Hospitality and medical treatment for Alisa

April 1997
The voluntary association Volo.Insieme organized a trip to the town of Lukavica (Bosnia) to donate groceries and material aid to the families in need. During this very trip, the association learnt of a situation of extreme necessity - the health conditions of a little girl with serious eye sight problems. The family's economical difficulties but above all, the lack of ability within the health services to diagnose and cure Alisa's "eyes" convinces the volunteers from Volo.Insieme to intervene.
May 1997
Once legally arranged the visit for the little girl and her mother, Alisa is given hospitality by a family in San Mauro Pascoli, for 30 days, the minimum time necessary to attend all the specialist examinations at the St. Orsola Hospital in Bologna. Alisa suffers from a serious congenital illness: a disturbance, created by a part of the brain, prevents her to keep "still" the images that the eyes focus on (furthermore, she is deprived of 9 degrees in both eyes). The doctors have only managed to double the visual ability by using special lens; as for the congenital illness, nothing at the moment can be done but wait and hope that it does not worsen any further. Afterall, it is auspicious, the fact that the illness has not extended to other areas of the brain and that it has not compromised other vital functions.
Alisa
Alisa is a lovely little girl, very intelligent and full of energy. She was born during the war in Bosnia and now lives in Lukavica, together with her parents and little sister, Azra. The school in her village is not able to give her an education because it does not have an adequate school structure, or the specific teachers to cope with her problems. She hopes, along with her parents and little sister, to find provisional lodgings in Italy, which would at least guarantee her adequate medical assistance and the right to an education.

Hospitality and medical treatment for Jasna

Jasna Kruskic is a 12 year old girl; she was born in Gracanica (Bosnia), where she still lives. She's suffering from some pathology illnesses: a rather serious form of scoliosis and a cyst, close to the brain, preventing her from co-ordinating perfectly the movement of the joints. She also has difficulty in moving, caused by her hips which are angled inwards. Through the Association Volo.Insieme it was possible to determine, with certainty, the cause of her handicap, by organizing an appointment at the day hospital, in the neurosurgery department at the St. Orsola Hospital in Bologna. The specialist appointments (NMR, CAT) indicated the right therapy for her to tackle and how to improve the actual situation: physiotherapy and sports activity, such as swimming, would be, without a doubt, useful to recuperate her moving ability. As for the cyst, it does not seem to cause her excessive problems for the moment: only after her growing period, it will be possible to decide whether an operation to remove it is necessary.