudget plans.

41 founding members:• 24 agencies of which:

7 NGOs from developed countries15 NGOs from developingand transition countries 2 Italian foundations17 natural persons

BOARD OF PARTICIPATINGMEMBERS

It gathers at least once a year, summonedand headed by the president of thefoundation, suggests one or two representatives out of which the boardof founders appoints a member of theboard of directors. It expresses non-binding opinions and proposals concerningthe activities of the foundation.

112 participants: • 4 agencies of which:

2 NGOs from developing countries2 Italian associations107 natural persons

BOARD OF DIRECTORS It has all the powers of ordinary and extraordinary administration of thefoundation. Mandate lasts three years; number of members can vary from 7 to 11 according to the board of founders.It prepares the fi nal and budget plans, suggests possible statute changes,appoints the secretary-general, anddraws guidelines for the activities.

In 2010 AVSI board of directorswas renewed.Mario SaporitiEzio CastelliAlberto PiattiPablo Llano TorresDaniele NembriniFabrizio PalaiMichele Faldi

PRESIDENT The president represents the foundationand monitors the execution of approved acts.

Mario Saporiti

VICE-PRESIDENT The vice president replaces the presidentin case of absence or impediment.

Ezio Castelli

SECRETARY-GENERAL The secretary-general is responsible forthe operative direction of the foundationand exercises all the ordinary and extraordinary powers conferred to himby the board of directors. The mandatelasts three years and can be renewed.

Alberto Piatti

BOARD OF AUDITORS Monitors the activities of the foundationand is made up of three members.The board has a mandate of three yearsand its members can be renewed

Paolo Sciumè - PresidentLuigi ParenteAlvaro Agasisti

AVSI POINTNETWORK

SYSTEMIZATIONPLANNING

SPONSORSNETWORK OFFICE VOLUNTEERS

our organizational structure

OFFICE OFFICE OFFICE

SECRETARYGENERAL

AVSI USAREPRESENTATION WITH

INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES.

OPERATINGMANAGER

FINANCE/TREASURY

KNOWLEDGEMANAGEMENT OFFICER

AFRICADESK AREA

MILAN CESENA NAPPLES

EASTERN EUROPEASIA

DESK AREA

PRIVATEDONORS

LATIN AMERICADESK AREA

DISTANCESUPPORT

MIDDLE EASTDESK AREA

FUND RAISING

DEVELOPMENTEDUCATION

COMMUNICATION PROJECTS INTERNATIONALADOPTIONS

NATIONAL TECHNICAL TEAMFOREIGN COUNTRIES

COORDINATION OFFICE

HUMANRESOURCES

QUALITYSYSTEMS

GENERALOFFICE

LOCALCOOPERATION

ADMINISTRATIONOFFICE

ADOTTAUN’OPERA COORDINATOR

FRONT DESKCESENA

FRONT DESK PURCHASINGPURCHASING RULESIMPLEMENTATION IT ACCOUNTINGACCOUNTING REPORTING PERSONNEL

DIRECTOR OF CTOKNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

LOGISTIC ADMINISTRATION

FINANCIALMANAGER

BORDOF DIRECTORS

PRESIDENT


ALBANIA

SWITZERLAND

SAN MARINO

AUSTRIA

POLANDGERMANY

SPAIN

PORTUGAL

RUMANIA

KOSOVOITALY

JORDAN

PALESTINIAN TERRITORY

KAZAKHSTAN

LEBANON

LITHUANIA

PHILIPPINES

ANGOLA

UGANDA

MOZAMBIQUE

SIERRA LEONE

IVORY COAST

NIGERIA

D.R. CONGO

CONGO BRAZAVILLE

RWANDAKENYA

BURUNDI

TANZANIA

SOUTH SUDAN

ETHIOPIA

VENEZUELA

BRAZIL

ARGENTINA

PERU

ECUADOR

CHILE

CANADA

RUSSIA

THAILAND

HAITI

PARAGUAY

MEXICO

HONDURAS

UNITED STATESOF AMERICA

COLOMBIA

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Countries where AVSIis promoting activities

where we are, what we do

AGRICULTURE, FOOD SECURITY AND WATER

HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT

WORK

MIGRATIONS

HEALTHCARE

SOCIAL-EDUCATIONAL

DISTANCE SUPPORT

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

ARGENTINA

CHILE

PARAGUAY

type of projectsprojects byintervention areas

14

9

1

9

6

9

70

1

In 2010, AVSIFOUNDATIONhas completed

in 38 countries ofAfrica, Latin America, Caribbean, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia, in addition to the distance support.

projects

ALBANIA

SWITZERLAND

SAN MARINO

AUSTRIA

POLANDGERMANY

SPAIN

PORTUGAL

RUMANIA

KOSOVOITALY

JORDAN

PALESTINIAN TERRITORY

KAZAKHSTAN

LEBANON

LITHUANIA

PHILIPPINES

ANGOLA

UGANDA

MOZAMBIQUE

SIERRA LEONE

IVORY COAST

NIGERIA

D.R. CONGO

CONGO BRAZAVILLE

RWANDAKENYA

BURUNDI

TANZANIA

SOUTH SUDAN

ETHIOPIA

VENEZUELA

BRAZIL

ARGENTINA

PERU

ECUADOR

CHILE

CANADA

RUSSIA

THAILAND

HAITI

PARAGUAY

MEXICO

HONDURAS

UNITED STATESOF AMERICA

COLOMBIA

MYANMAR

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51%49% 45%55% 52%48%16,363 17,025 16,041 13,286 16,483 17,751

total resources - value x.000

2008 2009 2010

Public Private

34,23429,32633,388

where we are, what we do

Africa

Eastern Europe

Middle East

Asia

Latina America and Caribbean

projects by geographic area

4742

1210

7


social and educationalintervention areas

The social and educational fi eld is the largest for AVSI.It includes activities of sheltering, family support, primary and secondary pre-school education, informal education, educational quality, maternal and feminine skills quality, intervention of childhood care and protection, strengthening of the civil society organizations and solidarity networks, reconstructionof intra-community relations in conditions of vulnerability and post-war scenarios, and special attention to people with disabilities.

projects

projects implemented

in 201070ALBANIA

ARGENTINA

BRAZIL

BURUNDI

CHILE

REP. OF THE CONGO

IVORY COAST

ECUADOR

ETHIOPIA

HAITI

KAZAKHSTAN

KENYA

KOSOVO

LITHUANIA

MEXICO

MOZAMBIQUE

MYANMAR

NIGERIA

PALESTINE

PERU

DEM. REP. OF THE CONGO

ROMANIA

RUSSIA

SIERRA LEONE

SOUTH SUDAN

UGANDA

3

2

1

15

3

1

1

1

2

1

6

3

4

2

1

1

1

2

2

1

2

2

2

2

8

1

Cardinal Otunga High School Courtesy Pio De Rose

The implementation method is common to many interventions: focusing on the person within her/his family and community, valuing her/his personal legacy (resilience), valuing the community heritage through the strengthening of helping relations and through the support to associations of people, through the involvementof the institutions.

