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Author and film critic, he was a fundamental figure of Milanese cinema. It is due to his commitment that Filmmaker was born, the film festival that gave the opportunity to express themselves and establish themselves to dozens of young authors who have always found in him support, encouragement and advice for their work. With his sensitivity, his competence, his energy and his continuous search for the new he has contributed to creating a stimulating and creative environment in Milan by promoting and enhancing the role of cinema as a tool of expression and culture and as an opportunity for civil commitment and social investigation.
“The good policeman”, killed on duty on 12 January last, while carrying out his duty with dedication and conscience: he had intervened for a check in the Bovisa district, on board his bicycle, when he was brutally knocked over and dragged for over three hundred meters from the driver of an SUV, who fled immediately after the collision. Sicilian by origin, 42 years old, Nicolò Savarino had left his homeland in search of a job, a future, a better life. He had chosen our city: Milan had welcomed him, he loved Milan. He was a young hero of everyday life, guided by a great sense of civic duty, responsibility and justice: he honored the body of our cast iron, after having been a municipal employee for years, committing himself daily for the good of the entire community. He was a generous man even away from work, dedicating his time to volunteering and assisting people with disabilities. Milan honors his memory, his human and professional testimony, the example of his sacrifice that moved the entire country.
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Gianni Berengo Gardin's photography is the artistic mirror of post-war Italy, its landscapes, its people. His talent was revealed in the fifties, in his Venetian debut and in his meeting with Mario Pannunzio, with whom he collaborated for a long time in the editorial staff of Il Mondo. In a few years Berengo Gardin became one of the most appreciated collaborators of the major Italian and foreign magazines: Domus, Le Figaro, l'Espresso, Time, Stern, Vogue. He interpreted neorealism in photography with an evocative and unmistakable language, later arriving at portraiture and the search for a surrealistic expressiveness. Berengo Gardin described Italy through images, capturing its deepest identity in the succession of eras and events. Milan, his adopted city, honors the prestige of his art and the uniqueness of his inspiration.
She is a generous and enterprising Milanese, who has made her life a gift to others, extending her love for her ten children to hundreds of people in difficulty whom she has helped and supported with humanity and dedication. She has distinguished herself in her participation in school life as a parent, in particular in the ministerial commission on narcotic substances. In 1985 she met Sister Elvira Petrozzi, founder of the Cenacolo Community of Saluzzo, with whom she began a collaboration for the recovery of drug addicts. She best demonstrated the Ambrosian values ​​of industriousness, tenacity and solidarity. Her spiritual life and her social work make her an example of civil commitment that does honor to Milan.
Milanese film and television manager and producer, he has offered Italian animation a unique contribution in terms of innovation, international openness and artistic quality, thanks also to his managerial experience at the helm of primary Italian industrial groups, from Galbani to Zanussi and Salvarani. In 1996 he began his audiovisual production activity with the Lupo Alberto series in collaboration with Rai. The following year he opened Studio Campedelli, creating highly successful video products and editorial lines: Cocco Bill, Ratman, Topo Tip. Among the various awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Cartoons on the Bay Festival in 2009 and the nomination as producer of the year at the Cartoon Forum in Toulouse in 2012. Milan recognizes in Pietro Campedelli the best Ambrosian qualities of resourcefulness and creative innovation at the service of the most young people and the cultural growth of the community.
Full professor of biotechnological applications in pharmacology at the University of Milan, for years he has carried out fruitful academic and research activity in the field of stem cell studies. His career is characterized by numerous and prestigious collaborations with international universities and research centers and by prominent positions in scientific bodies in Italy and abroad. For the results obtained and the relevance of her research, she has received numerous recognitions and honors in both the scientific and civil fields, including the appointment as Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic in 2006. By attributing her civic merit, the Municipality of Milan wishes to express the esteem for his work together with appreciation for the capacity for international projection of scientific activity combined with the desire to remain linked to his city and his country of which he concretely contributes to the growth and development.
