GALLIATE LOMBARDY – A moment of multi-voiced dialogue to understand what it means to welcome a child into foster care, thus becoming “one more family”. «Each child has the right to grow up in a reliable, nurturing family environment suitable for promoting their development: family foster care represents a form of protection of this very precious principle and it is precisely for this reason that it constitutes a path of great social value for our community. However, more than forty years after his birth (which occurred with law 184 of 1983), it’s still a poorly understood form of parenting». Precisely to promote its purposes, information and therefore access to single people and couples (married and unmarried)on Saturday 11 May a meeting will be held at 4.30 pm, with free admission, at the library of Galliate Lombardo (Parish square 1).
The point of view of foster parents: real life stories
This is an initiative proposed by Ama – A smile for foster carea voluntary organization that brings together various foster families in the area, together with Afap (Association of Foster Families Palermo) and the Foster Care Service of the Varese District. The event also sees the patronage of the Municipality of Galliate Lombardo.
The meeting is dedicated to learning about family foster care through the testimonies of those who experience it first hand. Some families from the promoting associations will share their real life stories, thus telling the story of foster care from the point of view of the foster parents, with its joys and also difficulties. Some operators of the district foster care service, managed by the Proges cooperativethey will explain the access criteria and how to get to know those who apply for the course.
