Around 1,000 families in Odessa, Dnipro, Kramatorsk and Kyiv, have already received assistance thanks to the collaboration between OTB Foundation and Zegna Foundation who have teamed up with Cesvi to help people in Ukraine.
Targeting pregnant women and mothers with children under five, as well as elderly and disabled people who couldn’t flee the country, the organization is providing them with linens, pillows, warmers and hygiene kits.
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After first accepting the urgent appeal of UNHCR to support people and families forced to flee within national borders and to neighboring countries, the Foundation activated a support network for people leaving the country
From the organization of buses to bring fleeing Ukrainian refugees to the country, to the collection of materials to cope with emergencies (drugs, medical supplies, clothing and toys), to the organization of transport to Ukraine of the collected material.
The Foundation was then activated to manage the reception for Ukrainian citizens who will find hospitality in the territory of the Province of Vicenza, taking charge of the management of the COVID procedure for arrivals, with constant contact with the Prefecture and the associations of the territory, as well as for the accommodation of reception facilities on the territory (families or entire buildings).
Given the number of arrivals, also the recruitment of professional figures essential for the performance of the reception (mediators, psychologists and social workers) and the tracking of all the availability both in terms of hospitality and in terms of job placement were necessary activities taken over by OTB Foundation
The collaboration between OTB Foundation and Alice Onlus Association gave life to “Only The Brave Chiama Alice”, a free call service for kids aged 12 to 20 years old.
Discouragement, isolation and loneliness, doubts and fears are frequent in pre-teens and adolescents. For this reason, Alice Onlus and OTB Foundation help provide experienced professionals offer a free listening and support service.
The number will be active on Thursday, from 3 to 6pm and from 6 to 7pm, and on Friday from 4 to 6pm.
Access will be free by reservation:
– by writing to info@aliceonlus.org indicating one’s Skype username. The operator will indicate the time and day of the interview
– by connecting to Skype and calling the info@aliceonlus.org account. In case the operator is engaged in another conversation, it will call back according to the received calls.
Although addressed to minors, the service will not require the usual request for consent from parents and/or legal guardians
OTB Foundation and Bocconi University join forces to shape the future female executive class: with a first investment of 280 thousand euro, the Foundation will finance the costs of the two-year master’s degree at Bocconi University for the selected students who will have the possibility to choose among four courses that allow entering two key areas, Public Administration and the top management of large companies, in which a higher presence of women is necessary and needed.
OTB Foundation was the first to respond to the urgent appeal launched by UNHCR to support people and families forced to flee within their national borders and to neighboring countries.
Less than a week after the start of the armed operations, it is very difficult to pinpoint the number of internally displaced people in Ukraine, but it is estimated that over 100,000 people had to flee their homes to take shelter. More than 600,000 refugees have already crossed Ukrainian borders in search of safety in neighboring countries, but the numbers are growing by the hour.
Thanks to the help of OTB Foundation, UNHCR will be able to ensure initial direct economic support to fleeing families to help them cope with the most urgent needs.
Instant Network Schools (INS) of UNHCR is a relevant multi-country program that allows the transformation of refugee camps and most isolated villages’ spaces into real multimedia learning centers connected with the world, to the Internet, maintained sustainably with solar energy
Thanks to the contribution of the OTB Foundation, UNCHR will create a new INS school in Mozambique, offering the opportunity to study to over 2,000 children
The social development and preservation of the Italian artistic heritage have always been a key priority for the OTB Group and its founder Renzo Rosso, who, through the OTB Foundation, enhance the cultural heritage of our country and support the most fragile with social-oriented projects. These convictions led, on September 7, to the inauguration of a fully restored Rialto bridge.
The financial support granted by OTB to Venice has involved an investment of 5 million euros, and the OTB Group has directly followed the process of restoration, which began in 2014, supporting the experts of the City of Venice and the workers to obtain the best result. Thanks to the excellent collaboration between the public and private sectors, the works ended six months earlier than expected allowing, thanks to the careful management of the budget, also the restoration of the paving of the Rialto galleries
The restoration has seen the involvement of more than 130 people among restorers, workers, and technicians who, in about 80,000 hours of work and thanks to the installation of 5,500 square meters of scaffolding, have brought back to their ancient splendor a total area of 5 thousand square meters.
OTB Foundation immediately takes action to support UNHCR, which has chosen to stay in Afghanistan to keep providing humanitarian assistance to the civilian population that has lost everything escaping: emergency housing, direct economic support, sanitation, and health kits are necessary, as well as life-saving goods.
Thanks to the significant donation received from our Foundation, UNHCR will ensure that more than 300 families can have first-aid accommodation finding themselves safe, under the protection of the UN Refugee Agency. Considering an average of 5 people per family, over 1,500 people will have a place to sleep and be with their loved ones.
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The brave ladies, who drove the “pink shuttles” in Kabul – women-driven buses used to transport other women that would not be allowed to travel and move in cars with men – have now been welcomed in Italy.
Girls who, when the political emergency made things harder, organized – again thanks to the shuttles they had learned to drive – a social service for those who were more in need.
OTB Foundation is now willing to not give up these women and their children but to make them the protagonists of integration projects that can guarantee them a future
Thanks also to the collaboration with the local authorities, OTB Foundation supports several “Empori Solidali” (‘solidarity emporiums’), such as the Corte del Forner in Venice and the Casa dell’Ospitalità in Mestre.
The Foundation is now committing to open two new emporiums in the province of Vicenza, with the ambition to extend the intervention to other regions of Italy in the future, and the idea of opening OTB Foundation solidarity stores. These emporiums are multifunctional spaces that provide the distribution of basic necessities organized as a real supermarket, within which the beneficiaries can find free food and other products. There is a reception area where beneficiaries are followed by professionals and addressed, according to needs, to the various competent offices in the territory with the ultimate aim to facilitate their reintegration in society through a multi-faceted support.
