By Francesca Pellegatta | Project Leader
Dear friends,
After our monitoring trip to Ghana with our volunteers, the activities at “Casa Italia” in Kwamoso have continued without a break. School lessons, physiotherapy activities, and playtime are essential for the well-being of the children taken into care, especially those who have a disability.
We would like to share with you the testimony of one of our volunteers who lived at the center and the daily life at “Casa Italia”:
“The days spent with the children have been full of excitement and joy. The rhythms in the center are marked by sunlight. In the morning, children attending school start getting ready very early, the alarm clock rings before five o'clock, and immediately the buzz begins. Children wash, get dressed and prepare their backpacks with notebooks. Some of the children leave early by car because during the rainy season roads to the special schools are like torrents of mud, impassable on foot. The older children, on the other hand, go out around seven o'clock and within 15 minutes reach their classrooms. Classes start at 8:30, but before the teacher arrives, all children must clean their classroom, tidy up their desks and books. In the morning, only the children who cannot go to school because of their condition stay at home, and we play with them, communicating with smiles and sounds because none of them can speak. In the afternoon the children return from school and they liven the house up. They do their homework and we try to assist them, although most of them are very independent. When homework is finished it is time to play.
Each of these children comes from a history of violence and abandonment, but in this house they have found a serene family where they are loved and cared for and where they can slowly erase their traumas.”
Beside daily difficulties, we want to share an important need: many of these children have a disability, and some live and move around thanks to special wheelchairs. Current wheelchairs need to be replaced because they are overused or because the children are now grown up. We want to provide wheelchairs that allow them to move around, eat properly and play. It would be a nice Christmas present, as well as their fundamental right!
Thank you for your help!
By Elisa Cappai | Junior Project Manager
By Francesca Pellegatta | Project Manager
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