The initiative “Go higher with wheels“ aims to help families with disabled children and young people to spend their holidays in the Aosta Valley mountains more easily. A child’s severe disability has a strong impact on family life, and one of the most impactful limitation is on the holiday. On …
We would like to introduce you a subject that is very close to our hearts. Even if in the absence of accurate data, we are aware that more and more children and teens are artificially fed, because they cannot feed themselves by mouth. It’s about enteral nutrition, which consists of …
We would like to present you our initiative Let’s play together, which has been launched last year by La Casa di Sabbia. The project aims to offer children with severe disabilities toys adapted to their needs, in order to grant families the possibility to play and have fun with their …
Do you want to give away or give yourself #abitoflife? You can do it! Are you a mother or father of a child who requires continuous home care? Or among your friends or family, do you know someone who lives on daily basis such a situation? If yes, #abitoflife project …
We are happy to inform you that, as from 24 October, our group of support for siblings of children with disabilities led by psychologist Alda Pallais has restarted the meetings. The group is intended for 6 children aged between 7 and 10 years old and meetings are held in Gressan …
Today La casa di sabbia has its first birthday. We would like to thank each of you for contributing in all ways (economically, physically and morally) to the growth of our association. We promise you that we will continue supporting families with seriously disabled children with all our competencies and …
We are happy to share with you the results of our initiative about summer centres for brothers and sisters of children with disability. Inside the project #unpodivita (a little bit of life), started during the autumn of the last year, our association, for the summer 2018, decided to offer 35 …
Summer is a really complicated period for those families have children with serious disabilities because schools are closed and brothers and sisters are home. It is hard to go out all together, it is probable that dad works and mom is busy with the child with disability and they can’t …
The board met on March 11th. What was done during the first months of the association’s life was discussed (November and December 2017), and the 2018 activities were planned. During 2017, following a report by some families living in Valle d’Aosta, we conducted a small research on the school transport …
Today we are talking about a topic that is very close to our hearts. We do not have accurate data, but more and more children and teenagers are fed artificially because they can’t be fed by mouth. We are talking about what in medical terms is called enteral nutrition and …