RATHER THAN WITH AN EASY-CHARITY APPROACH, PROJECTS ARE CARRIED OUT WITH A FOCUS ON EDUCATION BY VALUING THE PERSON WHO LEARNS FROM PAST AND SHARED EXPERIENCES, WHO IS AMBITIOUS AND IGNITES THE SPARKLEOF DEVELOPMENT

projects


total of sponsored childrenin the world

33.338

Those who already knew about the difficult life conditions of the Haitian children that we help with the distance support, would have hardly imagined that their situation could get even worse, yet... on January 12th, 2010 Haiti became the focus of global attention. There wasnot a single family in Port-au-Prince that did not have to count their dead in this huge catastrophe. The other areas of the country where the distance support (DSP) is active,the Southern department and the Fonds Verrettes municipality bordering the Dominican Republic, were not hit by the earthquake but were still affected by the massive fl oodof refugees, the communication and supply breakdown from the capital.

AVSI is a member ofThird Sector Agency’s ‘Sostegnoa Distanza in Chiaro’ initiative.

It was very hard for the AVSI staff to fi nd the courage to go back to work without knowing anything about friends, colleagues, even their families. Nonetheless, on the morning of January 13th, the social workers and the DSP ones especially, let AVSI know that they were around. So they got to work right away. All that AVSI has been able to do for the 1,500+ DSP children in Haiti was made possible by the support of all the Italian sponsors but also by the courage and sacrifi ce of these young colleagues, who put their duty before everything else. They believed in the mission of their own job so much that they would consider the sponsored children as their own, and would go around looking for them one by one, at every house, every tent, every hospital, until news on everyone was collected and their needs assessed. Thus the post-earthquake reconstruction started.

As the children were found by the social workers, the team assessed their primary health needs and doctors provided first aid, taking turns working at Cité Soleil and Martissant, the two boroughs where the majority of DSP children live. The Italian sponsors were immediately informed when their sponsored child was found and what his or her conditions were: some had lost one or both parents, nearly all of them had their house damaged or destroyed. About twenty of them were severely wounded. Unfortunately, three of them died. A certain number of families decided to move out to other areas of the country where relatives or acquaintances could help them. When these children could not continue in the distance support project their sponsors were invited to continue their support to any of the many needy children in the area.

distance supportintervention areas

Tent schoolin Haiti.

Ivory Coast, fl eeing from war.

two storiesFor the fi rst three months AVSI has worked only in the fi elds, where we have followed our children and met many others who needed our help and support, due to the terrible conditions that they were facing. This led to to a big awareness campaign in Italy, which had a very positive reaction on the part of many donors. This allowed us to include 600 more children in the project: 150 at Cité Soleil, 300 at Martissant and 150 in the southern area of Torbeck.It was possible to inform the sponsors only about these “emergency DSP children’s” name and some basic information.The personal form and additional details were communicated later.

As the families were gradually able to return to their houses, they were provided with support kits, particularly hygiene kits (soap, laundry soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, bowl, etc), kitchen kits (pots, plates and metal glasses, tableware, etc). The “School in Tent” has begun in the fi elds in early February: subsequently temporary schools have been built that operate in two turns thus allowing more than 400 children to complete their school year.

All the children were visited by a doctor and properly cured when necessary. The most vulnerable families were granted food and nutritional supplements for children and pregnant women. Families were also provided with farming tools kits and had the opportunity to work in workshops on brick-making, dressmaking, handicraft classes. This was done in order to favor the economic relaunch of the area.

Myriame’s houseThe members of FIBA CISL in the province of Forlì-Cesena have been sponsoring Myriame, from Haiti, through the DSP since 2005. They share her letters, her pictures, her school reports and drawings that they receive along with the periodical update. Myriame received a copy, too and was very happy, whereas the social workers were very impressed to see how much the sponsors cared for her. When they learned that Myriame’s house had been brought down by the earthquake they launched a fundraising campaign to help rebuild it.

SAMUEL, wounded in shootout, but cured thanks to the support network.Samuel lives at Martissant, Port-au-Prince, Haiti and was accidentally wounded in a gang shootout in the month of November. Such episodes were frequent in Haiti before the earthquake, now increased poverty and instability have amplifi ed insecurity. He was hit by one reocheting bullet in the head and one in the back. Immediately afterwards he was taken to the hospital and received all necessary cures and was soon declared out of danger. The happy ending to this sad story came thanks to the distance support as well, without which the child could not have been promptly rescued and cured. In fact, somebody knew he was included in the AVSI project and informed our social workers as soon as the accident occurred. Since the social workers lived in the same neighborhood they could rapidly intervene.

geographic area females males total

EASTERN EUROPE 1,461 1,565 3,026

AFRICA 8,551 7,946 16,497

LATIN AMERICA 5,180 5,059 10,239

ASIA 635 665 1,300

MIDDLE EAST 1,244 1,032 2,276

TOTAL 17,071 16,267 33,338

down by the earthquake they launched a fundraising campaign to help rebuild it.

SAMUEL, wounded in

47,13 49

31

9

74

27,00

0-3

7,65

7,38

5,954,61 0,27

% sponsoredchildren, byage group

% of childrensponsored

by geographicarea

4-5 6-12 13-16 17-18 19-24 24 yearsV AFRICA LATINAMERICA

CARIBBEAN

EASTERNEUROPE

MIDDLEEAST

ASIA


Brazil,Salvador de Bahia

In more than 20 years of experience in Brazilian metropolises, AVSIhas developed a know-how and a specifi c method in urban upgrading.This method has been presented at many international summits, such asthe G8 or the Pontifi cal Academy of Social Sciences, and has beendocumented in studies of agencies such as Cities Alliance.

THE CHALLENGE OF CITIES’ DEVELOPMENT IS ABOUT BEING ABLE TO OFFER SERVICES THAT ARE ADEQUATE TO THAT PERSON. The city becomes sustainable and livable if the person/nature union is restored, resilient, welcoming and able to adaptto new needs and populations, therefore becoming able to shape itself to better address their needs.

Two good examples of this are the following projects, both in Brazil, implemented with the Italian Government, Cities Alliance and the World Bank. The former, in Salvador Bahia, provided technical and methodological assistance to the local institutions on interventions in shantytownsin Salvador and other townsin the State of Bahia. The latter was located in the urban areasof Olinda, in the Stateof Pernambuco, involving all the know-how and expertise AVSI had developed.

Brazil started international cooperation initiatives abiding by an agreement with Italy.This engaged in an intervention in Maputo, Mozambique, aimed to improve life conditionsin a poor neighborhood, thereby following the method acquired in Bahia.

AVSI’s approach in informal urban areas is about building infrastructuresand house maintenance along with activities of support for the individual(healthcare, educational, social), involving the local communities and favoringthe partnership among existing institutions and organizations.

2BRAZIL 2

projectsimplemented

urban developmentintervention areas

St. Joseph’s mission hospitalin Kitgum, Uganda

9

Among the Millennium Development Goalsin the health sector are reduction of child mortalityand reduction of the spread of AIDS by 2015, malariaand TBC or “major diseases”.

AVSI’s healthcare projects, mainly focused in Africa, include public healthcare initiatives aimed to support existing healthcare facilities, build hospitals and clinics, grant access to treatments, develop programs for endemic diseases prevention and cure and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, along with specifi c interventions on nutrition where technical competence has been acquired. Special attention has been dedicated to orientation, training and ongoing formation of the operators as well as to the involvement of the communities by raising awareness on the disease and fi nally the use of mobile healthcare teams capable of reaching patients in remote or inaccessible areas lacking any medical assistance.

