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The pianist Stefano Bollani for the Christmas concert in support of the Bonus for the elderly

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Bosso, Einaudi, Allevi, Bollani. Over the years, we have entrusted the Christmas concerts of Specchio dei Tempi to them, rare occasions (and in some cases unique) to combine the performances of great artists with the charitable commitment for the ‘Tredicesime dell’Amicizia’ (Thirteenth of Friendship).

This year, two years after his last concert for Specchio, we have decided to bring back Stefano Bollani, who has become very popular after his frequent appearances on television. The Christmas Concert will be his, on the evening of Saturday, December 16, at the Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli at Lingotto.

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Ukranian war, what we have done and what we will do

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Angelo Conti

War broke out on February 24. The next day Specchio opens a subscription and begins to help Ukraine. After five months the numbers recount a story of important interventions: 200,000 meals, 50,000 shopping packages, three refugee villages, in Mostyska, Lviv and Chernivtsi, 330 tons of food, over 100 trips with trucks, buses and mini buses. With the support of 6,793 donors it was possible to raise 1.73 million euros. Solidarity from all over Italy, but also from abroad, such as the American platform Global Giving which renewed its support for Specchio dei tempi, donating $ 80,000 for the Ukraine Emergency.

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The work of the Foundation already in March allows us to have a precise plan. There are those who want to get out of Ukraine, escape from the war, and Specchio dei tempi organizes buses that recover families on the Polish and Romanian borders. On this way over 500 refugees thus manage to arrive in Italy. But there are also those who want to stay, those who don’t want to leave their Country. The Foundation intercepts this need and is the first in Italy to build a village in Chernivtsi, within the Ukrainian borders. A thousand square meters of tensile structures, a canteen, a play area, and a zone for the distribution of shoes and clothes.

Then the Foundation transfers two mobile clinics from Turin, with the Specchiobus, to deal with health emergencies. Buys a field kitchen, the van that houses it, and a nine-seater minibus for the displacement of refugees. Every day it supplies the village with food and basic necessities. Then it looks at the North, and Specchio dei tempi expands its boundaries of intervention. First in Mostyska, here Specchio supplies the village with equipment, electricity generators and heat totems for the coming winter when temperatures will touch -15 degrees. Then he chooses to intervene in Lviv, activating a support program for the provision of meals and for the improving of reception facilities.

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At the same time Specchio also supports expatriate Ukrainians who have reached Italy in the last few months. The first 1,000 families to arrive in Piedmont received, in agreement with the Consulate of Ukraine in Turin, 500 euros in cash to cover the first expenses. The “Forza Mamme Ucraine” project is also activated, to encourage the integration of single women in Turin, who arrived in the country with their children. The initiative includes italian courses, entertainment for children, psychological counseling, trips to learn more about the area and sports activities in the parks. The project involved 210 mothers and 387 children.

Now, six months later the beginning of the war, there are also those who want to return. Precisely for this reason, Specchio deri tempi, in collaboration with the Embassy of Ukraine in Rome, started a busy return home program for refugees at the beginning of June. During the first two months two coaches per week left from Rome and Turin. Up to now 1,000 Ukrainians have been repatriated. The return program is set to continue in the autumn.

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Kappa FuturFestival supports Ukraine

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Kappa FuturFestival is at the side of Specchio dei tempi to help the victims of the war in Ukraine.

Part of the proceeds of the electronic music festival, which will be held in Turin from 1 to 3 July, will go to Specchio’s solidarity projects. But that’s not all: all KFF participants can join the fundraiser by making a donation.

Over 6,000 people and companies have already responded to Specchio’s appeal to support Ukrainian refugees. When the conflict broke out, the La Stampa readers’ Foundation immediately launched a subscription and took action with solidarity initiatives in support of the civilians, both in
receiving them in Italy and in helping those who do not want to leave the country.

In Cernivci, a small Ukrainian town on the border with Romania, a village has been built to house and refresh 1,800 refugees every day, thanks to more than 1,000 square metres of canteen, clinic, kitchens, beds, play areas and air-raid shelter, and the 370 tonnes of food and medicine brought in since the beginning of the war.

Kappa FuturFestival has decided to support these projects during its ninth edition, which will see more than 70 international artists, protagonists of electronic music and digital arts, take turns at Parco Dora.

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How to donate for refugees and repatriation

Everyone can support the return of Ukrainian families to their homeland. You can donate by clicking here with your credit card and Paypal. Or you can pay by bank transfer to the current account in the name of Fondazione La Stampa – Specchio dei tempi, via Lugaro 15, 10126 Turin, Iban code IT67 L0306909 6061 0000 0117 200, indicating “For the people of Ukraine” as the reason for payment.

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Global Giving donates 25 thousand dollars for Ukraine

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Two weeks of heavy work, 4000 donations and more than 920,000 Euro collected.

