Every year many girls, boys, women and men come to visit us in Florence, to learn or to improve the language, to enjoy the beauty of our city, to make new friends; and we try to do our best to make them feel really welcome, to treat them with an unforgettable experience.

We should do the same – with even more respect, care, and warmth, for all of them who are coming not because they wish to, but because they are forced – by war, famine, violence: by the impossibility to lead a normal life.

Especially in a city which owes so much to foreign, travelling people.

Therefore also this year we at Scuola Toscana support the United Nations High Commitee for Refugees (UNHCR) – to help them who are helping our brothers.