Annual report Helpcode Italia - EN

WHAT WE DO
3.1 How We Work
The focus of our work in Italy and throughout the world
is the well-being of children.
Everything we do is aimed at meeting children’s needs and protecting their
rights as well as those of their families and the communities where they live.
Our activities promote guaranteeing the right to education, and are aimed
at protection, improving healthcare systems, working to fight malnutrition
and increasing access to water, working for gender equality and trying to
mitigate the effects of the pandemic.
In our activities, we often use innovative solutions, exploring new paths and
new ways of working while trying to keep a strong practical sense, in order to
reach concrete, tangible results.
Innovative solutions: an example
Over the course of 2021, in Beira, Mozambique, we worked with the
support of UNFPA and in partnership with Vodacom to guarantee access
for 2000 vulnerable women and girls to “dignity kits” for hygiene and
personal safety items, such as sanitary napkins. Due to restrictions for
the containment of the pandemic and to the difficulty of acquiring large
quantities of goods on the national market, we decided to work with
business owners in the city so that the women could individually and
through vouchers sent by text message go to the nearest store and
receive the kit. Once the transaction was done, the business owner
sent the receipt for the purchase to Helpcode, which reimbursed the
merchants using the “M-Pesa” Vodacom platform for mobile payments.
This way we avoided frequent gatherings during the distribution of
materials and we contributed to the recovery of the local economy.
Moreover, the project allowed women to choose how to manage the
purchase process for these goods in an independent and autonomous
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