Lebanon emergency: we support the activities of the Shining in Peace Association

Operation Dove has known the Shining in Peace association since 2013 and, at this particular time of difficulty, decided to support it by supporting its efforts to respond to the ongoing emergency in Lebanon.

A new van for the "Our Lady of Providence" family home

The Family Home "Madonna della Provvidenza" in Giarre, Catania, offers love and support to children and people with disabilities, providing love and care to anyone who needs it. There are 14 in the family and now they need your help to buy a new, safe and reliable bus for all their daily activities, but they cannot cover the 29,000 euros needed. You can help them too: come on, are you in?

Amini Home: a project to support women victims of prostitution

The "Amini Home" project was established in March 2023 in the Nairobi district of Kenya, where hundreds of women every day prostitute themselves on the streets or in clubs in order to survive and provide necessities for their children. In order to rescue them and enhance the services offered, €20,000 is needed. Your help is essential to achieve this important goal. Thank you!

Let's help the "Martha and Mary" Family Home face daily challenges

The Family House "Martha and Mary," of the Pope John XXIII Community, has been taking in children, youth and elderly people in fragile conditions for more than 30 years. Now they need your help to raise the €15,000 needed to purchase a car, which is indispensable for accompanying the welcomed persons in all normal daily activities.

Renovating the bathroom: a project for little Frederick

The 'Marta' family home, a reality of hospitality of the Pope John XXIII Community, needs your help to raise €13,500 needed to renovate the bathroom, which is essential to make the home a welcoming and comfortable place for everyone, including those with severe disabilities or mobility difficulties. Help them too!

Dignity and safety for families in the Village of Joy

The Village of Joy, located in Forli, takes in fragile families in need and helps them build a path to self-sufficiency. Now they need your help to raise the €15,000 needed to meet various expenses, which relate to securing housing and the autonomy and personal growth of the families welcomed. Only with your help can we achieve this goal. Thank you!

A theater scholarship for Chanda

A car to travel all together

Perprim and Eriselda, dad and mom from the "Patrizia Gardini" family home of the Pope John XXIII Community, have been taking in children and frail people in a small village in Albania since 2022. Now they need your help to raise the €5,500 needed to support the cost of a seven-seater car, essential for transporting the whole family to town and carrying out daily activities. Let's help them, together. Thank you!

A car for the Myriam family home in Nazareth.

The Myriam family home in Nazareth, a reality of hospitality of the Pope John XXIII Community now needs your help to raise the €15,400 needed to cover the cost of a car, essential for carrying out all the daily activities of their large family. Help Lucia and Ilaria reach the goal!

A new car to ensure a better future for children and young people

In Puerto Madryn, in the deep south of Argentine Patagonia, Maurizio along with other volunteers from the Pope John XXIII Community organize activities aimed at children and young people from poor families who are often victims of violence. Your help is crucial in raising the €30,000 needed to purchase a new adequate and safe car, essential not only for the volunteers' travels, but also for accompanying the children to activities and visiting families in need.

Fire emergency in Rimini therapeutic community

On Tuesday, September 3, a vast fire destroyed one of our Therapeutic Community's facilities in Rimini. The flames devoured equipment and facilities used in occupational activities. Help us immediately to rebuild.

A new minibus for the Don Oreste Benzi Hut.

La Capanna Don Oreste Benzi, a shelter reality of the Papa Giovanni XXIII Community needs your help to raise the €22,000 needed to purchase a new minibus, indispensable to accompany the acolytes both for the various daily activities of social and labor reintegration and to make the medical examinations they need. Your help is invaluable. Thank you!

Operation Dove in Ukraine - 2024

Since March 2022 Operation Dove has been present in Ukraine, first in Lviv, Kiev and Odessa, currently in Mykolaïv and Kherson. Supporting the presence of Operation Dove volunteers means not leaving the most fragile people in conflict-affected territories alone and concretely supporting the efforts of those who want to respond to violence with solidarity.

We renovate the Maria Chiara Family Home to safely welcome

The 'Maria Chiara' family home, a shelter reality of the Pope John XXIII Community, needs your help to raise €22,000 needed to replace the fixtures and door, essential to make the house more welcoming and safe for all those who find shelter there. Help them too!

A car for the CEC "Mother of Hope House"

The CEC "Mother House of Hope" of the Pope John XXIII Community now needs your help to raise the €8,000 needed to purchase a car, which is needed by the operators and the boys for all daily activities. Help them too!

A car for my autonomy

Andrea is a boy with disabilities who has many passions and a lot of drive. Help him with the annual expenses of his equipped vehicle that provides him with the independence he is entitled to and needs.

Operation Dove in Palestine - 2024

Since 2002, volunteers from Operation Dove have been present in Palestine, first in the Gaza Strip, in Al Qarara (Khan Younis), then since 2004 in the West Bank, in the village of At-Tuwani (hills south of Hebron). Today more than ever, therefore, the presence of Operation Dove volunteers is essential: to protect the safety of the Palestinian inhabitants of the area, who just want to live on their own land.

