All Events and Initiatives || Year by Year

During the visit with the Albanian boys in the BUNKART, the place where the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha is witnessed that has overshadowed Albania from the rest of the world for over a quarter of a century, the president Michele Capasso left a dedication in the guest book a letter in which he retraces the history of Albania and in particular the period under the leadership of the dictator who died at 85 years after admitting the lives of millions of Albanians, killing or imprisoning those who opposed his political design.
"An old Albanian - wrote Capasso - tells me that after 30 years of flattening you do not know what you lose and in the end you do not even miss it: Albania was like a stagnant lake whose stench became a habit of life, stagnant and flat like that lake .... ". At the foot of the mountain Daiti, in the crash-bomb bunker that, together with another 700,000 (one every 3 Albanians: a real madness!) Had to protect the dictator and all from external assaults, today there is an air of freedom and trust: that freedom that young people of 15-16 years shout out loud that dark periods of history are no longer repeated.
They are the clean river that will flood the lake a stagnant time with a flow that will reach the sea: the sea of ​​freedom!

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During a visit to the Salesian Centre of Tirana, directed by Don Matteo Di Fiore, President Michele Capasso was able to verify the concreteness of Don Bosco's pedagogy, which is fully implemented in this place: From primary school to professional schools the Salesians - with Love, Dedication and Competence - accompany Albanian children on a training path that will lead them to specialize in computer laboratories, professional laboratories (electrotechnicians, bricklayers, electricians, plumbers, etc.).
And then the oratory, with about 1,000 children who between sports, dance, studies and games enliven the neighborhood and the main street that has now taken the name of "DON BOSCO".
Thanks and a "good" to Don Matteo for this work that honors the Salesians and is an example for Albania.

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On the occasion of the Biennale of Young Artists, President Capasso met the Minister of Culture of Albania Mirela Kumbaro Furxhi underlining the ancient friendship and collaboration between the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Republic of Albania.
President Capasso invited the Minister to visit the Museum of Peace - MAMT on a day dedicated to the Biennial and Albania.

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During the trip from Bari to Tirana via Durazzo, President Michele Capasso and the artistic director of "Mediterranea 18 Young Artists Biennale" discussed on the ship and on the bus, retracing the history of the Biennale of young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean and examined the concrete challenges present to support dialogue and exchanges between young people.

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