COSV - Coordinamento delle Organizzazioni per il Servizio Volontario

We are a non profit association with legal personality, founded in 1968, engaged in development and humanitarian aid interventions in Europe, Balkans, Southern Africa and Middle East From over fifty years we work with the leading agencies of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, United Nations and its numerous offices as well as with funds from the European Union. We operate for peace, human rights respect and environment protection, through inclusive development paths, built basing on partnership and networking approach that enhance local realities. Our work is oriented to the reconstruction of share capital and to the establishment, through and in the communities of strong relations, to sustain important political and economic transformations underlying progress. We want to contribute to the development of more inclusive and cohesive societies and to the preservation of natural riches, ensuring the efficiency of our Action versus our beneficiaries, donors and trustees. The program undertaken in recent years, consists of several projects that, even if realized in different context, are deeply connected, put their roots down in community real needs and potential and seek long term sustainability.