The “Growing Together at The Sant’Anna” project

Juventus Football Club has always showed its commitment in humanitarian initiatives and social solidarity. Commitments and projects the club supports in an active and concrete way form part of the politics and culture: the same values and ideals Juventus spread through developing sports activity, are felt and transmitted also to social domain.
The club’s main charity project, from 2004 to the present day, is to support the “Crescere Insieme al Sant’Anna” ONLUS Foundation.  The aim of the initiative, which has grown from the collaboration with Azienda Ospedaliera Regina Margherita - Sant’Anna (Regina Margherita - Sant’Anna Hospital Corporation) in Torino, is to raise funds for the restructuring of Sant’Anna Hospital Neonatal Department. The Chairman of the Foundation is Doc. Daniele Farina, Head Clinician of Sant’Anna Hospital Neonatal Dept. in Torino. Throughout the years, Juventus champions have displayed their support for the project, by becoming its ambassadors: first Pavel Nedved and now Claudio Marchisio.

For further information regarding the project, please visit the official website

www.fondazionesantanna.it/

The Newborn Ward at The Sant'Anna Hospital in Turin

Due to the nature of the Newborn ward's guests, a structure was created to support the babies' necessities in the best possible way under a medical point of view, but also under the point of view of psycho-emotional and family relationships.
The ward follows the principles of “care” and “family-centred care”: this means considering the newborn at 360°, ensuring the young patients can have some sort of normal life even inside a structure that is not their home and that can often have a sombre atmosphere.

Practical ways to reach this aim include facilitating parents' access to the ward, both in terms of time (“free access”), and of environment, making the process more human and personal. Parents must be involved in every aspect of the children’s stay at the hospital, and the family's love and support, together with constant physical contact (the so-called kangaroo mothering technique), become essential ingredients in the process of treating the newborn.
The main aim of the project is reaching a correct relationship between functionality and comfort and the newborn ward is one of the vital steps in the process.
The main requisites of the environment, to allow the Hospital to resemble a family setting as much as possible, are highly personalized furnishings, to make the environment welcoming and user-friendly, and the presence of cutting edge equipment for the treatment of the children.

For further information regarding the project, please visit the official website