Marco Griffini confirmed to the presidency: "We leave behind the most difficult three-year period"
With new enthusiasm, with a strategic plan in three points and after the most difficult three-year period in its history, the activity of Ai.Bi. - Amici dei Bambini. Once the previous three-year mandate expired, the Governing Council of the organization was renewed, with its main institutional headquarters in San Giuliano Milanese. The shareholders' meeting resolved its composition in the past few days, electing the five members.
Marco Griffini was reconfirmed as president, Cristina Riccardi, former president of the AiBi Foundation, was elected vice president as general secretary Ermes Carretta, former president of the AIBC Social Cooperative, and further members were Giuseppe Salomoni and don Massimiliano Sabbadini , respectively the next president and spiritual adviser of "La Pietra Scartata", the Association of the faithful made up of adoptive and foster families of abandoned minors.
In addition, the constitution was approved, in view of the forthcoming revision of the statute, which must be approved within the deadlines set by the reform of the Third Sector Code, of a "National Council of Ai.Bi." composed of all the regional coordinators of the association .
"The assembly - explains the president Marco Griffini - wished to express heartfelt thanks to the outgoing Board of Directors, which had to face one of the most difficult, perhaps the most difficult, periods of the association's more than thirty-year life, culminating in the crazy attack of the former CAI vice president Silvia della Monica supported by the Renzi government and by the weekly L'Espresso against the very idea of ??international adoption. The tireless work and the tenacious resistance of the members of the Governing Council, the regional coordinators and all the collaborators of the association, as well as the unshakable trust and support of the hundreds of families have allowed Ai.Bi. not only to be able to overcome the numerous obstacles ... but above all to be able to trace the guidelines of a strategy, which the new leaders will have to implement, during their mandate, to relaunch the whole sector of the reception of those who are in family difficulties ”.