Together 4 a Better World 2026

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.

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.

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.

Asd Aps Sport Ability Roccaraso is adding accessible stands and proper trackside benches to its inclusive football pitch in Alto Sangro, where blind and visually impaired players already train and compete in five-a-side B1 football. Without an accessible spectator area, people with motor disabilities, along with the family members and caregivers who come with them, currently can't watch matches safely alongside everyone else, and the project closes that gap for players and spectators alike.

La Chintana Fenix odv trains volunteer handlers and their dogs for search and rescue work, preparing them to respond quickly when disaster strikes. The project covers the real, ongoing costs behind a working K9 unit: specialised training in realistic rubble fields, safety equipment for both handlers and dogs, and tools such as drones and GPS, open to anyone willing to take on this demanding but meaningful role, with particular attention to involving young people.

Associazione Nuovi Accordi runs an inclusive orchestral music group for adolescents and young adults with disabilities across several towns in the Bergamo area, giving each participant a dedicated companion and a pathway that traditional music courses rarely offer. Through 30 sessions of ensemble playing, individual lessons and open events, the project builds participation, listening and musical autonomy, addressing a real gap in accessible activities after school ends.

Gli amici di Daniela APS is opening an accessible residence in the mountains for people living with severe and complex disabilities and their families. The house offers a genuinely accessible place to stay, built around each guest's care needs, giving caregivers real respite and people with disabilities the chance to enjoy a holiday and social participation that is otherwise hard for them to find, while helping ease the isolation these families often face.

ANGSA Tigullio ODV runs a summer programme at a beach club in Cavi di Lavagna, 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.

Corporación Amigos de la Sexta Compañía Cristóforo Colombo is equipping volunteer firefighters in Valparaíso, Chile, with proper self-contained breathing apparatus, protecting them from the respiratory diseases and cancers linked to repeated smoke exposure at fires. The volunteers who respond to the city's fire emergencies, mostly aged between 18 and 50, currently face real gaps in the equipment that keeps them safe, and the project aims to close that gap for as many of them as possible.

Asociación Provincial Síndrome de Down de Málaga runs learning homes where young adults with Down syndrome and intellectual disabilities practise everyday independent living in a real, shared household, inside Down Málaga's own facilities. Through stays that combine self-care, domestic tasks and community participation, each young adult builds the practical skills they need before moving towards a more autonomous adult life, in a normal community setting rather than a simulated or purely clinical one.

Fermata d'Autobus ETS runs a shelter for women who have experienced violence and are also living with psychological fragility, a combination that often leaves them excluded from more traditional support services. Through personalised, ongoing psycho-educational support, the project helps these women, many of them under 35, rebuild personal, relational and economic skills, working towards self-determination, employability and a genuine return to independent, active life.

Aldeas Infantiles SOS Chile is fitting out a transitional home in Quilpué for young women who grew up in protective care and are now building an independent life. Support from these programmes often ends the moment a young person turns 18, exactly when the hardest part begins, and this home gives up to 6 young women at a time a safe place to live for around two years, with professional support as they finish their studies, find work and build their own future.

Fundación Freno al Ictus runs a structured support programme at CEADAC in Madrid for people rebuilding their lives after a stroke, once hospital treatment and clinical rehabilitation have ended. Weekly group sessions combine with individual coaching over a three-month cycle, giving each participant emotional support, peer connection and practical help reconstructing a life project, addressing a real gap that opens up once medical care alone is no longer enough to support recovery.

Fondazione La Locanda del Gigante supports people recovering from addiction, some of them coming from detention, as they near the end of a residential care programme and prepare to return to everyday life. The project gives them a role in the foundation's shop, selling the produce they have grown themselves during their time in the community, turning that work into real income and a practical first step back towards social and economic independence.

Jane Goodall Institute Italia trains teachers across Italy in Roots & Shoots, an educational methodology devised by Jane Goodall that guides students to observe their local area, identify real needs and design concrete actions to address them. By equipping teachers to run the programme independently, year after year, with new classes, the project aims to turn young people's genuine concern for the environment into real, lasting participation, rather than good intentions alone.

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.

