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THE PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT IS TO PROVIDE MEDICINES AND MEDICAL EQUIPMENT FOR THE MANY VILLAGE DOCTOR’S SURGERIES AND HOSPITAL OUTPATIENTS DEPARTMENTS IN SENEGAL PROVIDING CARE AND ASSISTANCE TO THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TOGETHER WITH THE VOLUNTEERS ASSOCIATION THE PROJECT WAS RECENTLY EXTENDED TO THE IVORY COAST
 
THANKS ALSO TO YOUR PRECIOUS CONTIBUTION, WE WILL BE SENDING AMBULANCES AND CONTAINERS WITH MEDICINES AND MEDICAL MATERIAL AND PERSONALLY CONSIGNING THE COLLECTED ITEMS INTO THE HANDS OF THE BENEFICIARIES IN SURGERIES AND DISTRICT HEALTH CENTRES SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE THREE REGIONS MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, MEDICINES AND THE FIRST AMBULANCES, RECEIVED IN DONATION FROM ASL HEALTH UNITS AND LIGURIAN AND PIEDMONETESE NGO ORGANIZATIONS, WERE SHIPPED WITH THE FIRST 4 CONTAINERS THANKS ALSO TO THE PRECIOUS CONTRIBUTION OF REGIONE LIGURE AND WE ARE ALREADY ORGANIZING THE NEXT SHIPMENTS...

ASSOCIAZIONE L'AURORA OPERATES IN THE MEDICAL AND AGRICULTURAL AID SECTORS. BY ITS WORK IT  ASPIRES, TOGETHER WITH OTHER ASSOCIATIONS OPERATING IN THE SAME DIRECTION, TO RESTORE THE SOCIO-ECONOMICAL EQUILIBRIUM IN THESE COUNTRIES, STEMMING THE DIFFUSION OF WHAT IS NOW A GROWING MIGRATORY PROBLEM AS FAR AS POSSIBLE

OTHER DEVELOPPEMENTS OF THE PROJET...

AURORA E  ASP ITALY ONLUS

SEED FOR LIFE  

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENERGY PRODUCTION PROJECT  

THE PROJECT WAS ALSO EXTENDED TO THE IVORY COAST TERRITORY (RURAL VILLAGES) IN THE VERSION OF PS 76 ASSOCIATION MACHINERY DESIGNED TO EXTRACT OIL FROM THE PALM PLANT AS A LOCAL ECONOMIC RESOURCE AND FUEL TO DRIVE THE GENERATOR.

 (DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT ALREADY PUT TO TRIAL BY AURORA ASSOCIATION IN THE SENEGALESE TERRITORY)


ASSOCIAZIONE AURORA, TOGETHER WITH THE PROGRAMMA SVILUPPO 76, (PS76) ASSOCIATION OPERATING IN THE FIELD OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, GENOA UNIVERSITY (DICCA) AND CODEART NGO (BELGIUM), AFTER A DETAILED SURVEY OF THE SENEGALESE TERRITORY, CONDUCTED BY AURORA ASSOCIATION BY MEANS OF ITS PARTNER OPERATORS IN THE ASSOCIATION’S SENEGALESE CENTRE AND AFTER A DETAILED STUDY ON THE EFFECTIVE PROVEN FEASIBILITY OF THE PROJECT, IN VIEW OF:
  
 THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION, LACK OF INFRASTRUCTURES ALSO LINKED WITH THE NEED FOR ENERGY, LACK OF WORKING TECHNIQUES AND METHODS, LACK OF KNOW-HOW IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR, BEING THE PRINCIPAL ENGINE TO DRIVE THE COUNTRY’S ECONOMY AND CONSIDERING THE PRECARIOUS LIVING CONDITIONS IN THE NUMEROUS, HIGHLY POPULATED VILLAGES IN THE REGION AND GROWING WAVE OF YOUNG PEOPLE’S MIGRATION,

 IT WAS ESTABLISHED:

