The right to study to recognize equal dignity to all
The right to study, in our country, is not (yet) for everyone: according to the latest data, students with disabilities in our universities are 36,000, that is to say less than 1 in 100. And it is even worse for the people with disabilities who can carry out post-graduate research: there are less than 500.…
The independence of the person with disabilities is the seed that must be everyone’s responsibility to sprout, grow and develop.
The Italian Social Service has always incorporated a semantic contradiction: social policies, the professionals who give life to social work, should deny the idea and practices of assistance with their conduct. People with disabilities, who enter into relationships and interact with institutions should receive support and stimuli oriented towards autonomy and self-determination, and not dependence:…
Human rights heart: person dignity
Marginalization and disability, these two apparently different words are closely linked in the intimate essence of the pain felt by those who live this social and legal status in Italy. Disabilities in Italy still largely constitute an insurmountable obstacle to access the fundamental stages of a life considered normal, opportunities enshrined as rights by the…
The freedom to live a dream
It was a great honor for me to be awarded the international Paul Harris Fellow award, the highest honor of Rotarians. Having received it in one of the most beautiful places in the world, the scenic coastal park Località il Faro di Capo Vaticano, I had the feeling of being in a corner of paradise…
The power to dream
When I started swimming around the world, as part of the project “Swimming in the Seas of the Globe, for a world without barriers and without borders” I did not imagine being able to land in the main institutions such as the United Nations and national ones such as the Chamber and the Senate of…