Centro de Grabación para Ciegos de Viña del Mar is turning complex geographic and disaster-risk information about the Valparaíso region into a free audio magazine for people who are blind or have low vision. Chile faces real, recurring risks from wildfires, earthquakes, tsunamis and severe weather, yet the technical information that could help people prepare and respond is rarely accessible to them, leaving a real gap in how ready blind residents can be for an emergency.

Casa Ronald McDonald runs free oral health days for children and adolescents in Chile who face real barriers, distance, cost or long waits, to accessing dental care in the public system. Alongside dental evaluations themselves, the project offers education and guidance on self-care for children and the adults responsible for them, aiming to catch problems early and refer them into the public system before they turn into more complex, harder-to-treat conditions later on.

Association of Parents for People with Autism Rethymno runs a vocational training lab for teenagers with autism and intellectual disabilities in Crete, helping them build the soft skills, workplace safety knowledge and professional behaviour that a seasonal, tourism-driven local economy demands. Working with local employers, the project identifies each young person's individual strengths and connects them to real placements and direct employment.

Associazione Nicco Paro runs A.M.O., a personalised physical activity programme for children and adolescents who are in treatment or have recovered from cancer, supervised by professionals and developed alongside hospital staff. The project helps them rebuild motor skills, autonomy and self-esteem after treatment ends, acting as a genuine bridge between the conclusion of medical care and a full, confident return to daily life, school and social relationships.

Cooperativa sociale Maestre Pie Venerini works with young people across the Castelli Romani area who are at risk of leaving school early or feeling cut off from their own community. Through educational workshops, experiential learning and school and career orientation, the project helps each young person recognise their own skills and turn them into a genuine, concrete plan for their own future, rather than leaving school without one at all.

ASD Sorrisi e Motori brings motorbike visits to hospitalised children, people with disabilities, older people and other fragile patients, using Mototerapia to ease isolation and bring a moment of genuine joy into otherwise difficult days. Young volunteers ride the bikes and take part alongside the people they visit, building their own sense of responsibility and civic engagement while creating positive, personal connections with children, families and the wider community around them.

In Sant'Antonio alle Piazze, a small hamlet of Leofreni with only a handful of residents left, a local community group is working to restore its abandoned 18th-century church, currently unusable because of a hole in its vaulted ceiling. Repairing the church would give the community back a place of worship and gathering, while also opening it up for cultural events, turning the building into the starting point for wider local development and tourism.

Associazione Mattia Mantovan ETS is bringing a portable ultrasound machine to paediatric and neonatology wards in the Turin metropolitan area, allowing doctors to scan young patients directly at their bedside instead of moving them to another department or hospital. Faster, more precise diagnosis means treatment can start sooner and with more accuracy, while babies and children, especially the most fragile ones, are spared the stress and risk of unnecessary transfers.

ATRA brings together people facing social vulnerability, local artists and neighbourhood shops in Barcelona to design and paint permanent artistic shutters for local businesses, turning empty storefronts into shared works of public art. The project treats people affected by mental illness, addiction, gender violence or homelessness as genuine creators, rebuilding neighbourhood bonds and community pride through a public exhibition and community events built around the finished work.

Equo e non solo cooperativa sociale runs a social beekeeping programme for young people, especially disadvantaged youth and job seekers, in the rural area around Fasano, in the province of Brindisi. Working with local schools, participants take part in hands-on beekeeping activities and farm-based workshops that build practical skills, environmental awareness and a genuine connection to their own community, while helping counter isolation and limited access to real, experiential learning opportunities.

Cooperativa Paradigma trains young people with intellectual disabilities in scent detection work with dogs, then gives them a genuine peer tutor role, teaching what they've learned to other participants across a network of day centres. Working closely with a dog is known to build attention, care and collaboration, and here those skills become the basis for real responsibility, turning participants from recipients of a service into people others actively rely on.

Naturart brings together clinical care and local tailoring to support cancer patients in the area between Rozzano and south-west Milan, as they cope with the physical and psychological changes that treatment brings. Working with a local atelier, the project creates custom-made clothing suited to each patient's body and medical devices, alongside psychological support, helping patients hold onto their sense of identity and comfort rather than withdrawing from social life during treatment.

