02 Jul Stories from the field: Trombetta
Laura Trombetta, aid-worker Working on the Chamdo project has not always been easy ...
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18 Jun Stories from the field: Laurent
Tony Laurent, architect Dongche School was a just an unrealised dream for us in 1993. I met Andrea Dell’Angelo at a weekend Yoga course in Rome during July that year and immediately the dream was sketched out, we had no idea how such an undertaking could eventuate. I...
04 Jun Stories from the field: Beccacece
Silvia Beccace, architect and expert in WASH When I arrived in Nepal for a last minute holiday in December 2006, I immediately understood that that country would occupy a special place in my life. Even today I wonder what attracted me so much in the impact with Kathmandu, an...
21 May COVID-19: ASIA’S COMMITMENT IN ITALY AND IN THE WORLD
The social emergency in Italy after the health one. The intervention in support of the impoverished populations in the countries still in lockdown. ASIA is at the forefront of the COVID-19 emergency which, in addition to Italy, is putting entire populations of countries with compromised...
13 May NEPAL: 500 MANASAROVAR SCHOOL CHILDREN AT RISK OF POVERTY AND SUPPORT
[gallery size="medium" link="none" ids="6419,6420,6421,6422,6423,6425"] DRAWINGS OF CHILDREN FROM MANSAROVAR'S SCHOOL At home and without going to school like their Italian peers and those of other countries in the world. The Covid-19 emergency also affected Nepal and the 500 children of the Manasarovar school in Katmandu, who were...
05 May MAY ITALIAN ART | 2020
Galleria Alessandra Bonomo and ASIA are pleased to present the project MAY ITALIAN ART | 2020 – curated together with Giuliana Benassi – an online charity sale including the works of 15 Italian artists to support us in ITALY EMERGENCY COVID-19 and to promote Italian art. During this period...
30 Apr WORDS OF VIRTUOUS CONTAGION: CHANGE
Words are important. They can feed fear and stress, or relieve that sense of anxiety and bewilderment that we are all experiencing right now, allowing us to change perspective and generate a virtuous contagion, starting from what we think and feel. The seventh word we propose...
29 Apr Stories from the field: Taliente
Peter and Resi Taliente, surgeon and health coordinator. September 1998- September 1999 It was an important year for us, which gave us the opportunity to live an extraordinary experience with a people and its culture, hitherto unknown to us. Tibet and its people “the Tibetans!” we arrived up...
23 Apr NEPAL. COVID-19 EMERGENCY, FIVE YEARS AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE
The global health emergency has brought Nepal to its knees, the country that was struggling to get back on its feet after the terrible earthquake that exactly five years ago, on April 25, 2015, caused the death of 9 thousand people, tens of thousands of...
23 Apr Stories from the field – Cortassa
My name is Giorgio Cortassa, I am a doctor, I met ASIA in Lhasa in 1995 and since then I have collaborated directly or indirectly with them on numerous projects. From January 2011 to June 2012 I directed the final stages of a three-years ASIA...