The ACSIM ONLUS is an Association operating since 1997 on the field of immigration in the whole Marche Region. The success of any services activated in the region, led the Association to fight for a new challenge: international cooperation for the development.
Since almost three years the ACSIM has given way to cooperation projects in that field, in particular within Nigeria and Uganda, both through the organization of events in Italy to raise funds and resources. The projects that ACSIM is promoting and will promote are designed to the self-development of southern countries of the world, through a welfare approach. With the concept of «not welfare-approach» means wanting to give local communities the tools needed to become protagonists of their own development.
ACSIM IS WORKING FOR: "In a world of inequality and inequity, in a world where all children can live happily their children, to ensure that everyone has access to water, medical care, access to medicines. We want to help peoples of Nigeria and Uganda, giving them the means to react to their condition through respect for human rights, as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that Article 22 refers to international cooperation as a means through which every individual can and should achieve its economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality. "
The ACSIM is registered at the Marche Region's Registry of the Associations for Cooperation and International Solidarity.
In addition to activities conducted in different countries, ACSIM will present the emergencies which attempt to intervene through cooperative projects involving international organizations and the local sensitive to the problem.