Aegean - Cyclades Preservation Fund brings the children of Paros into the Butterfly Valley, a protected nature sanctuary on their own island that most of them have never had the chance to properly visit or learn about. Through guided visits and hands-on activities, the project helps children build a direct, lasting connection with this ecosystem, developing the kind of ecological awareness and sense of stewardship that can carry into how they treat nature elsewhere on the island.

Fundación Andrés Olivares offers specialised psychological support to children and adolescents in the province of Málaga who have lost a parent to cancer, working closely with their surviving family. Through individual support and coordination with health and social services, the project helps each child process their grief at their own pace, aiming to ease the emotional and social difficulties that can otherwise follow a child well into adulthood if left unaddressed.

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.

Fondazione PIME ETS is adapting its museum in Milan to welcome visitors who are too often left out of standard cultural offerings: people with physical or cognitive disabilities, school classes from disadvantaged areas, and foreign residents, including many from the diverse San Siro neighbourhood where the museum is based. Using facilitated language, visual tools, storytelling and sensory experiences, the project turns the museum's collection into a genuine, shared point of access to culture.

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.

Fondazione MilleSoli works with teenagers in Milan's Municipio 5 to build a large collective mosaic out of recycled ceramics, giving them a hands-on creative outlet at a time when many report real psychological difficulties since the pandemic. Working together on the artwork builds focus, self-esteem and a genuine sense of belonging, while introducing ideas about the circular economy and giving each participant a visible, lasting contribution to their own neighbourhood.

AISIWH supports children and young people living with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, a rare genetic condition, through a combined programme of neuropsychological rehabilitation and gut health monitoring. UPLUNG treats these two areas together rather than separately, working with neurologists and neuropsychologists on each child's rehabilitation while tracking and correcting imbalances in gut bacteria that research links to worse neurological outcomes.

Formazione Ben-Essere e Salute APS offers free first aid and safety training to schoolchildren, teachers, parents, public employees and volunteers, covering topics such as choking response, safe eating and using a defibrillator. Starting the culture of prevention from childhood, the project aims to build a community that is genuinely ready to respond when an emergency happens, rather than relying on chance or on whoever happens to already be trained.

Bizrupt runs Ignite Teens, bringing hands-on training in entrepreneurship, responsible AI, sustainability and financial literacy to teenagers across Crete, with a particular focus on those living in smaller towns and villages who usually have fewer chances to access this kind of learning. Through school sessions and intensive bootcamps, teenagers work in teams on real local challenges, turning what they learn into practical ideas and building the confidence to think about their own futures.

Wondering Project APS brings theatre performances into green spaces around Vicenza, giving young children a direct, hands-on encounter with nature at a time when urban growth is steadily eating into the natural spaces around them. Alongside the performances, the project trains teachers and runs outdoor workshops for families, treating nature not as a backdrop but as a living space for learning, creativity and relationship, and building children's sense of care for their surroundings.

ONG CETSUR works with families in Penco, in Chile's Biobio Region, to rebuild the biodiverse home gardens many lost in the 2026 wildfires. Alongside neighbourhood and community groups, the project supports growing food again, using low-cost, easily replicable techniques, as a way to ease the daily costs of feeding a family, restore emotional balance, provide natural remedies, and bring back the biodiversity and green landscape the fires destroyed.

Orizzonti Sportivi ODV supports young people in Shisong, in Cameroon's Diocese of Kumbo, an area still recovering from years of civil war that damaged local infrastructure and disrupted education. The project restores sports fields and brings in paid local coaches, giving children and adolescents a safe, structured space to play and process what they have been through, while connecting them with young volunteers in Bollate, Italy, who raise funds and awareness to support the work.

Stegi Thileon Palaio Faliro "Agios Alexandros" supports girls living at its residential home after being removed from unsafe family environments, offering counselling, psychosocial support and everyday care to help them recover from difficult experiences. Through individual sessions, life-skills workshops and creative activities, the project helps each girl build emotional wellbeing, resilience and the practical skills she will need for social inclusion and, eventually, an independent life of her own. ​

FairLife Lung Cancer Care trains medical students across Greece as peer lung health ambassadors, equipping them to share scientifically accurate information with other young people about smoking, vaping and early warning signs of lung disease. Through talks, workshops and community outreach, the project helps young people recognise risk factors sooner and connects them with practical pathways to medical advice and check-ups, addressing a gap in youth-focused health information.