 WITH THE PARTICIPATION AND PROVEN ENTHUSIASM OF NUMEROUS LOCAL AUTHORITIES WHO HAD PRESSED FOR OUR ASSISTANCE THE PROVEN EXPERIENCE AND SUGGESTIONS FURNISHED BY OUR AGRONOMIST DR. MATTEO ZUCCHI, A PROFESSIONAL AGRONOMIST RESIDENT IN SENEGAL AND PARTICIPATION OF SEVERAL SENEGALESE AGRARIAN INSTITUTES WILLING TO COOPERATE, TO REALIZE A PROJECT FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND TO PRODUCE ENERGY, AFFORDING THE OPPORTUNITY TO INITIATE AN EFFECTIVE, SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE IN THE RURAL COMMUNITIES SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY.

 GENERAL AND SPECIFIC GOALS:

 THE PROJECT WAS CAREFULLY DRAWN UP IN DETAIL WITH THE INTENT OF ACHIEVING THE FOLLOWING GOALS:

 ·        UTILIZATION BY PART OF THE POPULATION OF LAND LEFT UNCULTIVATED AND ABANDONED, PROVIDING HELPFUL ADVICE
 ON HOW TO USE THE LAND CORRECTLY TO GROW CROPS.

 ·        IMPROVE THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS BY DEVELOPING MARGINAL TRADING ACTIVITIES PERMITTING FAMILIES AND YOUNG PEOPLE TO BECOME SELF-SUFFICIENT, CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORK AND DISCOURAGING THE GROWING MIGRATORY PHENOMENON.

 ·        ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF MALNUTRITION DIRECTLY AFFECTING HEALTH AND SUBSEQUENT PROBLEMS, ABOUT WHICH ASSOCIAZIONE AURORA IS ACTIVELY AWARE, ACCOMPLISHING AUXILIARY HEALTH SERVICES IN THE COMMUNITIES.

 ·       PRODUCE POWER AND BIO-FERTILIZER BY GROWING A MARGINAL QUANTITY OF JATROPHA CURCAS, ESSENTIAL FOR AN EFFECTIVE AGRICULTURAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCE USEFUL BY-PRODUCTS FROM THE WASTE FROM PRESSING, SUCH AS SOAP, REPLACE WOOD WITH JATROPHA OIL AS FUEL TO COOK FOOD, AVOIDING THE SEARCH FOR FIREWOOD, A MAJOR, COMPELLING REASON FOR DEFORESTATION AND THE HARD WORK BORN BY WOMEN AND CHILDREN USE THE OIL FOR LIGHTING UP THE HOMES IN THE EVENING.

·       ENCOURAGE A CULTIVATION PRACTICE THAT USES AS LITTLE WATER AS POSSIBLE TO CONSERVE THE UNDERGROUND WATER RESOURCES, USE THE CROP ROTATION TECHNIQUE ENABLING THE POPULATION TO GROW CROPS AT SUSTAINABLE COSTS AND ELIMINATE INTENSIVE USE OF EXPENSIVE AND NOXIOUS CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS (NITRATES, PESTICIDES, SULPHATES).

 ·        PROVIDE COMPREHENSIBLE KNOW-HOW AND TECHNIQUES TO GROW CROPS AND TO DEVELOP THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT WITH THE AIM OF PRODUCING AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF PROVEN FEASIBILITY; DESCRIBING ALL THIS IN A SPECIAL BROCHURE WITH ATTACHED EXPLANATORY VIDEO-CD, FOR GRATUITOUS DISTRIBUTION TO THE POPULATION.

 ·        FIGHT THE PHENOMENON OF DESERTIFICATION AND MULTINATIONALS SEIZING LAND EXCLUSIVELY
 TO THEIR PERSONAL ADVANTAGE.   

SCHOOL OF KARANG
REGION OF FATICK (SENEGAL)

TOGETHER FOR LIFE  
SENEGAL – IVORY COAST

PROJECT TO LEND MEDICAL AID TO THE DISTRICT HEALTH CENTRES (OUTPATIENTS CLINICS, DOCTOR’S SURGERIES IN THE HINTERLAND)

AMBULANCES SENT

(DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES DISCARDED BUT STILL IN GOOD CONDITION RECEIVED
IN DONATION FROM PUBLIC EMERGENCY FIRST AID ASSOCIATIONS SUBSCRIBING TO THE PROJECT)

IN AID OF DISTRICT HEALTH CENTRES IN DIFFICULTY SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE SENGALESE
​ AND IVORY COAST TERRITORY OTHER PICTURES IN THE WEBSITE PHOTO SECTION...

