The 50th anniversary edition of
the Sant'Egidio community's guide contains all the info poor,
homeless and migrants may need to eat, sleep, wash and scrub up.
The guide also includes Pope Francis' laundromat, in Via
Gallicano, where migrants wash their clothes.
The guide, whose 8,000 copies are given out free, contains 41
canteens, "one more than last year," said Community chief Marco
Impagliazzo, as well as 47 places to sleep, 27 services for
personal cleaning and 39 places for grooming.
"This guide has been complied mainly thanks to those who use
our service and help us improve them," said Impagliazzo.
In 2017, every week, the community's centres gave out five
tonnes of food, three tonnes of clothes, and over the year
21,000 meals and sleeping bags, 12,000 personal-hygiene
products, 40,000 food packages, 80,000 dinners in the canteen in
Via Dandolo, with 5,200 volunteers providing 120,000 street
dinners.
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