BRAZIL 1

DEM. REP. OF THE CONGO 3

NIGERIA 1

SOUTH SUDAN 2

UGANDA 1

VENEZUELA 1

projects

projectsimplemented

healtcareintervention areas


Belo Horizonte, womenof CoopArvore, the cooperative that makes objects from car production waste materials.

Meeting Point Internationalin Kampala, Uganda

AVSI Foundation’s vocational projects and projects support micro and small enterprises focus on widening access to work for vunerable people, by favoring the encounter between demand and supply, self-employment and microenterprise, with a special attention to youth and women. Along with technical orientation, programs include a personal follow-up, aimed to favor the full development of potential of youth and grown-ups alike

ALBANIA 1

BRAZIL 5

MEXICO 1

PERU 1

UGANDA 1

AVSI’S QUALIFYING POINT IS A CONCEPTION OF WORKAS AN EXPRESSION OF THE PERSON’S TALENTS.

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AVSI and its local partners’ creative fantasy has highlighted important goals, mentioned by the President of FIAT Mr Belini at a workshop on the “Arvore da Vida” project which is improving life conditions and offering jobs to the population of the Terezòpolis neighborhood (Belo Horizonte). The project reaches more than 5,000 youth, 1,200 of which have taken vocational classes: 70% of them have alreadyentered the job market.

Another example is the hard work of women in Kampala, Uganda, where they make necklaces out of recycled paper, which has now become a source of new income generating activities (IGAs), similarly to what happens in Albania, Mexico and Kenya.

workintervention areas

Aquaducts in the rural area around Les Cayes, Haiti.

Agriculture, food security and water are three milestonesfor AVSI, as they are strictly intertwined: they are potential factorsin the development and in the improvement of life conditions.In 2010, hungry people in the world numbered about one billion,98% of which in the developing countries.

projects

In the food and farming sector, AVSI Foundation’s projects include food security and malnutrition reduction measures, with a focus on the improvement in the availabilityof food items for families, yet also orientation and training on innovative technologies in the farming sector, protection of the environment and of water resources.

From access to food aimed to reduce undernourishment to access to international markets for the small producers. A sort of “chain” from favoring a larger knowledge of growing and breeding techniques to improving water use and maintenance at home.

Several of AVSI’s experiences are largely contributing to the international debate promoted by EXPO 2015 on healthy nutrition. In the delicate mosaic of the Middle East – for example – work with the farmers in Lebanon and the restoration of waterin the Marjayoun Plain, in the south of the country, has spreada unique method, by putting together benefi ciaries,governments and institutions.Likewise, results of activities in the farming areas of Southern Haiti are generating development and future perspectives. Something similar is going on in Argentina with the Pampa breeders. The “nutrition network” launched in Mexico is aimedto strengthen a network of Latin American operators working toward the improvement of child nutrition.

REP. DEM. OF CONGO 1

MYANMAR 3

BURUNDI 1

HAITI 4

LEBANON 2

RWANDA 2

UGANDA 1

1414projectsimplemented

agriculture, food security and water

intervention areas


“Energy poverty is the challenge of the century” said theWorld Energy Council (WEC), thus declaring that nearly two billion people worldwide, particularly in the developing countries,still do not have access to basic energy services.

IN THIS FIELD OF ACTIVITIES, AVSI WORKS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CERTAIN COMPANIESIN NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL TO IMPROVE ENERGY SUPPLY EFFICIENCY, WHEREAS ITS EFFORTS IN SOME AFRICAN COUNTRIES ARE FOCUSED ON STUDIES ON ALTERNATIVE ACCESSTO ENERGY IN POORER ENVIRONMENTS AND ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

Energy and environment are strictly intertwined. The challenge is about re-establishing what Pope Benedict XVI calls “the alliance between man and nature, without which the whole human family is destined to disappear”. In a culture where this relationship is soured and confl ictive, it is necessary to restore an intelligent, fruitful and constructive relationship. Peace Forest, for instance, is a project on reforestation of 2,471 acresin the Kokolopori reservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,and on improving the ecosystem and biodiversity of native vegetable species and conservation of endangered animal species, such as the bonobo.The other environmental benefi t of Peace Forest is to balance out Co2 emissions, as is illustrated by AVSI campaign “Double Zero Co2”,along with Matching and Utilità.

Access to energy represents, in fact, an essential prerequisite for the economic development of communities. The hectic pace of today’s life has nonetheless already affected a large part of the needy populations, who tend to access energy in ways that are harmful to the planet, ineffi cient and disrespectful of nature. It is the case with deforestation aimed to produce vegetable coal or illegal, ineffi cient access to the existing networks, especially in bigger cities.

projectsimplemented2

REP. DEM. OF THE CONGO 1

BRAZIL 1

energy and environmentintervention areas

Brazil, deliveryof new refrigerators.

RdCongo, the forest

Although it is not specialized in emergencies, AVSIintervenes in chronic crises, confl ict and post-confl ict, never losing contact with all the local actors on the ground.

AVSI’s interventions are conceived to limit the consequences of these breakdowns, by acting on healthcare, infrastructures, education and family income generation. Emergency situations can cause even more damage to vulnerable people, whose already fragile-living conditions can plummet from hardship.

projects

9REP. DEM. OF THE CONGO 1

HAITI 3

LEBANON 2

PERU 1

SOUTH SUDAN 1

UGANDA 1

projectsimplemented

AVSI’S APPROACH IS FUNDAMENTAL AS IT IS ABOUT REBUILDING THE HUMAN STARTING BY THE AFFIRMATION OF LIFE NOTWITHSTANDING THE EMERGENCY

It is particularly worth mentioning that INEE was involvedin the working groups to help defi ne the standardson education in emergencies.

humanitarian emergencyintervention areas

A refugee camp in the DemocraticRepublic of the Congo,courtesy Fabrizio Lava.


6

There is no point today in talking about development cooperation without mentioning migrations. Internal migrations, such as the urban drift and external migrations, entire peoples forced to leave their homeland and roots.Some relocate abroad temporarily due to war or regimesthat hamper a decent lifestyle. Others live away from their native land in conditions of lasting precariousness.

Therefore, AVSI operates in the Iraqi refugee camps in Jordan, builds new houses for the Palestinians in Lebanon, works with the Rom communities in Romania and in the refugee camps at Dadaab, Kenya. The transformation of the shantytown of Ribeira Azul, Brazil into neighborhoods was possible because the project started from and focused on the positive that lies in every person and used that to help build a sense of community.

projectsimplemented

JORDAN 2

LEBANON 2

KENYA 1

ROMANIA 1

migrationsintervention areas

AVSI’S MISSION IS SUPPORTING THE PEOPLE WHO LEFTTHEIR ORIGINS BEHIND IN THE PATH TO THE RE-DISCOVERYOF THAT “INBORN DIGNITY” THAT IS PECULIAR OF EVERYHUMAN BEING, ACCORDING TO BENEDICT XVI.

Lebanon

AVSI Foundation has been approved by the International Adoptions Commission of the Italian Government, therefore can deal with such adoptions. It currently operates in Brazil (States of Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais, Espiritu Santo and Bahia), Mexico and Lithuania.

