DESCRIPTION:
While Jean Henry Dunant was in Castiglione delle Stiviere (Mantua, Italy) one of the bloodiest fight of the Second Italian War of Indipendence had been taking place in San Martino and Solferino, two little towns not far from there; it was July 24th 1859. Three were the armies: French army, Piedmont-Sardinia army and the Austrian one. They fought hardly leaving about one hundred thousand of dead, injured and missing people. Due to that atrocious situation, the young Swiss Dunant thought to create a team of voluntary nurses who could support military healthcare: the Red Cross. During the Geneva Convey (from 26th to 29th 1863), national society of Red Cross was born; the Italian one has been the fifth, founded in 1864 by the doctor Cesare Castiglione from Milan.
ROLE:
Official patronage of International Children’s Rights Festival from November 19th 2014
WEB SITE:
www.cri.it
