False information on the coronavirus and the spreading of fake news can have very serious consequences on people’s lives. This awareness is driving young people all around the world to take action, as demonstrated by the story of Nelson Kwaje,...
IBSA Foundation tells the Contagious Stories of ordinary people, able to move mountains and produce beneficial effects with their grand gestures of solidarity, such as raising funds for scientific research or improving the condition of patients in treatment.
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Inés, a young Peruvian, currently living in Paris, has contributed to the creation of Makesense TV, a community that, through a subscription-based service, provides ideas, tools and the network to reinforce solidarity in a time of crisis and regularly provides...
The coronavirus emergency, as we know, has radically changed all of our lives. Almost always by necessity, but sometimes by choice. This was the case of Maxime Mbandà, a rugby player for the Zebre team in Parma and the Italy...
The commitment of these Senegalese artists to the fight against Covid-19 has found a very fitting means of expression in music. But it isn’t the only one.
On March 8, wearing their khaki uniforms and colourful neckerchiefs, the Scouts started positioning themselves in dozens of locations on street corners around the capital Port-au-Prince with portable sinks, which they connect to the water supply of a school or...
When the first cases of coronavirus appeared in Cameroon, 26-year old Christian Achaleke, who works in an organization for economic development, asked one of his colleagues in logistics to buy hand sanitizer. However, locally it was only to be found...
It all started on Tuesday, March 17, when Ben Wei, a student from New York, received this message from his friend, a doctor working at a Bronx hospital
She had worked as an intensive care and cardiac surgery nurse for 16 years. Then, in 2006, Marietta Hochstrasser, 51 years old, from Breganzona (Lugano) changed her life and founded 4COMPETENCE, a company that distributes cardiac surgery products.
To express his gratitude towards those that had looked after him with great skill and loving-kindness, Tom decided to make his contribution to the fight against the coronavirus.
With the help of his family, he launched an online fundraiser,...
In the pool she is the last bastion of Setterosa (the Italian women’s water polo team) against the attacks of the opposing team. Now, Giulia Viacava is involved in an even tougher match: defending the residents in a care home...
False information on the coronavirus and the spreading of fake news can have very serious consequences on people’s lives. This awareness is driving young people all around the world to take action, as demonstrated by the story of Nelson Kwaje,...
Inés, a young Peruvian, currently living in Paris, has contributed to the creation of Makesense TV, a community that, through a subscription-based service, provides ideas, tools and the network to reinforce solidarity in a time of crisis and regularly provides...
The coronavirus emergency, as we know, has radically changed all of our lives. Almost always by necessity, but sometimes by choice. This was the case of Maxime Mbandà, a rugby player for the Zebre team in Parma and the Italy...
The commitment of these Senegalese artists to the fight against Covid-19 has found a very fitting means of expression in music. But it isn’t the only one.
On March 8, wearing their khaki uniforms and colourful neckerchiefs, the Scouts started positioning themselves in dozens of locations on street corners around the capital Port-au-Prince with portable sinks, which they connect to the water supply of a school or...
When the first cases of coronavirus appeared in Cameroon, 26-year old Christian Achaleke, who works in an organization for economic development, asked one of his colleagues in logistics to buy hand sanitizer. However, locally it was only to be found...
It all started on Tuesday, March 17, when Ben Wei, a student from New York, received this message from his friend, a doctor working at a Bronx hospital
She had worked as an intensive care and cardiac surgery nurse for 16 years. Then, in 2006, Marietta Hochstrasser, 51 years old, from Breganzona (Lugano) changed her life and founded 4COMPETENCE, a company that distributes cardiac surgery products.
To express his gratitude towards those that had looked after him with great skill and loving-kindness, Tom decided to make his contribution to the fight against the coronavirus.
With the help of his family, he launched an online fundraiser,...
In the pool she is the last bastion of Setterosa (the Italian women’s water polo team) against the attacks of the opposing team. Now, Giulia Viacava is involved in an even tougher match: defending the residents in a care home...
