Girl gives up Communion presents to fund ice cream for needy

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 18 - A 10-year-old Italian girl has given up her First Holy Communion gifts and cash in order to fund a social collective that runs a Lecce artisanal gelateria staffed by Down's youngsters that offers free ice cream to the needy, media reported Thursday.
    The Lecce girl, Carolina, said she was happy to be contributing to the new gelato with its flavour described as "social redemption and happiness".
    She has devolved all the money she would have got for her Communion to the charitable foundation that operates the ice cream parlous in the historic centre of the Puglia city, Defriscu. (ANSA).