He is the soul of the literature and creative writing workshops of the Opera prison, which he created and which he follows with passion and competence, contributing to making the prison a place of civil reintegration according to the dictates of the Constitution. Elementary teacher for 38 years, expert educator, author of numerous publications for children and teaching texts, she has been able to bring her educational skills into prison, restoring dignity and hope to hundreds of incarcerated people. Milan recognizes Silvana Ceruti's best Ambrosian qualities of industriousness, solidarity and resourcefulness at the service of the civil community.
An internationally renowned tumor scholar, he is President of Ifom, the Institute of Molecular Oncology, Vice President of Firc and of Airc, of which he was the founder. He carried out research at the Chicago Medical School and at the National Institute for the Study and Treatment of Tumors in Milan, as Director of the Division of Experimental Oncology. He was coordinator for research at the European Institute of Oncology, member of the board of directors of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and of the scientific committee of the International Agency for Cancer Research. He is the author of over one hundred and eighty scientific publications.
An internationally renowned scientist, she graduated in physics at the University of Milan, where she also obtained a PhD in sub-nuclear physics. After a period of activity at the prestigious National Institute of Nuclear Physics, she won a competition at CERN in Geneva. Today she is the head of Atlas, one of the largest and most challenging scientific experiments ever carried out: over three thousand scientists from all over the world work under her guidance. Through the study of particles, she has helped take science into uncharted territory, identifying the fundamental forces that gave life to the universe, shape its evolution and define its composition. President Giorgio Napolitano awarded her the title of Commander of the Republic.
Eritrean Capuchin friar, son of an Ascaro, has been working in Milan since the 70s. For ASPE, the Association of Solidarity and Promotion for Eritrea and Ethiopia, he directs and coordinates the main activities: long-distance and school adoptions, food distribution, development programs for populations who are victims of a thirty-year war. Chaplain of the Ethiopian and Eritrean community of Milan, he provides assistance above all to young Eritrean refugees. He is a symbol of the commitment to welcoming and integrating one of the oldest foreign communities in our city.
Salesian priest since 1968, he is the point of reference for the community of via Tonale 19. He has dedicated his life to education and solidarity towards the least fortunate, building a bridge between Milan and the world. Since the 70s, thanks to his innovative study holiday project, 30 thousand young people have been able to visit the five continents, getting closer to their wonders and secrets. Having returned from a trip to Ethiopia, he decides to help the populations affected by heavy deprivation: for over twenty years he has been actively working for the construction of water wells and basic infrastructure. His “Distance Adoptions” project has expanded from Ethiopia to Brazil, Congo, Darfur-Sudan and Ecuador, where schools are built and aid is provided to the most unfortunate on the planet.
Milanese by adoption since 1967, she is among the major Italian theorists of feminism: she has contributed to making our city one of the international centers of thought on women, animating the debate with writings, meetings, cultural, civil and political initiatives. She is an essayist and journalist, she was co-founder of the magazine "L'erba I want" and author of the book "L'infanzia origine", a manifesto of Italian feminism. You have published numerous texts, including "The loss", "The passions of the body", "Love and violence". She is a teacher at the 150 hour courses, she is President of the Free University of Women.
Born in Milan, he began studying piano at just four years old, building the success of his entire professional life on the notes of this youthful passion. At the end of the 40s he won numerous musical competitions, establishing himself as a pianist and singer of the Sciorilli Orchestra and the Kramer Orchestra. His activity continues on the front of radio live broadcasts and discography, with recordings for the Milanese house Fonit. He has recorded more than a thousand records. Between the '50s and '60s he was the first to create the system of overlapping recorded voices in Italy and he made himself known in Spain and Portugal as a protagonist of Italian musicality. He founded Fonoplay, creating thousands of compositions, theme songs and television commercials.
President of the House of Culture, professor emeritus of contemporary Italian literature at the University of Milan, he has expressed his fruitful intellectual activity in the academic, editorial and media fields. Interpreter and enlightened protagonist of the Ambrosian civilization, he combined his scientific skills with the commitment to the growth of the city's cultural institutions, through dialogue, the use of book assets, the diffusion of reading. A precious teacher for generations of students, he has held prestigious roles at the Biennale, the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, the Italian Society for the Study of Literary Modernity.
