Matilde Valeri who died at the age of 14, the father: “Her organs will save the life of five children”

“This gesture will save five children, who needed help.” The father of Matilde Valerithe girl who died at 14 from a pulmonary hembolia, tells the Corriere della Sera The choice to donate the organs of the daughter who died at the Treviso hospital. “Part of her will continue to live,” said Achille Valeri returned to Clusone where deputy with his wife Carmen Scandella.

«I would have millions of memories of Matilde. In addition to being dynamic he was a cheerful girl, a real leader. She was a drama, her eyes were full of joy and desire to live. He dreamed of traveling and being a psychologist, “added Achille Valeri. “We care about thanking all the staff, from nurses to doctors, of the hospitals of San Donà di Piave and Treviso”.

Matilde was on vacation in Veneto, in Caorle, with his parents. The father is originally from Eraclea, not far from Duna Verde beach later the girl died. In Clusone all the events scheduled until Saturday 23, the day of the funeral, were canceled or postponed. The Municipality has also proclaimed the mourning of the city: “A pain that affects the whole community, leaving us astonished,” says the message of the municipal administration.

The parish priest, Monsignor Giuliano Borlini, celebrated a prayer vigil: «In the face of such a dramatic event, you are astonished, it is difficult to find explanations. The question, which we are faced with, fill him the certainty and faith that Matilde will continue to live in the Lord forever ».

Matilde was a animator of Clusone’s Grest and was inserted in the life of the parish. The parish priest of the hamlet of Fiorine, Don Alex Carlessi, who was in Mozambique together with a group of boys from the oratory, anticipated the return. “Mom wrote me a message asking me to pray for her. To my boys I wrote that as far as we try to understand it, sometimes life is incomprehensible ».