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Children in the Niger Desert: a new chapter in the humanitarian mission

02/01/2024, Luca Iotti

With the beginning of 2024, Children in the Desert is preparing to open a new chapter in its history, this time in the heart of the Sahara desert in Agadez, Niger. After more than twenty years of experience in this country, we are turning our vision into reality by creating Children in the Niger Desert, a new NGO that will carry forward our common mission of aid and development.

Away from the Sahel…

16/12/2023, Redazione BnD

In a recent development in the dynamics of the G5 Sahel, Mauritania and Chad have signaled their determination to continue regional efforts despite the withdrawals of Niger and Burkina Faso, following the previously announced exit of Mali.

Where does the BnD teaching material go?

15/12/2023, Luca Iotti

In fact, for over two decades we have also been actively engaged in the collection of educational material in Italy and its direct delivery to many African countries.

Mussa who returned to the desert

06/12/2023, Luca Iotti

The silent protagonist of this story is Mussa, a Tuareg, who, moved by a great love for his people, with courage and determination, decides to create better living conditions for his community. Children in the Desert meets him, listens to his dream and decides to support its realization. In 2011 Mussa fled war-torn Libya. He […]

Old and new hostages in the Sahel

20/11/2023, m.armanino

Most of us are hostages of fate. Just like Johnson, who was driven out as a child by the civil war in Liberia to Ghana with his family in a refugee camp. His mother and his son are now in the United States where he himself had landed a few years ago as an ‘unwanted’. […]

Children in the Desert: With FIF we put the reductions for a good reason

13/11/2023, Nicola Grande

In the world of off-roading, adventure goes beyond the challenge of rough terrain. For Luca Iotti, Founder and current President of the NGO Bambini nel Deserto ETS, the passion for 4x4 was the driving force that led him to create the Humanitarian Organization which for over 20 years has been working in contexts where adequate off-road mobility it is necessary to be able to reach and develop significant humanitarian projects.