A student of Enzo Paci and Ludovico Geymonat, after a long academic career he is now Deputy Director of the University Institute of Higher Studies of Pavia and Director of the “Giovanni Ferrara” School of Political Training, managed by the Freedom and Justice Association. Since 1974 he has been Scientific Director of the Feltrinelli Foundation in Milan, which he presided over from 1984 to 2001. As Director of the "Annals of the Feltrinelli Foundation" he carried out extensive research, documentation and publication in the field of contemporary political and social theory. From 1981 to 2001 he coordinated the activities of the Annual Seminar on Political Philosophy, promoted by Feltrinelli with the "Paolo Farneti" Political Studies Center of Turin and the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. Since 2004 he has directed the "European Library" series of the Feltrinelli Foundation, launched in 2000. In 1998 he received, by Decree of the President of the Republic, the Gold Medal and the first class Diploma reserved for Meritorious in Science and Culture.
She entered the history of laVerdi as Musical Director for the fourth consecutive season, a position confirmed until 2014/2015. Born in Dandong in China, she made her debut at the age of twenty with Le Nozze di Figaro at the Central Opera House in Beijing, the city where she trained at the Central Conservatory, obtaining both a Bachelor's Degree and a Master of Music. Her victory at the Maazel/Vilar Conducting Competition in 2002 definitively launched her into an international career: Europe, China, North America. As an opera director you made a sensational debut with La Bohème for English National Opera in 2007, followed by Turandot in Beijing in 2009, while you will be appearing at La Scala in 2013/14. You are the Artistic Director of the NJO / Dutch Orchestra and the Ensemble Academy, you were Associate Conductor of the New York Philharmonic (first holder of the Arturo Toscanini Chair) after having been Assistant Conductor.
He is an innovative and tenacious entrepreneur, who has created production and distribution companies of primary importance in the field of consumer electronics in Milan and in our country, generating value and work for over eight thousand people. Founder and CEO of Mediamarket SpA, he built the largest Italian electronics chain, with the brands Media World, Saturn, Compra on line and Saturn on line Shop. Milan is his city of origin and his field of action: there are eighteen stores in the city that employ 1100 people. He collaborated with the Civic Administration by donating 500 decoders to be given to disadvantaged elderly people during the transition to digital terrestrial, and today participates in the diffusion of the city's wireless network. The President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano appointed him Cavaliere del Lavoro in 2010. Milan pays tribute to the resourcefulness of a courageous and enthusiastic entrepreneur who supported the economic and technological development of the city.
He is head of obstetrics and gynecology at the San Carlo Hospital in Milan, where he directs the maternal and child department. Born in the Novara area, he chose Milan for his medical studies and for his career, which saw him at the highest levels of scientific responsibility in the main city hospitals, from the Polyclinic to the Mangiagalli Clinic, from San Paolo to San Carlo. He defended the correct application of the law on termination of pregnancy and worked for the protection of maternity by helping women, especially foreigners, to avoid abortion when chosen due to economic difficulties, with the activation of the first Maternity Support Center and of the first “Soccorso Rosa” for victims of abuse. Author of over two hundred publications in fifty-seven international journals, he brought prestige to Milan with the prestige of his science and the coherence of his civil commitment.
Since 2001, he has directed the "Casa del sole" comprehensive institute in Trotter Park: an example of intercultural scholastic integration from which hundreds of girls, boys and families benefit, a welcome and social inclusion facility for the Via Padova neighbourhood. Mathematics and science teacher since 1976, he is an esteemed and competent educator who has contributed to spreading the idea of ​​public schools as a space for training, citizenship and peace.
Since 1958 he has represented a cornerstone of the Leo XIII Institute. His extraordinary availability and ability to dialogue with everyone, believers and non-believers, combined with his openness to the most advanced demands of the contemporary world, have made him a sincere and coherent interpreter of the highest inspiring principles of the mission of the Institute and the Company of Jesus. His role as spiritual assistant allowed him to actively contribute personally to the training and moral, spiritual and civil growth of generations of citizens capable of fully realizing themselves on an individual level and placing themselves at the disposal of the community with a spirit of service . 
