Welcome to My Fundraising Page

I'm raising money for critical cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering—where new discoveries are revolutionizing how cancer is diagnosed and treated.

This fundraising page is in memory of my wife, Anna Di Luigi. An event is also planned to support this important cause: the first soccer tournament for beginners that will take place

from 19 to 20 August 2023
(at) Lexington, KY

Proceeds from the event will go to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) as a contribution to lung cancer research.

Join me in making a difference by donating today!
 

BIOGRAPHY ANNA DI LUIGI

Anna Di Luigi was born in Montorio al Vomano on 26 July 1973, a small town located in Abruzzo, the region defined by the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio as a "strong and gentle land".

Anna has always been proud of Montorio. Her great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents lived there. She lived there until she was 33 years old, surrounded by the love of her family: Luisa, her older sister, her little brother Gianluca, and Claudio and Lucia, her beautiful parents.

Before emigrating to the United States, as her grandparents and great-grandparents did before her, she led a splendid life marked by the incessant rhythm of the seasons, popular traditions, simplicity, and rural honesty, surrounded by many friends and relatives and in particular by her cousins Roberto, Emiliano, and Santa, and their parents, Antonio and Laurina, with whom she was very close.

Love, respect, understanding, and trust in others have been life lessons received from her family and she has been an advocate for these values during her daily life.

Anna has always shown a great passion and inclination for educating and assisting children from a very young age.

This passion and natural predisposition allowed her to build strong and long-lasting relationships with the children she cared for as a teacher and babysitter in Montorio and especially in New York City.

Anna, in fact, thanks to her radiant character and her spontaneous altruism, was able to integrate quickly and with great ease into both New York City and its Italian community.

In 2006, Anna decided to move permanently to the USA to live with her husband Andrea, with whom she has shared her life journey since their school days.

The move to New York has been one of the hardest times for Anna and her family. In fact, in February 2005 her mother Lucia died of pancreatic cancer and her father Claudio died in the same year in December of heartbreak syndrome - they too were destined since childhood to live eternally together.

The love of her loved ones, the desire to live, and her strong faith in herself, others, and God have allowed Anna to create a new life together with Andrea in New York and to freely express her greatest passions: education, love for the children she met during her New York life, poetry, art and reading, which have enriched many of her days.