Atlha Onlus (Italy)

Atlha Onlus is a non profit making organisation for the spare time of young people with special needs.

Full Address
Via Cascina Bellaria, 90
20151 Milano
Italy

Type of Organisation
non-profit

Web Site
www.atlha.it

Number of Members if applicable
50-100

Name of President / Legal Representative
Mr. Pasqualino Brundu

Telephone
+39 (0)2 48206551

Fax
+39 (0)2 48206553

Email
atlha@atlha.it

Name of Contact Person
Mr. Pasqualino Brundu

Position
President

Telephone
+39 348 0808761

Fax
+39 (0)2 48206553

Email
lino.brundu@atlha.it

Some data
Atlha Onlus works since 1986, at national and international level, in organizing project for disable people (the mainly age from 16 to 30) in order to help them to reach a satisfactory integration in the society.

Goals
The aim of the Association is to promote the participation of the people with learning disabilities and also their families, and to help their global integration within the social fabric of our society. The Association provides for this throughout its own services and by the institution of working co-operatives, laboratories and lodging communities; cultural, formative, professional, recreative, touristic and sportive activities. The Association arranges trips, holidays, study travel, youth exchanges, research and updanting tours in Italy and abroad. Services for the free time and any other autonomous activities are integrated in the services of other corporations, and public or private associations that can be brought up to the same standards as the Association. Atlha Onlus promotes and develops social volunteers as the main form of external collaboration. For disabled people Atlha Onlus organize leisure time activities and residential acceptance, training course, promotes the international voluntary service and the working insertion. For Atlha Onlus, in fact, free time is an opportunity for the integration, a special way to stay together with other persons, to talk about and to understand the own feelings, the own emotions and interest like everybody of us to do. Through the spare time activities Atlha Onlus tries to build up a culture able to integrate the differences. We host about 12 youngs with specific needs during the morning activities (training course, workshop), but this number could be increased during the hosting of foreigner group (exchange) or during the training meeting for volunteers. The youngster who participate in the leisure time activities are about 80. The Association often collaborates with volunteers come from Italian Civil Service and International Volunteers (EVS).

Activities
The Major Activities Work, fun, reflection, family activities and human relations are all significant moments in a day. This sounds alright for anyone but is more particularly significant for a person with a learning disability. The “Free time” (sport and cultural activities) has a particular meaning for the person with a learning disability, because if organised and well-aimed it becomes the most important part of a well-integrated day. This integration is necessary to ensure the stable development of the person. The activities that take place in those moments of free time are of outstanding importance and are made possible by the constant contribution of volunteers.
They subdivide into:
- THERAPEUTICAL TOURISM Trips, excursions, weekends, Christmas holidays, Easter and Summer holidays.
- CULTURAL PROGRAMMES Theatre plays, films, circus shows, musical shows, sports demonstrations. Meeting and classes to bring volunteers and operators up-to-date.
- SOCIAL PROGRAMMES Dinners, parties, dancing evenings, meetings with similar associations.
- SPORTS PROGRAMMES Gymnasium, fishing, bowling, arrowing and various team games.
- DIDACTICAL PROGRAMMES Didactical recovery, individual’s autonomy. Culture and shows are both important for the education of the general public and for the self-assertion of the people with learning disabilities. These are the fields of personal and social participation offered to young handicapped people by the Association.

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