LETTER OF THE PRESIDENT

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Letter of the President

Our organization is called to support of human person. It is with people in every part of the world pleasure that we present to have the necessary means to to you the activities which access knowledge and information kept us busy in the past year. in several sector of their life. Once more in 2015, that was the spirit which pushed us to work tirelessly to serve our partners. In this Peace is one annual report, we intend to give a glimpse of of the themes the efforts we have made and a picture of the results we achieved during the past year. VITTORIO VICCARDI WFRM PRESIDENT that pervade our 2015 was a special year for us because we had projects. All our the worldwide conference in Italy, an opportunity which falls every three years to meet all our associate members and stakeholders. During The world is changing and World Family of activities aim at improving life that gathering we had the honour and the joy Radio Maria is of people to be welcomed in a private audience by His prompt to adapt Holiness Pope Francis in the Clementine Hall, to the inputs in Vatican City. It was a moment of gratefulness coming from the five continents. In particular it is for the moral and spiritual support His Holiness important to accompany a growing digitalization give to our efforts, and of great encouragement in communication, investing in different to continue working in the whole world ”in first technologies, in radio frequency and in the new line” for all the projects to promote the dignity web and mobile platforms. The main vocation of World Family is the growth of local human resources and our challenge is to provide new instruments and at the same time, to train local staff and volunteers to use them properly, to reach all the people and the smallest communities, interacting with them and promoting the universal values of dialogue and pacification. So we are called to operate directly with our projects by local institutions especially where political crises cause millions of refugees in the Middle East and in Africa. For this reason in 2015 we started programs and activities in favour of

refugees from Burundi and, offering them words of consolation, and hope to alleviate part of their pain. In the Middle East we are actively present with initiatives to support the Arabian Christian communities of Lebanon, and in the next future for the emergency in Erbil we will be probably able to offer the same also in Iraq and Syria. Peace is one of the themes that pervade our projects. All our activities aim at improving the life of people especially where lack of peace put it in danger and conflicts cause spiritual and physical sufferings. We work with our local partners to alleviate the pain, to heal the wounds and generally. On the other side we started to collaborate with Universities in Africa to form journalists and professionals involved in media to spread peace through the communication industries, because peace starts also from the way we talk, listen and read. We believe this is the contribution we can give to the world nowadays and that our efforts will bear beautiful fruits. We would like to thank all the collaborators and volunteers that helped in spreading our mission and values through our projects in all the continents. The spirit of our organization started by Italian volunteers and nowadays it is brought to the different continents by the team work of thousands of volunteers that, from all the organizations associated to World Family, support us daily. Finally as new President, I would like to thank the great work and example that gave us our former President Mr. Ferrario that founded the World Family in 1998 consecrating his life to this world wide mission. Enjoy reading this Annual Report Regards Vittorio Viccardi, WFRM President