Born in
Marostica,
Vicenza, on 5 February 1932. He was the founder of the Family Homes Movement (FHM)[1] which provided parental care and education to children in particular need; during the civil war, Berton and FHM saved and rehabilitated into social life more than 3000
child soldiers.
Berton is the central figure of the documentary
La Vita Non Perde Valore (Life does not lose its value), for which the director
Wilma Massucco was awarded the 2014 Maria Rita Saulle Award.[2]
With Roberto Ravera, Director ASL 1 Imperiese, Italy, Berton co-founded the FHM ITALIA Onlus,[3] the Italian counterpart of FHM Sierra Leone, which applies the latest scientific theories in psychology and psychopathology to the rehabilitation and social integration of abandoned children.
Berton died on 25 June 2013 at the mother house of the Xaverians in
Parma.[4]
Father Giuseppe Berton is one of the persons interviewed in the 2000 Documentary Film Cry Freetown,[11] by Sorious Samura.[12]The Film was produced with the assistance of CNN Productions and
Insight News Television. Some of the
baby soldiers interviewed by Sorious Samura in Cry Freetown and recovered by Father Berton are the same interviewed, in 2012, ten years later, in the Documentary
Life does not lose its value.
Born in
Marostica,
Vicenza, on 5 February 1932. He was the founder of the Family Homes Movement (FHM)[1] which provided parental care and education to children in particular need; during the civil war, Berton and FHM saved and rehabilitated into social life more than 3000
child soldiers.
Berton is the central figure of the documentary
La Vita Non Perde Valore (Life does not lose its value), for which the director
Wilma Massucco was awarded the 2014 Maria Rita Saulle Award.[2]
With Roberto Ravera, Director ASL 1 Imperiese, Italy, Berton co-founded the FHM ITALIA Onlus,[3] the Italian counterpart of FHM Sierra Leone, which applies the latest scientific theories in psychology and psychopathology to the rehabilitation and social integration of abandoned children.
Berton died on 25 June 2013 at the mother house of the Xaverians in
Parma.[4]
Father Giuseppe Berton is one of the persons interviewed in the 2000 Documentary Film Cry Freetown,[11] by Sorious Samura.[12]The Film was produced with the assistance of CNN Productions and
Insight News Television. Some of the
baby soldiers interviewed by Sorious Samura in Cry Freetown and recovered by Father Berton are the same interviewed, in 2012, ten years later, in the Documentary
Life does not lose its value.