Put your brick in this venture!

The young people with disabilities of the town of Sorso, in Sardinia, have a great desire: the renovation of the spaces of their day center "Il Girasole" and the opening of a second center. The Cooperativa Sociale San Damiano, which manages the center promoted by the Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII, knows that it is an important dream to realize, but with your help the boys can make it happen. Be a brick in this great enterprise, we need you!

I have a brother in Lesbos waiting for me.

Thousands of men, women and children who have fled war and misery arrive at the Lesbos refugee camp in Greece with the hope of a new beginning, but here they discover only more suffering. The Pope John XXIII Community has chosen to be in Lesbos to share the drama of this humanity, to give a voice to these unheard people. The presence of the Community's volunteers and of Operazione Colomba (the Community's non-violent peace corps) and the reception in the family house in Athens is indispensable: help us to be present alongside the men, women and children who are suffering in desperate silence. They need us now.

Let's get a special family going again

Valerio and Bianca are the mother and father of the San Francesco Family House of the Pope John XXIII Community, in the town of San Giovanni Lupatoto (VR) and they have always welcomed with love anyone who knocks at their door. Today there are 9 in the family, including 3 children with psychophysical disabilities and special needs. The urgency is to buy a new car, a safe vehicle to replace the one they have, always at the mechanic for repairs. Help this wonderful family to get moving again, every contribution is important!

A place where life can be shared

The kitchen of the "San Giovanni Battista" Community, a residential facility for young people with addiction and mental health problems of the "Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII" Cooperative, is the place where the young people share their lives and begin their path to redemption, but there is a problem: it is now obsolete and needs to be renovated. Help the young people and give new life to the Community's kitchen: for them the future starts from here.

Become a champion of solidarity!

Milos is one of the 13 children of mum Maria Dina and dad Dino of the Casa Famiglia di Camaiore of the Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII and has a great passion: figure skating. Despite serious health problems he has already achieved some amazing results, but our champion needs you to continue to dream. Sport at a competitive level involves onerous expenses and in order to reach ever greater goals Milos needs your help!

Together for the Grandparents' House

The "Casa dei Nonni Sant'Anna" is a fundamental presence in the territory of Forlì to respond to the increasingly urgent need to fight the loneliness of the third age. This is why we ask for your support to help the Parish S. Maria Ausiliatrice to sustain the many expenses and activities of the center. Families and elderly people cannot be left alone, especially after the year we have just lived, forced into serious isolation. To stay close to them we need your help.

Your table for One Meal a Day

Create your own online fundraiser and involve your friends: let's create together a big table for those who now, due to the health emergency, need help.

A kitchen for the children and young people of "Cicetekelo".

In the heart of Misundu, Zambia, the Cicetekelo Project, run by the Pope John XXIII Community, is dedicated to welcoming and caring for street children and young people living in hardship and poverty. Every day, 300 meals are prepared, but today there is a problem to face: due to a malfunction, the industrial equipment used for cooking has burnt out. The urgency is to find the resources to buy new ones. Help the children and young people of Cicetekelo, every contribution is important!

Operation Dove in Lebanon - 2022

Despite the pandemic, the volunteers of Operation Dove continue to share life and work alongside the Syrian refugees still living in camps throughout the country. Supporting them in this tiring period, where even moving is difficult, means believing in the strength of relationships and in the peace that comes from staying close and dreaming together.

Operation Dove in Colombia - 2022

The pandemic, in recent years, has limited travel from Italy to foreign countries and has also hit hard all the countries of Latin America. In spite of this, Operazione Colomba's volunteers continue to be present and operate in the Community of Peace of San José de Apartadó to guarantee to the civilian population more safety and a better hope of life.

Emergency Boundaries

The volunteers of Operazione Colomba, the Nonviolent Peace Corps of the Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII, monitor the emergency situations that occur, in an increasingly frequent and dramatic way, along the borders of Europe. Let us support them so that they can continue to bring humanity and hope.

Operation Dove

Operazione Colomba's volunteers work side by side with victims in conflict zones, living with them 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, sharing risks and hardships but also hopes and possible solutions. Thanks to their international presence and nonviolent actions, they protect the lives of defenseless civilians and concretely build Peace where there is hatred and violence. Peace in the world is a common good: to build it, we need everyone's help.

Give Alain hope of recovery

Alain lives in Cameroon, he is 21 years old and has just been diagnosed with a rare disease that severely compromises his immune system. The cost of treatment is very high and his family, poor and without possibilities, cannot afford it. Alain is Yanik's brother, the head of a project of the Pope John XXIII Community in Cameroon and, like a family in which we help each other, today we must help him by giving him the chance to recover. Every person, wherever they are, deserves to be cured. Your help, now, is fundamental.

A car for my autonomy

Andrea is a boy with disabilities who has many passions and a great desire to do. Help him to sustain the expenses of his equipped vehicle that guarantees him the autonomy that he has the right and needs.

A safe home for those in need of love

Maria Cristina and Luca are mom and dad of the Family House "Aquila and Priscilla" of the Pope John XXIII Community. Here in Cinto Euganeo (PD) their house is a place of welcome and love where teenagers in difficulty, adults with cognitive problems and women left alone have found care and protection. Today, however, the house needs urgent intervention: renovation work, replacement of the boiler and installation of mosquito nets. Help Maria Cristina and Luca so that they can continue to open the doors of their home to the most fragile, every contribution is important!

Two buses to bring help

The Bethlehem Hut in Montodine (CR) of the Pope John XXIII Community is the home of those who once lived on the streets, where they can start a new life. The 11 people who now live here want to give back the help they received. So they collect food and surpluses from local supermarkets and deliver them to families in need. They also collect furniture that someone donates, disassemble it, transport it and reassemble it in the homes of those who do not have enough resources to buy it. Today there is an urgent need to replace the two vans used for these activities. Help them not to stop, every contribution is important!

A new minibus to change gear

Enzo and Anna Maria are fathers and mothers of the Santa Maria Goretti family home of the Papa Giovanni XXIII Community and their large family has an urgent need: a minibus that can replace the one that risks leaving them on foot overnight. Help them and we open as many roads as possible so that the new minibus can arrive thanks to your contribution!

Operation Dove in Palestine - 2022

The volunteers of Operazione Colomba, the nonviolent peace corps of the Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII, have been present in the Palestinian village of At-Tuwani since 2004. Their presence is necessary because every day they monitor the Israeli military escort that accompanies Palestinian children on a 3km walk to school, as well as denouncing the violations of Human Rights that all too often occur in those places. Support our volunteers to ensure the children and families of that place safety and security.

At the side of those who live on the street

In Italy, 50,700 people have no home other than the street, and more than 40% are Italian. The Pope John XXIII Community welcomes them in its Bethlehem Huts, 9 houses throughout Italy where we live with the homeless. It meets them in the 10 street units that go out every evening to meet those on the streets and in the 3 soup kitchens where we feed hundreds of people every evening. Support us to continue to give comfort and a future to those who have lost everything.

Family Homes need you!

The Family Homes of the Pope John XXIII Community are more than homes. Before being physical structures, they are emotional structures. They are families. Dads and mothers who donate their homes, their time and their lives to disabled children, lonely and abandoned people and anyone else who needs to be welcomed and helped. The needs are growing like the number of our Houses: support them now with a donation.