Saturday 11 March at the Menotti Theatre the presentation of a pilot project created to promote the social inclusion of children with fragility. A beautiful charity event in music with guests Beppe Bergomi and Gianluca Zambrotta
world champions Gianluca Zambrotta and Giuseppe Bergomi will also be at the solidarity afternoon organized on Saturday 11 March at the Teatro Menotti (via Ciro Menotti 11, from 3 pm, suggested donations 10/25 euros). The occasion is the presentation of the “Azzurrini” project by the Milanese association YouSport, a social inclusion initiative that aims to bring children with cognitive disabilities and on the autism spectrum closer to sport.
“Music makes exceptional what fate wanted weak”: with the two footballers and the journalist-moderator Anna Billò, on stage starting at 3 pm there will also be the Allegro Moderato symphony orchestra, a social cooperative that addresses people with fragility, promoting a musical education capable of developing emotional and relational energies and skills.
The “Azzurrini” project – even if the color of their jerseys is orange – was born from the meeting between two entities: the YouSport associations and the Azzurrini Academy of Como, created to promote sports activities among children with cognitive disabilities thanks to the help of new technologies such as mind robots, 3D videos, augmented reality and drone shots. After all, the benefits that physical activity can bring to people with disabilities, both physical and mental, are no mystery. This was also confirmed by research conducted by Istat in 2019: sport contributes to the development of social relationships with a positive rehabilitative effect on health. Yet not even 10 percent of people with disabilities in Italy practice sports, compared to almost 40 percent of the rest of the population.
This is precisely the meaning of the new YouSport project: taking to the field to overcome the idea of diversity as a barrier. From here comes the idea of an inclusive football practice, which aims to contribute to the improvement of the psycho-physical conditions of the kids, strengthening their awareness, self-esteem, health conditions and promoting the construction of a group identity.
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