SOLIDARITY PROJECT​

PROGRAMMED AT THE SOKONE RECOVERY AND EDUCATION INSTITUTE IN SENEGAL, IT COVERS THE PURCHASE OF MATTRESSES AND MOSQUITO NETS FOR DISTRESSED CHILDREN RECOVERED IN THE INSTITUTE

THE PROJECT COVERS THE PURCHASE OF A FURTHER 100 MATTRESSES AND MOSQUITO NETS TO REPLACE THOSE CURRENTLY USED FOR BOYS AND GIRLS SLEEPING AT THE INSTITUTE

 THOSE IN CHARGE OF THE CENTRE PROVIDING GRATUITOUS BOARD AND LODGING, SCHOLASTIC AND VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES, ARE DOING A GREAT JOB WITH THE MEANS AT THEIR DISPOSAL TO RECOVER THESE CHILDREN FROM THE STREETS OR FROM DISTRESSED FAMILIES, FAMILIES LIVING IN POVERTY WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY KIND OF AID.

IN 2014 WE REPLACED SOME OF THE MATTRESSES, PAINTED THE DORMITORIES ON THE OUTSIDE AND SEVERAL OF THE ROOMS INSIDE THE INSTITUTE WHERE THESE CHILDREN PASS THE BEST PART OF THEIR DAY.

WITH THESE ADDITIONAL  MATTRESSES AND MOSQUITO NETS WE WILL SUCCEED IN COMPLETING THE WORK OF REHABILITATION, ENABLING THESE YOUNG PUPILS (BOTH PRESENT AND FUTURE) TO LODGE IN THE CENTRE
IN DIGNIFIED CONDITIONS

MOBILITY AND EDUCATION PROJECT FOR DISABLED BOY
(2011/2015) SENEGAL

WE MET CHEIKH TIAO IN 2011 IN A VILLAGE IN THE SENAGALESE HINTERLAND DURING A MISSION
TO CONSIGN MEDICINES AND MEDICAL EQUIPMENT IN THE VILLAGE OF NAFFAR ON BEHALF
OF AN ITALIAN NGO ORGANIZATION A TEACHER AT THE VILLAGE SCHOOL TOLD US ABOUT CHEIKH’S DRAMATIC SITUATION AND FROM THAT DAY IN SEPTEMBER 2011, WHEN CHEIKH WAS ONLY 6 YEARS OLD, ON WE UNDERTOOK THE COMMITMENT TO FIND A WAY FOR HIM TO GO TO SCHOOL AND OUT INTO THE COURTYARD OF HIS HOME, IMMEDIATELY GIVING HIM A MANUAL WHEELCHAIR, PADS FOR DISABLED AND SCHOOL MATERIAL

PROJECT FINALIZED IN MAY 2015 BY CONSIGNING THE ELECTRIC WHEELCAIR. CURRENTLY IN THE MONITORING AND ASSISTANCE STAGE FOR STARTING SCHOOL IN OCTOBER 2015

DEAREST CHEIKH, YOU CAME INTO OUR LIVES QUITE BY CHANCE AND IT WAS LOVE
AT FIRST SIGHT ... YOU GAVE US STRENGTH AND COURAGE, AND YOU MADE US FEEL BETTER PEOPLE IN HELPING YOU AND IN LEARNING THAT YOU HAD BECOME THE SECOND BEST IN YOUR CLASS AT SCHOOL AND HAD SUCCEEDED IN GAINING AN AVERAGE OF EIGHT AND A HALF IN YOUR MARKS, THEN YESTERDAY (08/05/2016) ALL OF A SUDDEN WE HEARD THAT YOU HAD GONE, LEAVING US IN TOTAL DESPERATION, AND FOR A MINUTE WE TRIED TO FIND AN ANSWER TO ALL THIS BUT IN VAIN.
 
