With the participation in the XXIX Regata dei Legionari, a historic sailing event in the waters of Porto Rotondo, the fourth edition of Vita da aMare ended yesterday, a social inclusion project dedicated to people with disabilities, sponsored by the Municipality of Olbia, with the contribution of the Foundation of Sardinia and the Consortium of Porto Rotondo, the collaboration of the voluntary associations of the territory and the involvement of thirty students of the Lorenzo Mossa scientific high school, engaged in the path of school-work alternation.
Set sail on October 14 from the Porto Rotondo pier, with the First Autumn Regatta, the project started last August with the participation of the boys at Elisa's Back To The Future concert and at the aquabike world championship last September. , which took place in the stretch of water of the Gulf of Olbia. Fifteen days in full sail towards inclusion, with collateral activities that have allowed young people to experience sharing and autonomy. Among the appointments, a trip to the waters of the Tavolara Marine Protected Area to circumnavigate the island and a visit, with lunch in a farmhouse, to the educational farm, to discover nature , its products and its crafts.
In the program of the fourth edition of Vita da aMare, born in 2016 as a long sailing weekend to break down physical and mental barriers and from this year expanded with integrated activities, including a day of mototherapy , a modality of intervention that meets the objectives of sustainable development defined by the United Nations to reduce inequalities, coordinated by the Motoclub Insolita Sardegna and with the guidance of federal riders and technicians in the Olbia Arena circuit. Sled to next Saturday, the last appointment scheduled as part of the project: trip to Ollollai, with a walk in the park of San Basilio and a visit to the Planetarium . In the Vita da aMare project, which in 2019 was awarded the Brera Award as the best Italian event in the sector, inclusion met solidarity: on the occasion of the XXIX Regata dei Legionari, Avis Olbia, partner of the project, promoted a donation of blood that collected 25 bags, with the presence of 38 donors.
"The 2022 edition represented a real turning point for the event: the idea of rotating the various regattas, other educational and sporting activities proved to be successful, arousing incredible enthusiasm for motor therapy and for the educational farm", said the councilor for tourism, Marco Balata , thanking the Foundation of Sardinia, the Consortium of Porto Rotondo, associations and young people for taking part in one of the most exciting projects that have been carried out in recent years.
"With this edition of Vita da aMare, enriched with many collateral events such as motor therapy and the visit to the educational farm, we are projected towards an evolution of this wonderful event, in the desire to be able to better express the message that is about foundation, that is the principle according to which disability should not be seen as an obstacle to the social experience usually precluded ", commented the president of the council commission for social services, Maria Antonietta Cossu .
"The project has an inclusive value for both children with disabilities and the able-bodied, it allows the former to experience the freedom that they can seldom feel, and the latter to get to know the reality of disability closely", declared the president of the association of Arzachena, Nemo's friends, Gianni Fresi .
"In addition to making children with disabilities become protagonists of life and emotions, the project makes it possible to give visibility to the reality of disability and its dimensions that also include its great potential", said the vice president of Villa Chiara, Tore Acca .
"This initiative, which teaches that disability cannot stop the will to live, uses the sea to love and I hope it is an example for many other Sardinian administrators to make themselves available to those who are a step behind", declared the president of Polisportiva Olimpia Onlus of Cagliari, Carlo Mascia.
