Raoul Bova, Paolo Calabresi, Cristiana Capotondi, Matilda De Angelis, Giorgio Pasotti, Pif and Benedetta Porcaroli: these are the actors and actresses who told tales to the little hospitalized children of the Child Jesus of Rome, "giving a moment of escape and an emotional caress to them and their parents ".
This is the review "Once upon a time", organized by the De Sanctis Foundation in collaboration with Aopi (Association of Italian Pediatric Hospitals), inaugurated this morning at the pediatric hospital in the capital.
The children wore the "Once upon a time" T-shirts and cap and asked for autographs and a souvenir photo with their idols.
He started sitting among the little ones, Giorgio Pasotti with "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" followed by Benedetta Porcaroli with the "Fox and the stork".
Pif has read "The Hare and the Tortoise";
Cristiana Capotondi experimented with "Pinocchio, Matilda De Angelis with" Giacomino and the magic bean ", Raoul Bova read" Rapunzel ". The children appreciated the surprise: great emotion and joy. Everyone smiled and beat the hands as if they were in a large theater, fairy tales have become a spectacle, a moment of joy and escape. "Our thoughts - said Francesco De Sanctis, president of the homonymous Foundation - are addressed to Afghan children, Syrians, Ukrainians, to all the children of the world, in those countries where one has not been at peace for years.
Fairy tales are a means to be able to caress them "." We want children to have all their rights when they are in hospital: from play to school ",
instead stated Alberto Zanobini, president of Aopi.
"I am happy - underlined Mariella Enoc, president of the Bambino Gesù hospital - that all pediatric hospitals have managed to carry out this initiative.
All the children of the world - we welcomed Ukrainian children to the Child Jesus - have the right to fairy tales. "The review will continue on May 6 at the Meyer in Florence; on May 13 at the Giannina Gaslini Institute in Genoa; on May 20 at the Santobono- Pausilipon in Naples and on May 27 at the maternal and child IRCCS Burlo Garofolo in Trieste.