Dear Friends, Dear Friends,
This year, I am writing to ask you to donate 5x1000 to the Fondazione Mediterraneo.
We are committed for 20 years to promote dialogue and peace and we are dedicating every resource and engaging our lives, as documented extensively on this portal and on www.euromedi.org
Among the projects underway report:
The Totem of peace, which is spreading throughout the world as a symbol of brotherhood between peoples

• The Mediterranean Observatory on the rights of the child.
• The Mediterranean Observatory on women’s needs
• The Mediterranean Observatory on organized crime and the mafia
• The project of “inter-ethnic city”.

Our Foundation has distinguished itself since its inception, the concreteness of the results and the unanimous wise use of resources, recognized by the official audit and from international organizations.
I ask you, therefore, a small gesture that will allow all of us to continue to “embrace” the Peace and transform – at this difficult moment in history – the love for power in the power of love, which is indispensable for building our future:
For the 5x1000 to the Fondazione Mediterraneo Onlus by affixing the signature and indicating the Foundation’s tax code

94139240637

Thank you
Michele Capasso

The Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Fondazione Caponnetto, which together gave birth to OMCOM - ”Mediterranean Observatory on organized crime and the mafias” - will participate with their delegations on the ship organized by the Foundation Falcone.

Today in Naples at the headquarters of the Fondazione Mediterraneo became the operating Omcom (Mediterranean Observatory on organized crime and the Mafia). This Observatory was established following the delivery of the prize to legality 2013 Mediterranean “Raffaele Capasso” to Fondazione Antonino Caponnetto. Institutions proposer are the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Fondazione Antonino Caponnetto.

The General Meeting of the ALF Italian Network will take place in Venice from 21-25 May 2013. The Speakers will include the Executive Director  Andreu Claret, as well as coordinators Michele Capasso, Roberto Russo, Elisa Adorno and other members of the Italian Network.

Venice, 21-25 May 2013

The Fondazione Mediterraneo is a partner at an event that will take place in Venice, within which the General Meeting of the Italian Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation will take place.

The Fondazione Mediterraneo welcomed representatives from the world of culture, art, science and politics and well as military authorities during the 96th Edition of the Giro d’Italia.
This unique spectacle took place among the walls that have contributed to the writing of the pages of history over the last twenty years.

The President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Michele Capasso, together with Caterina Arcidiacono, Vice President and other members of the institution welcomed the President of the State of Palestine Mahmūd Abbās (Abū Māzen) to their headquarters in Naples where he received the “2013 Special Edition of the Mediterranean Award” ''for his action – as is stated in the reason -  “as the architect of dialogue in the fraught peace process between Israel and Palestine”.
A numerous Palestinian delegation attended  the ceremony led by the Palestinian Ambassador to Italy, Sabri Ateyehe, the Head of Palestinian Negotiations (former spokesman to Yasser Arafat) Saeb Erekat as well as ministers, diplomats and advisers to  Abū Māzen. Members of the Fondazione Mediterraneo spoke at the ceremony, together with delegations from various countries including diplomats and representatives from cultural, scientific, political, religious and military authorities from different countries as well as Mayors who support the “Totem for Peace” (author Mario Molinari).
In his speech, which was of high political-institutional content, President Abū Māzen emphasized the pivotal role of the peace process: “We have chosen the path of negotiation and only negotiation to achieve peace with Israel. There is no other way. In this historical building where the pages of the history of peace have been written thanks to the passion and commitment of President Capasso, I hope that one day we will write a happy page of history about the lasting peace between Israel and Palestine. I am honoured to have received this acknowledgement from the Fondazione Mediterraneo, which has been an anchor for peace and cooperation among peoples for more than twenty years”.

President Abū Māzen made a gift of a handcrafted work of art depicting Bethlehem representing the “Virgin Mary with Baby Jesus” and inaugurated the “Palestinian Room” at the Maison de la Méditerranée, and participated at a solemn flag-raising ceremony before the “Totem for Peace” by Mario Molinari: “This universal symbol of peace” he stated, “will soon be erected in Ramallah and I would like to welcome you all to our country for that occasion to celebrate this work of art for Peace”.