1. GROUP INFORMATION MEETINGSFor qualifi ed and unqualifi ed couples alike.

2. INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION PREPARATION CLASS Led by a psychologist with the participation of AVSI operators and families with adoption experience.

3. IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW AND CHOICE OF COUNTRY The social team meets the couple to further discuss adoption plan, motivation, and identify the country of choice.

4. PREPARATION AND TRANSMISSION OF ALL PAPERWORK DUE TO THE FOREIGN COUNTRY Explanation, preparation and delivery of adoption requests to the foreign country authorities.

5. WAIT AND MATCHING PROPOSAL At this stage, several meetings and interviews are held with the couple. The technical team dedicates these specifi c meetings to the matching proposal and the couple’s approval.

6. JOURNEY ARRANGEMENT AND STAY ABROAD After the couple’s approval the journey(s) and stay(s) in the foreign country are arranged. During this time, the couple is always accompanied by an AVSI contact person.

7. POST ADOPTION For 2 years or longer the couple will have to keep regular contact with the socialservices and with AVSI with regard to the post-adoption reportsfor the foreign country.

projects

Adoptions completed in 2010

24 34 177 267

international adoptionsintervention areas

Total of adoptedchildren in 201050% Brazil,50% Lithuania

Total adoptions from 2003 to Dec 31st 2010

Total of adopted children from 2003to Dec 31st 2010

Age of child at arrival in Italy totaleof children

totale adoptions

1-4 4-7 7-9 +9

LITHUANIA 27 42 35 29 134 98

BRAZIL 9 50 47 25 131 77

KAZAKSTAN 2 - - - 2 2

TOTAL 38 93 82 54 267 177

Main steps in the adoptionprocess with AVSI


AVSI

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tende2010-2011

LE FORZECHE CAMBIANOLA STORIASONOLE STESSECHE CAMBIANOIL CUOREDELL’UOMO

fund raisingThe annual AVSI awareness and fundraising activities are developed in Italy through coordinated actions with a network of volunteer supporters (the so-called AVSI Points). Every year, AVSI works on two awareness campaigns:

The AVSI Points network, “Every man is a king”.

The Tents campaign and the 5 per 1000 campaign take place thanks to a growing informal network of volunteers - the AVSI Points – which arranges initiatives and events (spontaneously and for free) to promote the projects, the method and the activities of the foundationall over the country. Furthermore, there are particular events that lead AVSI Foundation to promote extraordinary fundraising campaigns.In the year 2010, following Haiti’s January 12 earthquake, AVSI launched an emergency fundraising. This produced a large number of fundraising and awareness events arranged by the AVSI Points network – in favor of all the relief activities on the Caribbean island where AVSI had been operative since 1999. AVSI network rallied quickly, creating events all over the country. In total, 217 events were held on this occasion.

Annual fundraising campaigncalled “Solidarity Tents”.

2

1Awareness campaign

for the 5 per 1,000pretax donation

Adult educationin Northern Uganda.

courtesy Brett Morton

AVSI Volunteers are pivotal to campaigns:volunteers are creative and dynamic and can effectively interact withall the grassroots actors. In 2010, a total of 1,268 people worked to directly support the activities of AVSI Foundation. The increase in the numberof supporters in 2010 was signifi cant (the network was made up of 872 people in the previous year); this is mainly due to the emergency in Haiti.

The Tents campaign. The 2010 title: “The forcesthat change history are the same as those that change man’s heart”.

Events and raised funds. Among the events that were held:stands in public places including entertainment and promotion of AVSI activities in the world; testimonies and meetings held at schoolsduring schooltime, public meetings where AVSI expatriate staff illustrate their work and experience with testimonies, documentaries,dinners, sporting contests, theater plays, concerts. Events held to support the Tents Campaign: 575 (total amount raisedEuro 1,047,344, and additional 217 for Haiti)

Haiti: building an educational centerin Port-au-Prince.

Chile: reconstruction of the Santa Teresa de Los Andes school in Santiago.

Kenya: CardinalOtunga SecondarySchool Nairobi.

South Sudan:St. Mary Universityin Juba for teachingcourses and training.

Lebanon:restoration of waterin the MarjayounPlain.

Distance support: investing on a generation, secondary and vocational school in Uganda and Kenya.

Furthermore, proceeds of the book: “Alla radicedello sviluppo: l’importanza del fattore umano”by Ilaria Schnyder, Gabriella Berloffa and Giuseppe Folloni were donated to AVSI. The book was launched December 6th, at the Foreign Affairs Ministry Offi ces, Rome in the presence of Minister Franco Frattini,Robero Fontolan, Alberto Piatti, Ilaria Schnyder, Giuseppe Folloni.

“Alla radice dello sviluppo: l’importanza del fattore umano”, with introduction by Luigi Campglio (professor of Political Economy and vice-rector at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan), edited by the Foundation for Subsidiarity, published by Guerini & Associates, 2010. On the basis of the AVSI shantytown inclusion project in Salvador Bahia and the Trabalhadores sem terra movement in Sao Paulo (Marcos and Cleuza Zerbini), the authors explain developmentas the effect of a consistent subject which interacts intelligently with reality; this is a point we have been working on for some years.

the project


Following a trip to Uganda, friends from the RiminiAVSI Point wrote this diaryto show value sharingand commitment.

AFTER MANY YEARS OF “TENTS”, A BUNCH OF FRIENDS ACCEPT THE INVITATION. COME WITH US AND SEE WHAT – BETTER, WHO – AVSI UGANDA ACTUALLY IS. Off we go, fully entrusted. We do not know who we will meet, or what we will do, but trust and wait are solemn. Stefano welcomes us at ten p.m. We have a real pizza by the slice at the AVSI base in Kampala. He quietly says: I have been here for eleven years with my wife and children. They were raised here. It’s their home. Our life was not planned in the fi rst place. It is simply a yes that sounds like a “why not’?

The next morning we meet the new members of the “expedition”: a varied group of journalists that will take us to Kitgum where a humanitarian intervention is underway that involves a team of the Italian armed forces doctors. We dive into Kampala’s crazy traffi c, blocked by trucks full of people for the ongoing electoral campaign.

The trip to Kitgum was supposed to be six hours long. It actually took a whole day. Every plan is subject to change in Africa and time has a different duration from Europe. But the journey is a grace, too. Chiara, AVSI’s area desk

offi cer, is our guardian angel throughout our stay. She is a force of nature, full of passion for her work. Kitgum has 50,000 inhabitants. It should be called a city but the title would be misleading here: dirt roads full of holes like craters; where asphalt had been laid a long time before, holes are not well rounded, they are sharp-edged. We are here on the celebrations of the fi ftieth anniversary of St Joseph’s Hospital. This hospital was founded by Combonian missionaries and AVSI started to help them a few decades ago. We visit the hospital with Mila, an anesthetist who has been here for three months with her husband Mario – an architect involved in water management projects, and their two children. We can’t not help being moved as we walk through the wards. Gynecology, Pediatrics, Obstetrics... Women’s and children’s silent eyes follow us with a gentle and friendly curiosity, eyes marked with silent suffering.

