The Mantovan
Association was formally established in Venice in
1993.
In 1991 Giuseppe
Mantovan was in Etiopia with his wife Rossana Tessarolo in a program against
the diffusion of TBC and they were touched by the dramatic situation of the
street kids of Addis Ababa.
In the following
two years they were able to involve a group of friends from Venice and Bolzano
in a project to improve the quality of the life of those kids, but while
driving from a hospital to another in Ethiopia, they died in a accident in
march 1993.
Their death changed
the commitment of their friends and relatives who created the Association, in
their memory, to help the street kids of the world.
The goal is to help
small groups of teenagers to get over the survival problems, trying to
guarantee them a future trough education and job
training.
The Association
projects are based on the rights of the kids to have a future and to grow up
with a background of education and professional training, in order to be able
to say NO to begging, crime and exploitation.
Marco Mantovan,
Chairman
