“La Voce del Coraggio” is the title of the winning video, which came in first place in the 10th Edition of the national competition “Tracce di Memoria” created by the students of the first A and fourth A classes of the “Viale Bifulco” school and the fourth A and fourth B classes of the “Capoluogo” school of the “San Domenico Savio” Educational Directorate of Terzigno.
Award presented to the School in the Senate Hall in Rome directly by the hands of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella.
The Municipality of Terzigno wanted to organize an event for the prestigious result achieved in the Council Chamber of the Authority, Friday 31 May, in the presence of the Mayor, Francesco Ranieri; the Deputy Mayor with responsibility for Culture, Genny Falciano, the Headmaster, Rosaria Murano and the Commander of the Terzigno Carabinieri Station, Gennaro Auricchio.
"Traces of Memory" is a competition organized by the "Network of Archives for Non-Forgetting," the Ministry of Education of Merit, and the Ministry of Culture. The winning schools are awarded prizes every year in the presence of the highest state officials on May 2007th, as part of the celebrations organized for the Day of Remembrance established in XNUMX to remember the victims of terrorism and related massacres.
The purpose of the competition is to raise awareness of recent Italian historical events by researching their traces in the country to strengthen the memory of those who worked for the common good, even at the cost of their lives.
In November 1980, Mimmo Beneventano, a municipal councilor of Ottaviano, paid with his life for his commitment against organized crime and was killed by organized crime.
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During the event at the Town Hall, it was emphasized how important it is to know and remember what happened after the death of Mimmo Beneventano, known and esteemed for his work as a surgeon even outside the borders of Ottaviano.
At first, there was silence and shock, locked in the hearts of his fellow citizens, perhaps accustomed to those deaths that never stopped and were constantly increasing. Then the protests erupted in Ottaviano, with around ten thousand young people marching against the Camorra on December 17, 1982.
That protest sparked an entire generation that rejected the Camorra. In that era without social media, word spread quickly, and the student protests spread from the suburbs to the metropolis, and then throughout Southern Italy. Fighting lawlessness wasn't just the police. Schools did.
The more illegality spread, the more schools stood as bastions of legality, thanks to enlightened teachers who did not limit themselves to carrying out a sterile program, disconnected from reality, but formed civic consciences so strong that they no longer feared what they were afraid to even utter.
Hence the idea of the teachers who coordinated the winning work, Maria Gabriella De Felice, Marilisa Giordano, Alessia Caldarelli and Maria Neve Giugliano to collect, without warning, during the normal course of teaching activities, the impressions of the students, their considerations which were then assembled in a video.
With a well-defined thread from the Terzigno School to the Medici Castle of Ottaviano, where the scenes of the video deserving of the first prize were filmed, it made possible the realization of a work also appreciated by the Administration of Ottaviano who participated in the award ceremony in the Council Chamber in Terzigno, with the Mayor, Biagio Simonetti; the Deputy Mayor, Antonio Napolitano; the Councilor for Public Education, Virginia Nappo and the Headmistress of the Comprehensive Institute "Mimmo Beneventano", Anna Fornaro, with a parchment delivered by the Deputy Mayor Falciano of Terzigno and the Councilor Nappo of Ottaviano to the Terzignese School.
