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Sennori (Agenzia Fides) - The Association Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII has been present in Sardinia for about 9 years. In this period has opened the Cooperativa Sociale San Damiano which cares for 20 adults with physical and psychic problems originally from 6 different towns in the province of Sassari. In the territory there are 6 families (3 in Sassari, 1 Oristano, 2 Cagliari) who care for 10 minors with serious physical difficulties, 6 non European adults including a mother and three children, and about 5 adults from the Sassari and Oristano prison who are accepted through alternative measures to detention for a short of medium term. The Association supports and assists about 10 non association member entrustment families. The first Family House in Sardinia will meet numerous requests to help people in difficulty and to help the Association's community experience take deeper root in the territory.
On the occasion of the inauguration Wednesday 24 October, there will be a press conference at the Sala Consiliare in Sennori with the participation of Rev Oreste Benzi, founder and president of the Ass. Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII; Antonello Spanu, Ass. Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII delegate for Sardinia; Nicola De Vivo and Gavinuccia Nieddu, in charge of the Family House; Dr. Antonio Canu, ,mayor of Sennori; Fabio Sassu, Sennori social services Assessor; don Tore Masia, parish priest at Sennori. The inauguration will be in Sennori, Via Murroni, 4 at 4.30pm.
The Association Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII was started in 1968 by Rev. Oreste Benzi, of the diocese of Rimini. The first Family Home was opened in 1972. Today there are 269 Family Homes formed of singles, or married couples who become temporarily or permanently fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters of people will a disability, minors in difficulty, form drug addicts, people which psychic problems… the Community is present in about 20 different countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America with initiatives to help the poor and the needy. On 7 October 1998 it was recognised by the Pontifical Council for the Laity as an international Association of Pontifical Right for lay Catholics. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 23/10/2007, righe 27, parole 366)
