M.A.I.S.’ objectives:

• To work in favour of sustainable and participated development of the global South, particularly for small-scale producers, the children and women, promoting the rise of local capacity.
• To promote exchange of expertise both within the countries where it works and between the North and the South of the world.

M.A.I.S.’s projects in the global South aim at:

• Contrasting sexual and work exploitation of the children and supporting their education
• Contrasting women’s sexual exploitation and supporting their education
• Supporting the production and trade of small farmers’ products and claiming the importance of family farming
• Developing community organisation and primary services (water, schools, natural medicine)
• Supporting small producers and trade in the urban settings
• Promoting and supporting the unions’ and labours’ claims in the global South
• Supporting distance adoption and promoting school twinning between Italian and foreign countries’ schools

In Italy, M.A.I.S. works for making Southern Countries’ conditions known, through:

• training courses and workshops in schools;
• participation and dissemination of awareness campaigns, at national and European level;
• organisation of meetings and congresses;
• exhibitions, publications and communication through the newsletter and the web about its international cooperation projects;
• exchanges between foreign and Italian youth workers;
• its video rental, created with the cultural association PuntoDOC, and its library: they can both be consulted for free in the M.A.I.S. office;
• sponsorship of young people;
• twinning between Italian and foreign schools.