“In my imagination I have his image, the heroes are all young and beautiful”, says a song by the Bolognese storyteller Francesco Guccini. It is the image that immediately evokes the word hero; term handed down by myths and stories of fearless men able to reciprocate an often bloody destiny. But our time offers many examples, with respect to what or who could ever be considered a hero today. Fathers are heroes, who struggle every day to support a family. Heroes are the children who sail in the ocean of life, made of profound uncertainties; with the courage of those who are not so afraid of the appearance of wrinkles on their face. Anyone who works and takes turns to help others are heroes: from the child bent over the beggar to reserve him a coin; to those who serve bread with a smile in the table of the dispossessed and forgotten.
Finally, in the general silence of those who do good deeds, there are little silent sentinels like the caresses of spring; that to anyone's life they give a value that knows no figures. Doctors who, like revolutionaries, welcome the call of those who accuse injustices in their own land and ask for "help" in a low voice. And this team, this gift that for some seems to come from heaven, is identified under the banner of a single organization. His name is Emergency.
Emergency is his social work
Emergency, as an association, has been operating on the planet for over twenty years; it is in all this time span he has given aid, treating and rehabilitating, more than seven million patients; hospitalized in neuralgic social contexts. Because, Emergency, an organization founded by Gino Strada, was born and grows with the aim of providing free aid to all those victims of war and poverty, who cannot afford health care. Many complaints, therefore, with respect to the violations of human rights perpetrated in the Middle East, derive from the Emergency megaphone.
Emergency's work is embodied in multiple activities that all go to corroborate the ethical and moral line for which it has planted roots. From the association's official website we read how many are the works promoted by this: from the construction of hospitals dedicated to war victims; to centers for the physical and social rehabilitation of victims traumatized by war phenomena. Through the FAP (First Aid Post) it provides first aid to anyone who is injured; through differentiated services, it separately assists children in pediatric centers managed by them, and adults in health centers for basic medical assistance.
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