The Pistorio Foundation, founded in 2005 by Pasquale Pistorio, is a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve the living conditions of underprivileged children in developing countries, starting with education and basic health care, by building school and primary health care infrastructure and by supporting children's education, health, and welfare. We are a volunteer based organization,
with 100% of donations devolved to projects on locations directly benefitting children in need. In Morocco, Burkina Faso, and Cambodia, we work with rigorously selected grassroots NGOs and in Thailand we operated through a small staff. All administration and fundraising activities are done on a probono basis in our volunteer chapters in Geneva, Milan, and Singapore. Overall, we support the long-term education of over 1,500 underprivileged children. We provide for each child we support, access to quality education from primary to professional school and access to basic health care and basic nutrition. In Thailand we have developed a Village Model whereby in addition to increasing children's enrollment rate, we aim to empower families to reach self-sustainability within ten years through income generating and agricultural projects and by providing the village with access to improved health care, improved sanitation, and clean water. Our aims are to achieve maximum transparency and efficiency in the non profit sector, to change the lives for the better of as many children and families as we can reach, and to raise awareness amongst our friends and international community on the current living conditions of children in the developing world, and on children's rights issues. The Foundation has no political or religious affiliation.