Da Campioni ASDPS runs a horse riding programme for young people with mild intellectual disabilities and Down syndrome at the Vinovo Hippodrome in Piedmont, giving them a real, practical setting in which to build autonomy and skills for everyday life. Through hands-on activities around the stables and the racecourse, participants gain confidence, take on responsibility and develop pre-employment skills that can support their social and professional inclusion after school.

Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature is piloting a Food Rescue Point that redirects safe, surplus packaged food away from the bin and towards people who need it, run largely by young volunteers trained for the role. The project responds to a real, everyday gap: usable food gets thrown away in the same communities where people struggle to afford enough to eat, and there's currently no visible, reliable system connecting the two.

The HOME Project supports young unaccompanied refugee children living in one of its shelters in Athens, many of whom arrive in Greece with little or no previous schooling and significant experiences of trauma and family separation. This project adds a dedicated educator who works closely with each child, alongside their schools and teachers, to provide the individualised support they need to learn, settle in and integrate into their new environment.

Fondazione Cascina Roccafranca runs a financial, tax and workplace education programme for young people in Mirafiori Nord, Turin, helping students, recent graduates, unemployed young people and aspiring entrepreneurs understand their rights, opportunities and the administrative tools they will need. Through peer learning and personalised, participatory training, the project builds practical skills and genuine independence, helping young people plan their own path.

Asterion ETS runs a hands-on jewellery-making programme for young women with a migrant background in Rome, an area home to a large and diverse foreign population that still faces real barriers to qualified training, professional networks and employment. Working with non-precious, non-toxic materials and the support of an intercultural facilitator, participants build practical goldsmithing skills, connect with local businesses, and present their own finished collection at a public exhibition.

Transition to Independence Lab supports young people aged 18 to 25 who are leaving residential care across Attica, Chania and the Peloponnese, at a point when they typically have no family safety net, financial resources or practical experience of living alone. Through structured workshops, personalised coaching and corporate volunteer mentoring, the project builds the financial literacy, housing knowledge and job readiness these young people need to build a stable, independent adult life.

Fundación Huilo Huilo brings a free arts and culture festival to Neltume, a remote community in southern Chile's Los Ríos region with limited access to cultural life and a rich indigenous heritage. Over several days, local and regional artists lead performances, workshops and family activities that bring people of all ages together, strengthening local identity and giving residents, most of them far from any permanent cultural offering, real, free access to quality artistic experiences.

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.

10ksteps4future APS organises community clean-up days in urban areas, parks, waterways and public spaces across nine Italian regions, giving volunteers, students, teachers and citizens a concrete way to take action on litter and waste in their own area. Alongside the clean-ups themselves, the project runs educational activities in schools, turning everyday, hands-on participation into a stronger sense of shared responsibility for public spaces and the environment more broadly.

Junior Achievement Chile teaches 600 students from vulnerable high schools across central Chile how to budget, save and manage financial risk, skills many young people in Chile reach adulthood without. Combining an online learning platform with hands-on mentoring and a closing bootcamp where students tackle a real financial challenge, the project helps them enter adulthood with the tools to manage money responsibly, instead of falling into debt they don't understand.

SOPSY Patras runs a programme that helps young people experiencing psychosocial difficulties move beyond clinical support and into everyday community life. Beyond Labels pairs them with trained peer volunteers and open community activities, building real relationships and giving each young person an active social role, rather than treating isolation as something only therapy can address. The aim is a lasting, transferable model of community-based inclusion, developed together with local organisations.

akako.gr gives young people with disabilities across Crete a genuine pathway into cultural creation, from developing an idea through to producing and publicly presenting their own work, supported by professional mentoring built around accessibility from the start. Rather than treating disability as the subject of the work, the project treats young disabled people as its actual authors, giving them the same access to authorship, visibility and audience that other young creators already take for granted.

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.

