Ibo Italia

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Ibo Italia Charity Profile

IBO Italia is a Non Governmental Organization that cooperates in Italy, Europe and in south-world countries since 1957 in the direction of condivision and human and Christian solidarity. IBO Italia has been constituted in association in 1968 and M.A.E. has recognised it appropriate to operate for selection, formation and to send volunteers abroad. IBO Italia is federated to F.O.C.S.I.V. since 1972.

Activities

IBO Italia main activity is the formation of youth people through the experience of workcamps in hosting associations or communities. Workcamps are moment of condivision and exchange. Through a concrete help, young people have the possibility to experience communitarian life with other people of different nationalities. The activity consists in: gardening, agricultural works, building or repairing and social animation. We don't require special capacities but simply willingness ! IBO Italia workcamps are in Italy, in Europe and in south-world countries. Everybody can take part to a workcamp, not only young people. For Italian workcamps you must be minimum 16 years old, for European workcamps minimum 18 and for south-world workcamps minimum 21 years old. The costs are: 100 Euro for Italian and European workcamps and 150 Euro for south-world workcamps + 30 Euro to become members of our association. The volunteers must pay the travel costs and they will receive board and lodging by the hosting community.
Cooperation projects represent the engagement of IBO Italia towards south-world populations. In fact, if on one side we try to integrate extracommunitarian people with the creation of hosting communities, on the other side we try to favour the development and the social, economic growth in their countries. At the moment we are working in the following cooperation projects:
Kenya - we have built a hospital, that is the only sanitarian resource in Tharaka. The hospital offers 100 beds in different divisions (obstetrics, gynaecology, pediatrics, medicine and surgery). Related to the hospital, there are other services, like kitchen, pantry, laundry, chemistry, funeral service. In a separate area there are lodging for operators and volunteers. This year we are going to start a new project about prevention of HIV infection and control of its transmission from mothers to children in Tharaka district;
Romania – IBO Italia has been working in Panciu through workcamps since 1998, then we started to collaborate with the local association “Rom pentru Rom”, constituted by some Roma people. We contributed to the building of houses for the poorest Roma people and to help Roma children. We have recently built a mill and organised a listening-point in Panciu Comune, where some volunteers try to help needy people. We have bought a house, that now is a hosting centre and another building that will be a formation centre for disadvantaged children (joynery and informatics);
IBO Italia is engaged also in distance-adoptions of Indian children with difficult familiar situations. This activity started in 1998 when the President of our association, Father Angelo Marcandella, went to India to visit the missions that IBO Italia was carrying on in the area. Meanwhile, he met some Jesuits, who had been hosting and helping poor Indian children for several years. This is how our project started. A distance-adoption is one of the possible activities to put into action our need of solidarity towards needy children. In a simple way, we can focus our help on a specific child contributing to the improvement of his / her condition of life: food, health and school. Our program consists in giving an education of “life orientation” (not only work) to poor children, who live in Mundgod and in the close villages. The annual quota is Euro 300 (40 Euro for our management costs and 260 Euro for the child). The economic engagement of the people, who decide to adopt a child, is annual but we wish it can be re-newed as long as possible. The adopter will receive a paper with the photograph of the child and the desciption of his / her situation. The contact between the child and the adopter will be kept through letters. At the moment we are supporting 300 distance-adoptions but we wish to go on as much as possible.
IBO Italia is engaged in European Voluntary Service: long-term voluntary experiences (6-12 months) for young people from 18 to 25 years old. EVS is part of the Youth Programme, a European Union programme that promotes the mobility of young people through international activities with a non-formal education dimension. EVS promotes local projects that are based on everybody's commitment and intercultural exchanges. Volunteer, sending organisation and host organisation are the key partners of an EVS project. The willingness of close cooperation between these three is crucial for a successful experience.
Since 2004 IBO Italia is engaged also in Voluntary Civil Service in Italy (at our office) and in south-world countries, Kenya, India and Romania (in our cooperation projects). Voluntary Civil Service is a formative opportunity for young people (18-28 years old) to work in international solidarity domain. It is 12 months long and it is payed by the Presidence of the Minister's Council: 433 Euro/month in Italy and 433 Euro/month + 15 Euro/day abroad). It includes an insurance and board (and lodging if you go abroad). It is necessary to have a good knowledge of the English language, predisposition to work in team, flexibility and capacity of adaptation.