THE MAISON DE LA PAIX

 

CASA UNIVERSALE DELLE CULTURE

The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture is a place strongly representative, in which will convey the knowledge of the different identities and cultures, structuring permanently initiatives aimed at the spreading of peace, necessary for the shared development.

The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture (MdP) is a project conceived by Michele Capasso, approved by many Countries and international organizations. It is an architecture that keeps the memory of many Peace activities which created history, often more than the wars, but it is – above all – a space "to build” Peace.

The architectonical complex has an important symbolic worth: it represents the Countries of the World engaged in the Peace process and the Countries victim of the conflicts.

Proposed by the Fondazione Mediterraneo with the Maison des Alliances – together with the main adherent organizations, such as the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, the League of Arab States, the "Anna Lindh" Euro-Mediterranean Foundation and others, the MdP represents a referent point for all the ones who dedicate their lives to peace.

The symbol of the MdP is the "Totem for Peace", an artwork by the Italian sculptor Mario Molinari which the Fondazione Mediterraneo is promoting all around the world, creating the network of the "Cities for Peace".

The first seat of the MdP was inaugurated on the 14th of June 2010 (Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture) in the historical building of the Grand Hotel de Londres in Naples.

The action of the Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture aims at improving the main activities of the "Universal Forum of Cultures" in: Barcelona (2004), Monterrey (2007), Valparaiso (2010) and Naples (2013).

The Maison de la Paix performs most of the initiatives jointly with the Maison de la Méditerranée.

 

Matilda Raffa Cuomo, Founder and Honorary President of Mentoring USA/Italy Charitable Organization, visited the Fondazione Mediterraneo together with President Sergio Cuomo, where Michele Capasso and  Pia Molinari, Director of the youth, children and creativity sector, welcomed them and illustrated the youth initiatives undertaken by the Fondazione Mediterraneo in over 20 years of activities in favour of children.
During her visit, Mrs Raffa Cuomo expressed her appreciation for the “magical” atmosphere of the place visited by Heads of State, Nobel Prize Winners and other eminent personalities and reiterated her hope that collaborative working spirit would develop between the two organizations especially with regard to the establishment of “Mentoring Mediterraneo”.

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At a solemn ceremony held  at the close of the  World Forum for Child Welfare 2012 attended by delegates from all over the world, the “Rita Allamprese Mediterranean Award for Children" was presented to Matilda Raffa Cuomo, President of  “Mentoring USA” and founder of “Mentoring Usa Italia”

This prestigious acknowledgement was presented by Michele CapassoPia Molinari and the Councillor for Social Affairs in the Campania Region, Ermanno Russo.
Matilda Raffa Cuomo was honoured to receive the Award and she reminisced about  Rita Allamprese, co-founder of the Fondazione Mediterraneo who dedicated her life to children for more than twenty years.

 

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