Giorgia Pinna is 17 years old and suffers from a type three form of autism. He would like to go back to school, in Sassari, but cannot because Ittiri (the town where he lives) lacks a minibus. The provincial tender to entrust the service was deserted and, as mother Maria Luisa Scanu says, "the reasons given to us in recent months are different and linked to tenders and a series of financial problems".
And Scanu himself, through social media, talks about the discomfort for the family and, above all, for Giorgia: «School started on 13 September and we were told that the accompaniment service for children from the municipalities bordering the city is not active . Giorgia only attended ten days of lessons, when we family members accompanied her."
Scanu continues: «Giorgia, given her pathologies, is particularly entitled to benefit from the services. With the appropriate assistance in tow. We are interested in our daughter being able to go to school like all the kids."
The mother, exhausted, clearly reiterates: «We are tired of this absurd situation. They tell us that we will be entitled to reimbursement for the trips we are taking with our car. We don't care. We just want an essential service to restart."
For Giorgia, being able to go to school is «a reason for social inclusion, therapy, rehabilitation. It's not just the transport, but the whole thing", underlines Scanu.
But the problems don't end there. From the video complaint it emerges that there must necessarily be two of us to accompany Giorgia to the lessons. While one drives the other must look after the young woman.
For parents, there is no shortage of work-related inconveniences, including time off and holiday requests: everything so as not to leave their daughter alone. There is also a heartfelt final appeal: «We ask that immediate action be taken to restore transport. It is necessary for Giorgia and all the kids who experience these problems like her."