In Riccione, despair strikes “the smile factory”
For almost thirty years the Centro21 in Riccione is a point of reference for people with Down syndrome. A place where, since 1993 when Cristina Codicé founded the association to help children learn to be autonomous and give a support for familiesthey met stories of solidarity, of redemption, of help. Stories like those of the five boys who died on the A4 in San Donà di Piave while a trip was being made to the province of Udine, to meet another similarity realityto exchange stories, experiences, but also smiles and friendship.
And then stories like that of Massimo Pironiwho after an experience in had decided on politics devote even more commitment to volunteering, in that association of which he had always belonged. His “second life”he called it in recent days in a post on social media with whom, with a smiling photo surrounded by the boys of the association, he wished the founder. “Sharing is never easy but brings extraordinary results first of all to ourselves”.
“Massimo was a man always available – remembers him president of the Stefano Bonaccini Region – at the service of his land and his fellow citizens: it is a loss that leaves an unbridgeable void. “In Riccione, the news shocked a community that a party time was beginning: in the evening, in fact, due to the celebrations of the birthday of the birth of the city, celebrations immediately canceled by the mayor Daniela Angelini and sent back to data to be destined, with the proclamation of city mourning. The president of the Province of Rimini Rinziero Santi, together with the Municipality of Rimini, also adds to the condolences for the entire community. The Secretary Teodoro Lonfernini, with a post on Facebook expresses the proximity of the Titan: “San Marino gathers around the city of Riccione for the tragedy that today involved entire families of their community”.