ENGLISH TRANSLATION

No gifts for 7.5 million Italians, forced to allocate the budget to other more urgent expenses. 80 thousand at Christmas lunch with San’Egidio – There are 7.5 million Italians who have not given gifts by choice or because they are forced to allocate the budget to other more urgent expenses.

So according to Coldiretti. This despite the fact that 189 euros more were spent each thanks to the thirteenth grades.

It appears that 3.1 million people were forced to ask for help with food in 2023, based on Coldiretti estimates based on data relating to food aid distributed with Fead funds.

A true social emergency, therefore, with the number of children under 15 years of age in need of assistance exceeding 630 thousand, to which must be added the 356 thousand elderly people over 65 years of age, of whom over 90 thousand are homeless and therefore live for on the street, in emergency shelters, in tents or even in cars and almost 34 thousand disabled people.

It should therefore not be surprising that (the Catholic Social Activity Community) San’Egidio served 80 thousand people in Italy and 250 thousand around the world at the table on 25 December.

Family lunches with the poor, who are friends of the Community throughout the year. A poverty that grows more and more and is increasingly ignored.