Carla Puligheddu, Maria Teresa Petrini, Elisabetta Manca di Nissa, Irene Testa and Maria Grazia Olla won the “Ninetta Bartoli” award assigned by Fidapa for the eighth time to women who have distinguished themselves in various fields. This year the theme was "The strength of fragility", an oxymoron that simultaneously describes a condition and its contrast.

«Whoever improves the lives of fragile people improves the lives of everyone», said Angela Quaquero, president of the Order of Psychologists of Sardinia after recalling that it is women and not men, in most cases, who giving up work to care for children, elderly parents, to care for disabled people.

Ninetta Bartoli, after whom the award is named, was the first mayor of Italy. She was elected in Borutta on 10 April 1946 when women, after the active one, had just been granted the passive electoral right. In 12 years of administration of his municipality, Bartoli - recalled the current mayor Silvano Arru - built the elementary schools, the kindergarten, the cemetery, the municipal house, the aqueduct and the sewerage system, a coop for the production of milk and cheeses, a retirement home, an agricultural credit cooperative branch and was the proponent of a series of initiatives to specialize women's work. His most important work was the reconstruction of the monastic complex of San Pietro di Sorres, one of the most beautiful Manichean churches in Sardinia. To create the works, in some cases he did not hesitate to use his personal assets.

The women awarded yesterday are daughters of that example, of that determination.

Puligheddu is the regional guarantor of the rights of children and adolescents, a voluntary activity in which she makes available her long career as a teacher of physical education during which she has always been sensitive to the most fragile people; Petrini, geriatrician and writer, former regional councilor, has always dealt with equal opportunities with great sensitivity; Manca di Nissa presides over the Voci dell'anima Association which has always supported people suffering from eating and nutrition disorders and their families; Testa, journalist, essayist, has been dealing with prisoners for over 20 years, of which she is now the Guarantor. He dedicated his award to Augusta Zuncheddu, sister of Beniamino, who was acquitted in the revision process after having spent over 33 years in prison as an innocent: «All his life he worked to prove his brother's innocence»; Olla is the founder of the Fiocco biancoargento association which supports elderly people.

A memorial prize was awarded to Michela Murgia. It was collected by Andrea Abis, mayor of his hometown, Cabras. “Michela fought for a fragility that was little talked about before her: that of rights,” she said. An honorable mention went to Massimo Diana, psychiatrist and former head of the Serd.

Among the many interventions, that of the state police inspector Carmen Cadoni was striking, who today in the Cagliari police station deals with women victims of domestic violence. «In my career I have dealt with bandits and robbers but when you deal with women you enter a different dimension». As she says it she is moved and that emotion reveals empathy, what is needed to address the fragility of devastated women.

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