In addition to Mila and Mario’s family AVSI’s compound in Kitgum is home to Sara and Francesco “Fritz”’s family: he follows us to make sure that everything goes smoothly, as far as is possible in Africa. Their son Luigi was born two years ago in the Obstetrics ward that we have just visited.

fund raising AVSI Point

Padre Tiboni

Every man is a kingshort chronicle of an unexpected trip

UGANDA November 26-28, 2010

Then the feast was held. An African feast, in the soccer fi eld of the Combonian mission: the Holy Mass of three and a half hours for the opening, a whole day for the full program. The choir of full voices, accompanied by fantasy rich instruments, sings songs that are way too long for us though barely long enough for them to please them in their singing together. In the middle of the fi eld stood a coreography of female children in a white dress, girls in fl amboyant blue, ladies in shiny clothes of bright colors and bare-breasted warriors.

Aside from the feast, a hug between two women: Ketty and Valentina. The former is a small, plump and white-haired African lady, the latter an attractive Italian girl. One hug is not enough, more will come... They lock eyes with each other partaking the joy of two hearts that get together and remind each other of the life they have shared.Valentina, an expat (AVSI’s ‘slang’ term for the Italian volunteers) who has lived two years side by side with this “acholi” from northern Uganda in a remote place in the middle of nowhere six hours north of Kampala. Ketty, two happy eyes, happy to be on the world, on this world, as it is, a world of suffering, misery, disease, a world of great patience and greater dignity, joy. Ketty creates the fi rst Meeting Point here in Kitgum, a place where the sick people are taken care of on their path to a near end, whereas before they had to hide due to the moral and social stigma that disease brought. Social because moral: AIDS.

We leave the feast and jump up in the AVSI jeeps, off to another show in a nearby small town. Sara has set up a music band with the guys from a missionary school.Three weeks of study and preparation, trumpets, trombones, cymbals and drums and out of nothing comes a musical ensemble that gets applauses and ovations thanks to the mix of pride, dignity and passion. It is true! We have seen: it is true! After... or before cures and food, we are all hungry for truth and beauty. Without Truth and Beauty donated for Love to that king that every

man is, who is “that man” that you meet, what are cures for? What is food for?

Now, off with Ketty to her Meeting Point. We visit the building where we notice a large sheet with the picture of the hug between Fr Giussani and John Paul II with the writing “The beginning of our friendship”. Then she wants us to meet her friends. The fi rst ones are Walter and his wife who welcome us into their house. They suffer from AIDS but – Meeting Point miracle! - they have two healthy children! Then Ketty takes us to a female friend, whose name is Santa, and she bears signs unmistakable signs of severe AIDS: she looks to us like she is near the end, lying in a dark round thatched hut in a godforsaken place, taken out in her friend Anna’s arms, gritting her teeth for the pain. As soon as she sits on an old wheelchair... she smiles at the words of introduction of her friend Ketty, then unexpectedly starts to sing to the tune of a merry African song. She sings happy. Yes: HAPPY, she sings! The Kenyan camera operator working with the Rai reporter sobs and stops the fi lming. What secret hides behind that impossible happiness? Do you think it is possible, reasonable to “envy” her sincerely joyful smile, so simple, so disarming, so real?

We return to Kampala on a fl ight from an unconvincing strip of red land among joyful children. Upon arrival, a short lunch break at the Kampala

headquarters and out of the window we see an old priest walking by. “Tibo!” Alberto calls. He is AVSI’s big chief and offi cial speaker at yesterday’s feast. That priest is Fr Tiboni. We would like to tell him that we are his sons, we would like to say that you have been hearing about him for years, that we share his love for the Movement, his Love for Christ and the Church, we would like to... but everything is compressed into very few words, hands that shake warmly, a look that we entrust with everything. He understands.

Then, before we take our fl ight back to Italy, one last visit. Kireka, one of Kampala’s slums, the shantytown. Here hides a corner of a “new world” that we know about: it’s the work of Rose where women and children break big rocks into smaller rocks to sell them to road and housing construction fi rms in two quarries. A day’s work for the equivalent of 50 cents (of Euro). Right beyond the deep, evocative hole stands the Kampala Meeting Point. Rose is there, with her sons and wearing her smile like the sky, eager to wait for us, welcome us, like if she were the dearest of friends, full of joy at the idea of hugging us again after a few years. But we are here now, we are back, our friend, dear friend, friend of our hearts. We exchange the fi rst words then off to class! The choir of her sons sings the fi rst Alpine song. Then outside, under the school porch, in front of the vast extension of huts, big trees and smoke just like it would be on the Tofane or Marmolada mountains.Why do you sing the Alpine songs? Do you understand them? “A bit”, they say “also, when we sing them, we are happy”. A correspondence of feelings which is a correspondence of life.Life is so beautiful. This life!

Without Truth andBeauty donated forLove to that king that every man is, who is“that man” that youmeet, what are cures for?What is food for?


HUMANA: A BOTTLE OF WATER TO EDUCATE PEOPLE. Feeding the person, nourish the hopes is the Humana Italia program in Mexico –in collaboration with AVSI – to support the María de Guadalupe Center by donating 10 cents (Ð) for every bottle of Acqua Amorosa sold. The proceeds are used to buy healthy food items in order to ensure a balanced diet to children, fi ght child malnutrition, support a nutritionist and social workers who monitor the nutritional habits of families. Furthermore, meetings are held with the mothers to convey healthcare and hygiene notions that are necessary for the growth of children. Program along the Expo lines. www.humana.it

HAITI. Healthcare and nutrition centers with Acri. Works are progressing with the Casse di Risparmio Spa and Fondazioni di Origine Bancaria in Port-au-Prince, where 3 nutritional centers are being built in the Martissant area and the equipment and set-up of 5 healthcare centers at Les Cayes (Torbeck municipality, in the south of the country). This concrete help reaches more than 10,000 Haitian children affected with malnutrition. Their conditions worsened after the 2010 earthquake. Then came AVSI and ACRI to support the population. The centers are being adquately restored and equipped, 150 people are being trained as doctors and paramedics.

A BREEDING GROUND OF HOPE IN HAITI in favor of Les Cayes rural community, sponsored by UniCredit Leasing Spa. The goal of the project is to re-establish the productive capacity of a farming community of 10,000 -therefore, agricultural and zootechnical orientation and support to small businesses.

