Our love for poor people has turned into a commitment within our lives
The Foundation of OASI
Organizzazione di Aiuto allo Sviluppo Internazionale, abbreviated as OASI and meaning "Organisation for International Development Aid", was formally established, by notarial deed, on 15 April 1997, by its nineteen (19) founding members. Its first aim was to raise public awareness regarding problems in the developing world, helping to clarify the real reasons for their marginalisation and promoting initiatives for training lay missionaries. Secondly, it sought to support and create initiatives and programmes for cooperation and international solidarity with the populations of developing countries in the fields of social and health services.
Especially in its early years, OASI had the opportunity to make itself known both locally and nationally, through, on the one hand, numerous conventions that it promoted, both at its head office and above all at the Ateneo di Bari (Bari University), on topics and issues related to its activities in developing countries, with guests of international standing and with significant support from the public; and on the other hand, through affiliation and cooperation with CIPSI (the most authoritative national coordinator of Italian NGOs, its head office being in Rome) and with some of the most respected Italian NGOs that are active worldwide.
