I deeply believe we must restore mercy to our society, our universal brotherhood, our empathy, which can overcome all barriers and reveal the true nature of men and women. As human beings we all share hopes, dreams, fears and wishes. In light of this we cannot be indifferent and passive in the face of suffering in those around us.
Reading Time: 4 minutes @ Riace Non Si Arrende, Nancy Polo, 2019 This illustration is made to commemorate an heroic act of common sense and humanity. As the sun’s dying light glimmers across the......
Reading Time: 4 minutes Confined at home due to the spread of the pandemic, we are preparing to celebrate Easter in lockdown for the second year. Considering this situation, we cannot help but contemplate......
Reading Time: 3 minutes «Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful violation of human rights. It knows no borders or geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to......
Reading Time: 2 minutes 2020 was a complex and unexpected year, the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted our lives, changed our habits and questioned our certainties. We managed to overcome many obstacles and difficulties within......
Reading Time: 3 minutes On 7th November, the news about the release of Nasrin Sotoudeh was joyous, for a moment, for me and all those who have followed the sad story of the Iranian......
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the Mediterranean Sea, five years after Operation Mare Nostrum and the establishment of MOAS, many things have changed. Despite the wider spread of coronavirus in Europe, migrant people are......
Reading Time: 3 minutes On September 18th, US Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life in this world ended. What did not end are all the causes that this gender equality defender pushed......
Reading Time: 3 minutes The lockdown measures taken to slow the spread of COVID-19 have impeded or reduced production activities and air, train and road traffic in almost every country in the world. The......
Reading Time: 3 minutes On World Refugee Day 2020 I would like to highlight Noura’s story which is very close to my heart. Noura is a 30-year-old Syrian woman who until January 5th 2015,......
Reading Time: 2 minutes Libya, Yemen, and Syria are just some of the countries that are simultaneously facing the COVID-19 pandemic and dealing with long conflicts that have shocked entire territories and pushed populations......
I believe in social business and philanthropy. I am actively connected to different humanitarian projects. Together with my husband, we created MOAS and Tangiers Group, our family business, where I am currently a member of the Board of Directors
“The human species — we, in short — had the potential to construct an enormity of pain, and that pain is the only force created from nothing, without cost and without effort. It is enough not to see, not to listen, not to act”
Primo Levi
“Omnia munda mundis; coinquinatis autem et infidelibus nihil mundum, sed inquinatae sunt eorum et mens et conscientia”