Vallese ASD is renovating the sports facilities of Goriano Valli, a small mountain village in Abruzzo still rebuilding daily life after the earthquake, where a lack of essential services makes sport one of the few genuine anchors against depopulation. The project makes these facilities properly usable year-round, especially for young people and older residents who would otherwise have to travel long distances, or give up sport altogether, just to stay active and connected.

A.I.C.D.A. ODV runs a shared vegetable garden project in the municipality of Bella (PZ) and nearby towns, bringing together people with disabilities, older residents and younger generations around the practical, everyday work of growing food. Elderly participants take an active teaching role, passing on gardening knowledge to children and young people, while horticultural therapy helps build social connection and reduce isolation for people with disabilities and older residents alike.

Corporación Mater helps children with complex kidney disease in Chile's public health system get the surgery they need without the months, or even years, of waiting that can cause irreversible damage. Through an agreement with a specialised private clinic, children are referred for timely surgery, high-complexity care and post-operative follow-up, sparing them and their families the health risks and emotional strain that come with a long, uncertain wait for care they cannot access otherwise.

Munlab Ecomuseo dell'Argilla is opening up the regeneration of Cambiano's former brick factory to the whole community, inviting students, older residents, people with disabilities, families and citizens to help shape what the site becomes next. Through participatory workshops and artistic practices, the project turns local people into active partners in reimagining the Fornace, rather than simple bystanders to a renovation decided elsewhere, with the results shared at the CRUDA Festival.

Asociación Autismo Araya helps children and young people with an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis and high support needs, most of them non-verbal and living with behavioural and sleep disorders, to take part regularly in adapted, structured sport through personalised, one-to-one support and a safe, predictable environment. The activity improves their physical wellbeing and coordination, encourages social participation and autonomy, and gives their whole families real relief and much-needed respite.

ACRIS brings free cardiovascular and cardiometabolic checks directly into the everyday places where people in San Cataldo live and gather, reaching residents who otherwise rarely get screened. Alongside blood pressure and body composition measurements, the project runs health education for families and students and uses a sign language interpreter to make its activities genuinely accessible, aiming to catch risk factors early and guide people towards their own doctor before problems become serious.

Fundación Luz Casanova gives young people aged 18 to 29 who are homeless or at risk of losing their housing a stable place to live, under the Housing Led model, paired with individualised support for the challenges that often come with it: unemployment, isolation, past violence or a lack of family and social networks. Rather than temporary shelter alone, the project builds toward genuine long-term autonomy, stability and a real future for each young person.

Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi is creating an outdoor sensory garden for older residents living with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia at the Centro Girola, using gardening, gentle movement, music and memory-based activities to ease agitation and isolation. Sessions are built around each resident's remaining cognitive and physical abilities, giving them real outdoor activity and regular moments of connection with staff, family members and the wider community around the centre.

ASD Futura Calcio Peschiera Borromeo is renovating its San Bovio sports centre to create a real gathering place for young people in the area, with a particular focus on introducing football to children and teenagers with disabilities. Alongside structured training sessions and matches, the project uses football as a concrete tool for integration and socialisation, giving disabled young people and their families a genuine point of reference within their own community.

Università di Padova offers multi-year scholarships and comprehensive support to young refugees and other at-risk students from around the world, many of whom arrive in Italy alone, without family or financial means, after fleeing conflict, persecution or discrimination. Alongside the scholarship itself, the university covers travel, housing, language courses, psychological support and dedicated mentoring, helping each student settle in and build a genuine path towards their degree and their future.

A.S.D. Disabili Roma 2000 offers blind and visually impaired children, teenagers and adults a stable, structured path into sport climbing, fencing, athletics and swimming, with trained coaches and dedicated support for those aiming at competitive circuits. The project directly addresses a real local gap: few genuinely accessible sports pathways, too few coaches trained in visual disability, and training costs many families struggle to cover, building continuity and real autonomy rather than one-off sessions.

Child and Adolescent's Center supports children and young people on the island of Chios in the aftermath of devastating wildfires, helping them process trauma and rebuild a sense of safety through creative, experiential activities led by mental-health professionals. The programme combines artistic expression, mindfulness and group work to ease psychological distress, and closes with a community exhibition that brings families, schools and the wider island together around the experience.

