This project entails the participation of a group of teenagers, some of them with disabilities, who have experienced an innovative path, as they were the real protagonists of the volunteering activities. For the carrying out of the project, Smile Africa could count on a group of volunteers and professionals who gave a structure to the project: the educational team made up of professionals, the neuropsychomotor team and the theatre team made up of expert volunteers. We tried to change the point of view of disabled people, by detaching them from the definition of consumers' recipient of the projects, while proposing them as accountable volunteers of the projects addressed to vulnerable people: the disabled person who usually receives help, gives help to others. The group of teenagers initially met the elderly people of the nursing home "Casa Serena" of Rovigo to gather their witnesses and their memories in a relationship of mutual exchange; in a second time, a puppet theatre, which was a kind of cultural animation, was realized by the teenagers with the help of the educators, which made elderly people revive the rhymes and stories of their childhood; in this way, the opportunity of a comparison with the others was offered, enabling a reflection on themselves and supporting the process of recognition and valorisation of the differences among people and among generations.
