Fondazione ABIO Italia Onlus

ABIO – Associazione per il Bambino in Ospedale – was created in Milan in 1978 to assist children staying in the hospital. Today children, adolescents and parents can count on ABIO throughout Italy: 5,000 trained volunteers, organized into 67 local Associations present in over 200 pediatric wards.

ABIO volunteers take care of children from the time they arrive at the hospital when the impact with the unknown environment is most traumatic, helping them deal with pain, the new setting, and being far from people and places they know. In the playroom, the patients' rooms and hallways ABIO is there with its smiling volunteers to involve the children, play, listen, and even give support to their parents.

Fondazione ABIO Italia is the national organization that supports the local ABIO Associations and coordinates and promotes their activity; Fondazione ABIO also promotes the creation of rooms and play spaces especially for children.