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“Last year I've worked as medical coordinator for a project in Darfur, Sudan. While working over there, my team built a small school in Kulbus, an isolated village five hours drive away from El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur. Two big class rooms have been built with less than USD 1,500, money that had been donated by friends and relatives before I left for Darfur. This school would have never been built with the resources of the project I was working on because those funds had been allocated for health activities only. Therefore, without these private donations the children of Kulbus would not have had their school. Now that I'm about to be assigned to another post as medical coordinator for an International NGO, I was asking myself how I could continue supportin these kinds of activities in my spare time. My brother-in-law gave me the answer: we'd have to found a small organisation to raise funds in Italy. As we felt supported by the enthusiasm and the commitment of family and friends , we decided to found cactus onlus, an organisation based in Italy raising funds to implement small projects (like the Kulbus school) in developing countries" Dr. Cecilia, March 2007
  
A group of friends who share the same ideas of solidarity and who want to do something for the others funded  on the 1st of April 2007. Some of us are professionals who work in international cooperation; others work in Italy in the social sector; others still are at their first experience in the development sector. Together we would like to do something for whoever is less luky than us, a drop in the ocean, a small help to improve a bit the world. members cooperate together for the implementation of solidarity activities, in Italy and in developing countries.
cactus onlus is registered as a non profit association at the Anagrafe delle Onlus, Direzione Regionale del Piemonte dell’Agenzia delle Entrate - 8th of May 2007 (Prot. N. 2007/25744).
  
CACTUS STORY ON LOCAL NEWSPAPERS
The weekly newspaper Saluzzooggi published two articles about and its two founders on the 26th of June 2007, by Paola Gallo journalist and vicedirector of the newspaper.
The journalist Gabriella Peruzzi published an article about our association and our activities on the Corriere di Saluzzo, 29th of June 2007.
- La Stampa, 6th August 2007 - The journalist Monica Coviello reports the outcomes of the first projects implemented with cactus funds.
- Corriere di Saluzzo, 29th June 2007 - The journalist Gabriella Peruzzi describes cacts projects and our acivities.
- Saluzzooggi, 26th June 2007 - The journalist and vice-director of the newspaper Paola Gallo tells the cactus story in details and entitles a space to our association.
In the online magazine Cuneocronaca.it, thejournalist Erica Giraudo reports the details of cactus project in Kenya. Read more: Cuneocronaca .
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