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The Friends
of Lorenzo Fellowship
The Friends of Lorenzo Fellowship is an association of volunteers that takes its name from Lorenzo Mazzoleni, an Alpine climber from Lecco who lost his life at the age of 29 on K2 having conquered the peak with an expedition organised by the ‘Spiders’ of Grignetta di Lecco in the summer of 1996.
The
Fellowship is a non-profit-making organisation which pursues
“objectives of social solidarity in the fields of health, welfare
and education, in favour of the mountain population, and in
particular of the women and children, who live in a deprived
environment without any forms of assistance.”
To remember Lorenzo and keep alive his desire to help those with
whom he came into contact as a climber, the Friends of Lorenzo
Fellowship has set up a medical unit in Askóle, the last village in
the
The Fellowship supports the medical services and administration of
the Lorenzo Mazzoleni Dispensary of Askóle, runs medical training
initiatives for the population deep in the
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