Over the years, Gerolamo Cardano High School has been supporting the projects that evaluate historical events, with contributions from IpR (the Pedagogical Institute of Resistance) and ANPI (the National Association of the Italian Partisans), especially those related to concentration camps or by visiting the concentration camp in Auschwitz.
The school applied for the Kaki Tree Project because by deepening the learning of the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and through knowledge and recollection of the events, they want to prevent it from happening again.
High school teacher Ms. Daniela Campiotti applied for the Project but the entire school welcomed the kaki tree.
Prior to the tree planting ceremony on 13 April, the general meeting was held at the school hall, and there were presentations by teachers as well as seven student representatives. The Japanese Consul General also attended from Milan. There were piano and cello performances at the beginning and end of the meeting.
A workshop was ongoing at the same time as the general meeting. A local partisan artist was invited and created with students a work of a huge kaki tree drawn on the wall. Messages were written on big kaki fruit, and a big picture of the sun was put on top of the center of the drawing.
They prepared a small garden in Japanse style in front of the school building and kaki tree was planted there.
Behind the tree, the bamboo fence of 1.2 meters is built and the short bamboo hedges are surrounding the tree. After Dr. Ebinuma’s speech, several representatives of students and teaching staff added soil over the tree roots with shovels.
