PESCARA. The “Tabor Center” of the Paul VI Foundation will be back in operation by 2025, transforming into a semi-residential reception center for 70 young disabled people, who will be able to complete a care path and then be reintroduced into society. «Young people who need help – declared the lawyer Peppino Polidori, president of the Paul VI Foundation – Young people who we do not call disabled, but “special young people” who need to be helped to be reintroduced into a virtuous circle, which let them also become protagonists of society.”
Yesterday the presentation of the construction site, with renovation works, seismic improvement and energy efficiency of the four-storey building that houses the Tabor. The interventions are carried out by the company “Coccia construction” of Mosciano Sant’Angelo in 653 days, for an amount of 3,306,748.59 euros. To guarantee the necessary money, the 110% Superbonus and, in part, the donations of a group of entrepreneurs.
For the mayor of Pescara, Carlo Masci, «what the Paul VI Foundation does is totally for the benefit of the community and we cannot fail to accompany these initiatives, which help the needy, those who ask for help and receive it from the institutions in a discreet and silent.”
The Archbishop of Pescara-Penne, Monsignor Tommaso Valentinetti, was also satisfied: «I – he said before blessing the construction site – met the first “special boy”, much older than me, when I was 13 years old. Since then that special boy has always remained present in my life. When I arrived here in Pescara I already knew the Paul VI Foundation and that special boy became a lot of special boys. And so I couldn’t help but commit myself to this task that Providence probably assigned to me.”
For the future, there is already talk of creating a vegetable garden in the courtyard of the Tabor Center, so as to engage future users of the structure also in a process of reintegration into work.
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