We are an organisation,
but above all we are a group of friends

We are a group of people who have walked stretches of life together. Former students who, in their school years, attended the Francesco Morosini Naval College in Venice, Corso Azzurra 1983–1986.

Strong bonds of friendship and a solid group spirit brought us together as one in the days after 18 September 2009, when Anna — the two-year-old daughter of our classmate Pierluigi and his wife Valeria — left us far too soon. Friends, relatives and work colleagues immediately joined the former schoolmates.

Giulio — friend, fellow Morosini alumnus and founding member — travelled to India often for work. On those journeys he saw first-hand the reality of abandoned children. After Anna's death he bought land in the village of Pethanaickenpalayam, in Tamil Nadu, and with the help of the whole group built an orphanage there.

When the building was registered and legalised under Indian law, Giulio decided to give the orphanage Anna's name. That is where the Anna4Children adventure began; today the home cares for 25+ girls — orphaned, abandoned or in difficulty — thanks to the invaluable work of the Salesian Sisters of Chennai.

It is an adventure of solidarity and remembrance that has now been going on for more than 15 years.

Through this website we share news and raise funds for the upkeep of the orphanage and, whenever we can — often — we support or create from scratch projects for minors.

No middlemen; just us volunteers and children growing up with dignity.