TODAY WE REALIZE THAT IT WAS YOU WHO HAD GIVEN US THAT HOPE AND STRENGTH TO DO SOMETHING FOR OTHERS AS WELL AND NOT JUST FOR OURSELVES, AND WE WANT TO CARRY ON DOING SO WITH OTHERS, ALSO IN YOUR NAME, TO START WITH BY DONATING YOUR EQUIPMENT TO SOMEONE ELSE AND COMMITTING OURSELVES TO HELP STILL MORE PEOPLE ...
​THANK YOU CHEIKH FOR WE HAVE NOW UNDERSTOOD YOUR MESSAGE ... BUT WE SHALL MISS YOU; NOW THAT YOU’RE A LITTLE ANGEL PLEASE WATCH OVER US FROM HEAVEN ABOVE AND HELP US ALONG OUR PATH, TOGETHER ...

PROJECT TO DEVELOP COOPERATION BETWEEN ASSOCIATIONS
UP AND SET AND SERVICES  AN ASSOCIATION CENTRE PROVIDED
WITH ACCOMODATION

 
CLINIC WITH ACCOMODATION AND SERVICES FOR ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS AND AFRICAN ASSOCIATIONS WITH THE AIM OF FINDING MORE RESOURCES
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 THE PROJECT IS FOR SETTING UP AN OUTPATIENTS AND PERSONNEL WORKING IN COOPERATION

INCREASING SYNERGIES BETWEEN THE VARIOUS ITALIAN ES AND SKILLS  IN AID OF COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT IN THE HEALTH, EDUCATION AND AGRICULTURAL SECTORS, WITH EDUCATION
AND TRAINING COURSES CONDUCTED BY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL AND WITH THE COOPERATION
OF LOCAL HOSPITAL UNITS, SCHOOLS, COOPS AND COMMNUITIES

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HELP FOR FAMILIES IN AFGHANISTAN (2014)
PROJECT IN SUPPORT OF 200 FAMILIES IN KABUL

8 PALLETS WITH DOUBLE BED DUVETS AND CLOTHING SHIPPED TOGETHER WITH VOLUNTEERS ASSOCIATION AND THANKS TO THE PRECIOUS COOPERATION OF THE 46th AIR FORCE BRIGADE STATIONED IN PISA, FOR RELEVANT TRANSPORTATION 

CONSIGNED IN NOVEMBER 2014 BY VOLUNTEERS PERSONNEL

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A FEW PROJECTS REALIZED BY ASSOCIAZIONE
"SOCIETA' PROMOTRICE DI BELLE ARTI DELLA LIGURIA"
(BEFORE BECOMING PART OF AURORA...)
 
GRAN BASSAM HOSPITAL
IVORY COAST

GRAN BASSAM IS THE ANCIENT CAPITAL OF THE IVORY COAST, NOW TRANSFERRED TO ABIDJAN, STANDING ON THE DELTA OF RIVER COMOE IN AN AREA WHERE MALARIA IS ENDEMIC. THE FINE COLONIAL STYLE BUILDINGS ARE EVIDENCE OF ITS PAST WEALTH BUT ALSO OF ITS RAPID DECLINE AND ABANDON. LUXURIANT VEGETATION SPROUTS OUT FROM EMPTY WINDOWS AND COLLAPSED ROOFS, WITH WALLS WORN BY TIME AND ITS HOSPITAL, REDUCED TO PRACTICALLY A LITTLE MORE THAN A POORLY EQUIPPED MEDICAL UNIT, HAD NOT ESCAPED FROM THE GENERAL DECLINE.

AND YET IT SHOULD HAVE SERVED A DISTRICT WITH 300,000 PEOPLE AND APPROXIMATELY 2,500 NEWBORN BABIES. AROUND 30% OF CHILDBIRTHS IN AFRICA HAVE COMPLICATIONS, WITH THE MOTHERS ACCUSED OF BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE ABNORMALITIES, LIKELY TO HAVE BEEN PARTLY RESOLVED BY TRANSPORTING THE PATIENTS TO HOSPITALS IN ABIDJAN.