Following a prestigious and diversified cursus studiorum, in 2007 he entered service with the Italian Air Force where, thanks to his strong qualities of resourcefulness, determination and professionalism, he obtained the qualification of military pilot and the rank of captain. In May 2009, after a severe and careful selection, she was chosen by the European Space Agency to enter the space program as an astronaut, applying to reach the International Space Station in 2014, a mission that made her the third European citizen and the first Italian woman to fly in space.
Oncologist and pediatrician, she began her professional training in 1967, at the National Institute for the Study and Treatment of Tumors. She is a pioneer of pediatric oncology, a discipline whose history she helped write. She has dedicated her life to the study of childhood, adolescent and young adult cancers, treating more than five thousand patients in her long career. You have carried out clinical-scientific activities at a national and international level, with over two hundred publications to your credit. Since 2010 you have been president of the Milan section of LILT, the Italian league for the fight against tumors.
He has always dedicated himself to the world of abandoned childhood. Her life and career testify to a constant commitment to adoption and to the recognition of the child as a person, defending their fundamental rights everywhere: to life, to health, to the family, to education, to play. Already in 1965 you participated in the drafting of the bill on special legitimizing adoption, then founding the Italian Center for International Adoption, today the Italian Center for Children's Aid. She was Honorary Judge of the Superior Council of the Judiciary at the Juvenile Court of Milan. Thanks to her work, thousands of abandoned children in Italy and around the world have been able to find shelter in a family.
Having approached the world of theater at a very young age, he was the artistic director and "soul" of the Emerald for over thirty years. His enlightened leadership has transformed this important Milanese cultural institution into an obligatory point of reference for all great Italian and foreign productions, linking its popularity not only to seasons of traditional prose, but to a program of international importance. He brought to our city highly successful performances of musicals in the original language, such as "Evita", "A Chorus Line", "Jesus Christ Superstar", "West Side Story", "Cats", "Mamma mia!", in addition to the protagonists most well-known and established in the world of dance and music: from Astor Piazzolla to David Bowie, from Bruce Springsteen to Paolo Conte, from Gino Paoli and Ornella Vanoni to Fabrizio de Andrè and Lucio Dalla.
He has been a full professor of criminal law since 1967. In his long and prestigious career he has taught at the Universities of Sassari, Ferrara and Pavia. Since 1985 he has held the first chair of criminal law at the University of Milan, a university where he also held the position of Director of the Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure for almost a decade. Historic director of the "Italian magazine of criminal law and procedure", author of manuals and monographs on which generations of students were trained, he edited the commented Penal Code, a true milestone in the field of jurisprudence. He is co-president of the “Enrico de Nicola Conferences” for the reform of criminal law and procedure and was an aggregate judge in the Lockheed trial.
He is among the ambassadors of our culture abroad: father of the post-noir narrative genre, novelist, screenwriter, author of theatrical texts, translator, teacher of creative writing of national fame. Milanese by adoption, he contributed to creating the literary myth of our city, where he collaborates with institutions to consolidate its role as the Italian capital of books and publishing. Promoter of literary dissemination initiatives, historical juror of "Subway", he has published numerous translations from classical and modern languages ​​(from Sophocles to Seneca, from Poe to Wilde) and twelve novels, including "The darkness devours the road", "Close the eyes”, “The lying truth”, “The existence of God”, “The first night”, “Perfection” (winner of the Linea d'ombra Award), “Strange things, tomorrow” (Strega Award selection 2010) . He is the author of hundreds of stories and articles on literary and social topics.
His social and civil commitment to overcoming the problems of people with disabilities originates from family events, which led him to broaden the horizon of his work to the entire city. For thirty years he has supported and promoted projects aimed at activating housing, educational and health resources in the Milan area, betting on the future of an independent life for those - men, women, children - who live in this condition of fragility and hardship. He was President of the Coordination of Parents of Disabled Day Centers, Councilor of Zone 19 (later Zone 8), councilor of the Italian Association of Spastic Assistance. He founded the “Presente e Futuro” Onlus Association, of which he is now President, opening the first home for people with disabilities in the Gallaratese district.
