The Tabor center for disabled young people reopens – Pescara

PESCARA. The “Tabor Center” of the Paolo VI Foundation, in via Tavo 86, will be operational again by 2025. In recent days the construction site was presented which, following important renovation works, seismic improvement and energy efficiency of the four-storey building that hosts, it will become a semi-residential reception center for 70 young disabled people who will have the opportunity to complete a care path, in order to be reintroduced into society. «Young people who need help», specifies the lawyer Peppino Polidori, president of the Paul VI Foundation, «who we do not call disabled people, but “special young people” who need to be helped to be reintroduced into a virtuous circle, which makes them also become protagonists of society». The works will be carried out in 653 days, for an amount of approximately 3 million 300 thousand euros and will allow the reactivation of what was already a rehabilitation center of the Paul VI Foundation in the past. A choice inspired by the archbishop of Pescara-Penne monsignor Tommaso Valentinetti: «I met my first “special boy” when I was 13. 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. I couldn’t help but commit myself to this task that Providence probably assigned to me.” In the future there is talk of also creating a vegetable garden in the courtyard of the Tabor Center, so as to engage future users in a process of reintegration into work. The centre, once operational, will also return to being a social center in Rancitelli.
Among others, the mayor was present at the inauguration Carlo Mascithe general director of the Foundation, Elisa Di Tilliothe parish priest of the Guardian Angels, Don Massimiliano De Lucathe priest and doctor of Paul VI Don Carlo Faraone.