(Ukrainian team)

Authors: students from class 1D-1E IC SYLOS 1^ grade Secondary School in Bitonto (BA) - Italy

The children are so happy to receive his gifts. Anyway they tell Father Christmas that they want to hug  their dads who are fighting because of the war against Russia.  At that point he flies towards the battle field to meet their dads.

Santa watches the children's faces light up as they receive the gifts. But he knows that these simple toys can’t solve the problems. He decides to do something.

With his magical wand, he transforms the weapons into toys. Soldiers, surprised and confused, drop their weapons. A sense of peace fills  the battlefield. With his smile, he encourages the soldiers to return home to their families.

    But then Santa Claus, seeing the families of the villages living in  destroyed houses, decides to call his Elves.  

    His magical Elves arrive and bring materials to repair and fix the  destroyed homes. Santa Claus, while distributing the food,  notices some numbers on his belly and wonders what they are;  he then decides to ask the children why those numbers appeared  on his belly.  

    A child replies to him that those numbers are the number of kind  gestures that he, as Santa Claus, has performed.  

   Happy and amazed he decides to go to the President of Russia  to ask for peace to be re-established in the world. The President of Russia, Putin, remains enchanted because since he was a child he has always dreamed of meeting Santa. So Putin decides to make peace.

The children clap and the adults cry with joy.  He returns to the North Pole, leaving behind a world filled with hope and the promise of a brighter future.

But our superhero never has a moment to rest. An elf calls him on his phone. Another news shocks him. The war in Gaza is getting complicated. That's how he flies off to a new adventure.

Authors: students from class 1B-1C "A. Poliziano" Low Secondary School, Florence - Italy

Before heading to Palestine, where he sends his elves immediately, first Santa flies over Sicily, because his original road map included getting to Florence, in Italy. And what strikes him is that on the island there is no drinkable water. 

He sees people in the street protesting peacefully with placards, asking the government for help. 

He goes closer to the people and they tell him that because of the severe drought, in their homes there is no potable water. With his magic wand Santa turns the salty water of the sea into drinkable water. 

Then he calls his elves to build a seawater desalination system to repeat this magic every day. 

Before leaving, something else draws Santa’s attention: he sees migrants coming from the sea, he listens to their harrowing stories - how they get on a boat after crossing the desert, how many of them aren’t rescued in the Mediterranean sea - they ask Santa for help. 

Santa decides to place magic creatures in the sea to guide the boats to a safe harbour, “everyone has the right to look for a better life” says Santa and all the people around him clap and feel joy in their heart.

Santa sets off and arrives in Florence, he sees a black cloud coming from an oil plant and he understands that he needs to help the firefighters and the civilians who are breathing very polluted air. 

He flies to  Bilancino Lake, he takes water from it and throws it on the fire. Then he goes closer to the point of the explosion and he sees people mourning their beloved ones, those who were working there at the moment of the accident. 

Santa says that work must be safe and people cannot die at their workplace, so he decides to create a special device that rings loud when the safe conditions of work are not respected. 

People thank Santa and he leaves for other parts of Florence to visit.