Operation Dove in Lebanon - 2024

Operation Dove volunteers share life and work alongside Syrian refugees still living in camps across the country. Supporting, helping and protecting them means still believing in the strength of relationships and the peace that comes from staying close and dreaming together.

Operation Dove in Colombia - 2024

Operation Dove volunteers are present in the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó to provide the civilian population with greater security and hope for a better life. Support them to build peace with them.

St. Paul's Family Home: SOS automobile!

Marco and Simona, mom and dad of the Family House "San Paolo" of the Pope John XXIII Community, have been a family for those who are alone for 15 years. Now they need your help to cover the cost of a new car, essential for the whole family, especially for those with disabilities. Let's help them reach the goal: €8,000, together we can do it!

Take Me Home: a project to give a family to children with disabilities

The "Take Me Home" project promotes the right of every child to live in a family, including children with serious illnesses or disabilities. Initially started in Piedmont, now the Pope John XXIII Community has extended the project to Lombardy and resources (€20,000) are needed to continue to guarantee it. Thanks to awareness and support actions it is possible to give hope and a better future to children with disabilities, in need of care and love. With your help we can build stories with happy endings for these fragile children.

A well to stop thirst: let's help the people of Turkana

The Turkana region of Kenya is facing one of the worst droughts in 40 years. People are forced to dig shallow holes in lake beds to search for water, but it is dirty and undrinkable, causing serious health problems, especially among children. The solution is the construction of wells that can provide potable water. The total cost of the work is €126,990. Everyone's support is needed to achieve this goal. Your help now is indispensable.

Proyecto Sol - The light of inclusion

In Chile, the Pope John XXIII Community's Project Sun is aimed at deaf women with the goal of creating new life opportunities for them and enabling them to express their uniqueness without fear of being judged or excluded. Until now, the Center has always been free and funded by the State, but this will no longer be the case. To continue to exist, it urgently needs your help. Support it too!

A new home to love and be loved

Nicola and Donata have chosen to be a family for those who are alone and to share life with the most fragile people. To continue to do so, they will have to move to a new house: the Rectory in Bertesina (VI), which, however, needs to be renovated to adapt to the needs of the people received and those who will arrive. The expense is high: €75,000, so they also need your help to reach the goal. Support them!

Helping the Heart of St. Joseph Family Home with their new home

The Family House "Heart of St. Joseph" of the Pope John XXIII Community has recently moved to a new house, but it needs urgent work to adapt it to the needs of the people with disabilities who live there; the cost is €10,000. Let's help mom Paola and dad Alberto find at least half of the resources needed to start these works, which are essential for the daily life and psychophysical well-being of the children with disabilities they have taken in.

Your help to continue to be family for those who are lonely

The Gian Paolo and Paola Family House of the Pope John XXIII Community is in urgent need of some work, which is essential for the people with disabilities who live there: such as Michael, who because of his severe disability cannot walk and will only be able to continue living with his family if a lifting platform is installed in the house. The expense is high, let's help them together reach the goal to allow them to be family for those who don't have one!

In Greece to walk alongside migrant people

Greece is the European Union's first port of call for those fleeing war and persecution. Those who arrive here often find themselves alone, forced to live on the streets. Volunteers from the Pope John XXIII Community, together with Operation Dove, visit people living in and outside refugee camps to offer them support and services, and monitor and report on the human rights violations they suffer. Their presence is crucial: support them on this journey of peace.

A Family House that changes its face

Antonio and Gianna of the "Sant'Antonio" Family Home in Rimini, reconfirm their YES to those in need of a family every day. Now they want to renovate the rooms on the ground floor of their house to create a mini-apartment that will house families or people in need who have no place to stay. The total cost is €26,000. Support the project to enable them to continue to open up to the most fragile.

We reach the finish line aboard a new minibus.

Angelo and Cecilia are dad and mom from the Family House "Santa Libera" of the Pope John XXIII Community in Malo (VI). Theirs is a large family and today there are seven of them in the house. For their travels they have always been accompanied by their faithful minibus, but now the old vehicle has to be replaced because it is no longer a safe transportation. Help them so that they can purchase a new one. The cost, however, is 19,500 euros: every contribution is important and without you they cannot make it!

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!

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.

In Chile alongside the Mapuche people

The Mapuche, an indigenous people in Chile, have been persecuted and ignored for years: the State does not recognise their existence or protect their identity. Deprived of their land of origin, they are forced to fight to get it back and are therefore victims of strong repression. The Community, with volunteers, supports them in this path of claim in a peaceful and non-violent way. Support them too.

Your table for One Meal a Day

Create your own online fundraiser and get your friends involved-let's create a big table together for those suffering from hunger, in Italy and around the world.

At the side of those who live on the street

The Pope John XXIII Community welcomes those living on the streets to its Bethlehem Huts, places where we live with the homeless and lonely. It meets them thanks to the volunteers of the street units who go out every night to look for them, and in the soup kitchens, where we feed hundreds of people every night. 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.