Today I want to tell you a story that seems like a movie, but it’s real. It starts on the outskirts of Salerno, it stops for years in a juvenile detention camp and it ends in a fancy restaurant in Dubai. But that’s another story, which tastes like rebirth and…pizza! Luigi was born and raised…
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A few days ago I read about a great event that took place last 18th December, in nine Italian prisons. “L’ALTrA cucina…per un pranzo d’amore” is a project born four years ago from the collaboration among Prison Fellowship Italy, Rinnovamento nello Spirito and Fondazione Alleanza. It’s a lunch cooked by starred chefs and served to…
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It’s November, school started two months ago and it’s the moment when people take stock of the work done so far. I’m not talking about the school where your children or grandchildren go. The school with desks lined up, parent-teacher conference meetings and exams. The school of “help mum, I haven’t studied for the oral…
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Have you ever felt the wonderful feeling of MAKING A DIFFERENCE? I often feel it at work, when I can solve a difficult situation thanks to my efforts, or a brave choice I’ve made. In that moment, you know you gave the best of yourself, and you’re aware that your action has improved the…
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Every time I go out to eat a good Neapolitan pizza with my family, I can’t help thinking about the young people of Airola. What they’re doing is amazing. If you don’t know this story, brace yourself: it will make you speechless. I’m not talking about the kids you see at school, at the gym,…
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On the 25th January 2017, the Justice Board of the Senate has presented a policy directive to carry out the reform of Children’s Justice. These are alarming news. Filomena Albano, the local authority for children’s services, has appealed to the Parliament. But her protest has not been taken into consideration. The same happened with the…
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Today I decided to tell you about some kids. They are a product of a civil society still working, contrary to what you might think. Seven young champions of the Airola juvenile holding facility recently graduated as professional pizza makers. NOTHING NEW about this, you may say. And you are right, but there’s news coming…
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Some young people of the Airola juvenile holding facility graduated as professional pizza makers in prison: a project supported by the Angelo Affinita Foundation culminated in the graduation and a pizza dinner on Thursday, December 22. You may not believe it, but this is unprecedented. It’s succeeding beyond our most optimistic projections. And it goes…
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You may not believe it, but what is happening in Campania’s prisons is unprecedented. And it’s succeeding beyond our most optimistic projections. But let’s proceed with order… Today, I’d like to tell you a story about a project, about how the Angelo Affinita Foundation, the big family I have the pleasure and the honor to…
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Efforts always go through. You can learn it too, now that I tell you that the efforts we make are always successful. Everybody’s efforts, of all those who strongly believe in something, who have a blind faith. Making their story worth telling as it deserves. This is true for Marco Bartoletti and his company, BB…
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