Fondazione Ennio Morricone ETS brings together 10 young musicians in a professional jazz ensemble built around Morricone's music, giving them a real, hands-on opportunity to work together rather than just another training course. With particular attention to female talent, still underrepresented in Italian ensembles despite equally strong preparation, the residency closes with a public performance, giving each musician genuine professional experience and skills they can carry into future work.

ASD GiuCo'97 offers free football scholarships to children in Turin's Aurora neighbourhood who are otherwise shut out of organised sport, with a particular focus on girls, who face both economic barriers and cultural pressure to drop out early. Working alongside a local school and a social institution, the project turns football into a safe, inclusive space where economic hardship, disability, gender and migrant background are no longer reasons to be left out.

Associazione degli Operai - Società di Mutuo Soccorso runs a cultural space in Settimo Torinese (TO) where young people not currently in education, training or work take part in relational theatre and hands-on craft activities.The project gives these young people a route back towards learning and work, building self-esteem through theatre and practical skills such as bike repair, furniture restoration and food logistics, while also supporting local food solidarity.

Aido Lombardia is pairing its long-standing senior volunteers with a new generation of young people, combining the relational skill and credibility built up over years with the digital tools and fresh approaches needed to speak to today's teenagers and young adults. Through intergenerational matching and two-way micromentoring, the project prepares young volunteers to become genuine ambassadors for organ, tissue and cell donation, securing the future of the volunteer network.

Fondazione A.D.A.S. brings advanced pain management, delivered through spinal drug infusion, directly into patients' homes instead of requiring repeated hospital visits. Using this newer technology, patients need far lower doses of opioids and experience fewer side effects, but the specialised staff and equipment it requires are rarely available locally. With trained staff able to manage these therapies at home, the project makes this modern treatment accessible.

Fundación Décimo Cuarta Compañía is restoring its historic Leyland fire truck, a unique vehicle that served Santiago's fire brigades between 1963 and 1980, responding to mining accidents, river floods and major fires across the city. Preserving the truck keeps a real piece of Chile's firefighting history intact and shares it directly with the thousands of visitors, including schoolchildren, who pass through the 14th Company's historic headquarters each year, learning firsthand what volunteer service means.

Greek Carers Network EPIONI supports family members who care for a relative with a disability, a chronic illness, autism or a mental health condition, offering them a regular, welcoming space to meet close to home in Athens. The Carers' Cafe brings caregivers together with health professionals for practical guidance, and with each other for mutual support, helping ease the isolation and daily strain that often come with caring for someone else month after month.

Sori Solidale ODV is restoring Sori's former railway station to create a proper headquarters and warehouse for its work supporting the Fondazione Gigi Ghirotti's local outpatient service, currently run from inadequate, makeshift premises. Alongside dedicated storage for medical equipment, the building will house multi-purpose spaces for meetings, workshops and community initiatives, turning a disused public building into a working base for solidarity and social activity open to the whole town.

Nosilia Association brings psychosocial support directly into the homes of adults in Athens who are living with a serious illness and have little or no one to care for them. Alongside the medical side of home palliative care, a team visits regularly to ease loneliness, offer emotional support and help each person stay connected to daily life, treating every patient with the same dignity and attention, whether or not they have any family nearby to help.

MEDU - Medici per i Diritti Umani offers specialist mental health care to migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and women who have survived violence in Rome, addressing real barriers of language, culture and trauma that too often keep them from getting help. A multidisciplinary team of doctors, psychologists and cultural mediators combines individual psychotherapy, psychosocial support and group activities, working towards genuine access to care.

Ecogenia is setting up a seasonal hub on Mount Olympus dedicated to wildfire prevention, training young volunteers and local residents to help keep visitors safe and reduce fire risk across the mountain. Bringing together youth civic service, open volunteering and community outreach, the project aims to close a real gap in prevention capacity around Greece's first National Park, strengthening coordination between residents, visitors and local authorities in a fire-prone landscape.

Fondazione OMI brings weekly choral singing into schools across the Torino metropolitan area, giving students with different needs and backgrounds a structured, cost-free path to look after their own emotional wellbeing through breath, voice and group practice. The initiative helps young people manage stress and anxiety, build self-confidence and connect with their peers, culminating in public performances that open the experience up to families, teachers and the wider local community.

