User:Hendersen Alberto

Born in Rome, August 2, 1954, I am proudly the father of Matteo and Giorgio and Marie's grandfather i miss you all dearly

I am currently the director of the International of Red Cross Federation Societies, here in Yemen, L ' volunteering has always been important in my life, since he was young, when I was a university student in the Law. The first experiences of volunteering are in favor of those who are more vulnerable, those who live in the gray areas of our society, such as the homeless and migrants.

From the end of the 1980s I began my commitment in favor of the most vulnerable in Rome with the Jesuit Refugee Service : from 1988 to 1993 first as a volunteer and then as head of the Dormitory of San Saba. In the same period, from 88 to 90, I am also a volunteer of Caritas in the reception center for minors and, from 88 to 1991, at the Piccola Casa della Divina Provvidenza Cottolen go for assistance to the seriously disabled. In 1990 I graduated and three years later I became a lawyer. From that year until 1995 I worked as an operator and then mayor of the cooperatives linked to Caritas, in particular the one called "Starting from the last" and I continue to volunteer at the legal assistance center for migrants and asylum seekers of Caritas, from 1991 to 1995.

From 1990 to 2003 I practice the legal profession. In particular, in the second half of the 1990s, I am a leading lawyer in the fight against the Mafia and for this very reason I live five years under guard.

In parallel to my work as a lawyer, I continue in volunteering in the Non-Governmental Organization under the Ethiopian law of the Hansenian's of which I was also for a short time a general director for free, active in Ethiopia and Eritrea, from 2003 to 2007, with which I have been active on the ground several times.

From 1996 to 2004, I was leading the transition from an orphanage to a family home for vulnerable children; from 2003 to 2008 I remain a councilor of the same structure.

In 2003-2004, I specialize in the School of Public Administration as general director of hospitals. In those years I received numerous delicate professional assignments. In 2003 I was Extraordinary Commissioner of the Sant'Andrea Hospital in Romeand then, until 2007, general manager of the same hospital. In 2007 I was appointed head of the emergency operations department of the Ita Red Cross. From 2005 to 2009, I am a member of the evaluation team of the National Cancer Institute

During the years of the Red Cross I had the burden and the honor of coordinating and representing the Association at national and international level. From the conflict in Georgia in 2008, to the earthquakes in Italy (L'Aquila, Emilia, Central Italy) that have occurred over the years, from missions in Syria during the war, to the earthquake that struck Haiti or to the armed conflict in Palestine and in particular in the Gaza Strip, up to the mission in Kenya, during the very serious drought that had hit the Turkana area above all, I have always tried to stay as much as possible on the ground to understand the needs of people and to stay close to our volunteers and operators.

I consider myself a lucky man because I have a privileged observatory on what is happening in the world and above all because, with my daily commitment, I can intervene on behalf of those in need and live in a vulnerable condition. I am proud to represent the largest humanitarian organization in the world at national and international level.