Volunteers, actors of change in the world: the database that allows you to view the 600 projects implemented in 75 countries, including Italy

ROME – The site was presented in Rome voluntarynelworld.it, the first web platform entirely dedicated to the commitment to international cooperation and sustainable development. In particular, it is a database that allows you to view the 600 projects, programs and interventions implemented in 75 countries around the world and in Italy by Focsiv and its 94 Members in which 6,378 people are engaged including operators, local volunteers and boys and girls from the Universal Civil Service. The creation of the site was possible thanks to the collaboration ofKapusons agency and to the contribution of Deutsche Post STIFTUNG.

A continuously updated platform. Where it is possible to find out about all the active projects in the various countries in which Focsiv and its associates are present and to obtain information, thanks to the various corresponding and explanatory files, both on the type of intervention and on the proposing body. Anyone who visits the site can not only quickly obtain news on who is present in a specific country and on the various interventions on site, but can also get in touch directly with the individual members Focsiv. “The site voluntarynelworld.it – underlined Nino Santomartino, vice president of Focsiv – is for the first time the platform dedicated to the commitment in international cooperation, in particular that made by the current 6,378 operators, local volunteers and boys and girls of the Universal Civil Service Of Focsiv and its member bodies. A significant number of projects, programs and interventions in 75 countries on 4 continents as well as in Italy – added Santomartino – a commitment implemented for over 50 years in the world, which expresses that sense of being builders of peace and actors of change for the common good.

Platform features. On the one hand, the platform is an information tool with which it is intended to bear witness to the valuable work of international volunteers and to facilitate the coordination of members’ activities Focsiv and, on the other, an important means of communication which helps to promote the culture of solidarity and responds to the need for transparency, relationship building and accountability. “A real “glass house” – said the vice president of Focsiv – which constantly allows information and news on what is being done for the construction of the common good to be displayed and made available to citizens ”.

The work of 50 years. For 50 years, Focsiv has placed volunteering as a central point: women and men who experience firsthand the complexity, difficulties and pain of a changing world, in a vision of participatory democracy, thanks to which concrete answers can be obtained in a path of social justice. In these 5 decades of the Federation, it is the volunteers who have offered their human and professional support to poor populations in many areas of the world as well as in Italy, making concrete projects and partnerships that aim to transform the grammar of rights into daily practice .

The map that does not make you go wrong. “A map that seems like a small thing – highlighted Ivana Borsotto, president of Focsiv – but which actually allows you to trace an itinerary, not to take the wrong road and your own path. This is its greatness, the ability to signal the presence of volunteers and operators who translate the grammar of values ​​and rights into practice on a daily basis. These are our deposits of courage and generosity – added Borsotto – it is knowing and recognizing each other. But the map is an assumption of responsibility and transparency with respect to those who support us, which allows us to respond accurately to those who ask us what we actually do and to evaluate the impact that our activities have on people, communities and territories. This map, in extreme synthesis – he concluded – is a tool of collective intelligence: a means of dealing with those who, like each of us, are artisans of development and justice and a way of connecting thousands and thousands of associations and organizations with other communities, institutions , schools and the productive world”.