Funds were collected for the Pediatric Division of the Hospital of Sant’Anna and San Sebastiano in Caserta and for the National Association for the Assistance to the Disadvantaged Children of Military and Civil Employees and Former Military and Civil Employees of the Defense. On Friday, December 14, at the A.M. Specialist School in Caserta, a charity evening was held in support of Pediatric Department of the Hospital Sant’Anna and San Sebastiano in Caserta for the support of hospitalized children and the Caserta Section of the National Association for the Assistance to Minors“ Children of Military and Civil Employees of the Defense (ANAFIM), against all discrimination and in defense of the rights of the differently-abled. skillful. In addition to the staff of the School of Specialists and the members of the Arma Aeronautica Association – Caserta Section with their families, the professor Felice Nunziata, head of the pediatric division at the Sant’Anna and San Sebastiano Hospital in Caserta, and the captain Giovanni Falcone, President of the ANAFIM – Caserta Section, also attended the evening; they greatly appreciated the commitment of the School of Specialists in the project to support the two organizations. During his address of greeting, Col. Nicola Gigante thanked all those present for the solidarity shown by joining the charitable initiative, emphasizing the concrete closeness of the School of Specialists to the territory of Terra di Lavoro and its most needy and less fortunate citizens, with an additional act that adds to the many others of the year that is about to end, from blood donations to initiatives for Telethon to the commitment in the training of the territory’s youth with the ”Dedalo 1“ Civil Protection exercise or the screening of the preview of the film ”Born in Casal di Principe“ by Amedeo Letizia to spread the values of legality, to name just a few. A closeness to the territory and also to those in greatest need is an expression of the values of honor, respect and dignity in which the personnel, military and civilian, of the School of Specialists of the Italian Air Force believes, informing them daily of their actions. The evening continued with a theatrical choreography – performed by some young people from the ANAFIM – that deeply moved the audience, and then by the actors of the cultural association ”30allora“ who presented the entertaining two-act comedy titled ”The Hospital for the Barefoot Infirmary”. Among the main actors were also Stefano D’Ambrosio, an officer serving at the Specialist School in Caserta. The funds collected in support of the Pediatric Division of the Hospital Sant’Anna and San Sebastiano in Caserta will be used to purchase a spirometer, a tool useful for assessing the respiratory status of individuals suffering from restrictive pulmonary diseases. Those in favor of ANAFIM will instead be employed to support the institutional purposes of the ONLUS, namely to assist, without profit, the children and employees with disabilities by disseminating information related to health education and prevention, organizing outpatient clinics for medical examinations and rehabilitative therapies, establishing reception centers to provide occupational therapy, organizing and/or coordinating marine and mountain retreats, promoting amateur sports activities for therapeutic purposes, and carrying out activities directly related to or ancillary to statutory activities, insofar as they are complementary to them.
The School of Specialists that promoted the initiative is a military educational institution for the initial basic training, specialized technical training, instruction, refresher training, specialization, qualification and retraining of personnel of the Air Force, the Other Armed Forces, Armed Corps and non-State entities, as well as personnel of foreign Armed Forces. It is hierarchically subordinate to the Command of Schools of the A.M./3rd Air Region of Bari.
