247:, who mobilized the attention of the media with a press conference in which she told her story of life as a single mother and her experience as a guest at the "Village". She also issued a new record and donated all the proceeds to the Village. Compared to other welfare institutions of the time, there were no pre-established conditions for acceptance and mothers in need of assistance were welcomed, without distinction between legitimate mothers and illegitimate mothers. There were no set times for activities, to allow the mothers to breastfeed in peace. In some cases, the Village was also able to accommodate orphans. It has become a model for best practices in the care and education of single mothers and continues to be studied. Over the years, additional facilities were added, including a craft school, open to outsiders, in the 1960s and a clinic offering
198:. This method paid particular attention to the use of materials offered by nature and to the promotion of agricultural activity. It aimed for children to stay outdoors as much as possible. At the beginning of the thirties the kindergarten still did not have an adequate location, because the municipality could not afford the construction of a purpose-built school. Mazzocchi asked for donations from wealthy friends and organized several charity events until it became possible to build the new asylum, which was inaugurated on 2 July 1933. However, this coincided with her departure from Sardinia after her husband concluded that he only needed to visit Sardinia a couple of times a year.
210:, working with the Union of Italian Women, she gave help to the families of political deportees and men who had disappeared to escape arrest, as well as giving clandestine assistance to the Jews in Milan. After the liberation of the city on 25 April 1945, she helped needy families and refugees. Milan became the centre of assistance for thousands of refugees returning from concentration camps in Germany and Poland. She worked day and night for ten days at Milan’s railway station, and on 15 May 1945 the
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in Milan to accommodate single mothers and pregnant returnees. This was called the “Village of the Mother and Child” and was inaugurated on 12 October 1945. On the same day the chapel of the palace witnessed the marriage of one of the returning mothers, who married a young sailor who was the father
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Hospital in Milan and, immediately afterwards, she opened a modelling laboratory for children and a recreational club for foster children. At the request of the
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Mazzocchi was born in Milan into an upper-middle class family, on 14 December 1904. She was daughter of Cesare Mazzocchi, an architect and Isabella Bossi, an elementary school teacher. Her grandfather designed the
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