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Born in Sassuolo (Modena) in 1968, at 16 he left Fiorano Modenese where he lived with his large family (he is the eighth of ten children) and began to travel in Europe thanks to his various work experiences.
Giuseppe has been involved in International Development Co-operation and Big Events Organisations for many years. He collaborated with the following organisations Caritas Italy, Caritas Albania, Consorzio Sociale Polis di Pisa, Italian Episcopal Conference, Austrian Episcopal Conference, Taize Community and with several Missionary Orders on projects in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa, amongst others. He participated to the organisations of events like the European Youth Meetings in various European cities and was sector responsible for World Youth Day, Rome 2000.
His passion for journalism and digital photography arose from the need for documenting the situations met during his journeys. He uses these tools in all possible way to promote the debate on the themes of International Co-operation, Globalisation with a human face and Distributive Justice for all the people of the planet.
As a freelance journalist and photographer member of UCIP (Union Catholique Internationale de la Presse) he collaborates with the news edition of Radio Vaticana (Vatican City) the weekly Vita (Milan) the monthly l'Emigrato (Piacenza) and Migrantes (Tijuana) as well as the by-monthly Scalabriniani (Rome)
Presently he is responsible for the Co-operation and Development Sector of the European Region of the Scalabrini Missionaries and his the director of the Scalabrini Development Agency in Cape Town (South Africa).
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