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The Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Museum of Peace - MAMT celebrated "National Braille Day": an anniversary established by Law No. 126 of 3 August 2007. It is celebrated annually on 21 February, as a moment to raise public awareness of blind people, coinciding with the World Day for the Defence of Linguistic Identity promoted by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation). In fact, this system allows blind people to access the written cultural heritage of humanity.
As part of this day, the Foundation with the Museum of Peace - one of the most important in the world for adaptation to the blind and with innovative tactile maps and works - promotes suitable awareness-raising and solidarity initiatives, as well as studies, conferences, meetings and debates at schools and in the mainstream media, to draw attention and information to the importance of the Braille system in the lives of visually impaired people and of all those directly or indirectly involved in their affairs, in order to develop public policies and private behaviour that broaden the possibilities for real social inclusion and access to culture and information for all those with visual impairments.

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The President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Prof. Michele Capasso participated - together with the Councillor Edoardo Cosenza, the lawyer Antonio Tosi and other speakers - in the event organised by the association "Arteggiando" at the MAN in Naples.
On this occasion, President Capasso illustrated the activities of the Fondazione and, in particular, the "United States of the World".

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A great influx of visitors to the Museum of Peace  - MAMT for the centenary of Franco Zeffirelli's birth: on the 107 large video walls the documentary on the life of the great director and his main works.
President Michele Capasso, in connection with various schools, recalled the figure of Zeffirelli and his friendship with Gustavo Rol.
"Thanks to Franco," said Capasso, "Gustavo Rol took part in the "Domenica In" programme with Raffaella Carrà on 11 January 1987, where he launched the "Appeal for the United States of the World" that has underpinned the Fondazione Mediterraneo's work for 35 years".
On this occasion, stamps with philatelic cancellation created by the "Poste italiane" were distributed.

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The Secretary General Prof. Michele Capasso, the President of the Council of Ambassadors prof. Abdelhak Azzouzi, the members of the Governing Council, the members of the "United States of the World" and of the "Mediterranean Foundation", the heads of branch offices and autonomous sections express deep condolences for the untimely passing of Dr. Shaikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Daij Al Khalifa, who died on Friday, January 27, 2023 at the age of 65.
In September 2020, he called for peace and coexistence among all religions, sects and peoples and received many Jews during their visits to the Kingdom of Bahrain, playing an important role towards peaceful coexistence. He was also among the personalities planning Pope Francis' historic first visit to Bahrain in November 2022.
Until his death, Al Khalifa was Deputy Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the ISA Cultural Center, a national institution affiliated to the Manama Royal Court. Since March 2018, he has also served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the King Hamad Global Center for Peaceful Coexistence.
“Some countries create centers of tolerance and peaceful coexistence to have peaceful coexistence in their countries,” Al Khalifa told The Media Line in 2020. “Bahrain is just the opposite. We have had a peaceful existence for many years - hundreds of years - and we would like to reflect this to the world through our center and through the United States of the World of which I am honored to be a part”.
Michele Capasso and Pia Molinari recall the visit to the headquarters of the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the United States of the World in May 2018, on the occasion of the Mediterranean Prize for Culture awarded to him and together with the title of "Ambassador of the United States of the World".

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