Padre Umile founded the “Sorriso Francescano” in Genoa in 1946 to promote numerous charitable activities in favor of children and youth in need, by building two complexes for prompt reception services for minors. Padre Dionisio Mazzucco in 1957 did the same in La Spezia by founding “La Casa del Fanciullo”.
Today, “Sorriso Francescano” presents itself as a socio-educational welfare work that addresses minor hardship, also serving mothers and students in difficulty, in its locations in Genoa and La Spezia.
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