This is not only an extraordinary show of charity by readers of La Stampa, and Italians in general, and a resolved demonstration of how strong solidarity in Europe can be, but also the proof of how the whole world can feel united in facing disasters and wars.

That’s what happened on GlobalGiving, one of the most important American nonprofit organizations that allows foreign donors to give to all the nonprofits around the world. Mainly American donors contributed to the Specchio dei tempi project, in an attempt to provide Ukrainian refugees with food, supplies, medicines and shelter. After the Covid-19 emergency, where Specchio was the reference point for donations for donating in Italy from abroad, foreign donors have trusted us once again, giving more than 10 thousand euro on the platform.

Moreover, GlobalGiving’s Disaster Response Team has been our partner since the 2017 central Italy earthquake. It has sustained us during the pandemic and it has renovated its support again now, during this new emergency: Specchio dei tempi has been selected as a recipient of a 25 thousand dollar grant (around 22,800 Euro) to help our “critical work serving the people of Ukraine during this terrible time of conflict and destruction”.

This shows once more, if still needed, how solidarity is borderless and universal.

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Fundraising for Ukraine exceeds €500,000

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Over 505,000 euro raised from 2,215 donors. This is the picture, updated to yesterday evening, of the subscription launched by Specchio dei tempi (with the support of its national brand Specchio d’Italia). Among the curiosities is the accomplishment of the province of Cuneo with over 500 donations.

Support activities for refugee families are intense. Yesterday morning, Specchio distributed economic aid to the first 8 families. This aid can be requested through the filter of the Ukrainian Consulate in Turin on +39 011 0230075.

Last night, a 9-seater minibus that had travelled as far as Lviv, Ukraine, returned to Turin. This was thanks to the courage of an entrepreneur, Massimo Orlando, who offered to drive the vehicle. In the middle of the night, the minibus carrying 54 refugees also arrived, having left Sunday night from the Polish border. The journey was organised in collaboration with Arca Solidale.

All Specchio buses and minibuses leave fully loaded. On board are mainly foodstuffs with a long shelf life, hygiene products, mattresses, cots, pillows, medicines and various medical supplies (with particular demand for syringes, bandages, plasters and disinfectants). There are two main destinations: the village of Korczowa in the Polish province of Javroslaw (one and a half kilometres from the Ukrainian border) and the town of Sivet in northern Romania. Here, Specchio dei tempi is collaborating to set up a second reception camp.

What we are doing for Ukrainian refugees

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Close to Ukraine, really close. Specchio dei tempi was the first Italian foundation to launch a subscription in favour of Ukraine on Sunday 27 February. At the same time, its sister foundation, Specchio d’Italia, which operates throughout Italy, immediately took action to support the collection. When the two foundations opened the subscription, they made available 100,000 euro of their own funds, to which private donations from everyone – citizens, families, schools and companies – were immediately added. Yesterday evening the collection exceeded 400,000 euro.

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What have we done to help the Ukrainians? The first emergency appeared to be the hundreds of thousands of refugees crossing the Polish and Hungarian borders. Within a few hours, we contacted voluntary associations, local authorities and journalists from local newspapers in those countries to get a good understanding. It became clear that while there were no problems on the Hungarian border (the Hungarian reception system was efficient and met all the needs of those arriving), the situation on the two main routes between Ukraine and Poland was quite different. On Monday, the first shuttles, financed and supported by our foundation, were already on their way to these areas. On Wednesday night, the first refugees arrived in Italy, reaching first Brescia and then Turin.

A chain of shuttles for humanitarian aid

Since then, the shuttle service has been running on a daily basis: 9-seater mini-buses, but also a 54-seater coach, which has just left today and will be used frequently next week. Obviously, these vehicles have also begun to transport basic necessities: mainly foodstuffs with a long shelf life, personal hygiene products, medicines and various medical supplies (with particular demand for syringes, bandages, plasters and disinfectants).

Welcoming Ukrainian refugees in Turin

Meanwhile, in Turin, the il Comitato di Coordinamento della Regione Piemonte (Coordination Committee of the Piedmont Region) has entrusted us with the task of assisting the families of arriving refugees, offering them immediate economic support. To this end, in close collaboration with the Ukrainian Consulate and its volunteers, an emergency telephone number has been activated, available to those who arrive.

What we will do next week

Next week’s programme includes intensifying connections with the borders to transport refugees to Italy, but also sending medical supplies and food to those who have decided to stay in Ukraine, some to fight, some unable to move for health reasons, some out of attachment to their homeland.

We will continue to be close to the Ukrainian people. Everyone can give us a hand to be even more incisive and more capable of bringing comfort to desperate people.

