San Marino. National Food Drive Day is back on Saturday
It returns throughout Italy and in the Republic of San Marino National Food Collection Day: Saturday 26 November it will be possible to go shopping to help people living in poverty or in need.
Furthermore 13,000 supermarketsthousands of volunteers will invite to donate long-life food which, in the following days, will come distributed to more than 7,000 charitable institutions (soup kitchens, communities for minors, solidarity banks, reception centres, diocesan Caritas, etc.).
The Collection – now in its 26th edition – assumes even more importance in the light of an international context marked by the post-pandemic and by the effects of the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. A situation destined to raise already worrying data.
The Republic of San Marino will join in this great gesture of charity, which this year has the Patronage of the Most Excellent Captains Regent, involving hundreds of volunteers from the various lay and Catholic associations present in the area. An important movement that unites people of all ages and cultural backgrounds in the face of this enormous need, which not even the most perfect society can solve. Each of us feels a sense of helplessness but also the urgency to make ourselves available to help those in need, because it is precisely in this dimension that man fully realizes himself. It is no coincidence that the phrase that condenses the experience of the Colletta and the activity of the Banco Alimentare reads sharing needs to share the meaning of life.
Another positive effect connected to the Collection is certainly represented by personal relationships that are generated around it e which contribute significantly to bringing a glimmer of positivity to lives marked by fatiguenot only material but above all emotional.
Pope Francis himself, in the message released in view of the VI World Day of the Poorhe affirmed: “How many poor people the senselessness of war generates! […] As members of civil society, we keep alive the call to the values of freedom, responsibility, brotherhood and solidarity. And as Christians, we always find the foundation of our being and our actions in charity, faith and hope […] In front of the poor, one does not rhetoric, but rolls up one’s sleeves, through direct involvement, which cannot be delegated to anyone […] It is not activism that saves but sincere and generous attention […] No one can feel exempt from concern for the poor and for social justice.
With these words we invite everyone to participate in the 26th National Food Collection Day, thanks to which the Banco Alimentare Emilia Romagna, which supports the collection in San Marino, will deliver directly to the San Marino Caritas at the San Michele center in San Marino at the end of the day first quantity of food, to then continue with the supply throughout the year.