School - 2002

Father Giussani with students

That First Hour of School

SchoolPaola Bergamini

October 1957. Berchet High School, first year, front desk. Fr Luigi Negri recounts the first period of religion class with Fr Giussani. “For him, teaching was not a parenthesis in his life, it was the part that was most alive.”

The United Nations. Wikimedia Commons

Quality Education

SchoolAlberto Piatti

Two delegates from the Holy See at the United Nations Session on Children, where they presented AVSI’s experience in the various countries of the world.

A Slum in Nairobi. Wikimedia Commons

The School of the Future

SchoolHenry Kamande

In Nairobi, an innovative vocational school with 450 students, created at the behest of Cardinal Otunga and sustaine by AVSI. An example of the “risk of education” in action, which prepares one for life.