Everyone comes to the aid of little Sara Cantagalli, the 5-year-old girl from Faenza (Ravenna) who has been fighting a rare tumor for two years: stage four neuroblastoma. Now the challenge launched by parents, through a new crowdfunding campaign, is to fulfill as many of the little girl’s wishes as possible. Unfortunately, nothing else can be done other than palliative care to support her in everyday life, since the doctors at the Sant’Orsola hospital in Bologna decided to suspend chemotherapy to avoid her unnecessary suffering.
Parents and “Children’s Santa Claus”
His disease, in fact, has begun to resist treatment and continuing would be counterproductive. Father Mattia and mother Maria turned to the volunteer “The Children’s Santa Claus” to stimulate solidarity, which has never been lacking in recent years, and to hurry up given that time is the tyrant in this case. «I ask everyone to share this message – writes “Children’s Santa Claus” – and let it reach as many people as possible, we try as much as possible to give Sara moments of happiness and serenity because believe me, she deserves them all. For my part, I will already fulfill four of his wishes that I had promised him for some time, among them, going on horseback and going by helicopter. If I could do everything on my own I would have already done it, but I need your help because I am a normal person and I am not wealthy, but I think that there is strength in unity.” Other wishes have already been ‘booked’, including taking a beach holiday and visiting the Genoa Aquarium. What are Sara’s other dreams? Be a princess in a castle for a day, ski, grow flowers in a nursery, go to Disneyland, have a party with inflatables and lots of kids to play with, visit the Rome zoo, go to Gardaland, be a model for a day and wear lots of clothes.
The solidarity machine is in motion
«If we manage to satisfy her even partially, we will have done a great thing», concludes the “Children’s Santa Claus” (all the details for contributing are given on the Facebook page of the same name, updated daily). Parents, understandably, have locked themselves away to enjoy all the time they have left with their little one, and from now on the only means of communication that people will be able to use to get in touch with them is “The Santa of the children”, also to avoid speculation. «Unfortunately, proposals for so-called alternative therapies have already reached the family and also for this reason it was decided to limit contacts with the outside world as much as possible”. Yesterday as today, little Sara’s parents, as well as her brother, need maximum moral and economic support. In order to be close to her, two years ago, mum and dad both lost their jobs as riders for a food delivery platform. Since then the virtuous chain of solidarity has been set in motion which, now more than ever, must bear fruit.
