![]() ![]() We must sow positive signs, show that there is room for good, for solidarity towards the brothers. In a situation of illness there is no need only medical care, the first treatment is the warm and humane environment in which to face difficulties. Today – said the archbishop – we have a great need to find community contexts of life, in which to take care of others, welcome and spread love. The Ail volunteers participated in the party for the reopening of Casa La Coccinella, daily involved in assisting patients with leukemia, lymphomas and myelomas, and many people who contributed to this result. The apartment in via Parrini 14 (cross street of via Brunelleschi) completely renovated and equipped with new functional and elegant furnishings was inaugurated this morning in the presence of the Archbishop of Palermo, Monsignor Corrado Lorefice, municipal councilor for social activities, Rosi Pennino, and the national president of Ail, Pino Toro. At least solving the problem of hospitality in a place of love – he concludes – brings serenity in a panorama of suffering that the family is called to live ».Rooms and furnishings renovated to offer hospitality and support to out-of-home patients and their families in the Casa Ail “La Coccinella”, in Palermo. That hospital and social proximity services often do not give due to the many difficulties they are called to manage. The guests then took a tour of the residence: “Places like this are places of love and welcome towards a very important need – said Councilor Pennino -, I always say that parents who find themselves welcoming suffering need places of serenity. But it is also a place that recalls essential values - continues the Archbishop – because today we risk that the houses close instead of opening and this is already a sign that provokes and helps us to keep our hearts home. A house like this, which will welcome the sick and their families, accompanying them on the long journey of therapy. ![]() Planet earth is a common home and we all have shared responsibility for it. ![]() The commissioner Rosi Pennino e Archbishop Corrado Lorefice: «Ail does not stop even in the face of pandemics. A work made possible thanks also to the funds obtained from the 2021 lottery and the participation of Unicredit. The residence has been completely renovated, with brand new furniture, furnishings and appliances, to give the center a new sense of welcome and home.Įight beds available in independent rooms, each gilded with its own bathroom. An intervention on the sidelines of the inauguration of the Ail «La Coccinella» house, historic site in via Parrini 14, at the CEP, which for twenty years has welcomed over two thousand patients, with over four thousand trips and more than six thousand overnight stays. These are the words of Pino Toro, national president of Ail, the Italian association against leukemia. Having a house available is extremely important, both on the economic level, considering that the therapies last for years, and on the emotional level because they find a familiar and welcoming environment ». «Today we are inaugurating this completely renovated house which in over twenty years has hosted thousands of patients from all over Sicily. ![]()
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