PRESSED BY THE MAYOR JEAN MICHEL MOULOD, WE STARTED TO RECONSTRUCT THE HOSPITAL, WORKING ON THE OLD BLOCK TO BUILD A NEW GYNAECOLOGICAL WARD AND EQUIPPING IT, THANKS TO THE HELP OF GALLIERA HOSPITAL AND IST IN GENOA, WITH MODERN EQUIPMENT, AN AMBULANCE AND THE INITIAL COMMITMENT WAS FOLLOWED UP BY NUMEROUS SHIPMENTS AND TODAY THE HOSPITAL HAS A GENERAL WARD WITH 30 BEDS, A GYNAECOLOGICAL MEDICIN
ES.
WARD WITH 15 BEDS, AN OPERATING THEATRE, ANALYSIS LABORATORYAND CASUALTY WARD AND FINALLY ... (2012) A SECOND AMBULANCE TO COMPLETE THE FLEET OF VEHICLES...

PHOTOS IN THE WEBSITE PHOTO SECTION

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FEMALE ORPHANAGE IN GRAND BASSAM
IVORY COAST

OUR COMMITMENTS IN GRAN BASSAM ALSO INCLUDED A FEMALE ORPHANAGE WHICH WE EQUIPPED WITH A MODERN INFIRMARY.


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GRAND BASSAM VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE CENTRE
IVORY COAST

WE HAD A WORKSHOP BUILT AND PURCHASED TOOLS FOR SETTING UP A CARPENTRY COURSE BUT HOWEVER THE SPONSOR’S COMMITTMENT DID NOT STOP AT THIS SMALL TOWN WITH WHIC WE HAVE CLOSE TIES OF FRIENDSHIP TO THE POINT OF PROMOTING THE IDEA OF TWINNING WITH THE CITY OF GENOA


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 OTHER SOLIDARITY VENTURES ACCOMPLISHED BY US:

A 250 KW GENERATING SET SHIPPED TO THE IVORY COAST FOR THE "CENTRE POUR LA LUTTE CONTRE LE SIDA"  (CENTRE FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST AIDS)

 TWO LARGE CONTAINERS SHIPPED WITH CLOTHING, TOYS, BICYCLES AND 15,000 COMPLETE SCHOOL SETS FOR THE CHILDREN OF AFRICA ASSOCIATION

 MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SENT TO ONLUS HAISED, ABIDJAN

 MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SENT TO LIONS CLUB SAVONA HOST FOR A HOSPITAL IN CONGO

 MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SHIPPED TO CENTRAL AFRICA WITH THE MESSINA LINES

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BESIDES THESE HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS WE ALSO DEVELOPED THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS TO PROMOTE CULTURAL EXCHANGE:

 
 SCULPTURING WORKSHOP SET UP IN THE NATIONAL COSTUME MUSEUM IN GRAN BASSAM
WHERE 25 IVORY COAST ARTISTS CREATED 40 GREAT SCULPTURES, UNDER THE TUTORSHIP OF THE SCULPTOR MAURIZIO NAZZARETO, AFTERWARDS EXHIBITED IN ABIDJAN AND THEN IN GENOA AT PORTO ANTICO AND PALAZZO DUCALE.

 EXHIBITION HELD IN LOGGIA BANCHI, GENOA "UNDERSTAND AFRICA "

 EXHIBITION HELD IN CASTELLO DE ALBERTIS, GENOA " GOLDEN ARTIFACTS OF THE ARKAN"  

 EXHIBITION ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF "AFRICAN HAIRSTYLES AND SYMBOLS OF POWER" HELD IN GALLERIA SAN DONATO, GENOA

 "FOR A MUSEUM" WITH ITALIAN AND AFRICAN WORKS DONATED BY THE ARTI EXHIBITION "A MUSEUM STS AND DISPLAYED AT "MUSEO GALATA MUMA" AND "COMMENDA DI PRE"  IN AID OF RESTORATION WORKS ON "MUSEE DES CIVILISATIONS DE LA COTE D'IVOIRE"  TOGETHER WITH "L'AURORA"

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