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How to help the people of Ukraine

If you want to help the Ukrainian people you can donate by clicking here, with a credit card or Paypal. Or you can pay by bank transfer to the account in the name of Fondazione La Stampa – Specchio dei tempi ONLUS, via Lugaro 15 – 10126 Torino, IBAN: IT67 L0306909 6061 0000 0117 200, Banca Intesa Sanpaolo. In the reason for payment: “For the people of Ukraine”. All payments, except those in cash, are tax deductible.

 

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Ukraine, donate on Global Giving to help war refugees

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It’s war, once more. But it’s about people, as always. So we decided to launch a subscription to help the refugees who are leaving Ukraine, seeking for a safe shelter in Europe. An amount of 50,000 Euro has immediately been put at disposition by our foundation, Specchio dei tempi, to support thousands of refugees leaving their own war-torn country. Anybody can help us. And, as usual, we are keeping you updated on all our initiatives.

Not only you can donate here on our website but, if you prefer you can also choose to donate to help refugees coming from Ukraina on GlobalGiving, one of the safest, easiest and globally recognized platforms for donations.

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There are many ways of giving help, here you can find out how to donate for Ukrainian refugees.

How to donate for Ukrainian refugees

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Specchio dei tempi launches an emergency appeal and allocates 50,000 euros

Specchio dei tempi launches an emergency appeal for Ukrainian people, after getting many requests from its readers.

Thus, an amount of 50,000 euros has immediately been put at disposition to support thousands of refugees fleeing from their own war-torn Country.

Anybody can help us and Ukraine. As always, we are keeping you updated on all our initiatives.

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How to donate for Ukrainian refugees

You can donate here by credit card or through Paypal. In alternative, you can donate by wire transfer at our bank account headed FONDAZIONE LA STAMPA – SPECCHIO DEI TEMPI, Via Lugaro 15, 10126 Torino, IBAN IT67 L0306909 6061 0000 0117 200, INTESASANPAOLO SPA.

Please specify the reason for payment “To Ukrainian people“.

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How to donate on Global Giving for Ukraina

Not only you can on our website but, if you prefer you can also choose to donate to help refugees coming from Ukraina on GlobalGiving, one of the safest, easiest and globally recognized platforms for donations.

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Specchio dei tempi: emergency aid since 1955

Specchio dei tempi is a non-profit foundation supported by the solidarity of the readers of La Stampa newspaper and the citizens of Turin. It comes from the column of the same name published on the pages of the newspaper: a space of free dialogue, where one can discuss, denounce injustices and also ask and offer help. Since 1955 it has been the “heart” of Turin and of La Stampa: a sort of hub for readers willing to give concrete and immediate help to those in difficulty. Specchio intervenes in emergencies, like earthquakes and Covid pandemic. The Foundation operates in Piedmont, Italy and around the world to give hope to those who suffer.

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Haiti earthquake, containers sent out with medical supplies and basic necessities

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In Haiti the situation remains critical. A very poor country, moreover with vast territories controlled by criminal gangs, it is unable to recover after the earthquake of August 15th. The approximately 2,500 dead have been buried, but there are still hundreds of injured in need of treatment and therapy. What’s more, there is the great poverty that the earthquake made more serious and frightening.

Specchio dei tempi and Specchio d’Italia were immediately close to these people that we know well having worked there also after the 2010 earthquake (when we renovated the operating theatres of the Saint Camille Hospital in Port-Au-Prince), thanks to the 88,000 euros raised in a few weeks.

Now we want to continue to help these people and on Friday 29 October we will send a large container full of sanitary equipment, personal protective equipment (masks, gloves, leggings, gowns) as well as rice, diapers and canned goods. Anyone can help us with a donation (even companies that want to make their products available), to make this shipment and those that will follow more prominent.

A bionic leg for Richi

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“My dream? Having a bionic leg in order to lead a normal life”. Riccardo Battista, known to all as Richi, with shaved hair due to chemo, a passion for cycling, will turn 21 on November 24th. “For that day I will no longer have the right leg. They’ll amputate it next week. I have a prosthesis but I can’t bend it: the pain is unbearable, and after almost four years of suffering from the tumour that has also spread to the lungs, I can’t take it anymore “.

He says it remarkably calmly: for him it will be a liberation. He is experiencing an ordeal made up of severe diagnoses, surgical interventions, more than fifty chemotherapies, a stem cell transplant, continuous journeys between Sanremo and Pisa to follow endless treatments. And a lot of pain. The news of the amputation, which no child or parent would ever want to hear, came after a lump of flesh came out over the scars. The leg can no longer be saved.

Now Richi plucks up courage for the amputation thinking about his new bionic leg. But 150 thousand euros are needed. His family (father Luigi is a bricklayer, mother Miriam did the cleaning in a shopping centre, but she gave up her job to follow her 12-year-old son and little sister Silvia, who lost many days of school because she had to follow them on trips to hospital). “I feel a burden, I don’t go out with friends anymore: I would have liked to have been a mountain bike coach for children. Now I just hope to be able to walk again and maybe get on a bike”, says Richi.

