An international humanitarian association, “World Without Wars,” initiated a project called “The World March for Peace and Nonviolence” in the autumn of 2008. Millions of people participated in the World March, which began on 2 October 2009 in New Zealand and ended on 2 January 2010 in Argentina.
Ms. Tiziana Volta, coordinator of the World March in Brescia initiated the tree planting at a new school in Castenedolo and Giosue Carducci Junior High School in L’Aquila.
The tree planting ceremony was held from 11:00am on 2 April 2011 at Giosue Carducci Junior High School and attended by school officials, local organizations and representatives of forest groups and many others.
A big earthquake struck the L’Aquila region of Abruzzo in 2009. After the earthquake, the first grade students started to do a mural painting to pass on stories of the disaster.
At the workshop held at the tree planting ceremony, they drew a kaki tree bearing huge fruit on the big white wall. Messages of peace passed along by the kaki tree will be added on the mural in the coming years.