He is an example of a civil servant capable of leading the institutions of our country with balance, independence, authority and transparency. After graduating in Economics and Business from the Catholic University and a master's degree from the London School of Economics, he began his prestigious career at the Bank of Italy in 1971 in Milan. She was at the top of the intermediate supervisory-exchange directorate, general officer in the areas of budget-control and banking-financial supervision, deputy general director. As president of Rai, you immediately looked at the quality of the product, consistently with the company's public service role. You are attentive to the problems of the female world, you have repeatedly highlighted the need for women to be able to emerge in the workplace for their skills and competences, without being forced to choose between a professional career and family life.
Sister of Maria Consolatrice, she works at the service of the Institute for the Blind in Milan, of which she is a precious collaborator. Born in 1923, she began her mission in 1943, after having worked as a worker and as an auxiliary at the Casa del Ceeco in Civate. For forty years she was a point of reference, as an educator and nurse, for children with disabilities at the San Vincenzo Institute in Milan. Since the early 90s you have been committed with a charitable spirit and great humanity to the benefit of the blind and sighted guests of the Family Home Healthcare Residence in Via Vivaio.
Founded in 1762 by Father Ruggiero Boscovich, the Observatory carries out scientific activities and is a modern research center known internationally, also involved in the dissemination and implementation of projects aimed at the territory. The ancient and prestigious Milanese institution, located in the heart of the city, has had Italian astronomers such as Giovanni Schiaparelli and Giovanni Celoria among its directors and also includes Margherita Hack among its ranks. Today it is part of the National Institute of Astrophysics (Inaf), while maintaining its own scientific and administrative autonomy. This year the Observatory celebrates the 250th anniversary of its foundation.
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For our city it represents a fundamental subject for the cultural production and social initiatives of many generations of Milanese. Evidence of its widespread presence and activity in the area is given by the over one hundred thousand members and the dozens of social cohesion and promotion projects. A true Ambrosian welfare that engages, every day, hundreds of volunteers and operators in protecting the weakest and working to make Milan an increasingly lively and welcoming city
It organizes the musical activity of the Basilica of Santa Maria della Passione with the Organ Vespers and the "Cantantibus Organis" reviews: a unique programme, based on the great authors of the organ baroque, born from the collaboration with the Basilicas of S. Alessandro and S. Simpliciano to which were added the Basilica of S. Vincenzo in Prato, the Church of S. Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa and the Church of S. Nicolao della Flue. Furthermore, during the summer of 2012, the association successfully proposed the musical cycle "Milano arte musica" in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan.
It was founded in 1979 by a group of parents, doctors and healthcare workers to promote assistance to people suffering from celiac disease or dermatitis herpetiformis, raise awareness among political, administrative and healthcare structures and improve assistance. Other objectives of the Association are the promotion and development of scientific research, the dissemination of information and knowledge regarding gluten-free nutrition, as well as the education of the medical profession on this particular pathology.
Since its birth in 2000, the Italian Police Association, thanks to a constant and commendable commitment aimed at strengthening the professionalism of the police forces and thanks to the fruitful collaboration with the Municipality and other local entities, has contributed effectively to the protection of public order and the consolidation of the relationship of trust between citizens and institutions. The Association has been able to combine this commitment to the safety of citizens with an admirable and concrete charitable activity in favor of the needy and indigent. This dedication to the common good today makes the Italian Police Association a point of reference for public safety and a model of civic and moral virtues for all citizens
It was established by the Municipality of Milan in 1982. Three years later the "Municipal intervention plan for disaster events" was also approved, with the formation of two mobile columns with operational autonomy and the Permanent Civil Protection Secretariat was established. A2A, through its "Civil Protection Group", has always provided its specialized personnel both for the operational part and for the training of volunteers, as on the occasion of participation in the 1999 "Rainbow Mission" in Albania.
It was born in 1971 from an idea by Pietro Carassai, a medical doctor from Gratosoglio, to give the kids of the neighborhood an alternative to urban hardship through athletics, a sport within everyone's reach. Alongside this original inspiration, the second objective was to offer the post-traumatic rehabilitation practice of gymnastics. Today, as then, Viviam cent'anni is not just a non-profit sports association, but a way to develop and grow together in body, spirit and as citizens.
