Changing the world with a click

Cristina Barbetta

As part of the “Change for the planet- Care for the people” campaign, CIDSE, the European platform of Catholic NGOs, of which Focsiv is also part, has launched an international photo competition targeted both at professional photographers and amateurs who particularly care for social and environmental change. Deadline to submit photos: April 23rd 2017.

The association training youth from the outskirts to the world of work

Cristina Barbetta

It’s called Nos Quartiers ont du Talent (Our neighbourhoods have got talent), it was born 11 years ago and since then it has thrived a lot all over France. Many companies and organisations recruit employees through the association.

This is how Molenbeeck youth learn IT skills

Cristina Barbetta

Capital Digital is a project that trains young migrants (15-20 years old) from Brussels’ outskirts in the basics of coding and also gives them pedagogical abilities to transfer these knowledges to children migrants who live in the poorest areas of Bruxelles.

Gender equality boosts economic growth

Ottavia Spaggiari

A new study reveals that gender equality would generate up to 10.5 million new jobs by 2050, contributing the EU employment rate to reach almost 80% and increasing the GDP per capita up to nearly 10% by 2050

Paris, the food and solidarity Give Box is born

Cristina Barbetta

A project of the association Cap ou pas cap and of the collective of architects “On a pensé un truc”, the Garde-Manger (Food and Solidarity Give Box) in Paris is having a great success

Virtuous Triangle, a model of integration of refugees in Turkey

Cristina Barbetta

Virtuous Triangle is a model of integration that creates a triangular ecosystem formed by a Turkish primary school child, a refugee pupil and a university student. The model is based on principles of reciprocity, profitability and mutual understanding.

Solidarity Salt, integrating migrants thanks to salt

Cristina Barbetta

Solidarity salt is a new social enterprise empowering women refugees in Greece through selling sea salt, developing at the same time the local economy.

This is how French families welcome elderly people

Cristina Barbetta

Cette famille is a French social enterprise allowing elderly people to have an alternative to retirement homes, thanks to a network of welcoming families (familles d’accueil).

Les Cuistots Migrateurs, the migrants' catering

Cristina Barbetta

2 Parisian entrepreneurs put together a team of chefs refugees , “to change the view on migrants and to enhance the cultural background they bring, their competence and their authentic and unknown cuisines”.

Riace, a utopia turned into reality

Cristina Barbetta

A boat full of migrants arrives on the shores of the Calabrian village of Riace, historic place of migration. The little town welcomes the migrants, who are seen as a resource, not as a threaten. This is the story told in the documentary "Un paese di Calabria" (“ A village of Calabria”).