It’s been a year from the enthusiasm giving rise to the Paralympics in London and it continues to do little or nothing to promote sports and movement among people with disabilities. The initiatives are left to the individual associations that need to find themselves spaces to reduce exclusion that continues to be their more frequent social status . It’s of today the news of the initiative of Pietro Scidurlo, paraplegic from birth, young man “with a bad relationship with his disability … and with a strong need to do something of extraordinary for him and people like him.” In search of a better life for him, a year ago he has covered in handbikes the Camino de Santiago de Compostela and after this experience he founded a non-profit organization, FreWheels, to prove that “the barriers are only in our minds. If the others do the things, we can do them ourselves with disabilities,” in order to promote physical independence and social inclusion of youth with disabilities. Few days ago he has just finished a canoe trip of 500 km in 8 days, from Ticino to Po, starting from Somma Lombardo (Varese) and arriving inPiazza San Marco in Venice.
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