“Superheroes” in Florence

If you walk along the streets of Florence, you will probably see a strange and super colored taxi, driven by a woman just as strange and colored, always with a smile on her face. That taxi is the “Milano 25” taxi of Zia Caterina (Aunt Catherine), who provides an extraordinary service: she drives to the hospital children who suffer from cancer. The atmosphere on the taxi is always joyful and playful, so that the children and their families feel a little bit better during their fight against the illness. The project was created in 2001, when Caterina’s husband died of lung cancer and left her his taxi, and when she met a family who had just lost a child for the same reason. They decided to found an association.

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