Naomi, disabled and in the cold. Her mother Aurora can’t take it any longer: “Give me a job”

 Naomi was only two years old when a television crushed her making her disabled. Now she is 4 and she doesn’t see, speak, nor walk, but she is able to express her love for her mother Aurora. Her story has touched all of Busto Arsizio even if the events occurred in Sicily, while visiting her grandparents. Followed by 4 months of deep coma, then waking up in the centre "Our family" where she returns for care cycles that last two months. That awakening has rekindled hope in the eyes of her mother Aurora and then the long and arduous path of rehabilitation that still continues.

Around Naomi there are her sisters and Aurora, 37 years and a job that doesn’t exist if not intermittent, a house up for auction because she is unable to pay the mortgage, the heating turned since October (they heat themselves with an electric heater, Ed note) and a pile of bills that they cannot pay. Then there is the emptiness. The social services of Busto know this case, Aurora turned to them on many occasions, but she was not suitable for the aid. "The only sign of proximity," says the mother, "is a monitor on the house that is up for auction."

"In reality I just want a real job," explains the mother of Naomi with a voice broken from the emotion but nevertheless combative. "I will never give up, even if we have been left alone by the offices of the Commune." "My daughter needs an educator but we weren’t able to get even that." After two years of silent suffering she has decided to come out, bringing her case to the attention of Audio Porfidio, ex-Councillor of the Voce of the City, that declares: "I wish that people that follow the social services go and meet this child, they become aware of the needs that she has and of the love that people that are near her are giving, but that she is still alone." "It is shameful that they are people that don’t move a finger to help her and that think about giving money to the Busto Arsizio Film Festival when there are people, in our city, that don’t receive the aid that they deserve."

Naomi needs continuous care, she goes to the Aias of Busto, a neurological rehabilitation of psychiatric and developmental age centre where she is followed by a speech therapist and a physical therapist so that she can return, one day, to talking and moving again. For now she manages to embrace her mother, to who she is strongly linked: "Her hugs make me carry on," says Aurora, "this girl has taught me so much, now I feel complete and I understand really what are dignity and love". Aurora insists on the word dignity: "Naomi must have a dignified life and I will fight with all my strength to guarantee her this even if the social services continue to delay and deny".