Il sorriso di Roberta per l’UNICEF - project "Water and sanitation in schools in Tanzania”

100 pittori e il sorriso di Roberta - when the 'Arts meets Solidarity
Another project of the highest social value is to be held in Milazzo on days ranging from May 29 to June 2, 2015.

The room's glass Paladiana the City of Milazzo, as in previous years, will host the seventh edition of "The Roberta's smile for UNICEF."

The UNICEF project this year is "Water and sanitation in schools" in Tanzania
Tanzania is a country in rapid economic growth (6-7% per year between 2008 and 2010) but that is still suffering from the severe social price of backwardness, lack of infrastructure and a heavy debt.
The country ranks 27th place in the ranking of global child mortality: a child of 10 does not reach the age of five, mostly from causes that could be prevented with simple, low-cost measures such as vaccines, anti-malaria mosquito nets, and better nutrition and hygiene conditions.
The scarcity of drinking water and sanitation is the basis for approximately one-third of infant mortality: reliable water sources and toilets are absent in the home, but especially in schools.
A fifth of schools have a latrine for every 100 students, a number of every 500, and only 1% of the facilities have soap to wash your hands.
Having clean water for drinking and washing, toilets and drains working: rights seem trivial, for humanity in the third millennium.
Yet still nearly 900 million inhabitants of the planet draw water from unsanitary sources and 2.6 billion (four out of ten people) live in hygienic conditions incompatible with the safety and health.
Infants and very young children are the most defenseless victims of waterborne infections from unclean and unsanitary environment: in fact, 16% of the global child mortality is caused by diarrhea, a disease which in the West is to be treated with such ease considered a mere "accident" for children or adults.
And they are no less than 400 million school-age children each year become ill because of intestinal parasites, the consequences of which may even cause delays in cognitive development.
When the water is far away, the girls are forced to leave school to go to pick it up, and the women tied to a daily chore that becomes a real gender discrimination: as in Africa, where the search for water falls 81% on the shoulders of women and girls.

WHAT DOES UNICEF
The project "Water and sanitation in schools" applies best practices that UNICEF has developed over decades of experience in every part of the planet.
We know that intervene in the poorest districts maximizes the number of lives saved, which improve the school environment increases attendance rates and gender inequalities that hygiene education that you do in school is beneficial even among the families of pupils.
The project aims to extend the "guidelines" developed in 21 pilot schools in 60 other identified areas most in need of the country, with immediate benefits for 42,000 children.
If this project is successful, it will be easier for the government to invest the huge sums necessary to ensure hygiene and safe drinking water to all 18,000 schools across the country, reaching tens of millions of children.

WHAT SHALL WE DO TO HELP
Will set up a group exhibition that will directly involve all the participating artists who will donate a painting them.
The presence of numerous artists of many nationalities who are giving or pledged to donate their work for the realization of this project, provides reassurance that the organizers are hoping to repeat the success of previous events.
All works of art donated by the artists will be on sale with a minimum bid during the event and all proceeds will be donated to UNICEF and will finance the project "Water and sanitation in schools" in Tanzania that the provincial committee of UNICEF and the Messina 'association Roberta Smedili have adopted for their business for the year 2015.

For information and donation paintings.
Il sorriso di Roberta per l’UNICEF – UNICEF Arte
Associazione Roberta Smedili
Via Gabriele D’Annunzio, 12
98057 Milazzo (ME)
Email robertasmedili@yahoo.it

sito web http://ilsorrisodiroberta.jimdo.com/


Il sorriso di Roberta per l’UNICEF – Progetto “Acqua e igiene nelle scuole" in Tanzania
Paladiana del Comune di Milazzo 29 Maggio 2015 – 2 Giugno 2015

Presentazione mostra
Sala rotonda del Paladiana, 29 Maggio 2015 ore 19,00

Esposizione e vendita dipinti
Sala a vetri del Paladiana 29 Maggio – 2 Giugno 2015 orario 10,00 – 20,00


ARTISTI PARTECIPANTI
Alesci Francesco (Italia)
Alexiou Vasili (Grecia)
Ansaloni Mark (Belgio)
Battaglia Xante (Italia)
Bernava Angelo (Italia)
Betta Valerio (Italia)
Bonacina Adelio (Italia)
Borowski Henryk (Polonia)
Briot Elnuy (Francia)
Bruno Luca (Italia)
Calvo Julie (Francia)
Carin Francoise (Francia)
Carletti Carla (Italia)
Castelli Gianfranco (Italia)
Cerezo Barredo Mino (Spagna)
Conte Vincenza (Italia)
Coral Roberta (Italia)
Crestoni Anna Maria (Italia)
Crotta Sabrina (Italia)
Currò Salvo (Italia)
D'Alpaos Alba (Venezuela)
D'Ambrosio Giovanni (Italia)
De Haan Paul (Italia)
Di Carlo Vittorio Maria (Italia)
Di Leo Anna (Italia)
Dumas Gabriella (Italia)
Fantuzzi Eliano (Italia)
Ferretti Giulia (Italia)
Filannino Natale (Italia)
Fiore Stefano (Italia)
Fracasso Pasqualino (Italia)
Fumagalli Alex (Italia)
Gonzales Simeon (Perù)
Grove Eleanor (Inghilterra)
Gualco Pietro (Italia)
Hajnos Miroslaw (Polonia)
Horatiu Adrian (Romania)
Johansson - D'Agostino Gunilla (Svezia)
Karas Aneta (Polonia)
Keusseyan Hrair Sarkis (Armenia)
Khromykh Natalia (Ucraina)
Koziol Marek (Polonia)
Kubiak Katarzyna (Polonia)
Lange Marianne (Germania)
Lasa Roman (Polonia)
Lombardo Salvo (Italia)
Maffioli Riccardo (Italia)
Magazzini Salvatore (Italia)
Malacarne Claudio (Italia)
Marcel Juan (Rep. Dominicana)
Marrero Onelio (Cuba)
Masri Hayssam (Libano)
Maximova Olga (Russia)
Merler Marianna (Italia)
Mileo Gianni (Italia)
Mingozzi Aldo (Italia)
Neacsu Valentin (Romania)
Pasotto Paolo (Italia)
Patti Cristina (Italia)
Pereyra Teresa (Argentina)
Piacentini Marcello (Italia)
Polgar Aliz (ungheria)
Renda Francesca (Italia)
Romino Antonio (Italia)
Rossetti Chiara Maria (Italia)
Shahaj Iskra (Albania)
Tapparini Ugo (Italia)
Terruso Saverio (Italia)
Togo (Italia)
Trombini Giuliano (Italia)
Viale Susanna (Italia)
Voinova Evgenia (Bulgaria)
Wierkowska Iwona (Polonia)
Wu Lei (Cina)
Yuzzelli Shura Oyarce (Perù)
Zanellati Sandro (Italia)
Zwiez Marek (Polonia)