In Castelfranco a protected apartment that allows you to live independently, the result of a multi-handed project in the name of inclusiveness
CASTELFRANCO. The dream has finally come true: the Domho has been inaugurated, an apartment in via Risorgimento where the severely disabled will be able to experience life independently. A project that started in 2017 which then materialized in the Good Friends Social Street initiative of the Atlantis center, in which a long list of companies, from Veneto universities, to the social cooperation of the group collaborated
L’Incontro, to companies specialized in home automation: a not secondary detail since it is the first accommodation where innovation is linked to the desire for autonomy of the disabled. Disability Minister Erika Stefani cut the ribbon and wanted to underline this union: «Now companies are proud of their green commitment in respect of the environment. And that’s fine. But there is an extra step to take: that of having inclusion as a feather in the cap, both in the world of work and in experiences like this, unique in its kind ».
A line also espoused by the Region, as explained by the regional councilor for economic development Roberto Marcato: “We have given 20 million euros to universities to develop advanced technology projects to make fragile people autonomous”.
The apartment is located in a neighborhood that has discovered its vocation for inclusiveness, according to Mayor Stefano Marcon: “There is proximity to the Due Mulini center and its inclusive park, an unobstructed path that reaches the center : a job that our city must be proud of ». But the most important aspect is that this initiative was deliberately born in a real neighborhood, so that the people who attend it feel an integral part of the society in which they live.
“This was the goal”, explains Daniele De Nadai who made this accommodation available to him free of charge in the face of his son Filippo’s problems, “we don’t need neighborhoods for the disabled, but with the disabled”. The apartment consists of three beds plus one for the operator who will be at the side of the guests from Friday to Monday morning.
Every domestic operation will be controlled by voice, from the opening of the windows to the switching on of the lights. «It is the overcoming of the boundaries of operating exclusively in a structure», says the director of Atlantis Raffaella Munaretto, «one of the outposts that make a center for the disabled become a complex and articulated living space».