I started supporting Kiva at the very beginning of their micro-financing platform.
It all began in March 2005, when the first loan on kiva.org was funded. Elizabeth, a woman in Uganda, used her $500 Kiva loan to expand her fish-mongering business, traveling to purchase fish by the basket to sell at local markets. That $500 changed her life.
 It was not a gift, it was not charity. It was a loan that helped her needs. 
Nineteen years later, 5 million people have used Kiva loans to change theirs.
Changing lives, 
one loan at a time. 

A story that changes stories.
30 years on the road, of concrete answers to the most urgent social needs.
This is something that touches me deeply and intimately and the reason why I support Progetto Arca.

Progetto Arca helps those who have lost everything—home, family, work, money. This mission touches me deeply, because too often we believe it’s a problem that only belongs to others. But it isn’t.
Each of us fights battles in life. And sometimes life itself can knock us down. I believe anyone can achieve great things, but also find themselves with nothing left—not even the strength to hope.
That’s why I want to stand with the forgotten and support the last; so they can rise again.

The reason why I support Pane Quotidiano is very simple.
I personally believe that life is hard and we often concentrate on the wrong things thinking that "those" problems don't belong to us, they don't "live" here.
Being from Milan, I often noticed people in need queuing to receive some help and I was shocked realising how many people were struggling in that unfortunate condition. And I'm not talking about homeless or refugees. More and more this condition embraces people like you and I.
Everyday people.
For this reason I started my relationship with Pane Quotidiano.  A secular, non-partisan and non-profit Association, founded in Milan in 1898, with the aim of ensuring free food every day to the poorest sections of the population and to anyone in a state of need and vulnerability, without any kind of distinction.

With Telethon I have a totally different story which involves the fact that I was born with a genetic disease that is one of the numerous diseases impacting on human lives. Being so involved and lucky to have a form that impacts relatively on my life (compared to some deadly versions) put me in the moral position to do something, maybe something small but still something. 
With a regular donation, we can ensure constant support for scientific research, which is essential to achieve treatment.
A positive anything is better than a negative nothing!