Nave Italia will set sail from Civitavecchia on Tuesday 11 Juneone of the largest sailing brigs in the world, to bring the young people of the region on board for 5 days “Let’s go up to Riva” project, proposed by I.Ri.Fo.R. – CR Lazio ONLUS (Institute for Research, Training and Rehabilitation – Regional Council of Lazio ONLUS).
This is the seventh stop for the Tender to Nave Italia Foundation brigantine on which, in the company of the Navy crew and the Foundation’s scientific staff, they will board this year 21 between associations and non-profit organizations of the third sector coming from all of Italy and one from South Africa, to experience the benefits of the Nave Italia method, tapping in about 6 months, 9 Italian ports and 1 abroad.
“Now in its second edition and wanted by I.Ri.Fo.R Lazio Onlus – Institute for Research, Training and Rehabilitation of Lazio – comments Claudio Cola President of I.Ri.Fo.R. Lazio – the project involves the collaboration of multiple entities such as I.Ri.Fo.R. National Presidency, the Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired of Lazio, the public body ASP S. Alessio Margherita di Savoia, the Association Con I Miei Occhi and the Association Una Macchia per Tutti”.
“The project “Let’s go up to Riva” – tells Simona Fanini Director of I.Ri.Fo.R. Lazio – involves a group of ten young people with visual impairments aged 14 to 35 who will have the opportunity to participate in an individualised, personalized and group growth path thanks to the three phases of pre-boarding, boarding and post-boarding activities typical of the method Ship Italy. Teamwork on board the brig, made up of shared rules and responsibilities, and a series of targeted activities, carried out on land and then on board, will allow them to acquire the security and self-esteem necessary to achieve greater autonomy. New to this edition is the involvement of the RM5 Independent Living Agency which will be able to provide an important contribution in the development of Independent Living projects for the beneficiaries”.
“On board the children will have the opportunity to explore an unknown and large environment like that of the brig Nave Italia – he comments Massimo De Felice, project leader “Let’s go up to Riva”. – Taking advantage of this condition, we will carry out a series of activities, tactile and auditory in particular, which will allow them to refine some skills useful for recognizing the surrounding spaces, perceiving movements, listening to movements, such as the waves of the sea or the blowing of the wind. These exercises, also accompanied by more playful activities, such as the maritime knots workshop and the creation of rap songs in which they can express the sensations felt on board, will be an indispensable starting point for the development of skills that will be fundamental on land. We bring with us the learning and tangible results of last year’s experience – continues De Felice – in the children we have found, in fact, a significant increase in self-esteem, the discovery or re-discovery of new skills, the recognition of the importance of work of team, the desire to overcome one’s limits, not only physical, but also characterological. Nave Italia is a well-established scientific method for us which benefits not only the children, but also us operators. An experience that enriches us every year not only professionally, but also and above all humanly and which we are extremely happy to repeat.”
“Nave Italia – comments the Scientific Director Paolo Cornaglia Ferraris – is a training ship dedicated to disabilities. Unique tool in the world, thanks to which a rehabilitation method tested by 18 years of experience has proven to be extraordinarily effective. The brigantine of the Tender to Nave Italia Foundation is the place where the “Nave Italia Method” reveals its strength, for its ability to place every person faced with a sudden “change of direction” in their existence. No one will be a prisoner of their own discomfort after getting on board. He will be involved in an exciting, joyful adventure, which will lead him to a life different from the previous one, outside the limits of the disease. In a few days, a team that shares values made of hierarchy and military discipline, proximity, inclusion, valorization of each, offers a treatment of freedom. Every year, at least 300 people divided into dozens of projects, in complete safety, open the doors of the prison in which their disability had locked them up. Educational and rehabilitative values shared by people who believe that every fragility can be overcome by the strength of the group, unfurling great sails that become a metaphor for new and exciting horizons”
Nave Italia will then continue its solidarity journey from Gaeta on 18 June with the project “The Garden by the Sea”aimed at the bees of the Santa Rita da Cascia Hive, girls from families in difficulty who, thanks to a series of targeted activities on board, will work on achieving their well-being and self-care.
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I.RI.Fo.R.-CRLazio ONLUS – INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH, TRAINING AND REHABILITATION
The I.Ri.Fo.R Onlus is the Institute for Research, Training and Rehabilitation (I.Ri.Fo.R.) established on 22 February 1991 by the Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired. The institute designs and provides training and rehabilitation services aimed at people with visual disabilities and has regional and provincial branches throughout the national territory.
In Lazio for several years the I.Ri.Fo.R. has a fundamental role in the organization of 5/8 day rehabilitation stays for beneficiaries with visual impairments and additional complex disabilities, which include, where physical conditions allow it, the use of sporting activity to improve the scheme body, coordination and self-confidence.
TENDER TO NAVE ITALIA FOUNDATION
Tender To Nave Italia ETS Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 2007, promotes numerous solidarity projects in favor of non-profit associations, non-profit organisations, schools, hospitals, social services, public or private companies that support inclusive actions towards their patients and their families. The foundation’s mission is to fight every form of prejudice regarding disabilities and social hardship, breaking down the wall of indifference and placing itself alongside vulnerable people who, due to that prejudice, risk ending up on the margins of the community. The Foundation’s tools are educational and rehabilitation projects that are carried out on board a sailing brig conducted by a military crew and flying the flag of the Navy. On Nave Italia a specific methodology is followed: the protagonists on board are children, adolescents and adults with disabilities, mental distress or social and family distress, who have great obstacles to face every day and who regain their self-confidence on board, through an experience that combines proximity and hierarchy. On board you live and work side by side, surrounded by the sea and the wind. Everyone, without distinction, each with a specific role, sailors, boys, companions. We all become part of the same crew, without distinctions between those who come on board for a week and those who are part of it on a permanent basis. This, and the exposure of the beneficiaries to very strong emotional stimuli, always in a context of maximum safety, is the secret of the “Nave Italia method” which, under the guidance of the scientific staff of the Foundation and the crew of the Navy, is it has proven particularly effective in allowing small groups of people in difficulty to test themselves and fully exploit their potential, overcoming all the prejudices that accompany them in everyday life. In 2023 the initiative deserved the support of the President of the Republic. Since 2007, Nave Italia has embarked 7,355 people including special passengers, operators and dedicated volunteers and has implemented 359 projects which have grown in number and quality in recent years, providing beneficiaries with unique training and rehabilitation paths.
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