COOPI is an Italian humanitarian NGO founded in Milan on April 15, 1965
Today we are present in 33 countries in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, with 239 humanitarian projects reaching more than 7,000,000 people. Since 1965 COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale has helped more than 125 million people, with more than 3,000 projects in 74 countries, employing about 5,400 expat aid workers and around 67,000 local professionals.
COOPI dreams of a world without poverty, able to mirror the ideals of equality and justice, sustainable development and social cohesion thanks to the coming together and cooperation between all people.
Through the commitment, motivation, determination and professionalism of its staff, COOPI aims to contribute to the process of fighting poverty and developing the communities with which it cooperates all over the world, intervening in situations of emergency, reconstruction and development, in order to achieve a better balance between the Global North and the Global South, between developed areas and deprived or developing areas.
For COOPI, credibility and reputation are immensely valuable assets. It is therefore essential that we clearly set out the common values, principles and responsibilities that guide our actions in our relations with donors, beneficiaries, project partners, and the people who work with us and with any stakeholders with an interest in our work.
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COOPI draws up policies on issues that are key to its work and on which it has fifty years of consolidated field work experience.
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On 15 April 1965 Father Barbieri founded COOPI. This was to be the start of a journey spanning almost 60 years.
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We constantly provide ourselves with the best solutions to meet the challenges of complexity.
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In 2023, COOPI was involved in 239 projects in 33 countries that reached more than 7 mln people.
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COOPI is present in 33 countries and works directly on the main humanitarian crises: Sahel, Syrian crisis, Horn of Africa and Venezuelan crisis.