He became a member of the Istituto F. Cavazza's Board of
Directors in 1959 and remained for 50 years a constant point of reference,
always reaffirming and conveying the interest of the family of the
Institute's founder.
In the Institution's times of crisis of the past
decades, his presence had always brought everyone to focus on the respect
and value of the conceptual, social and cultural objectives that had
inspired the action of the Institute's founder.
The radical changes imposed on the Institution based on the
political and cultural choices of the country which, in the middle of the
seventies, supported the school integration process of persons with
disabilities, overcoming in that way the operative and organizational
model of even the institutions for the blind, the resulting necessity to
rethink the role, the structures and the activities of the institutions
have brought him to contribute to the series of profound reflections
involving the Istituto Cavazza
right at the beginning of the eighties in order to
develop a new role as a service centre able to support the school
integration process offering specific opportunities for the professional
training of blind youth.
In these difficult
times, the constant involvement of Count Paolo Emilio represented a solid
point of reference for all those interested in a rigorous transformation
of the organization always and exclusively offering services to Italians
living with vision loss.
During the last
years of this past century and at the beginning of this new one, as the
Institute faced the necessity to innovate and simplify its structure in
order to improve its efficiency and to respond to the new demands of blind
people, the coherent presence of Paolo Emilio and his constant
contribution have ensured
In the last renewal of the Board, Paolo Emilio Cavazza wanted his son to take his place also because of his health conditions.
The Board still involved with the institutional changes of the organization, considering the important role that Paolo Emilio had played in the past fifty years, is seriously thinking about a way to legate his name to the organization itself, binding and associating him to the founder of the Institution.