Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Merry Christmas and happy new year to all those wonderful people who, in recent years, have wanted to fight my battles along with me. especially to those people who due to their disability, are not able to express their feelings, they fail to demonstrate their capabilities and they cannot participate in social life.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the United Nations that enhance the global challenges to valorize the differences to overcome inequalities.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the people of Tuxtla Gutierrez and of all the state of Chiapas: during my the last leg they made me feel a Chiapateco.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to New York, ideal town to represent and share the value of solidarity. On June 28th , I will attend the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, a 28.5 miles long swim, starting and finishing in Battery Park City – South Cove, which will be the final bridge of my battle: For a world without barriers or borders.
Merry Christmas and happy new year to the people of Goma and of all the Northern Kivu region, where someone decided that there had to be a war, to those families who do not know their tomorrow, and when it will be possible to find peace and serenity. To those people who live daily with the constant fear of receiving bad news at any time, to those who actually do not live.
Merry Christmas and happy new year to all people with disabilities and to their families, who pay the price of a crisis arising from disregard of legality and from corruption, perpetrated by those who should prevent it. Let’s hope that these families never stop fighting to claim back what has been unjustly taken away from them: the dignity, the right to citizenship.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all fields of research, Hi-tech industry and the politics to initiate a process capable of ensuring the independence of Persons with Disabilities.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Salvatore Cimmino