Make LiberAnd and autonomousand people with visual disabilities through the coexistence and daily management of domestic lifeto. This is the goal of “Inside Out 2”, the continuation of an innovative project of co-housing who is preparing to leave after the excellent results of the first experience.
Thanks to the project “Inside out“, financed by the Calabria Region, Four people with visual disabilities they carried out the usual daily activities alone and lived together in complete autonomy.
Participants were involved in practical activities of home management And care of your own person. They learned to wash, dress and cook alone, without having to depend on someone else. One of the objectives of the project, in fact, is the replacement of the approchy merely assistance that autonomizing and emancipper. This substantial difference has allowed the people involved to understand and demonstrate that the limits They are only those imposed by the company.
“Wanting is power”says Branko Andrejicone of the participants who lived firsthand the experience proposed by the project. Everyone has the right to fully grasp life and everyone must have the same possibility to be able to do it.
In light of these results, the new program of “Inside Out 2”always financed by the Calabria Region with i ADP 2022–2024 funds, pursuant to articles 72 and 73 of Legislative Decree 117/2017, will offer an even more targeted and flexible path, with the integration of New technologies And methodologies.Ten months of activity, divided into two cohousing cycles for five months each, will see four people with visual disabilities and two unmodified young people sharing a household space of Rende four, transforming it into a comfortable and stimulating environment, capable of strengthening self -esteem. In order to name the project to the idea, in fact, it is precisely the internal space (Inside) To favor, with its stimuli, an external emancipation (out).
Result of the collaboration between the Association Sam – Safety autonomy Mobility ODVwhich since 2006 has been dealing with social design, accessible design and support for accessibility, theTHE.Ri.fo.r. – Institute for Research, Training and Rehabilitation, theItalian union of blind and partially sighted of the Provincial Section of Cosenza And Paradisa APS, The project presents itself as an initiative unique in Italy. A significant experience capable of offering a considerable improvement of the quality of life also to families, often sun in the treatmentin costsand in the management from the attachdaily ivity.
“If I had to describe Inside out with a word, it would be freedom, because I feel more free and more autonomous”, states Marco Quintieroa boy with visual disabilities who personally participated in the experience of co-housing that has just ended. Freedom And autonomy They are therefore the two keywords, the two pillars on which a project is built that aims to rediscover themselves and their own potential.
“Inside Out 2“ It does not only represent an opportunity for growth for the participants, but an innovative model capable of enriching thefull society, replicable and scalable in other territories.
The hope is that the initiative can be re -proposed and extended territorially, in order to demonstrate that thesocial commitment and the strong sense of community They can really contribute to the development of a company less subject to limits, prejudices and barriers.