Author: bluelabs

On August 29th, Still I Rise is opening a new educational center in Ad Dana, in North-West Syria.

After months of work, Still I Rise inaugurates the new Ma’an educational center in north-west Syria. The two-story building has eight classrooms, four of which are intended for lessons, and a beautiful surrounding garden.

It was an intense and unrelenting search. Last month, our team in Kenya toured all over Nairobi to look for the right building to be our school for refugee children in Africa. Now we finally found it!

Open letter signed by 44 organisations

All over the world, there are over 70 million people fleeing from wars, hunger, persecution and violence. This already appalling number is constantly increasing. Women, men and children are forced to leave their homes to seek safety, hoping for a better life.

“In consideration of his awareness-raising activities on refugees and migrants”, Nicolò Govoni, President of Still I Rise, is among the seven recipients of the CIDU Award for Human Rights awarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

The coronavirus outbreak is affecting the entire world with over 5 million people affected and 340,000 victims at the global level, according to recent WHO data. When the pandemic broke out in Europe, hitting Italy first and undermining its health and economic systems, we decided to find ways to give our contribution for the most vulnerable affected by this emergency. Here, all the initiatives we launched in Italy, our headquarter, as well as in the other countries where Still I Rise operates.

We can’t even believe it ourselves, but we are starting plans to hopefully open a youth center in Syria soon!

Open Letter to European Commission after the fires in Samos last April 26th and 27th