The project, financed by Hotelplan Italia, has funded the development of a new school complex which will substitute the existing one that was almost completely destroyed by a fire. The Butterfly foundation took care of the design and the turnkey construction of this school for 320 pupils. The school was opened November 13th 2004.

In May 2006, after an agreement between VIS – International Volunteers for Development - the Saint Anne Congregation  and Butterfly Onlus, the plans to build a new Elementary school in Boditti began. Boditti is 380 km southwest of Addis Abeba, in Ethiopia, and has approximately 15.000 inhabitants.
On Oct. 1st 2007 the first block of six classrooms was opened and accommodates approx. 300 pupils.

Boditti " Centre for the promotion of maternal and child health care" , built and funded by the Zorzetto family in memory of their son Mauro , was opened on Oct. 1st 2007 in Boditti, a town that is situated 380 km southwest of Addis Abeba  and will operate as a first aid and prevention centre in favour of approx. 1.000 children of the primary school currently under construction, as well as of their families.

The project, supported primarily by Aurora Assicurazioni S.p.a., has been implemented by the Butterfly Foundation, thanks to the technical support & local assistance of the COOPI non-profit organization which aided the completion of five potable water wells for 2.000 beneficiaries among the rural populations of OROMO and SEKOTA regions, in areas where drought and famine are putting the lives of millions of people at risk.

During the first quarter of 2006 the Butterfly foundation, thanks to the renewed economic support secured by Aurora Assicurazioni S.p.a. insurance company, and the technical cooperation established with  the non-governmental organization VIS,  has already completed three  new potable water wells in Ethiopia in the villages of Obbe, Bicot and Boditti. Two additional water wells located in Shiraro and Arbaba were opened to the local populations last December 2006 thanks to the financial support granted by the “Volontari l’Accoglienza” association, based in Rocca Canavese (Turin) and the Highway Incentive s.r.l. company, based in Milan.

Development of a water supply in the Gambela region with the construction of 10 drinking water wells, in close collaboration with VIS and  AATO LAGUNA DI VENEZIA.
The project was completed last March 2007 with the completion of the ten wells for the population of the surrounding villages,  totalling over 13.000 units.

Program of "long distance adoptions" dedicated to Tibetan children, refugees in Kathmandu in Nepal and in the Bhandara district, in India and managed personally by Lama Tashi, director of the Tibet House in Votigno (Reggio Emilia) and promoter of the TASHI SCHOOL that the Butterfly Foundation implemented and officially opened  on March 26th 2005 in Boudha/Kathmandu, Nepal.

“Long Distance adoptions” of children of Sudanese families obliged to escape from their own Country due to a dreadful and forgotten war that lasted 10 years, during which over two million died.
These families have no chance of paying any school fees and live in great difficulty.
We decided to support a kindergarten built two years ago in Damascus by Sister Guerrina, sheltering 37 small kids, and to implement a distance adoption program dedicated to the children of the poorest refugee families.

“Long distance adoptions” program for malnourished children living in the slums of Parintins, in the Amazon forest, Brazil, in cooperation with the local diocese, the Pastoral de Criança and “Padre Colombo” Hospital.

A new program of long distance adoptions is addressed to children living in Medellin, Colombia, in extremely poor conditions and malnourishment. A missionary priest from Colombia, Don Alvaro Cano, resident in our Country for many years, is the local testimonial together with the Forlì branch of the Butterfly Foundation.

A program of distance adoptions implemented in cooperation with the missionary sisters of St. Anne’s Daughters,  dedicated to children aged 2-12 living in extremely poor conditions in Boditti, 380 kms. South of Addis Abeba, where Butterfdly Foundation in presently engaged in the implementation of several humanitarian projects.

Forlì branch of Butterfly foundation is presently activating in the Emilia Romagna Region, a project specifically dedicated to children and teenagers of various cultural and social standards, living in a state of great discomfort and crisis. The project consists in the renovation of the Podere Serra owned by Ente Orfanatrofi (Forlì) and in the completion of the resulting residential structure  which is intended to welcome 12 children temporarily entrusted to social care services.

During 2006-2007, the Butterfly Onlus Foundation, thanks to the support from Western Union FSI, has contributed to the development of support programs and help for foreign communities living in Genoa, with particular attention to the Ecuadorian community.

The centre of Payaphyu, in the north of Burma, currently houses approximately 170 patients with mental illnesses and physical deformities as well as numerous orphaned children, in a context of extreme poverty. We are engaged in the construction of new centres for assistance and rehabilitation. .

The project helps lead toward a viable life path for all of the young girls who end up in the house after a life of violence and abandonment: accommodation, instruction, and integration into the social life of the area are at the core of this path.

The Butterfly Onlus Foundation, in collaboration with Funima International Associazione onlus and the Fundaciòn Los Niños del Mañana  has recently funded the development of a 53 metre deep water well in the El Moreno area (Andes). The project is meant for the population of the village that counts 300 inhabitants, as well as 110 children using the local food canteen.