®SOLIDARITY HARVEST TO BUILD A SCHOOL IN GHANA: Journalists, professionals, representatives from the financial and agri-food sectors attended the event on December 17 to support the charity project of the Le Manzane winery
“Thanks to the proceeds from the ®Solidarity Harvest, a real school will be built in place of this shed.”
With these words, Father Peppino concluded the video message broadcast last night during the charity dinner organized by the Della Frera Foundation and the In My Father’s House mission in the prestigious setting of the Grand Hotel Villa Torretta – Curio Collection by Hilton. The evening, part of the wider ®Solidarity Harvest project, was an important fundraising event in support of the construction of a school in Adanu, Ghana.
During the dinner, the Conegliano Valdobbiadene Solidale 2025 was presented, the result of the 14th edition of the ®Vendemmia Solidale and made with grapes harvested on September 7 at the Le Manzane winery by over 500 aspiring winemakers. The evening was attended by about eighty guests, including journalists, professionals, and representatives from the financial and agri-food sectors.
After a speech by Guido Della Frera, president of the Foundation, Ernesto, Marco, and Anna Balbinot, owners of the Le Manzane winery, retraced the key stages of the project: from the first ®Vendemmia Solidale to the creation of the Braille label dedicated to the blind, from the support for Sammy Basso’s association to the current international commitment in Ghana with the 14th edition.
Mario Cincotto, a volunteer with the In My Father’s House association, explained the work of Father Giuseppe Rabbiosi, known to everyone as Father Peppino, the Comboni missionary who has been working in Africa for over fifty years to combat poverty, illiteracy, and child labor. “Everything that the volunteers collect in Italy,” Cincotto pointed out, “arrives punctually in Ghana.”
Another significant moment of the evening was the charity auction of five bottles of great historical and oenological value, including a 1968 Barolo Capellano and a 1956 Port, donated by Fausto Coppi to his friend Ercole Cesano and made available by his nephew Daniele Riva. The charity dinner ended with the sale of Conegliano Valdobbiadene Solidale 2025 which, together with Francesco Galifi’s calendar presented a week ago at the Le Manzane winery and last night’s charity dinner, will contribute to the ®Vendemmia Solidale fundraising campaign for the construction of a school in Ghana.
The association In My Father’s House was officially founded in 2002 by Father Giuseppe Rabbiosi, a missionary in Africa since 1974. The NGO, based in Abor, in southeast Ghana, is involved in the construction and management of kindergartens and schools, healthcare, the development of agricultural projects, the construction of wells for drinking water, and food support for the poorest. The organization’s headquarters is a village-house where schools of various levels are attended by 800 students and where about 150 children and young people in great need live. Over time, the management of what was created by the missionaries has been transferred to Ghanaian staff—30 employees and 120 teachers—to promote the independence of the community.
The Le Manzane winery is located in San Pietro di Feletto (Treviso), halfway between the Dolomites and Venice, in the hills of the province of Treviso, in the heart of the Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore hills, proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage Site on July 7, 2019. The family-run business has been firmly rooted in the Treviso area as a producer for more than 40 years. The winery, one of the most dynamic and interesting in the Conegliano Valdobbiadene wine scene, distributes both in Italy and abroad, reaching more than 30 countries.
