November 26th 2011 saw a usual for Italy, but extraordinary for me, National Food Collection Day. The Raccolta Alimantare (as it’s called here) is a social campaign which takes place once a year all over the country. The main aim is to collect foodstuffs with long shelf-life (like pasta, rice, oil, sugar, flour, canned fish etc.) for Banca Alimentare. Later all these products are distributed among the poor and the people in difficulties via Social Protection bodies.
We as volunteers of APS Mondo Nuovo also took part in this campaign. The four of us and local volunteers (by the way, the youngest was about 2 years old :) arrived at one of the supermarkets of Lucera and invited the customers to take part and give a helping hand to those in need. I’ll be honest to say that in the beginning I was quite skeptical about the whole thing. But the reality turned out to be surprisingly different from what I’d expected. I couldn’t even imagine that so many people would be willing to participate! What’s more important they did it with all their heart, saying warm words and wishing all the best to us and to those people who were meant to receive these little gifts. When we saw that the amount of boxes was increasing with every hour we came to realize that this is the way to make big things happen. Gradually, step by step, with everyone doing his share of the work and making his little contribution you succeed to brighten the life of other people. And it’s only one little example. One little but very important experience that I had. And I’m not going to stop!
We as volunteers of APS Mondo Nuovo also took part in this campaign. The four of us and local volunteers (by the way, the youngest was about 2 years old :) arrived at one of the supermarkets of Lucera and invited the customers to take part and give a helping hand to those in need. I’ll be honest to say that in the beginning I was quite skeptical about the whole thing. But the reality turned out to be surprisingly different from what I’d expected. I couldn’t even imagine that so many people would be willing to participate! What’s more important they did it with all their heart, saying warm words and wishing all the best to us and to those people who were meant to receive these little gifts. When we saw that the amount of boxes was increasing with every hour we came to realize that this is the way to make big things happen. Gradually, step by step, with everyone doing his share of the work and making his little contribution you succeed to brighten the life of other people. And it’s only one little example. One little but very important experience that I had. And I’m not going to stop!
Anna
"A Solidarity Shelter" Volunteer
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