By Francesca Pellegatta | Project Leader
Dear Friends,
With this report, we would like to share with you all the volunteer trip that took place in August. Aleimar volunteers Tamara and Basilio traveled to Ghana to “Casa Italia” for the second time, driven by their affection for the children and staff of local our partner “Chicchi di Caffè.”
Our volunteers were involved in the daily activities of the family home, especially in the game and sports activities held every afternoon and during free time.
Tamara and Basilio wanted to briefly report on their experience:
“As always, this was an unforgettable experience. We are very happy to see that, after a year, the children are doing well and have grown.
We stayed at Casa Italia during the school exam period. The younger elementary school children had four days of exams (one subject per day), while the older children had six challenging days of exams.
Life continues to flow at a well-defined pace. Every day, all the children wake up very early and leave home at 7 a.m. to go to school, returning home in the afternoon. In the afternoon, they do their homework and have free time dedicated to games and sports. We have noticed, from one year to the next, how children have become much more involved in daily household activities, according to their abilities and age. These activities are very important in order to make everyone feel part of the same home and to make the children more autonomous and independent. In fact, it is hoped that in the future they will be able to live independently outside of “Casa Italia,” and being able to carry out daily activities is fundamental.
We visited the school with the children several times to learn more about their everyday lives. We were delighted to see that the school has expanded and can now welcome more students (two classrooms). In addition, a new road has been built from the children's home to the school, allowing the children to reach it more quickly and safely, as it is no longer through the woods.
We take home with us lots of love and smiles.”
We hope that the same love and smiles can reach all of you too!
Your support is always essential to ensure education, food, medical care, and a safe place to grow up for many children with disabilities, childhood trauma, who have been abandoned, or who have been left without a family at “Casa Italia”.
Thank you!
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