FONDAZIONE FAISDEI

The Foundation encourages the dignified and expert treatment of disabled, infirm and incapacitated people, at home or in suitable institutions, lay or religious, with direct or indirect subsidies and aid to institutions for the elderly or for the injured and debilitated, for nursing stays, for general and special therapies, rehabilitation and research in the part of the Canton of Ticino and Sottoceneri which is located south of Lake Lugano up to the east to Valmara and Val d'Intelvi included, to the west in Ponte Tresa and Lavena included, in the Enclave of Campione d'Italia and in the Lombardy region between Como and Varese, especially on the border with Mendrisiotto. The aid may be given to individual Institutes in this area that improve their structures in favor of the disabled, and will take place through subsidies for the actual expenses they encounter for works previously encouraged by the foundation, one-off subsidies given and also paid in installments. Institutions enter into account that take in residence, in treatment, in general or special therapy or in treatment for rehabilitation purposes, persons who, due to age or infirmity, are unable to provide for themselves, or do not have autonomy of movement, as well as those involved in research to alleviate the suffering and infirmities to which these disabled people are subject.