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Dear Friends, As Christmas approaches, I want to take a moment to reflect with you on the year behind us. This season reminds us of the values at the heart…

On October 16th, 2017, I was at Doha airport, returning from a mission in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, after weeks spent working with Rohingya refugees. As I walked through the lounge,…

Dear friends, I write this letter with deep sadness and great frustration, as I learn from the news about the recent tragedies in the Mediterranean Sea. Yet again, there were…

Exactly 10 years have passed since the Lampedusa shipwreck, where on 3 October 2013, 368 people died, a watershed moment establishing a before and an after from which it would…

Ten years ago, when confronted by the deafening silence surrounding the slaughter of ten’s of thousands in the Mediterranean Sea, my family and I started questioning what we could do…

On the 20 June, in remembrance of the UN Refugee Convention’s anniversary, we will be celebrating World Refugee Day. On this day it is crucial to point out how important…

The  2nd of June 2023 marks Italy’s 77th anniversary of its Republic Day, the theme of which this year is; "Italians, a heritage of values for the Republic" on this…

Observing Ukraine today from above, from satellite images, the landscape that stands before our eyes is the bleakest you can imagine, entire neighborhoods swept away, razed to the ground, buildings…

In these days, where we prepare to celebrate the holidays together looking forward for the first time since the intense years of the pandemic to the possibility of embracing our…

Language is one of the most powerful means we have at our disposal, it is a tool which can be utilized to help change the world, our lives and those…