Among the participants also the Minister for Disabilities Alessandra Locatelli and the president of Cip Luca Pancalli
The two days of Jubilee of people with disabilities is underway. At the Lumsa University, in the Jubilee room, the “Sport Paralympic Sport generator of hope” was held. Several institutions and athletes present at the event promoted by the Dicastery for the service of the integral human development of the Holy See, together with the Giovanni Paolo II Foundation for Sport, with the collaboration of the Italian Paralympic Committee, of the same University and sponsored by the National Office for the Pastoral Temporal of Leisure, Tourism and Sport of the CEI, by the CSI Rome and by the Italian non -profit Observatory (OINP). Many important issues addressed, such as inclusion and integration as hope for the future, also touched by Alessandra Locatelli, Minister for Disability: “We have a great hope of change thanks to the reform of disability that aims to put on the same level essential elements of the life of all of us: well -being and health, training, right to work, recreational and social time. We are all the same and we must have the same opportunities, as Pope Francis said”. A few days after Bergoglio’s funeral, the memory of the teachings of the pontiff also came from the secretary of the Dicastery for the service of the integral human development of the Holy See, Sister Alessandra Smerilli: “What Pope Francis has taught us is that you can look at a person from above only at the moment when this can be helped to get up”.
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The president of CIP Luca Pancalli also stressed that “sport is important for everyone, not only for people with disabilities. As Pope Francis recalled, it is a community generator, integration, training: I believe that this in the world of disability is expressed in the best possible way”. The testimonies of two athletes who participated in the Paris 2024 games, such as Martina Caironi (gold in the 100m T63), who wanted to highlight how “sport allows you to rejoice, suffer and then, finally, to finally give vent to what was the sacrifice you have faced for months, sometimes years old”. Finally, Paolo Dongong Camanni (Judo), he underlined how “we all be born with differences and these characterize us and it is a wonderful thing, as you have seen at the Paralympics. In our baggage we bring our diversity, as a main feature”.