PROFILE – ALCIONE ALBANESI
By Adriana Calabró Photos: Chico Audi and Amigos do Bem Collection
TRANSFORMING POWER
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nyone who listens to Alcione Albanese speak, in a professional environment about her work with the Amigos do Bem project, soon realizes she is a woman of outgoing energy, vibrant in her ideas and words, utterly committed to her role as president of the institution. However, when seeing her in action, holding hands with children in the far corners of the Northeast, on the front line fighting against hunger and poverty, one comes to understand that her role as a citizen and her vision of solidarity go far beyond her position or title. It is pure moving power. This force one observes in Alcione did not come about by chance. She learned how to appreciate volunteer work and dedicate her inexhaustible energy to those in need, like Dona Guiomar, her family’s matriarch. “My mom is an inspiration to me. I always say ‘you are taught to be good’ and it was exactly like that for me. Ever since I was young, I accompanied my mother’s social work,” she says. “During vacation, I looked after children who lived in the daycares she built.” Guiomar’s legacy continues in future generations, for her grandchildren have been committed and accompanied Alcione to the Northeast, since their first trip. “I came from a middle class family, who achieved everything through a lot of hard work. My father was a constructor, and my mother was born in the countryside of Presidente Prudente. We went to a private school, but I believe the most important lesson was taught by them, our principles and values,” clarifies Alcione.
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WITH A SOLID AND WELL INTENTIONED BACKGROUND, ALCIONE ALBANESI SETS A PATH OF FORCE, RESILIENCE, AND ACHIEVEMENT WITH THE AMIGOS DO BEM INSTITUTION. SHAPING LIVES AND BUILDING THAT WHICH SEEMS TO BE IMPOSSIBLE ARE HER SPECIALTIES
