The Fairy Children

We have often wondered how we could best tell the experience of our company with the Fairy Children.
We thought that recounting our personal experience could perhaps be the right choice, the real one, without so many corporatist phrases, because, when it comes to social issues, it is not image that counts, but that wonderful feeling that moves people to help others, the one that has driven us for years now to choose to replace the classic Christmas gifts for a more concrete commitment.

An ordinary evening, television in the background and a book in hand.
I pay as usual little attention to the usual host's stream of words, until I am drawn in by a sentence:
"I see the words in my mind, but I cannot say them".
The image is clear, sharp, I look up and learn about the Fairy Children Foundation for the first time. Enthusiasm is contagious, remaining indifferent impossible.

From here began a journey of knowledge and deepening. As we came into contact with these projects, the desire to be able to do something more grew. We attended meetings on the ground with the association and followed their successes over 12 months, aware that something, however small, even for one family, we had actually managed to do, all together with commitment.

We are starting to hear about autism more and more often now, but we really know very little about its causes, its forms and even less about how families experience it every day, often alone.
In the life of a family, autism enters overbearingly one day, just another day.

"The family - as Franco Antonello, Andrea's father and founder of The Fairy Children - is overwhelmed by the force of an earthquake. An earthquake that does not pass, but lasts our whole life and that of our children, even after us. The blow is very strong and life begins to change, to take different paths, opening up scenarios and perspectives that were previously completely unknown'.

The projects proposed by the association are many and we have chosen to support 'The Game' promoted by the local social cooperative in Mantua "Lotus Flower.

The 'Game' supports the school path chosen by families by giving special children the opportunity to socialising in a protected environment and parents enjoy quiet moments every afternoon.
Relationships, integration and learning are the key ingredients with the aim of developing autonomy, personal competences and skills in individual playtime.
The project is a real help to families and is aimed at young children with learning difficulties, autism, attention deficit disorder and others, on whom early intervention is appropriate to achieve valuable results.

If anyone reading this article would like to learn more about the commitment and projects promoted by this association, the website is: www.ibambinidellefate.it