MARIAVITTORIA RAVA

“WOMAN FOR SOCIAL AND CIVIL COMMITMENT” Award

True promises cannot be broken. Nor fate nor death can. Let alone time passing by. Promises create an eternal and lasting bond, they must be preserved, honoured and respected. Just how Mariavittoria Rava did. She was faithful to her promise even when faced with the excruciating pain of her loss and was at the point of no return of discouragement. An apparently-aimless research brought her to find herself again. Bringing her on new paths. Putting back together the fragments of a picture that end up creating a totally unexpected portrait, like in a mosaic. That of Francesca Rava NPH Italia Onlus (NPO) Foundation. That of a reality that has its aim and raison d'être in supporting those in need. Day by day. Over the years. Here and there. Enhancing life. A life that becomes two, and then a thousand, a multitude, a community, a country. Mariavittoria has left a mark in the constant humanitarian impulse towards the others. She has changed people’s hearts. And the world.