Daniela Scillieri Gives Back

Daniela Scillieri spends much of her time volunteering at Hope House. Hope House is a non profit which was started in a converted garage in Austin in 1966. Daniela Scillieri recognizes the need for a home and place of learning for people with disabilities. Hope house was founded by Rose McGarrigle. Rose was from Germany and during World War II was a n ruse working in a Red Cross Facility caring for terminally ill patients and those who were displaced by the war. The conditions at the Red Cross location were appalling to her. Barred windows and large patient overflowing rooms created quite a bit of despair. She found out through visitors that many of the people who had been there prior to the war were “slow or crippled”.

After the war her family somehow found each other and they settled in the American Occupied side of Germany. A Psychiatrist met rose and she began working with him. He ran a medical center which many nuns were attending the patients. The psychiatrist had saved mashy children with mental handicaps from the Third Reich and she began caring for them. She cared for these children until she moved to the United States.

Daniela Scillieri understood Rose’s background and passion to serve others and volunteering at the center has been a way for Daniela Scillieri to give back to her community. She understands that everyone needs love and attention and nobody deserves to be treated the way the patients during WWII were being treated. Daniela Scillieri makes every effort to make sure that every child she meets, knows there are loving and caring people in their world.