He has been playing since 1986 to give voice to the last, the defenceless, always close to the people: alongside the workers, in anti-fascist demonstrations, in those for rights and peace, in many moments of the public political life of our city. All the members of this "solidarity band", free from any political affiliation, have always played on a voluntary basis, convinced that music can change people's lives and society.
It has been operating for over twenty years in the field of youth social hardship and disabilities, becoming an important point of reference for the suburbs, starting from Lambro Park. Over time, the recipients of that commitment have changed: no longer, or not only, the Milanese kids who fell into the drug network, but the children of the poorest social classes in South America, North Africa, Europe est, often lacking the most basic notions of the Italian language. The center accompanies young people on the path towards autonomy and the world of work. Its activity is expressed in the educational field with professional training, apprenticeships and higher education, while the recovery of disabilities takes place through the day centre, the residential community, the training service, the socio-educational centre.
It was founded in 1991 on the initiative of the inhabitants of the characteristic district of Milan which arose immediately after the war to accommodate displaced people and those who were left homeless due to the conflict. The Committee, under the guidance of its president Alide Venturini, has contributed to keeping the physiognomy and uniqueness of this neighborhood intact, fighting against illegal construction and building speculation which risked distorting its identity. Over the years it has become an important point of reference for all the inhabitants of the area, especially the older ones, for whom it has implemented a commendable and effective action of support and social and human protection.
“Despondere spem munus nostrum”: guaranteeing hope is our task. This is the motto of the Penitentiary Police Corps, committed every day, with great humanity and civic sense, to making concrete the values ​​of legality, recovery and social reintegration of detained people, in the spirit of Article 27 of the Constitution. With equal dedication and responsibility, the women and men who work at San Vittore guarantee safety conditions inside the prison, where overcrowding, serious and chronic, undermines the dignity of the prisoners and the officers themselves. Their role, guardian of democracy and civility, also extends to the translation and picket service in healthcare facilities, in addition to judicial police, public safety and traffic police functions.
For years he has demonstrated a tenacious commitment to serving the city community expressed in constant and effective action to combat crime: commendable work which has led to the prevention of numerous crimes and the identification of those responsible for heinous crimes against people and the heritage. With the attribution of Civic Merit, Milan recognizes the Company's highest qualities of professionalism and dedication to duty aimed at protecting and safeguarding public safety.
It was born in Milan in 1992 and, in a short time, established itself among the first art publishers on the independent international scene. At the center of the editorial projects, created in close contact with the authors, are painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, fashion and all other artistic languages ​​from Italy and the world. The catalog of this courageous independent publishing house, almost entirely bilingual, has around a thousand titles. A production that enhances Made in Italy and which, thanks to many donations to institutions and non-profit organizations, contributes to spreading our culture throughout the world.
For forty years it has guaranteed a high-level educational service aimed at children in nursery, primary and secondary schools through an integrated and coherent scholastic path, involving over a thousand students. In the early 70s he anticipated the pedagogical innovations that would enter the school only after the period of great renewal of those years. A non-profit cooperative reality representing the best of educational innovation that Milan continues to introduce into the national school system: the example of a passionate service to the city, to culture, to children and young people.
It was born as a testimony of solidarity from a group of young Milanese people who came together to support and offer moral comfort to Denise, daughter of Lea Garofalo, a witness of justice kidnapped and killed by the 'Ndrangheta. During the trial following this crime, the association guaranteed constant support to Denise. The activity also continued outside the courtrooms with an intense effort to raise awareness and involve the entire citizenry. The Presidium represents a magnificent example of an honest and courageous Milan capable of defeating silence and violence with the strength of solidarity and the integrity of its civic commitment.
The parish of Via Crema built a theater one hundred years ago which, in all these years, has been able to regularly continue its cultural work thanks to its theater company, even going through difficult periods such as the two world wars. On the occasion of the centenary year, the programming will include new shows, historical and commemorative activities to be offered to the citizens of the area. The Theater was also a training ground for well-known and famous faces in the world of entertainment such as Aldo Baglio and Giovanni Storti, Giorgio Cardarelli, curator of the “Quelli di Grock” Company and animator of the Gabibbo.
