OTB FOUNDATION CONTINUES TO SUPPORT AFGHANISTAN

After supporting the ‘Fearless Girls’ project of  non-profit organization Ciai has provided legal, psychological, and educational activities to Afghan girls detained in juvenile prisons accused of committing “crimes against morality”, while they were only fleeing forced marriages, or other types of violence, and activating the ‘Pink Shuttle’ project with Nove Onlus, OTB Foundation supported the Lifeline Emergency Programme, which provides primary assistance to 1,400 vulnerable people in Kabul in the form of food and protection against the cold of the Afghan winter.

OTB Foundation was also the first Italian foundation to answer the appeal of UNHCR, the United Nations’ Refugee Agency that launched a worldwide fundraising campaign to finance the purchase and distribution of over 300 tents for families forced to leave their homes and looking for a roof and protection.

OTB Foundation donated food, clothing, and computer equipment to the organizations that welcomed Afghan refugees in Italy, in addition to having obtained three scholarships from the University of Padua for three young Afghans, and having found companies (including OTB Group)open to offer refugees a job.