“Everyone is buying the newspaper,” they said from San Martín de los Andes, is that on the cover there is a photo of Alan and Theo, an unstoppable duo, known locally for challenging the impossible. All barriers.
The Local radio stations replicated the news, including the story behind the Pastoriza family who has been fighting for ten years to make his disabled child happy, despite the obstacles. They found a way out in sports and a way to laugh and heal from the diagnosis of congenital microcephaly.
Theo’s parents’ cell phone exploded mid-morning. Several social, political and business leaders from Neuquén had already communicated to start a fundraising campaign. so that they can finish the documentary “Adaptados, sin limits”, which is interrupted due to lack of budget for post-production.
In the first four hours of the donation campaign, they raised 51,000 pesos and by 3 p.m. They had doubled the funds in the Mercado Pago account created for that purpose.
«In the first seven hours we were able to raise more than 104,000 pesos, the truth is that I shed tears of emotion because it is a lot of work, it is a lot of effort and we want to make it known. The economic situation we are going through today is not the best,” said Alan, the father who created an adapted skate for his son.
«I get a lump in my throat just thinking about all these beautiful things that are happening to us. “The neighbors also join the campaign and the people of San Martín de los Andes, Neuquén, from all parts of the country who support us.”
Alan Pastoriza, Theo’s father,
«We get messages from everywhere that they bought the newspaper with that cover photo. “It is so nice to be able to see good and healthy news so we are very happy and pleased with all this impact,” Alan concluded.
The message of the film that sensitively describes the experiences of this family since Theo was a baby, together with his progress, It has to arrive massively and bear fruit. They hope to continue advancing with the project for which they need 4,500,000 pesos and to be able to release the film.
Very shocked, Alan closed by extending the thanks to “all the people for giving us the opportunity to express ourselves with this documentary.”
Theo’s story
Theo is disabled by congenital microcephaly. «He was a boy who was sad, he had nothing to do, he couldn’t go out. It made me very bad and I spent some time trying to understand his disability, his problem, the lack of things for him. Based on that, I came up with ideas to include him in society,” said his father Alan, who decided to take his son to his territory, the world of adrenaline and extreme sports. And from that moment, he began a journey of no return.
It was during a pandemic, when Alan participated in a sporting event in Bariloche and the only thing he did was move his son in a wheelchair. “That clicked for me. I was doing something wrong, because I am supporting something in which my baby could not participate,” she revealed.
There were many afternoons in the Plaza de San Martín, in which Thiago the greatest played little games, but for Theo there was no option. Tears and anger turned into actions. So it was that, one day in 2022, Alan returned home and invented an adapted skateboard to try with his son. From skateboarding, they tried snowboarding. It was months and months of practice for a child who could not grasp, stand, or walk on his own. But by force of will, they achieved it. Today he is practicing an adapted sport.
“It’s impressive what he achieved in Theo,” his father said about the consequences on his health. “This meant significant growth in their structure and motor development,” he added. He recently had a check-up and health professionals are amazed.
