Rai in the field with Airc, Soldi: “We will bring ‘The Days of Research’ to all our audience”

“I am thrilled, it is the first time, as president of Rai, that I have launched this event which is a tradition for the company”. Rai president Marinella Soldi said this during the presentation of the ‘Airc – The days of research’ initiative together with the Italian Association for Cancer Research. “This is an initiative – he added – born thanks to the icon Pippo Baudo, who in ’95 understood that the public needed to have the right information. Thanks to Airir, sick people feel less alone. More than 7 million have been raised last year and 122 to date, to fund research. Rai has obtained the support of the public thanks to its reliability, as well as thanks to that of the Airc, and is mobilized with a relay to reach our entire audience, through all kinds of languages, as we have also done talking about Covid “. “It is an honor to be here and to be an AIRC ambassador – said Carlo Conti – With Antonella Clerici we took the baton from Sandra Mondaini and Raimondo Vianello, but we will never say ‘what a beard, what a bore, what a beard’. I lost my father when I was 18 months to lung cancer – said the presenter – I grew up with a mother who was ashamed to pronounce the word tumor or cancer, they said ‘incurable disease’ or ‘bad disease’, now instead if he talks about it and we understand that hope is entrusted to research and the public knows how important his contribution is ”. “I feel to all intents and purposes an ambassador alongside the AIRC – said Conti – I will be with ‘Such and What’ and I will go and compete with the ‘Soliti Ignoti’ trying to give my contribution there too. Last year – he recalled – these days I was in hospital with Covid, but I tried to do my part with a phone call. I don’t think I’m good at raising funds – he underlined – but it’s the public who understands how important it is to donate ”. “I am there with my heart, I have been alongside many friends and colleagues in their battle against cancer – added Antonella Clerici, Airc ambassador – We must play a great team game, just like Rai does, collecting as much as possible for research, It is time to team up to support the work of more than 5000 AIRC researchers ”.