HELPCODE ITALIA ETS
Helpcode was established in Genoa in 1988 by a group of people who, after returning from a trip to Mozambique, decided to take action to improve the living conditions of children they had met during their travels. It was in Mozambique that the organization took its first steps during the final years of the country’s civil war, by helping women and children in particular, by trying to help children return to school. To actively support young beneficiaries and their families, the organization immediately began to promote Child Sponsorship, which still play an essential role in supporting children, their families and their communities. Over the years, the number of our projects increased not only in Africa, but also in other countries, such as Nepal, where we have worked since 2003, and Cambodia, where we have been active since 2006. At the beginning of the new century, Helpcode started organizing training and educational activities in Italian schools. These activities have been developed over time, with increasing involvement of the local community and establishing stronger roots in the local area of the Association. Since 2016, Helpcode chose to innovate and started working in new areas of war and humanitarian crisis (we have been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2016, in Libya and in Tunisia since 2018, and in Yemen since 2020). An attentive internal restructuring has allowed focusing on and developing the project sector and relationships with institutional donors. In 2020, internal restructuring led to redefining Helpcode’s positioning, and subsequently its vision and mission, which makes our values and goals even clearer and more explicit. Helpcode’s activities and development are based on sound governance and organizational processes that were developed to streamline and support its missions. Governance and monitoring are fundamental elements of Helpcode’s organization to guarantee ethics and efficiency in decisional and operational processes. The way in which Helpcode works is structured in operations - both in Italy and abroad - and described in our organizational chart.
