THE ESSENCE OF MISMATCHED SOCKS

ENVIRONMENT

THE ESSENCE OF MISMATCHED SOCKS

by Marco Piemonte

CEO at Greenden and Green Hearts Dignity

Welcome back dear friends, I would like to start this article by sharing a little secret. You may be aware by now that since I am part of the Global Goodwill Ambassador Foundation, gradually, I have seen myself grow on a personal level and I have discovered parts of myself that I did not see or did not want to see. Today, two years after my appointment, I feel like a completely restructured, changed person. I have replaced my modalities, my approach towards life and towards myself, in short, I feel free but at the same time very responsible for what is around me. I am grateful to this Foundation because it enriched me and my acquired sensitivity lead me to intercept people like in this case the Master Sabrina and her friends Giulia, Silvia, Clara and Edy. How come this nice little group caught my attention? Well, prick up your ears, because these wonderful people have given birth to a “social event” that takes the name of “The day of mismatched socks”. Think of the event as a metaphor for diversity and the fact that color, length, shape and size do not change the nature of things or person: they are always and in any case socks metaphorically speaking!

So, one day, Sabrina, Giulia, Silvia, Clara and Edy decide to create a post and publish it each on their profile, the post stated; Attention if you too want to join the day of mismatched socks it is very simple “you need to wear unmatched, imaginative and playful socks, take a picture and post it on your Facebook or Instagram profile tagging @autismoParoleperdirlo”.

The invitation to participate addressed to everyone: adults and children, teachers and parents, kindergartens and schools, as if by magic, had a huge success in Italy and from that day on, every 5th February, the Social is colored with mismatched socks, in honor of an important theme like autism.

As a Global Goodwill Ambassador, I felt it was important to disseminate this initiative in taking a different look at diversity and so I created a dedicated post for this article, amazing, how many photos have arrived, some of these photos are visible here in this article. Anyone who knows me knows for sure that my curiosity has no limits, but above all in the various projects that I am carrying out, in future a closer involvement is planned with the Sustainable Companies that are part of my Team, and so I wrote directly to Sabrina my complimenting her on the initiative and she replied very kindly;

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“Good evening Marco ... thanks, but I did nothing but start with an idea ... it is thanks to my four friends Claun who decided eight years ago to create a Facebook page dedicated to what was born three years earlier in the school (they follow all photos arrive and respond to messages, I follow the school aspect more) .... to the tam tam of many people and above all to the teachers of all kindergartens and primary schools that in these years and more and more numerous have joined with splendid works with and for children .... that this idea continues to please and is kept alive. The reality is that with children you can create .... a thousand special things ...

I don’t know how in some articles the initiative aimed at autism came out .... maybe because some associations / projects concerning autism are connected to our day .....

We start from a voluntary activity and practice clown therapy as a social mission in hospitals and other structures such as retirement homes and cottolengo, actually support the idea that we are all different

and therefore special ... we are friends of associations for trisomy 21 and also, we are friends of the associations for autism, we are friends of the admo and the cro of Aviano youth area .... so not only autism.

It is people who are special, each of us, when they give something to others ... even just a smile, closeness, the little everyday things.

I thank my colleagues from Terzo di Aquileia (Udine-Friuli Venezia Giulia- Italy) who have always accompanied me in the crazy ideas in recent years and my friends Claun Giulia, Silvia, Clara and Edy because they wanted to bring the message into one wider space that has reached teams, schools, people of all ages. (and today “PS: I insert this “United States and Australia”), and if even just one person has somehow changed the day .... well, for us it’s like a smile received !!!

You can follow Sabrina by visiting www.friulclaun.it www.facebook.com/sabrina.flapp

PS: You see these thoughts on diversity made with the children of the kindergarten in Prata di Pordenone (Friuli Venezia Giulia-Italy) have made me so sympathetic, for example .... that of glasses.

Following are the photos of the people who joined the initiative of my Facebook post wearing their mismatched socks ....

In conclusion, you know what I tell you “People see madness in your colorful liveliness and can’t see madness in their boring normality!” Be madly in love with life and all lives.

Marco Piemonte;

CEO and Founder Greenden

Founder and President of the World Green Hearts Dignity Organization

Director of the GGA Foundation in Italy

Writer “Sustainability in the world” eYs Magazine

Account Manager Cieffe System renewable energy sector

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