"Realizing we needed to be present to ease, at least in some small way, the loneliness our parents experience, we created the Germoglio"... "La Scintilla...To give shape to a dream: to create a place where people with disabilities could live freely and fully express their beauty"... "What do we know about group homes as places of relationship? Relationships of affection, friendship, caring for one another..."... "How do you build a real relationship with a disabled person? By sitting down beside them on a couch, living through each day and trying to notice what they can live and feel deep down".... "Friendship grows deeper when you make time to be together, united in activities that nourish the friendship itself".
Statements and questions that describe an attention that reaches a little further.
Further in choosing to give your time, or your life, so that disabled people find their own space and time for a good life. Small communities, small undertakings perhaps—some born in the spirit of Fede e Luce—yet deeply meaningful to all who take part in them, disabled or not... In different forms and degrees: a workshop for crafts, writing, a radio station, a group home, a theater production, a shop, a residential community association... Each one tells how to give new substance to the time we live, in the "place of a relationship that transforms and becomes a sign for the world".
Cristina Tersigni, 2015