Amici Missioni Indiane

AMI – Amici Missioni Indiane ETS is an Italian non-profit association headquartered in Buccinasco, near Milan. It describes itself as an organisation whose purpose is to foster solidarity, both through local initiatives and through exchanges with other countries, working especially in favour of minors in difficulty. Its activities are concentrated in four main areas: awareness-raising, economic support, aid, and foster care and adoption. The association is best known in Italy for its work in international adoption. It provides technical, moral and psychological support to Italian couples who wish to obtain foster care or adoption of foreign minors in a state of abandonment. Its website presents the world of international adoption in detail — the countries involved, the steps of the procedure, and how to behave at each stage — and it also runs a Centre for Clinical Psychology of the Family for its adoptive families. Beyond adoption, AMI operates a distance-support programme (Sostegno a Distanza) through which a small contribution can change a child's life, and it carries out international cooperation projects. Its economic-support work seeks Italian families willing to help maintain minors and young people in other countries who would otherwise be forced to interrupt their studies, so that they do not have to leave their environment of origin. Its aid work involves studying and evaluating development initiatives and projects, raising funds for them, and organising the systematic shipment of food, medicines and medical and technical instruments to the countries where they are needed. AMI communicates through its periodic magazine, Shanthi-Frontiere, which carries information, events and in-depth features, and it publishes its annual accounts and 5×1000 reports on its website. The organisation is registered as an ETS (Ente del Terzo Settore), the Italian legal category for third-sector entities, and it is based in Buccinasco, Italy.

AMI – Amici Missioni Indiane ETS is an Italian non-profit association based in Buccinasco, Italy. Its Italian name, 'Amici Missioni Indiane', translates as 'Friends of Indian Missions', indicating an original orientation towards India and missionary-linked charitable work. The association's own website presents its history under the heading 'La storia di AMI' ('The history of AMI'), covering how AMI was born, when, and the people who founded it, but the supplied evidence does not include the specific founding date or the names of the founders. What is documented is the association's mission and operating model. Its stated purpose is to foster solidarity, both through local initiatives and through exchanges with other countries, working especially in favour of minors in difficulty. It operates in four declared sectors. The first is awareness-raising (sensibilizzazione), aimed at studying and making known to public opinion, through the widest and most varied forms of initiative, the problems the association deals with — in particular relations between different cultures and realities, and the situation of minors. The second is economic support (sostegno economico), which seeks Italian families to help maintain minors and young people in other countries who would otherwise be forced to interrupt their studies, so that they do not have to abandon their environment of origin. The third is aid (aiuti), which studies and evaluates development initiatives and projects, finds financing for them, and systematically organises the shipment of food, medicines and medical and technical instruments to the countries where they are required. The fourth is foster care and adoption (affidamento e adozione), which provides technical, moral and psychological support to Italian couples wishing to obtain foster care and/or adoption of foreign minors in a state of abandonment. Over time, international adoption has become one of AMI's most visible activities. Its website devotes a major section to the world of international adoption — the countries, the steps of the adoption procedure, and how to behave at every stage — and the association runs a Centre for Clinical Psychology of the Family (Centro Psicologia Famiglia) offering clinical psychology services for its adoptive families. It also promotes a distance-support programme (Sostegno a Distanza), through which a small contribution can change a child's life, and it carries out international cooperation projects, both completed and ongoing. AMI communicates through a periodic magazine, Shanthi-Frontiere, which carries information, events and in-depth features. It publishes its annual accounts and its 5×1000 contribution reports on its website; the published rendicontazione covers financial years from at least 2014 through 2024, and 5×1000 reports cover years including 2021 to 2024. The association is registered as an ETS (Ente del Terzo Settore), the Italian legal status for third-sector organisations, and it is based in Buccinasco, Italy.

• AMI is founded as an Italian association; the website presents its history but the supplied evidence does not give the founding year.

• AMI is based in Buccinasco, Italy.

• AMI publishes annual accounts; published rendicontazione covers financial years from at least 2014 through 2024.

• AMI publishes 5×1000 contribution reports, including for years 2021 to 2024.

• AMI is registered as an ETS (Ente del Terzo Settore).

• AMI runs a Centre for Clinical Psychology of the Family for adoptive families.

• AMI publishes the periodic magazine Shanthi-Frontiere.

• Photo exhibition 'Afghanistan rivelato' held 18–26 February at the Camera dei Deputati in Rome.

• Training course on adoption for single parents announced (10 June 2025).

• Conference 'Adoption across the life span' scheduled for 11 May 2026 in Milan.

Italian non-profit association focused on solidarity with minors in difficulty, primarily through international adoption, distance support and cooperation projects.

• International adoption support

  Technical, moral and psychological support to Italian couples wishing to obtain foster care and/or adoption of foreign minors in a state of abandonment.

• Distance support (Sostegno a Distanza)

  A programme through which a small contribution can change a child's life.

• International cooperation projects

  Projects carried out over the years and projects still in progress.

• Centre for Clinical Psychology of the Family

  Clinical psychology services for AMI's adoptive families.

• Shanthi-Frontiere magazine

  Periodic magazine with information, events and in-depth features.

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