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.
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