Metacometa APS runs cultural outings and shared learning activities for young teenagers in Udine who are at risk of falling out of school and social life, based at Casa Thabit, a dedicated centre for young people facing serious hardship. Through guided visits around the local area and structured moments of reflection together, the project builds participants' sense of belonging, self-confidence and connection to their own community and educational path.

WALCE APS helps frail cancer patients in the province of Turin get safely to hospitals and treatment centres when illness, age or a lack of family support make everyday travel difficult. Through a personalised transport and accompaniment service, built with local volunteer associations and transport providers, the project helps patients keep up with their treatment schedule, while easing some of the logistical and emotional weight carried by their families and caregivers.

Fondazione Prometeus ETS brings complementary therapies directly into the breast cancer care pathway at the Centro di Senologia of the Azienda Ospedaliera San Giovanni Addolorata, alongside conventional treatment rather than separate from it. The project helps women manage the pain, stress, chronic fatigue and psychological toll that cancer therapies often bring, while supporting their self-esteem and sense of femininity, aiming to keep the whole person, not just the illness, at the centre of care.

Fundación Sembrar Futuro pairs teenagers preparing to leave residential care in Santiago with the same mentor they already know and trust, continuing an existing relationship through the difficult transition into independent adult life. Young people leaving residential care consistently face worse outcomes than their peers and this project responds by keeping a stable, familiar adult in their corner rather than introducing someone new at the most vulnerable moment.

A.S.D. Energy Volley opens its youth volleyball teams to children and young people from Parma's most fragile neighbourhoods, including mothers in vulnerable situations and young people with intellectual disabilities, giving them free access to sport, teamwork and a genuine sense of belonging. People with intellectual disabilities also take on real responsibility within the club, stepping into team management roles rather than staying on the sidelines of the sport they are part of.

Centro Antiviolenza Luna APS works with teenage girls in schools to help them recognise gender stereotypes, controlling behaviour and violence, both online and in person, before these patterns take hold in their relationships. Through a listening service, guidance and awareness activities inside participating schools, the project gives girls a confidential, judgement-free space to talk, ask questions and learn about the support services already available to them.

Sportabili Alba APS ASD is introducing an adapted horse-drawn carriage so that athletes with disabilities who cannot ride in the saddle, including wheelchair users, can still take part in equestrian activity and enjoy the riding arena. Many athletes currently feel shut out of horseback riding simply because mounting a horse isn't possible for them; travelling the same grounds by carriage instead gives them a genuine way to take part in a sport they had never been able to try.

Jackfruit is building a 60-bed dormitory at its Community School Hub in Koch Goma, northern Uganda, giving children from the most remote villages a safe place to stay close to school instead of walking hours each way on roads that are often impassable in the rainy season. The dormitory removes one of the biggest practical barriers to regular attendance for children from the most vulnerable families, run with a proper child safeguarding policy and trained, supervising staff.

Scuole Unite & One Day Studios ODV runs L'Humanitas, a festival run entirely by young people under 30, bringing science, art, journalism, poetry and theatre into Ferrara's museums and historic buildings. Aimed squarely at reconnecting Gen Z with a cultural heritage that can otherwise feel distant, the festival gives young volunteers real experience in project management, communication and cultural production while making the city's cultural spaces feel genuinely alive.

APS Erika FTC brings a free community festival to Parco Din Don in Malgesso, giving young people, families and volunteers a genuinely inclusive place to gather in a town with plenty of associations but few free events of its own. Built around music and youth-led volunteering, the festival aims to bring generations together, build young people's skills and sense of active citizenship, and strengthen the local culture of solidarity and support for cancer research.

Rete Malattie Rare APS works with people living with rare and chronic diseases across Italy, giving them real opportunities to tell their own story and take an active part in decisions about their own care. Through a storytelling award, a public exhibition and participatory work on shared health service charters, the project treats patients and caregivers as genuine partners in care, not passive recipients of decisions made without them.

