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Summit della Solidarietà

The Solidarity Summit This project gathered around commonly-shared objectives as many as 15 of the nation’s most important non-profit Associations consisting of over 2 million members and numerous volunteers: the AIPD – Italian Down’s Syndrome Association, the AIL – Italian Association against Leukemia, the AIRC – Italian Cancer Research Association, the AISM – Italian Multiple Sclerosis Association, the ASM – Italian Birth Defect Association, the ALT- Italian Association for the Struggle Against Thrombosis, the ANFFAS – Association of Families of Sub-normal Children and Adults, the ANLAIDS – National Association for the Struggle Against AIDS, the ANTHAI – National Association for the Care of the Disabled People and Invalids, the FFO- Foundation for Oncology Training and the European School of Oncology, the Telefono Azzurro Child Abuse Hot Line, the Filo d’Oro League, the SDP – Personality Disorders Study Society, the Italian Alzheimer’s Disease Association, and the FIRC- Italian Cancer Research Foundation. The Solidarity Summit was born with the idea of simultaneously involving the nation’s leading charitable organisations that develop and implement their own activities independently from one another even if they often face many of the same problems. To this end, 35 experts from the various Associations co-ordinated by 30 external experts worked together for an entire year studying problems in the solidarity sector divided into 10 commissions: funding, social welfare, scientific research, information, telecommunications, transport, construction, public health, labour, and education/training to develop tangible proposals formulated in the Magna Charta of Solidarity, a unified document that was also submitted to the President of the Republic.