A swollen knee: it all started with what seemed like a trivial fall from the bicycle. It was April 2018: Richi was 17 and had a passion for downhill bikes. Instead, they were the first symptoms of a highly malignant osteosarcoma. A tumour that disabled the right leg after two complicated grafts (first with donor bone, then with a megaprosthesis) to try to save the leg. Cancer cells have also moved into the lungs. Bad luck made him grow up too fast and now he just wants to go back to living like a boy his age. In almost four years there have been many trips from Sanremo to Pisa, to a specialized centre for bone tumours.

With his mother Miriam always at his side, he doesn’t get discouraged and looks ahead. He has chosen his dream leg. “It’s the Genium X3 – Richi points to it on the screen of his mobile phone and his eyes light up – We hope to be able to buy it: it costs more than one hundred thousand euros, but with the “accessories”, that is the foot, the ankle joint and the part to connect to the leg, the figure increases. If we also add travel, visits and treatments, we arrive at around 150 thousand euros”. Richi lowers his eyes. “We’ll never be able to do it alone”.

Learning of the amputation was a severe blow to the Sanremo family. “We expected it a little – still mum speaking – but you are never ready for these things. The problem arose from the megaprosthesis: it should be replaced, he cannot bend it, even by a few degrees, it hurts night and day. But it cannot be replaced because he no longer has any tissue or muscle. It is important for him to be able to get back on his feet and be able to walk again. Let’s help Richi get back to living like a 20-year-old boy: he has already lost almost 4 years between hospitals, chemotherapy and invasive operations. This amputation will have to be seen by him as a sign of rebirth, although it will not be easy, as he must also keep the nodules in his left lung under control. He has always been a boy full of life: bad luck made him grow up too quickly. But is he always smiling and continues to fight”.

Haiti earthquake, what we have done in a month and what we will do

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A month ago there was the Haiti earthquake. The toll is for everyone to see: 2,500 dead, at least four times as many injured, tens of thousands homeless, 500 people still missing. Specchio dei tempi moved immediately: we know the poverty of that island, having worked there for a long time in 2010 after another catastrophic earthquake. We also know the great difficulties of that health system (almost non-existent) and of the road network, already precarious but collapsed after the tremors.

We asked our supporters to help us with three objectives: to support the Saint Camille hospital in Port Au Prince, to help the reconstruction of Jeremee (the most affected centre on the west coast), to be close to the many children of this land who in the face of disasters need all kinds of support. Although the world (and all the media) was above all watching Afghanistan in those days, many responded to our appeal.

So, up to today, together with the Specchio d’Italia foundation, we have raised 73,547 euros from 493 donors. Of this sum, 40,000 euros have already been used in the field for first aid. This phase of the intervention has been carried out in close collaboration with the Camillian fathers who have been working in that country for years, some of whom are Piedmontese.

Now we aim to support, with the remaining 33,547 euros and with what we will still be able to collect, the reconstruction of homes (a house, capable of accommodating a large family, costs between 7 and 9 thousand euros over there) and help schools, so as to bring parents and children closer to a normal life as quickly as possible.

There is still a lot to do in Haiti. If you can, please continue to give us a hand

 

Covid, Airbnb & GlobalGiving donated 75 thousand dollars

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Historically, Specchio dei tempi has always owed Turin and readers of La Stampa newspaper, due to their affection and interest in the projects of the Foundation for over 66 years. More recently, since the central Italy earthquake in 2016 and during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Specchio had a chance to attract international donors who supported Italy in the darkest hours.

Airbnb belongs to this category. Through our international partner GlobalGiving, an American non-profit that provides the biggest and most important global crowdfunding platform, Airbnb granted Specchio $75,000 in June 2021. This extraordinary contribution testifies the credit of our Foundation beyond national borders and even on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The reputation was already rooted in 2016, when GlobalGiving started supporting Specchio after the center Italy earthquake.

Now, the Airbnb Community Fund has selected 150 organizations from over 40 countries to help in the post-pandemic recovery, as an initial step of an ambitious plan: $100 million distributed in 10 years. The Airbnb Host Community has selected all the organizations for their dedication to fighting the Covid-19. Specchio has been picked in consideration of its tremendous impact on the area. Indeed, our Foundation will use this meaningful endowment to stand by people whose lives became more painful due to the pandemic, asking now for prompt and concrete help: the lonely elderly, needy families, small businesses, and hospitals. This is what we have always done, especially during disasters and emergencies. Now, we will do it with additional resources: thank you, Airbnb, and thank you, GlobalGiving.