The Foundation helps hundreds of men, women and children who, as a result of their hardship and sufferings, due to their state of mental health and social maladjustment, are excluded from the normal contexts of life and frequently fall victim to physical and/or psychological acts of violence.

These people are the direct recipients of the aid provided for the construction of houses, work training, the start-up and development of social businesses for them to work in and local development. In a broader sense they are also the beneficiaries of the initiatives that aim to foster the creation of a cultural, health, social and economic, relational and affective context capable of supporting them along their journey towards rehabilitation and reintegration into their original towns and villages.

We can also identify as indirect beneficiaries the rehabilitated people’s families as well as their native towns and villages. The experience acquired in the Ivory Coast and in Benin shows in fact how a person who, after a period of care and rehabilitation, returns to the village he or she had been thrown out of or in which he/she had been secured to a tree trunk, represents a real opportunity for the whole community to re-establish unity and rebuild relations.