The Italian multiple sclerosis association Aism, very active both on the research front on the impact of sport on patients and on the promotion of sport, has signed a memorandum of understanding on these issues with the Italian Union of Sport for All Uisp (the memorandum is available Who). This will allow us to implement more and new initiatives, including concrete ones, such as guaranteeing access to sports facilities to people with multiple sclerosis and disabilities and the redevelopment of sports facilities and the distribution of sports equipment for disadvantaged areas.
«Sport, by definition inclusive, is a powerful tool for social participation that supports and develops people’s abilities and functioning, not only at a competitive level but in everyone’s daily life.” declares the national president of Aism, Francesco Vacca. «It is an antidote to discrimination, overcoming stereotypes and prejudices that we still have to deal with today, and, in the context of multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica and more generally of people with serious pathologies, it represents a powerful factor for the quality of life, starting from young. During World Multiple Sclerosis Day we declared, in front of and with the institutions, the commitment to making concrete the right of every person with MS to live their lifetheir dreams, beyond the disease, aspiring to a world free from MS today and tomorrow, also through sport.”
«With UISP we will develop further research projects, exploring the benefits deriving from access to sport in order to better understand the needs and effectiveness of sport on their quality of life and the positive impact on the community” he explained Mario Alberto Battaglia, president of the FISM – Italian Multiple Sclerosis Foundation.
«With Aism we will get to work to implement existing projects and launch new ones, to enhance the role of sport and physical activity in supporting the objectives of the 2030 Agenda» declares the national president of Uisp Tiziano Pesce «planning, experimenting and implementing that process that we have defined as sports transition, an innovative approach to emancipate sport, transforming it from a complementary tool for achieving the objectives of social cohesion and inclusion, to a real right, a priority for the implementation of processes of promoting and protecting health, welfare in its broadest sense, territorial planning and regeneration, with particular attention to social contexts and the most disadvantaged citizens, the most fragile and disabled people»·
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