Gino Strada He was born on 27 April 1948 in Sesto San Giovanni, Milan. He studied at Università Statale di Milano. Then he took the surgery specialization. He has worked at the hospital in Rho, which is an Italian town, untill 1988. In this hospital he healed the victims of war. After this experience Strada with a group of collauges founded Emergency in 1994. It is an international association for the rehabilitation of the people who were injured from the war. In 2001 he won the prize Colombe d'Oro for the peace. He had become citizen of Empoli since 2002 and also of Montebelluno since 2003. In 2009 his wife, Teresa Sarti, died and his daughter, Cecilia, became the President of Emergency.