Andrea: «Volunteering is beauty and so I met my girlfriend. The first kiss? With the uniform “

Has lost his parents when he was a teenager. He remembers his mother’s last words: “As long as she had a chance to speak, he told me how important beauty was “. That’s why, when she was 20, Andrea Francioni started volunteering at the Red Cross in Florence: “Because volunteering is one of the many facets of beauty, made up of beautiful people who make their time and energy available to help those who need it most ». Today Andrea is 28 years old and is the representative of the 300 young people of the Florentine section of the Red Cross. “Someone calls us heroes, but we are not heroes, we are only active people for our community, it should be normal “. Andrea does activities in schools such as affection education, the fight against bullying and gender discrimination. And then the ambulance services, as well as those in the civil protection sector that led him to great disasters such as the Livorno flood. And then health care at concerts. Every week, Andrea dedicates (free of charge) 25 hours to the Red Cross. It is his world, and right here he met his girlfriend Alessia, also a volunteer. “We met during a Red Cross event. The first kiss? During a blood donation event, I was wearing a uniform “.

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