"For a child, entering a hospital, and especially an emergency room, is a traumatic and stressful event, especially if it takes place in the cold and antiseptic environment typical of most hospital settings, which are incapable of capturing the child's attention and stimulating their imagination. Therefore, by decorating the environment, creating a child-friendly place of care that can divert the child's attention, with images and emotions, from what is happening around him, not only reduces the child's feeling of fear, but also helps to reduce the parents' anxiety, allowing health workers to act more calmly. It is with this in mind that the Emmaland Charity Association has decided to launch the "Il Giardino di Emma" project in collaboration with Silvio Irilli, a well-known artist in Italy and around the world and founder of Painted Hospitals. The project involves painting all the walls and part of the ceiling of the paediatric emergency room, giving children the feeling that they are not in a hospital but immersed in an enchanted garden capable of alleviating discomfort and pain by capturing their attention through reassuring colours and images. The humanisation of the diagnostic-assistance pathway has always been at the heart of the mission of the s.c. Pediatria-Neonatologia. This is why we are delighted to support the proposal of the Emmaland Association in memory of little Emma who, like a brief meteorite, passed through our ward, leaving an indelible memory of her smile in all the staff who knew her. I sincerely thank the Association, Emma's parents and all those who, thanks to their generosity, will make this project possible. "