NEOENERGIA GROUP WITH AVSI FOR DEVELOPMENT IN BRAZIL Neoenergia Group, leading power distributor in northeastern Brazil, operates in partnership with AVSI in the state of Pernambuco (pop. 9 million) where 59% of urban population live in conditions of extreme poverty. AVSI operators have completed the registry of all families and consumers, in order for the population to access the social tariffs that the Brazilian law provided for 50 thousand families. They are likewise busy in awareness campaign on the effi cient use of energy, for instance by replacing old refrigerators or high consumption lamps with more effi cient products.As a result, Neoenergia Group has seen a reduction in delinquency rate from 50 to 20% and the system loss rate due to illegal connections has fallen from 39 to 7%. For its part, AVSI has launched various micro-enterprises and created a social fund through the collection of old refrigerators and other waste. By promoting the effi cient use of energy at home, it reached 135,000 home visits which allowed it to develop a deeper knowledge of the population and their needs. www.neoenergia.com

DISTANCE SUPPORT. Sanofi -Aventis is not only the fourth-largest pharmaceutical company in the world, but the largest in Europe and emerging markets. The company puts social responsibility at the core of every activity. Being an actor of healthcare policies implies the obligation to act ethically and responsibly by promoting the economic and social development in every fi eld of activity. This is why Sanofi has started to sponsor AVSI through the distance support program in 2002 and to this day it sponsors 14 children in different countries. Furthermore, ESPOIR, the corporation foundation of the group, has been sponsoring AVSI healthcare projects in Africa and Latin America since 2009. www.sanofi .it

AT SCHOOL WITH MEDIAFRIENDS IN HAITI. Mediafriends, a non-profi t organization established by Mediaset, is working with AVSI on the reconstruction of 4 schools and educational centers in Port-au-Prince: the Ecole Drouillard for 400 children in the Cité Soleil neighborhood and the Ecole Kindergarten Dodo for 180 children in the Martissant area. Works are in progress on two more primary schools at Martissant whichwill allow 800 childrento study

GROWING TOGETHER.New alliances in MexicoAn extraordinary structure built after the 2010 earthquake had left old buildings unfi t for use. On Tuesday February 1st, 2011 the brand-new Community Development Center “María de Guadalupe” was inaugurated in the Monte Albán neighborhood of Oaxaca, Mexico. The center was built thanks to contributions by Enel Cuore Foundation, Government of Navarra, CESAL (a Spanish non-profi t organization in partnership with AVSI), the Tents Campaign conducted in Italy and in Mexico with the local partner CRECEMOS (DIJO), the Desarrollo Integral de la Juventud Oaxaqueña association and the Italian Cooperation Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Originally built as a soup kitchen for the poor in 2003, today the Center hosts more than 400 children – service includes full meals and activities with the families. The center has become an important gathering place for the community and is now sponsored by AVSI Distance Support Program, Panino Giusto and Humana. This experience has become a method and collected as a book: Crescere insieme. Ask Avsi.org

HUMANA: A BOTTLE OF WATER

fund raising Alliance with the companies

held with the mothers to convey notions

HAITI. Healthcare and nutrition

fund raising & efficiency

Public

Private

Latin America and Caribbean

Africa

Asia

Estern Europe

Middle East

2006 2007 2008 2009 20100.07 0.06 0.05 0.07 0.06

Private/public fund raising progressvalue % - x.000

Destination of funds by areavalue % - x.000

Project costs

Structure costs

Fundraising costs

Collateral costs

Cost typesvalue % - x.000

Efficiency rate fund raisingamounts in euro

fund raising index

974,385.0

16,112,321.0

Incomefund raising

Costsfund raising

6122,083

2,309

9,230

19,15457%

16,45556%

17,88752%

34,234

28%8,49129%

11,53034%

7%1,9327%

1,9916%

6%1,8226%

1,9736%

2%

2581%

9743%

2,8428%

30,24388%

6262%

8532%

201029,3262009

33,388

34,317

2008

2010

51%49% 45%55% 52%48%16,363 17,025 16,041 13,286 16,483 17,751

34,2342010

29,3262009

33,3882008


our 2010AVSI in the world. The most important events in the last 12 months.More information at www.avsi.org

January On January 12th, 2010 a powerful earthquake hit Haiti, killing approximately 250,000 people. AVSI - already present in the country with a team headed by Fiammetta Cappellini, immediately responded to the emergency along with the United Nations, providing help and support to the population.12 months later AVSI supported 40 thousand people through different activities and project.The United Nations High Commissionerfor Human Rights will award AVSI.

March A debate on the future of cooperation in the scientifi c, agricultural and nutritional fi elds between Italy and Middle East is promoted by AVSI in collaboration with the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture, Italian Cooperation Agency, Faculty of Agriculture at the Saitn Esprit University of Kaslik and Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Studies in Milan. A seminar in Lebanon and a workshop in Milan are held on the fi ght against the Phytoplasma of the stone fruits.

May AVSI’s experience with Neoenergia Groupin Brazil on the access to energy in developing countries is presented at a seminar held in Milan by EnergyLab, along with the Regione Lombardia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Commission, Cariplo Foundation, Assolombarda and Expo Milano 2015.

June AVSI sponsors UNICEF’s “Back to School” campaign and allows 40,000 children to go to school. The UN Children ‘s Fund considers AVSI’s method and the approach to education as two of the “best practices”. During the previous school year 39,441 children have received school supplies, 1,107teachers were involved for a total of 621 schools.

April UNESCO and UNHCR acknowledge AVSI’s experience in education in northern Uganda, whereAVSI has been since 1984. This experience is considered a model of balance between humanitarian emergency and education, by valuing reconstruction and the development of thesocial fabric.

February“Supporting the process of post-earthquake reconstruction in the province of Chincha”, this is the title of AVSI’s emergency program in Peru, with the Italian Cooperation. Two new classrooms are built for the creation of micro-enterprises and small businesses involving more than 200 womenin the Laura Caller Iberico Traning Center.

November AVSI and its partner CBAU (Comunità biellese aiuti umanitari) inaugurate the new MEO Center,dedicated to the memory of friend Lino Lava. This social, educational day care center involves 450 children, adolescents,and their families thanks to the distance support program.

Supporting the educational emergency in the PNA territories of Bethlehem, Jericho, East Jerusalem. This is the goal of AVSI’s new project in collaboration with ATS, Custody of the Holy Land. To be more specifi cal, fi ve schools willbe sponsored, plus the EphphetaInstitute for more than 3,000 students,300 teachers, social workersand 550 families.

December AVSI launches the Tents Campaign “The forces that move history are the same forces that move the heart of men”. ‘Sky per il Sociale’ makes a tv commercial for free to be aired on its channels. The collaboration with Sussidiario.net is worth mentioning: its “Tents news” and constant publication of AVSI’s testimonies around the world” make for a powerful way to spread knowledge. Projects, commercials, tv news and articles can be foundin the specifi c Tent page at avsi.org

CTO – INTELLIGENT DEVELOPMENT. AVSI’s annual orientation week with personnel and partners from around the world to convert practices into knowledge, in collaboration with the Subsidiarity Foundation. The meetings take place at the Sia Ssb SpA building, from December 14th to December 18th, with the participation of university professors, enterprises, institutions, within the framework of the “Compagnia per lo sviluppo” project, co-funded by the European Union. The goal is to establish and strenghten a network to share experiences in a more productive way. “The challenge of refl ection on project management experiences is to convert practices into judgements and knowledge, making it a common heritage” says Maria eresa Gatti, director of CTO Knowledge Management. Calendar, interviews, documents, photographs and videos can be found on our website or upon request www.avsi.org

August AVSI at the Rimini Meeting 2010. The stand is where people can fi nd us, where the Ugandan women from Rose’s Meeting Point International tell their experience and make their famous recycled paper necklaces.

AVSI attended many public meetings. Calendar, testominies, photographs and interviews: see specifi cpage at avsi.org andwww.meetingrimini.org

September 10th anniversary of Maksora, AVSI’s local partner in Russia, and ofCasa Golubka, the reception center in Novosibirsk, Siberia, for teenage mothers. The anniversary was celebrated on September 28th and one day later a seminar was held on “the non-profi t and institutions: stages and perspectives of development”. The goal of the event was to talk about the collaboration between the non-profi t sector and the Russian government.

