A crowded room, at the Auditorium del Valentianum in Vibo, was the theater of the meeting that was held yesterday afternoon entitled “Everyone’s sport – resource for people with disabilities in a participatory city”.
An open dialogue between institutional stakeholders and local associative realities on topics still too little known and explored above all by the world of politics.
To do the honors of the house was Pasquale Barbuto, president of the Rotary Club of Vibo together with the mayor Enzo Romeo. To discern sports and disabilities, sports facilities, inclusion and participation, were Enrico Mignolo, president of the volunteer organization I have an authentic that for years has been fighting on the local and regional territory to try to stimulate citizens and institutions to a greater awareness of the topic and projects to be put in place to provide concrete help to people with disabilities.
In Vibo, a small town of 30 thousand inhabitants, there are many boys and girls with disabilities. And again, the interventions of the sports universe, starting with the president of the Coni Regional Committee, Tino Scopelliti, up to the president of the Italian Paralympic Committee Calabria, Antonino Scagliola. Both underlined the importance of doing sports and networking, underlining how there is still a lot to do with regard to the issue of sports plant engineering and access to facilities for associations that deal with people with disabilities. The vicar of the prefect, Roberto Micucci, the regional councilor Michele Comito, the municipal councilors Stefano Soriano (Sport) and Lorenza Scruglia (social policies) intervened. The intervention of the professor Antonella Loco, contact person for the inclusion of the IC Garibaldi-Baccarelli of Vibo, is also particularly significant. Special guest of the meeting was Andrea Pellegrini, Paralympic athlete of individual saber gold medal at Athens 2004 and gold in the charming charming at the 2009 European championships.