Amici della Musica di Torino brings live, interactive concerts into residential care homes across the Metropolitan City of Turin, using music as a non-pharmacological way to support older residents' emotional wellbeing, cognitive stimulation and sense of connection. Each concert is built together with facility staff and shaped around residents' own physical and cognitive needs, turning a traditional concert into a genuinely shared, relational experience rather than a one-way performance.

Croce Rossa Italiana - Comitato di Canelli brings free cardiovascular risk screening and national hepatitis C screening directly to a rural corner of Piedmont that has no hospital emergency department of its own, with the nearest ones a real distance away in Asti, Acqui Terme, Alba or Alessandria. Sessions are spread evenly across the area so prevention doesn't depend on how far someone can travel, catching problems early, before they become disabling.

Adisli works with teenagers and young adults who have a mild intellectual disability or borderline intellectual functioning and are experiencing real social isolation. Combining psychological support, community leisure activities and help building everyday social autonomy, the project gives each young person the chance to form genuine, lasting friendships, addressing loneliness that tends to carry serious consequences for their mental health and independence.

Associazione Pro Infanzia APS ETS runs hands-on cooking workshops for teenagers living in its residential care community in Turin, many of whom come from backgrounds marked by marginalisation and limited opportunities. In a dedicated teaching kitchen, young people learn to make jams and preserves from start to finish, building practical skills and a sense of responsibility that can support their transition towards employment once they age out of residential care.

Anita e i suoi fratelli APS is working with the community of Portacomaro, in Monferrato, to map and remove the communication, organisational and cultural barriers that still keep people with disabilities from fully taking part in everyday local life. Through universal design and hands-on co-design with people with disabilities themselves, the project turns accessibility into an ordinary, shared responsibility across the town rather than something addressed only when a problem comes up.

Associazione Culturale BeLocal ETS brings the exhibition Muse Ribelli to the Polo Espositivo of Santo Stefano's church in Mondovì, using art history to explore how women have been represented and how they have claimed power within it. Guided tours, self-representation workshops and meetings with experts turn the exhibition into a genuine tool for inclusion, involving women in vulnerable situations, people with disabilities, older residents and students in building new relationships.

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.

Comitato per la Vita "Daniele Chianelli" offers psychological support to patients being treated for blood cancers and related conditions in Perugia, along with their families and the hospital staff who care for them. Individual and group sessions run alongside training for ward staff, addressing the anxiety, fear and isolation that often accompany a long course of treatment, so that psychological care becomes as much a part of recovery as the medical therapy itself.

Asociación Amor sin Barreras runs educational sessions in Spanish schools and community spaces about global health, food and inequality, grounded in the real, ongoing work of Pole Pole School, a nutritional and educational centre for vulnerable children in Turkana Norte, Kenya. Rather than presenting a charity narrative, the project explains concretely how child malnutrition is prevented and invites Spanish students and families to engage with that reality in an informed, responsible way.

Centro Diego Fabbri ETS provides live audio description for theatre performances, prose, musicals and ballet alike, making them fully accessible to blind and visually impaired audiences. Trained volunteers describe the visual elements of each show in real time, so that people with visual disabilities can follow the performance alongside sighted audiences rather than missing what isn't spoken aloud, turning a night at the theatre into something genuinely shared.

nòva turns Novara's former Passalacqua Barracks into an open, accessible cultural space, bringing together people with disabilities, young people in fragile situations and second-generation citizens who are too often left out of the city's cultural life. Through accessible programming, workshops, residencies and open calls, the project supports emerging artists and talents while building a genuine sense of community around the space, using culture as a concrete tool for participation and inclusion.

Fondazione Borghetto ETS runs Casa della Gioia, a holiday home where people with disabilities spend two weeks by the sea in the company of volunteers, many of them school students completing their PCTO work-experience hours. Alongside caring directly for guests, students take on real, practical roles, from serving meals to organising afternoon activities, gaining hands-on experience while helping give families a well-earned break and guests a holiday built entirely around them.

Cooperativa sociale Il Seme runs a life-skills programme for young people with disabilities, adding music therapy, yoga, painting and a creative lab to help them build a fuller, clearer relationship with their own body and with other people. Each young person follows an individualised path built around their own abilities, interests and aspirations, working towards real autonomy and, where possible, active participation in society and in work, treated as a genuine equal rather than an object of pity.