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INITIATIVES Instruction and Training
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BOOKS
The books
are available at the major bookshops or at Fondazione Butterfly onlus

Scintille di vita
dialoghi con i Maestri alla ricerca di un perchè
Scintille di vita
Claudio Maneri
Hermes Edizioni

Sete d'Etiopia
some pictures from the book...
Claudio Maneri
& Fabrizio Jelmini

Ciao Papi...
dialoghi con l'altra dimensione

Ciao papi...
Claudio & SIbylle Maneri
Prefazione di Paola Giovetti

Hermes Edizioni
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Festa Butterfly Onlus - Cascina Longoli
Open Day - Butterfly Onlus
Cascina Longoli in Gudo Visconti
Milano
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Well Anima
Pozzo Anima - Sasie Tigray, Etiopia
For informations about the "Anima" Well in Etiopia, click Here.

San Pedro Agricultural School
This school, built in 1988 thanks to a missionary Priest, today welcomes approximately sixty Indios children. They are taught notions of agriculture and livestock care, and the goal of the basic instruction is the preservation of the indigenous language and culture. Recently new classrooms, dormitories, and a refectory have been built, thanks to the savings of Sibylle and Renato. There is still much to accomplish.
Tashi Boarding School
The Tashi Boarding School, recently completed in Kathmandu in the Boudha neighborhood, is in a position to guarantee a primary and secondary education to approximately 180 Tibetan and Nepali children as well as room and board for one hundred of the total number of children. A program of “distance learning” has been activated to contribute to the costs of managing this school.
Saint Joseph’s School

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.

Brazil
Rio Andirà
Amazon Forest
Scuola agricola San Pedro
Prj IS0001
Nepal
Boudha, Kathmandu
Tashi Boarding School
Prj IS0002
Madagascar
Antanarivo
Scuola Saint Joseph
Prj IS0004
Instruction and Training
Kaungh-to School
In the frame of the new school construction program in third world Countries, thanks to the financial support given by the agents and head office of Aurora Assicurazioni S.p.a., the Butterfly foundation has recently completed the turnkey construction of a secondary school in Kaungh-to village, in Southern Shan State which can accommodate 210 pupils
Boditti Primary School

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.

Mauro Hospital - Boditti

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.

Myanmar
Kaungh-to - Shan
Kaungh-to
Prj IS0005
Ethiopia

Ethiopia
Prj IS0006
Ethiopia

Ethiopia
Prj IS0007
International Cooperation
Construction of five potable water wells 2003/2005

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.

Construction of potable water wells – 2006

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.

A drop in the sea makes miracles

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.


MOVIE >
Ethiopia
Haro,Adadi,Mugayo
Regione di Oromo
Babena, Derenzeba
Regione di Sekota
Ethiopia
Prj CI0001
Ethiopia
Shiraro e Arbaba
Ethiopia
Prj CI0002
Ethiopia
Gambela
Ethiopia
Prj CI0003
Program of 'distance adoptions'
Monastery Education School
Project for the adoption of orphaned and indigent children of eight different ethnicities present in Myanmar, at the monastic complex of Yadanapon Yeikneyein Yangoon, where the presence of Foundation Butterfly is able to guarantee accountability for the donations it receives.
Lama Tashi

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.

Syria

“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.

Myanmar
ex Burma
Myanmar
Prj AD0001
Nepal/India



Bambini rifugiati tibetani
Prj AD0003
Siria



Siria
Prj AD0004
Program of 'distance adoptions'
Brazil

“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.

Colombia

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.

Ethiopia

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.

Brazil
Parintins
Amazon Forest
Brasile - Parintis - Foresta Amazzonica
Prj AD0005
Colombia



Colombia
Prj AD0006
Ethiopia



Ethiopia
Prj AD0007
Initiatives in Italy
PODERE SERRA, Bagnolo

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.

El Trueque Cultural

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.

 
Italy
Forlì
Italy
Prj II0001
Italy
Genoa
Italy
Prj II0002
 
Solidarity
Center for the Disabled and Orphans of Payaphyu

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. .

Project "Laura Vicuña" House

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.

Fundaciòn Los Niños del Mañana

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.

Myanmar
Taunggyi
Payaphyu
Prj SO0001
Equador
Quito
Project "Laura Vicuña" House
Prj IS0003
Argentina
El Moreno
Argentinean Andes
Prj SO0003
info@butterflyonlus.org Headquarters: Venegono S. VA tel +390331850432 - Feltre BL tel +39043981366 - Forlì tel +39054334687 - ITALY
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