A delegation composed of members of Wccc International and Wccc Italia together with Right Honourable Giovanni Bianchi, Fabio Alberti and other exponents of  "Un ponte per..." [A bridge for...] and some journalists, thanks to the then Administrator Delegate Francis Mengozzi and the sponsorship of Alitalia, that made available a 747, they are received by the president of the Iraqi Red Crescent and Tarek Aziz and visit the Paediatric Hospital of Baghdad. 15 tons of commodities under embargo are delivered, collected thanks to volunteer work of members of the Italian Soka Gakkai. Among the commodities under embargo, also female sanitary pads.

The hospitalized children, from 0 to 24 months, were all affected by leukaemia due to bombardments of the first Gulf War. None of them could have been saved because three of the five components of the chemotherapy were also under embargo.