CIAI, the Italian Association for Aid to Children, is a no profit organization founded in 1968. Since then, CIAI has dedicated itself to promoting the acknowledgement of all children as human beings and to defend their basic rights to live, to be healthy, to have a family , an education, to play and to be innocent everywhere in the world.

Its aim is to prevent children from being abandoned. CIAI builds and funds new health facilities, first aid units, health clinics and schools; it sponsors centres for single mothers; runs centres for the care of street children , victims of violence, sexual abuse or prostitution; and sponsors microcredit activities to support women in difficulty.