When Mari Carmen starts her shift at the supermarket first thing in the morning, she knows her five-year-old son Enzo, who has autism, is in good hands. At 7:00 AM, he is already at the early care program of thesummer school from Algar, where a counselor accompanies her specifically throughout the day. "If there were no summer schools, I would have no alternatives. I would have to work only in the afternoon or evening, because I cannot stop working," she explains. "The children are much better here than with their grandparents. They do activities, they continue learning, and they are among other children. The children are ours, not the grandparents'," she explains.