Sweets and pandoros at the Paola prison from the Jole Santelli association

“As an association ‘Jole Santelli’ we wanted to give solidarity and hope to the detainees and thank the staff of the prison police”. Paola and Roberta Santelli have once again proposed one of the appointments that Jole Santelli was most fond of this year. As the president of the Calabria region who died in 2020 loved to do every Christmas, her sisters, on behalf of the ‘Jole Santelli’ association, brought Christmas sweets and pandoro to the prison of Paola this year. “On December 28, her birthday, Jole used to celebrate by donating sweets to inmates and prison police staff -explain Paola and Roberta Santelli-. We, as the ‘Jole Santelli’ association, have decided to continue this will, too thanks to the great availability of Dr. Emilia Boccagna and that of Dr. Antonio Di Caprio, who donated the pandoros “. The very heartfelt and participatory ceremony was attended by the Santelli sisters, Di Caprio and the lawyer Sabrina Rondinelli, in addition to representatives of the penitentiary structure. “We wanted to send a message of solidarity and closeness to the inmates and of thanks to the work of the penitentiary police – continue the Santelli sisters -. In life we ​​all make mistakes, sometimes we stumble, sometimes we fall into ruinous ones but the important thing is to get up and find within us the strength, will and determination to pursue one’s dreams and redraw the lines of one’s life “. “We also wanted to thank the staff of the penitentiary police who have a decisive role in ensuring order and safety in a place like prison, which in the collective imagination is also connected to the darkness of the soul, and which has the enormous role of keep the flame of hope alive “, concluded Santelli.