For more than half a century it has represented an important point of reference for young people of all origins and religions in the Lorenteggio district. The Association's volunteers guaranteed all of them the opportunity to approach the practice of sport intended as a tool for individual growth and as a factor of socialization and integration. The words of Blessed Luigi Orione "let us approach young people like little brothers" have been put into practice by concretizing his teaching in a work of training not only in sports, but also in social and civil terms according to the best traditions of Milanese associations.
For fifteen years he has been carrying out a valuable voluntary service as a tourist guide in four languages ​​in the Church of San Bernardino alle Ossa, one of the most illustrious places of art and history in the city. This church, restored a few years ago and little known until the recent past, is today included in the city's artistic itineraries as one of the most significant destinations, also thanks to its tireless work. An example of a citizen in love with Milan and capable of presenting the city to visitors with passion and competence.
It is a voluntary and social promotion association that is aimed at the elderly and has over time become a meeting center appreciated in the area: an important reference for the active participation of the elderly in the civil, social and cultural life of the neighborhood and the entire city . Its activities range from free home delivery of shopping, to assistance, to volunteering for "grandparent friends" in front of nursery and primary schools with a child protection service.
Founded in Milan in 2007 to promote Arab culture and dialogue between Mediterranean women, since its inception it has supported women in their integration journey, promoting access to public and local services and offering legal and socio-health support. Since 2011, the Association has assisted two hundred and fifty of them, including some of them in protected structures together with their children and working to get them back the Italian documents that their husbands had seized, hindering their return to our country.
Born as a Fishermen's Committee, it was officially established as an association in 2000, representing an important defense for the defense of the Cave Park. With its thirteen hundred members, it has stood out for its continuous attention to the municipal territory it manages and safeguards, working to ensure its full usability by all. Its activities are not limited to fishing, but also involve other realities outside its borders. Particularly noteworthy are the numerous socialization initiatives in support of associations that support people with disabilities.
It has been present in Milan since 1922, when it was founded by Don Alessandro Arosio, coadjutor of the San Luigi Gonzaga oratory. In its ninety years of life, ASD Fortes in Fide has proposed sport as an educational tool for the human and Christian growth of its athletes, with particular attention to those most in difficulty. Always a point of reference for the children of the San Luigi district, today it has eleven football teams, six volleyball teams, four basketball teams, one rhythmic gymnastics team and a children's playground, involving over four hundred people aged six and up in its activities.
It was founded in 1982 by a group of passionate artists, antique dealers and traders to safeguard and conserve the historical-cultural and urban value of the only important waterway remaining in the heart of old Milan. The Association's events range from the antiques market to Fiori & Sapori, from the Christmas lights to the tourist guide full of ancient and recent images of our city up to the collector's calendar so loved by the Milanese. The poet Alda Merini has been its honorary president since the 90s.
Present in Milan for ten years, it brought to Italy for the first time courses in high ethical training in the world of work, business ethics and the first ethical management course in Europe with only female teachers. You introduced the figure of the manager-entrepreneur with new thresholds of awareness and responsibility, consistently with the call to the civic and social sense of Sant'Ambrogio. She promotes ethical training in professional associations and in public and private companies, collaborating with prestigious organizations in Italy and abroad, including the Piccolo Teatro, the Adi, the American Chamber of Commerce and numerous universities.
For thirty years the Italia Nostra Urban Forestry Center has been actively and innovatively involved in urban greenery, always thought of as a structural component of the contemporary city in which different aspects of landscape and territory can and must coexist for the creation of a environmental mix that helps the entire city not feel suffocated by growth and development. The Centre, with the contribution of citizens and associations, managed to reclaim, redevelop, expand and enrich the Cave Park with new naturalistic values, returning it to the Milanese.
It began its activity in 1971 with a room built inside the Parish of San Nicolao della Flue, in the Forlanini district. Since then the work of the theater has always been guaranteed by the commitment of many volunteers who have taken turns in organizing, promoting and supporting all the events offered to the citizens of Milan. Furthermore, it is the only "open" space in this part of the Milanese suburbs between Via Mecenate and Ponte Lambro, otherwise devoid of cultural and entertainment offerings.