OctoberDuring the World Hunger Relief Week, AVSI participates at the meeting held by Committee on World Food Security, along with the delegation of Haiti. On October 16th, AVSI participates at the World Food Day with panels on the ongoing programs with Myanmar’s farmers.AVSI’s major experiences can be read on the leafl et number 10“Feeding the person, nourishing the hopes”, also at www.avsi.org

July 9 months after the earthquake in Haiti, AVSI supports the population with reception activities and food distribution; child protection and family support; psycho-social support on trauma processing; education and instruction in tents; mobile clinics for maternal assistance; programs against malnutrition; drinkablewater supply; purifi cation plant.

To be more specifi cal, fi ve schools will

Institute for more than 3,000 students,


economic dataAnnual report 12/31/2010 and 12/31/2009 – Assets All amounts in Euro

ASSETS 12.31.2010 12.31.2009

INTANGIBLE ASSETSStatutory changes – – Software 11,351 26.228 Quality Certifi cation 2,808 3,108 Trademark registration 1,901 -Improvements to third parties' good 42,833 55,691

58,893 85,027 TANGIBLE ASSETSLands and buldings 1,742,699 1.727.181 Plants and machinery 13.727 12,938 Motor vehicles – – Offi ce furniture 22,006 18,022 Electronic Offi ce Equipment 24,139 28,742

1,802,571 1,786,883 FINANCIAL ASSETSInterests in our businesses 117,981 112,981

117,981 112.981

TOTAL FIXED ASSETS 1,979,444 1,984,890

RECEIVABLESFrom private donors 482,956 1,113,622 From customers on other activities 86,701 From social security 13,064 14,311From treasury 114 114 Other receivables 4,792 28.985 Receivables from institutional donors_ Projects funded by the Italian Government 8,165,829 9,312,603 _ Projects funded by the European Union 5,124,797 5,026,225 _ Projects funded by international agencies 9,535,996 7,171,589 _ Projects funded by CEI 222,800 180,800_ Projects funded by local administrations 550,509 464,649

23.599,932 22,155,866Receivables from other agencies_ due within next year 50,000 2,482 _ due after next year – 50,000 – 2,482 Receivables from foreign subsidiaries_ due within next year 432,130 184,669 _ due after next year – 432,130 – 184,669

FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES OTHER THAN FIXED ASSETSOther securities 38,670 38,607

CASH AND BANK DEPOSITSBank and post offi ce deposits 5,027,901 5.523,987 Cash and values on hand 32,364 5,060,266 31,104 5,555,091

TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS 29,768,625 29,093,747

ADJUSTMENT ACCOUNTS 7,199 4,930

TOTAL ASSETS 31,755,268 31,083,567

assets

Annual report 12/31/2010 and 12/31/2009 – Assets All amounts in Euro

LIABILITIES 12.31.2010 12.31.2009

Membership fees 40,918 40,918 Foundation's fund 658,503 478,503 Changes in foundation's fund_ Adjustments to foundation's fund (430,087) (123,877)_ Membership fees paid during the year – – _ Result of the year 24,601 (405,486) (306,209) (430,087)

NET EQUITY 293,934 89,333

EMPLOYEES SEVERANCE INDEMNITY 502,722 464.305

MEDIUM AND LONG TERM LIABILITIES_ Payable loans 233,776 262,516TOTAL MEDIUM AND LONG TERM LIABILITIES 233,776 262,516

PAYABLES TO BANKS_ due within next year 150,343 799,996 _ due after next year 150,343 799,996PAYABLES TO PROJECTS_ By the Italian Government 7,416,318 8,004,027_ By the European Union 4,435,554 4,756,699_ By international agencies 8,453,798 6,508,171_ By local administrations 353,023 271,209_ By CEI 171,144 186,305_ By international adoptions 51,883 55,848_ Private 4,011,076 3,350,395_ Distance Support 4,340,205 29,233,001 4,737,774 27,870,428PAYABLES TO SUPPLIERS_ due within next year 472,907 857,370_ due after next year 472,907 857,370PAYABLES TO PROJECTS-RELATED STAFF_ due within next year 59,847 48,308_ due after next year 59,847 48,308 PAYABLES TO HEADQUARTERS STAFF_ due within next year 354,388 345,749_ due after next year 354,388 345,749PAYABLES TO TAX AUTHORITIES_ due within next year 94,609 67,689_ due after next year 94,609 67,689PAYABLES TO SOCIAL SECURITY AGENCIES_ due within next year 105,606 95,008_ due after next year 105,606 95,008 PAYABLES TO THIRD PARTIES_ due within next year 253,898 182,627_ due after next year 253,898 182,627

TOTAL PAYABLES 30,724,599 30,267,176

ADJUSTMENT ACCOUNTS 237 237

TOTAL NET EQUITY AND LIABILITIES 31,755,268 31,083,567

MEMORANDUM ACCOUNTS 12/31/2010 12/31/2009

GUARANTEES RECEIVED FROM THIRD PARTIES

_ Guarantees issued by banks 2,207,945 2,117,845

_ Commitments towards third parties

COMMITMENTS IN RESPECT OF PROJECTS

_ Own commitments in respect of projects 150,682 2,273,616

TOTAL INTERIM ACCOUNTS 2,358,627 4,391,461

liabilities


economic data profit and loss account

Annual report 12/31/2010 and 12/31/2009 – Profit and loss accountAll amounts in Euro

PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT 2010 2009

Contributed Income from Italian Government 4,248,957 3,957,310

Contributed Income from the European Union 5,034,429 4,648,281Contributed Income from international agencies 4,506,405 5,236,552Contributed Income from local administrations 1,005,210 847,820Contributed Income from CEI 399,161 292,725Contributed Income from private donors 5,906,795 2,419,236Contributed Income from DSP to institutional projects 6,265,390 5,739,911Contributed Income to DSP management 3,124,646 2,874,894CONTRIBUTED INCOME ALLOCATED TO PROJECTS 30,490,993 26,016,729

Contributed Income from Italian Government 462,095 502,965Contributed Income from the European Union 346,353 237,923Contributed Income from international agencies 480,382 312,337Contributed Income from local administrations and CEI 0 5,936Contributed Income from private donors 1,091,858 1,043,889Contributed Income from DSP 998,384 1,000,220Contributed Income from International Adoptions 34,500 206,917CONTRIBUTED INCOME ALLOCATED TO ORGANIZATION COSTS 3,413,572 3,310,186

Consultancy services 229,301Sponsorship services 100,000PROCEEDS FROM COLLATERAL SOURCES 329,301

TOTAL CONTRIBUTED INCOME 34,233,866 29,326,915

PROJECTS’ COSTSProjects funded by the Italian Government (3,007,394) (2,782,962)Projects funded by the European Union (4,478,590) (4,022,487)Projects funded by international agencies (3,921,029) (4,416,668)Projects funded by local administrations (673,343) (493,640)Projects funded by CEI (178,161) (227,366)Projects funded by DSP (3,119,248) (2,875.709)Projects funded by private donors. (10,472,265) (25,850,030) (6,903,388) (21,722,220)COST OF PROJECT-RELATED STAFF (4,393,171) (4,037,236)

