He decided he would form his own charity. He'd been working for the red cross, but the red cross was gradually withdrawing from the most difficult places. In 19 94, round his kitchen table in milan, he and his wife, theresa sarti, and about 20 friends set up a charity called emergency. They decided that they would o set up a network of the most marvellous hospitals that they could afford to build. By two thousand, 20 a hundred and 20 thousand boys and girls had passed through the astra hawaria school in adas ababa. It had been founded 60 years earlier by a man whose origins were as humble as the children. His charity