ASCS – Agenzia Scalabriniana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo (Scalabrinian Agency for Development Cooperation) – has been the social, operational and cultural branch of the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles – Scalabrini operating in the John Baptist Scalabrini Region (Europe-Africa) since 2004 in Italy and around the world.

Since 2004, it has been carrying out projects at the service of migrants, refugees and local communities, we promote awareness activities on the phenomenon of human mobility and we work with other partners in Italy and around the world.

On an international level, it is present with projects in Haiti, in Mozambico and in South Africa and every year we also send volunteers in Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador e Mexico to support the missionary positions of the Scalabrinian Congregation.

In Italy, it is currently present with projects and volunteers serving migrants, refugees and local communities in Bassano del Grappa, Milan, Rome and in the province of Foggia withe in provincia di Foggia.

Every year it organizes a training course for volunteers with the aim of building an individual journey of acquisition of specific knowledge, promoting individual and community empowerment, increasing the involvement of civil society in the culture of encounter and integration. At the end of the training course, and depending on the needs of the moment, it proposes a volunteer experience in Italy and around the world.