TOTAL PROJECT COSTS (30,243,202) (25,759,456)

COST OF STAFF AT HEADQUARTERS (2.534.892) (2.673.180)OTHER ORGANIZATION COSTS_ Costs of raw, accessory, consumption materials and goods (166,498) (100,567)_ Costs of services (831,516) (741,847)_ Travel and transportation (184,267) (225,022)_ Costs for the use of third parties' goods (142,158) (251,447)_ Other management costs (38,750) (1.363,189) (13,838) (1.332,720)DEPRECIATION AND DEVALUATION_ Depreciation of intangible assets (32,784) (26,784)_ Depreciation of tangible assets (76,009) (75,400)_ Appropriations and devaluations - (108,793) 0 (102,185)COSTS TRANSFERRED TO PROJECTS MANAGEMENT 191,290 146,198

TOTAL ORGANIZATION COSTS (3,815,584) (3,961,887)

_ Costs for staff (180,694)

_ Costs for services (51,848)

_ Travel and transportation (26,226)

TOTAL COSTS OF OTHER ACTIVITIES (258,768)

OPERATING RESULT (83,687) (394,428)

Other fi nancial revenuesFrom securities included in current assets 7 667Revenues other than above 171,532 171,539 122,298 122,965Financial revenues and costs (46,268) (25,561)

REVENUES AND COSTS 125,271 97,405

Extraordinary revenues 4,207 13,195Extraordinary costs (21,964) (5,328)

EXTRAORDINARY REVENUES AND COSTS (17,758) 7,868

Adjustments of payables for projects in currencies other than Eur (Projects appreciation) 511,967 233,908Appropriation for the devaluation of projects' receivables 0 (1,281)Adjustments of receivables for projects in currencies other than Eur (Projects appreciation) (491,014) (229,375)

ADJUSTMENTS ON PROJECTS 20,953 3,251

RESULT BEFORE TAXES 44,779 (285,905)

Taxes of the year (20,178) (20,304)

RESULT OF THE YEAR 24,601 (306,209)

auditor’s report


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tot€ 44,522,314

UNICEF 6,705,373 - 15.06%

INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS 34,500 - 0.08%

ITALIAN GOVERNMENT 4,711,052 - 10.58%

DUTCH GVT 263,090 - 0.59%

PRIVATE IN LOCO SPONSOR 1,315,575 - 2.95%

OTHERS 809,672 - 1.82%

UNHCR 1,194,738 - 2.68%

5,380,782 - 12.09% EUROPEAN UNION

4,986,787 - 11.20% USAID AND WORLD BANK

1,005,210 - 2.26% LOCAL ADMINISTRATION

399,161 - 0.90% CEI

7,327,954 - 16.46% PRIVATE DONORS

10,388,420 - 23.33% DSP

Such statement is not subject to audit even though the Italian headquarters’ and all the foreign subsidiaries’ statements were audited by important auditing agencies. Following are AVSI’s foreign subsidiaries included in the consolidated statement sheet: Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Peru, Brazil, Uganda, Burundi, Jordan, Lebanon, Ecuador, Thailand, Kosovo, Haiti, Kenya, Ivory Coast.

The single balance sheets and fi nancial statements included in the consolidated statement have been provided by the respective foreign subsidiaries.

The total amount raised by the AVSI-system in the world is euro 44,522,314.The graphic shows the percentage composition of funds raised by the various sponsors: it is interesting to note that their shares vary signifi canty, witha prominent role of UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund.

Financial statements 2010 2009

(All amounts in Euro)

CONTRIBUTED INCOME ALLOCATED TO PROJECTS – FOREIGN SUBSIDIARIES 10,081,545 8,803,599

Contributed Income from Italian Government 4,248,957 3,957,310Contributed Income from the European Union 5,034,429 4,648,281Contributed Income from international agencies 4,506,405 5,236,552Contributed Income from local administrations 1,005,210 847,820Contributed Income from CEI 399,161 292,725Contributed Income from private donors 5,906,795 2,419,236Contributed Income from DSP to institutional projects 6,265,390 5,739,911Contributed Income to DSP management 3,124,646 2,874,894

CONTRIBUTED INCOME ALLOCATED TO PROJECTS 30,490,993 26,016,729

CONTRIBUTED INCOME ALLOCATED TO ORGANIZATION COSTS – FOREIGN SUBSIDIARIES 206,904 274,425

Contributed Income from Italian Government 462,095 502,965Contributed Income from the European Union 346,353 237,923Contributed Income from international agencies 480,382 312,337Contributed Income from local administrations and CEI 0 5,936Contributed Income from private donors 1,091,858 1,043,889Contributed Income from DSP 998,384 1,000,220Contributed Income from International Adoptions 34,500 206,917

CONTRIBUTED INCOME ALLOCATED TO ORGANIZATION COSTS 3,413,572 3,310,187

Consultancy services 229,301Sponsorship services 100,000

PROCEEDS FROM COLLATERAL SOURCES 329,301

TOTAL CONTRIBUTED INCOME 44,522,314 38.404.940

PROJECTS’ COSTS IN ITALY AND ABROAD (28,040,553) (24,313,128

COST OF PROJECT-RELATED STAFF (10,633,849) (9,056,427)

TOTAL PROJECT COSTS (38,674,402) (33,369,555)

COST OF STAFF AT HEADQUARTERS (3,240,412) (3,386,297)

OTHER ORGANIZATION COSTS

_ Costs of raw, accessory, consumption materials and goods (317,127) (126,431)_ Costs of services (1,143,469) (1,028,676) _ Travel and transportation (243,038) (225,022)_ Costs for the use of third parties' goods (184,800) (265,540) _ Other management costs (56,574) (1,945,008) (68,704) (1,714,373)

DEPRECIATION AND DEVALUATION

_ Depreciation of intangible assets (21,883) (34,289)_ Depreciation of tangible assets (209,156) (198,005)_ Appropriations and devaluations (231,038) - (232,294)

COSTS TRANSFERRED TO PROJECTS MANAGEMENT 191,290 146,198

TOTAL ORGANIZATION COSTS - (5,225,169) (5,186,766)

COSTS OF OTHER ACTIVITIES

_ Costs for staff (180,694) - _ Costs for services (51,848) -_ Travel and transportation (26,226)

TOTAL COSTS OF OTHER ACTIVITIES (258,768) -

OPERATING RESULT 363,976 (151,381)

Other fi nancial revenues From securities included in current assets 7 4,522 Revenues other than above 171,532 171,539 132,619 137,141Interests and other fi nancial costs (78,928) (45,369)

FINANCIAL REVENUES AND COSTS 92,611 91,772

Extraordinary revenues 4,207 13,195Extraordinary costs (131,700) (5,328)

EXTRAORDINARY REVENUES AND COSTS (127,493) 7,867

Adjustments of payables for projects in currencies other than Eur (Projects appreciation) 511,967 233,908Appropriation for the devaluation of projects' receivables - (1,281)Adjustments of receivables for projects in currencies other than Eur (Projects appreciation) (527,483) (229,375)ADJUSTMENTS ON PROJECTS (15,516) 3,252

RESULT BEFORE TAXES 313,579 (48,490)

Taxes of the year (20,179) (20,304)

RESULT OF THE YEAR 293,400 (68,794)

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