The onset of a neuromuscular illness and its progressively disabling course can lead one to believe that the greatest effort must be targeted at looking after the body, neglecting deeper emotional aspects. Disorientation, panic, depression, disappointment and giving up are, in contrast, the most severe obstacles that ASD Magic Torino is committed to helping people overcome, encouraging and stimulating the individual youth towards sport, with the aim of normalising their difficult existential condition.
The project
When a young person takes on a sport, it does not matter which and at what level, it means that they have decided to react to illness and frustrations. With powerchair hockey and, from this year, powerchair football, the Magic Torino-UILDM Association aims to disseminate the practice of amateur sports among people affected by serious neuromuscular diseases, offering opportunities for unity, challenge, dialogue, and exchange.
From training to competitions, sport is a roller-coaster of new knowledge and big emotions. The body is empowered, strengthened, and, in some cases, manages to perform actions that seemed impossible beforehand, with benefits for self-esteem and self-awareness.
The beneficiaries
15 people affected by moderate-severe motor diseases take part in the Magic Torino sports journey, which also involves their parents as volunteers in the activities, assigning roles to each of them.
15 people affected by moderate-severe motor diseases take part in the Magic Torino sports journey, which also involves their parents as volunteers in the activities, assigning roles to each of them.
Parents have a decisive role in relation to a child with disabilities; they explain that difference can be overcome and become something that makes them special, instead of limited.
Project name: Children of a minor sport
Proposing organisation: ASD MAGIC TORINO - UILDM
Area of intervention: Inclusion & Social Development