Music and dance for the 15 years of the Foundation
Insert in Events the day October 22, 2009
Last night, October 21st, at the Teatro Leonardo da Vinci in Milan, the Sinafrica group celebrated the 15 years of the Ivo de Carneri Foundation. The group took the audience in the happy atmosphere of a tipical celebration in an African village, with their music, songs and dance. All the people were taken into the world of African culture, thanks to the notes and the enthusiasm of the performers, who also invited the audience to dance with their music and rhythm. The Sinafrica had already played in Cles (Trento) a few days ago, with a concert in Piazza Grande Saturday, October 17th. The Ivo de Carneri Foundation thanks all the people who enabled the realization and the success of these days in Cles and in Milan, and thanks all those who follow and support its activities.
The Italian ambassador at the Training course in Pemba
Insert in Courses the day October 21, 2009
The sixth edition of the Residential Course “Management of Communicable Diseases Control Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa”, with the participation at the opening ceremony of the Italian Ambassador in Zanzibar Francesco Catania, has just come to conclusion.
The course, organized by the Ivo de Carneri Foundation under the auspices of the Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (University of Brescia) and the Italian Cooperation, was organized in Pemba (archipelago of Zanzibar, Tanzania) at the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri from 28 September to 9 October 2009. This course, thanks to scholarships to cover full or partial costs, offers a training on the diseases of Sub-Saharan Africa to 20 health workers from different countries in the world. This year there were 10 Africans from Burkina Faso, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Malawi and Mozambique, and 10 Europeans from France/USA, Spain, Portugal, Italy and UK.
The course has hosted international and local experts; it was officially opened by the Principal Secretary of the MoHSW Zanzibar, Dr M. Jiddawi, and this year there was the participation, as Guest of Honour, of the Italian Ambassador Dr. Francesco Catania.
The Foundation at the AIFO Conference: Becoming People
Insert in News the day October 20, 2009
The Ivo de Carneri Foundation participated at the AIFO International Conference AIFO (Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follereau) Becoming People, which was organized in Assisi, October 16-18, 2009.
The Conference, divided into Plenary sessions and Workshops, has given voices to different actions and thoughts centered on the person, his dignity, his rights, including the right to health and to access to care. As part of the Workshops, Valeria Confalonieri, who follows the Ivo de Carneri Foundation’s scientific communication, has participated as a speaker at the Workshop on Integrity, who has studied health as one of the components involved in the integrity of people, to guarantee to everyone in the world.