Italian volunteers handout Xmas lunch packing containers to the poor



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In the Italian money, dozens of refugees, poor and homeless men and women attended a charity event on Friday where by they acquired lunch packing containers and presents from a Catholic local community.

The Community of Sant’Egidio has been organising Xmas lunch for individuals in have to have every single 12 months given that 1982.

This yr, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, the common food was replaced by a distribution of lunch bins, cooked by volunteers, and gifts.

Hundreds of folks employed to get pleasure from the Xmas lunch in Santa Maria in Trastevere Church, the headquarters of the Sant’Egidio Neighborhood.

On Xmas Day, only about a single hundred persons could go to this Christmas celebration in man or woman.

Nonetheless, dozens of volunteers began to distribute meals parcels and presents not just in Rome and in Italy, but all through Europe and other continents, in accordance to the group organisers.

Italian volunteers handout Christmas lunch bins to the lousy

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Final Christmas 60,000 men and women in Italy and above 200,000 people all over the environment acquired aid from the Sant’Egidio Neighborhood.

The items included completely ready-to-consume foods, heat winter outfits and blankets, house cleaning items and own hygiene merchandise.