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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is the largest independent medical humanitarian organization in the world, created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. Today MSF works in more than 60 countries to assist people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe due to wars, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from healthcare or natural disasters. In 1999 MSF received the Nobel Peace Prize.
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MSF teams are working to provide surgery and basic care to victims of the earthquake. MSF field staff have been establishing temporary clinics in order to treat injured men, women, and children. The fund-raising campaign hosted on Dada’s network will provide further humanitarian aid, including an inflatable hospital with a surgical unit.
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Terres Des Hommes (TDH) is an internationally recognized non-profit organization working for the rights of children in underdeveloped countries. Active in 22 countries and 3 continents with emergency humanitarian aid and international cooperation projects, TDH works to protect children’s rights, especially regarding health, play and education, without racial, religious, political, cultural or gender-based discrimination.
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Immediately after the earthquake in Haiti, TDH Italy organized a fund-raising campaign for the supply of food, medical supplies and tents. Dada will host this campaign for the whole month of January.
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Founded by Action Aid UK, this non-profit began in 1989 under the name Azione Aiuto Italia. In 2003 it became ActionAid International Italia ONLUS, present today in more than 32 countries around the world. ActionAid is centered around respect for human rights, basing its action around six key points: the right to food, women's rights, education, healthcare and the fight against HIV, emergency interventions and giving people a voice in the decisions that affect their lives.
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ActionAid sent specialized teams into areas of Haiti that were hit by the devastating earthquake in January. The aim is to help and aid around 20,000 people by launching a fund raising campaign to face the emergency. Dada hosted this campaign on its network during the month of January.
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The non-profit organization “Aiutare i Bambini” (Help the Children), founded in 1999 by Italian industrialist Goffredo Modena, works in many different countries around the world to help poor, sick or emarginated children who don’t have access to schooling. The organization’s projects are aimed at giving these children concrete opportunities in life. In the first ten years of activity, the Foundation helped more than 650,000 children, financing 674 projects for aid in 67 countries.
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In March 2010, we chose to support a long-distance adoption campaign, a project that provides concrete aid to children in poor countries around the world. Many children in these countries rely on this aid as the only hope for a decent life. The campaign also funded the construction of two new classrooms and structural improvements in the Sacred Heart Educational Center in Hinche, the capital city of the central plateau in Haiti, badly hit by the earthquake in January.
-- The week of November 22 to November 28 Dada will support “Aiutare i Bambini” (Help the Children) giving space to banners for the project “Milk and Food for Children with AIDS”. Proceeds will be donated to 900 children in Guinea Bissau, the tenth poorest country in the world with the highest number of AIDS patients without access to healthcare or medication. This project will provide artificial milk and food to nourish children so that mothers with AIDS don’t transmit the virus to newborns when breastfeeding. The project aims to give children the chance to grow up healthy, without AIDS. |
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“Casa Do Menor” is a philanthropic organization that takes care of 2,000 adolescent children in Miguel Couto - Nova Iguaçu in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza, one of the most difficult, violent and abandoned areas in Brazil. The organization works to help children and teenagers who have been victims of abuse, death threats or involved in drug trafficking or prostitution, both in terms of prevention and recovery. The organization provides moral and material support to reintegrate these children into society.
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Dada chose to support the campaign "Togliamole le mani di dosso" (Take Your Hands Off), an important initiative to prevent and discourage child-abuse and sexual tourism in Brazil. For fear of AIDS, child molesters are target an increasing younger range of children who live in extreme poverty and have only their body to offer as a source of income for a life without hope.
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Global Fund is dedicated to gathering funds for projects in third world countries where HIV, tuberculosis and malaria have taken a heavy tall of victims and the poor do not have access to any kind of healthcare.
Since 2002 Global Fund has launched 572 programs in 144 countries, with the aim of intervening at a local level to empower local entities in acting autonomously. |
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During the month of May, Dada chose to support the Global Fund campaign called “Born HIV Free”, which reminds us that around the world one baby is born with HIV every minute. Carla Bruni is ambassador of the project.
Today there is a drug that prevents an HIV positive mothers from transmitting the disease to her child. Our goal is that by 2015 no child should be born with HIV because their mother did not have access to the drug.
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Make-A-Wish Italia began in 2004 in memory of Carlotta Frontani, who passed away in 2002 at the age of 10 due to a serious illness. During her time at the hospital, Carlotta continuously asked about the other children in the ward, hoping that they would be able to experience at least one moment of happiness and hope, even during their illness.
Make-a-Wish is dedicated to making wishes come true for seriously ill children: if a children who suffers from a serious illness sees his wish come true, he will realize that nothing is impossible, and maybe for just a fleeting moment, he will be able to forget about his medical condition and return to being a child. |
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Dada supports a project called "5x1000 - Il potere di un desiderio", which invites Italians to donate 0,5% of their income to the Make-a-Wish foundation when filing their tax returns. The goal is to allow sick children to smile, giving them the joy to live and strength to continue fighting their illness.
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“Baby nel Cuore” (Baby in the Heart) was founded in Bologna in 1993. The aim is to promote projects to help children at a distance and aid children in need. The nonprofit organization works to promote direct contact with those who are in need of help, as well as provide aid to institutions (such as missions, hospitals, recovery centers, schools, etc.).
More than 35,000 people have called the “Baby nel Cuore” hotline and more than 16,000 children have received aid at a distance in more than 20 countries in Europe, South America, Africa and Asia.
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In November and December Dada chose to give web visibility to “Baby nel Cuore” to support the construction of a pediatric hospital in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. The initiative is part of a wider project to create a place where children can learn and develop skills, starting in early childhood, so that they can find work as adults and stay off the streets.
Behind the apparent cheerfulness of that brings millions of tourists to Brazil, there is a dangerous urban underworld in Salvador dominated by sexual tourism, slums, prostitution and drug trafficking.
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