Madonna said: “I would like to welcome all of you here tonight and thank all of you for coming. I would especially like to thank Gucci and UNICEF for making this evening a reality for me. I don´t think we´re on the grounds of the UN by chance, and there´s something poetic about the fact that we´re no longer in America, but we´re on a piece af land that belongs to the world. I decided to investigate for myself and ended up going on a journey of a lifetime. In the last two years I have witnessed unbearable suffering and loss, but I have also witnessed the resilience of the human spirit”.