During the pandemic, the demand for Little Banks and soup Shot. These were exceptional times, but demand continues to get to the point that he once, as well as more than before.
As Brother Jose Vicente from San Antonio de Los -Kaputksens explains, the queues that form the event of the morning outsid. No longer “out of hunger, but out of an unreliable lifeFrom the fact that he did not force ends meet. “
Natalya Gamarro, coordinator of the soup cuisine of the Association of the Tardor Association, has the same point of view: “We not only serve people who cannot satisfy their main needs, because they are homeless, but also Ret Sunsy costs from 1200 to 1,500 eurosField
Rosario Fuster, to become voluntary in the supa kitchen Zaqueo, says: “We started by serving socially excluded – drug addicts, alcoholics, former conditions – but now we have people who have Small pensions This is not a Covech to make ends meet. Many of them do not live on the streets. “
“In recent years, we have encountered a new profile: Working poor Who, depriving the work, cannot make ends meet that Bakas’s salary is paying for rent, and CanW provide a balanced diet, ”explains Teresa Riere, Homeels coordinator and a housing project at a charity organization.
Karits have a kitchen for Inca, which is part of a larger project for homeless. “In the soup kitchen, we have a large number of people who have become homeless or live in poor -quality housing, so they eat because they have new ones to cook or store food. Buty sum, what is to eat, there is a houseOthers are families with children who take home prepared dishes, while others are older people with disabilities and mobile problems, so food is delivered to their homes. “
The kitchen for soups in Palm begins to work at 7 o’clock in the morning for cooking and packaging of food. At 12 o’clock it opens, and people can take four -paches – two dishes, dairy products and baking. “We wanted to be uble to provide moreTo take place where people could eat inside more worthy, and cover hot food in the evening, ”says Natalya Gamarro.
The number of people in unstable financial situations is growing, partly associated with difficulties in access to housing. But the number of homeless remains very highThe field “I would dare to say that 70% of the people who come are homeless. There are also people over 50 years old with Vry Low Mange who spend their money, paying for the room to sleep, ”says Gamarro. In Tardor, they serve almost 300 people a day.
“This year we collect statistics, and, taking revenge, 223 people come, although it is 260 for days,” explains Jose Vicente’s brother. The third is “chronic homeless”, and the remaining two thirds “Poor workers and pensioners”They serve about 250 people with a field in Zacchae. “Men are more than women, and most of them cannot make ends meet,” said Rosario Faster.
In Inca last year, Cáritas served 283 people as part of the Center’s programs. “The dining room serves about 110 breaks, lunches and dinners per day,” says Teresa Riere. “People eat here who have homeless And they live in a tent or on the streets. “