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  • Every day is a day to save Children
    By Aliento • December 11, 2025
    “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. JAMES BALDWIN American writer and civil rights activist” It’s important to defend children, wherever they are. Every child that grows up in war…
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  • Preserving the Amazon Rainforest: Why use modern materials for the Kupixawa
    By Felix • October 20, 2025
    For thousands of years, the Noke Koi people (Katukina) have built their MAÍ SHOVO—sacred spaces and traditional schools—using raw wood and palm leaves such as jací, arícurí, and coção. Construction was a collective act involving all community members, from children to elders. But now, for the first time in their millennial history, the Noke Koi…
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  • Now is the time to act, later, it will really be TOO late
    By Aliento del Viento • June 14, 2025
    A UNICEF monitoring study revealed an unprecedented escalation in food deprivation: while in 2020, “only” 13% of children in Gaza were living in food poverty, by July 2024, the figure was between 88% and 95%. Today, due to the siege, 93% of children are at risk of malnutrition, often surviving on just one meal a…
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  • March to Gaza: What Our Volunteers Witnessed
    By Felix • June 13, 2025
    In early June 2025, two Aliento del Viento volunteers—Federico and Alessandro—joined the Italian delegation of the Global March to Gaza. They went with hope, determination, and backpacks full of solidarity. What they encountered was systematic suppression, constant surveillance, and the crushing reality of how state power silences peaceful protest. This is their testimony. Before Departure:…
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  • The 90+ day siege. What can we do?
    By Aliento del Viento • June 10, 2025
    In the Gaza Strip, life has become a slow agony. Entire families eat whatever they can find, even if it’s rotten, to avoid starvation. In the first sixty days, 50 children didn’t make it. They died of starvation, amid the world’s indifference. Everything is lacking: bread, oil, medicines, vaccines for the children. Community kitchens—the last…
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  • Thousands of people on foot to break the siege of Gaza
    By Aliento del Viento • June 6, 2025
    Obiettivo: Raggiungere il valico di Rafah, portare un messaggio di pace e solidarietà e chiedere l’apertura della frontiera per il passaggio sicuro degli aiuti umanitari destinati alla popolazione di Gaza.
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  • Construction of the waterwell
    By Aliento • April 22, 2025
    These photos show the construction of a 60-meter deep well built by Perfurações Vale Poço company. The two-week project brought clean water to 20 children and their families in Varí Vino village.
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  • The children of Life
    By Aliento • December 18, 2022
    Aliento del Viento will now use its blog to disseminate the initiatives, projects, and activities of and for “The Children of Life.” “The Children of Life” is an initiative that will be developed in several countries, based on local needs and possibilities. The primary goal is to give children the opportunity to discover REAL life,…
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  • What Children Say About School: Listening to Their Voices
    By Felix • May 3, 2021
    As part of “The Voice of Children” project, we asked children a simple question: “What do you think about school?” The responses shared in this video are from interviews conducted between December 2020 and February 2021 with children from around the world about their school and social life. Importantly, these questions were asked without reference…
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  • The Voice of Children: Professional Statistical Analysis Report
    By Felix • May 2, 2021
    After collecting interviews and drawings from 220 children aged 5-12 across 18 countries, we commissioned a professional statistical analysis to understand what the data revealed about children’s school and social experiences. About the Study The statistics project was conducted by: The analysis examined interviews and drawings collected between December 2020 and February 2021 from 18…
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