Together 4 a Better World 2026

Salvagente Italia trains summer camp staff, who often work with young children around pools and playgrounds with no first aid training and no legal requirement to have any, in how to respond correctly in a medical emergency. The project makes this training free for camps that could not otherwise afford it and helps each one run a crowdfunding campaign to buy its own defibrillator, building both immediate skills and a lasting resource for the community.

Still I Rise A.P.S. gives students from its school in Nairobi's Mathare settlement, already part of the school's own dance club, the chance to take part in an intensive international residency in Italy, creating and performing an original choreographic work. The project turns real talent that travel costs and distance from international artistic circuits would otherwise keep out of reach into a genuine, hands-on opportunity for growth, confidence and expression.

Con.te.sto OdV brings children with autism spectrum disorder together with their neurotypical peers from school and parish groups for shared, guided play and learning activities in a small town in inland Puglia. Working alongside each other helps the children with autism build social, communication and motor skills in a warm, structured setting, while their neurotypical peers grow into advocates for the acceptance of disability within their own communities.

Associazione Mimosa Amici del DH Oncologico di Borgomanero is bringing a mobile clinic to towns across the ASL Novara area, offering free health checks and cancer prevention information directly where people live rather than asking them to travel. The project works alongside the public health system's own screening programme, reaching areas and residents it doesn't currently cover, and building a stronger everyday culture of prevention among the area's most vulnerable citizens.

Ekonvoi ODV runs a solidarity food pantry in the province of Modena, buying essential food and hygiene products that local businesses don't donate, especially for children, elderly people and those with specific dietary needs, while also recovering surplus food from local producers and large retailers. The project responds to a real and growing local need: more families, including regular immigrants, single mothers and elderly people on minimum pensions, are struggling to afford enough to eat.

ANGSA Tigullio ODV runs a summer programme at a beach club in Cavi di Lavagna (Italy), giving children and young people with autism a place to enjoy the sea, take part in beach activities, and spend time alongside other children who are also spending their summer there. Working in small groups with qualified staff, the project builds social skills and independence in a setting shaped to include them, rather than asking them to fit in on their own.

ODV Società di San Vincenzo de Paoli runs Abito, a free clothing shop in Turin, and is expanding it with a youth-led sustainability programme that trains students and vulnerable young people in sewing and textile recycling. Turning discarded clothing into a genuine resource, the project gives young volunteers hands-on green skills and a real sense of purpose, while people who cannot otherwise afford dignified, quality clothing get to choose their own, free of charge.

Fundación Educacional San Leonardo Murialdo is renovating the acoustics of the music room at Liceo Leonardo Murialdo in Recoleta, Santiago, where noise currently disrupts lessons and has even forced a nearby classroom to relocate. The project gives students, including those with additional needs, a properly adapted space for music classes, evaluations and workshops, treating artistic education as a genuine, permanent part of an inclusive school experience.

Sci Club Sarnico is turning a farmhouse in the Sebino and Bergamasca area into a permanent, year-round centre for young people with disabilities, offering the kind of ongoing socialisation, autonomy and training that too often disappears once school ends. Working with an existing local network of volunteers, schools and businesses, Cascina Donkey gives young people and their families a stable place to turn to all year, not just for a single season or activity.

Thunder Roma OdV funds its powerchair football team's participation in the 2026-27 Coppa Italia, covering costs that would otherwise be out of reach for a sport dependent almost entirely on public grants and fundraising. Long-distance travel across Italy for the national championship, plus the purchase and upkeep of highly specialised motorised wheelchairs, push annual costs past 20,000 euros, and this project targets the specific expense of taking part in this season's national cup.