TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 09
My Charity: On The House

How Direct Access Partners' Char les LaGanga is offering some much-needed home improvement for one ailing child.

September 2008

"I grew up in a tenement," says Charles LaGanga, who rose from such humble origins to become managing director at Direct Access Partners in Manhattan. "And I learned from my grandmother to always give back. Make a difference."

For Staten Island's Joseph and Rosina Trimarchi, LaGanga, whose firm handles equity and fixed-income trading for institutional clients, has made all the difference.

Their youngest daughter, Alexia, now 7, was born with a host of afflictions -- spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy, vision and verbal impairment, seizure and gastronomic disorders -- that will keep her wheelchair-bound her entire life. Moving her is difficult, as she is at great risk for bone dislocation…

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