In 1921, Mazzocchi married Enzo Scarzella, a mining engineer, and in 1922, at the age of 18, she moved to Domusnovas in Sardinia, where her husband's family administered an estate.

Mazzocchi asked for donations from wealthy friends and organized several charity events until it became possible to build the new asylum, which was inaugurated on 2 July 1933.

During World War II, working with the Union of Italian Women, she gave help to the families of political deportees and men who had disappeared to escape arrest, as well as giving clandestine assistance to the Jews in Milan.

Among the many cases that she had to deal with were those of single mothers arriving from Germany who could not return to their families with a child, but did not want their children to go into orphanages.

[1][3] Mazzocchi collaborated with the entrepreneur and lay missionary, Marcello Candia, to erect six prefabricated buildings in the garden of Palazzo Sormani in Milan to accommodate single mothers and pregnant returnees.

On the same day the chapel of the palace witnessed the marriage of one of the returning mothers, who married a young sailor who was the father of her child.

Required to leave Palazzo Sormani, where a new municipal library was to be built, in 1957 the Village moved to entirely new premises in Via Goya in the San Siro area of Milan.

Over the years, additional facilities were added, including a craft school, open to outsiders, in the 1960s and a clinic offering gynecological, pediatric, psychological and health care in general in 1975.

[1] Mazzocchi represented Milan on the Council of the Cesare Beccaria National Association, named after the 18th-century Italian criminologist.

When she went to Sardinia to collect the prize, she took the opportunity to return to Domusnovas, where the community had prepared a photographic exhibition of her time in the village and everyone wanted to meet her, despite the fact that her work there had been more than 60 years earlier.

Milan City Council honoured her with a minute's silence and her name is recorded in the cemetery's Famedio (Pantheon) of illustrious people.