The Committee was born ten years ago to protect the agricultural areas and the many farmhouses in the Milan area. The first commitment is to spread - especially among students - the love for the territory, the conscious use of resources and the importance of recovering the fountains: Cornelio, Rile II, Canabagno, Facchetti, San Martino, Gandola. The Committee creates a sense of responsibility among young people for the protection of our ecosystem through programs aimed at schools such as "Adopt a fountain". It collaborates with institutions and associations to achieve another great objective: bringing water to the Cave Park , with the valorization of the ancient waterways at the center of Expo Milano 2015.
The parishes of the Deanery of Quarto Oggiaro represent a social point of reference and an important aggregation center of this populous Milanese neighborhood. The role of the five parishes that compose it has been able to grow year after year and extend to all aspects of community life, earning the Deanery a growing prestige and admiration among all the inhabitants of the neighborhood, believers and non-believers. The Deanery of Quarto Oggiaro today represents an example and a model of dedication to the person and the community and an unparalleled instrument of Christian, human and civil education.
Established in 2000, it is the bearer of a life project for people with disabilities born in the mid-90s by a group of families who recognized themselves in the same practical and existential needs linked to the future of their loved ones. This pioneering vision, capable of instilling hope in a path oriented towards self-determination, has become a shared heritage with other families and institutions. The Cooperative, committed to the management of residential services and the search for solutions to other housing needs, built the first social-welfare community in via Bellarmino 2005 "Palazzina A" in 27 and, in 2007, the second social-welfare community " Building B".
It is a series of weekly meetings on a fixed basis dedicated to politics, society, culture and the arts which, in over twenty years, has seen more than seven hundred events take place. The events, which are held regularly every Thursday evening in the living room of the lawyer Augusto Bianchi Rizzi, open to the city from mid-October to the end of June, were attended by some very well-known names in their respective fields of activity, but also personalities whose ” helped launch careers.
With their sensational decision to climb to the top of the tower of platform 21 of the Central Station, remaining there for a long time even at the risk of their own health, the employees of the former Wagon Lits have become a symbol of the commitment to defending the right to mobility as a good common. Their protest initiative against the suppression of night trains and the dismissal of the workers dedicated to the service looked to the collective interest of Milan and Italy: it turned the spotlight, in fact, on the importance of a connection network between the regions of the north and south, with obvious benefits for the citizens and for the substantial national unity of our country.
In 1996 seven young recent graduates from the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Arts in Milan founded Atir - Independent Theater Association for Research. Since then the common thread of the Association's work has been the search for a new way of making and spreading theater in society, to revitalize it and highlight its specificities in the face of cinema and television and revive the sense of its indispensable importance. At the center of its activity are the production and distribution of theatrical shows, the study and dissemination of theatrical art, with particular attention to schools and socially disadvantaged places.
It was a peaceful but effective tool in the fight against poverty. Initially just a monthly magazine to which guides, novels and illustrated texts for children were later added which have as their lowest common denominator attention to critical consumption, sustainable tourism and participation. Experiences from which events such as “Do the right thing!” were born. - critical consumption and sustainable lifestyles fair. Since 2010: “So critical so fashion”, the first critical fashion event in Italy, and the school of good practices, a training experience for administrators committed to making sustainable policy choices. Terre brought Kuminda - the festival of the right to food to the city of Expo 2015, which will have the theme "Feeding the planet". Events well rooted in the city reality, but with an international scope: such as "The Night of the Homeless" (thirteen editions), celebration of the World Day against Poverty, inspired by the Euro Sleep out Night.
Milanese by adoption, in 35 years of living in Milan he has given the city an extraordinary commitment in the world of volunteering and solidarity associations. From 1978, the year in which he began his service with Brother Ettore at the Central Station to today, he has demonstrated his commitment as a citizen in the council of the then zone 20 and in that of the current zone 8, in the schools of the Accursio district and in the Foundation Carlo Perini of which he is today vice president. The numerous publications on the history of Milan and the various institutional recognitions complete the portrait of a Milanese who best interprets the solidarity and civil participation typical of the Ambrosian identity.