Donations
Even though Italy
is a rich and developed nation with a mature infrastructure for dealing
with
natural disasters like the recent earthquake, these people will now
live in
tents and mobile-homes for nearly a decade. There
are many aid workers on the ground right now that
can use help and
I am reaching out to you to see if you would like to help me in
funneling some
aid to where it is needed most.
In 1997 I had
the “grace” to spend several months helping in
the reconstruction following the Assisi earthquake (a similar magnitude
event),
which ignited in me the incredible adventure that changed completely my
way of
living that lasted for several years, and is still alive in me today.
Is very
difficult for me in these days to watch the places where I worked for
years,
trying to guess which town, or village or street is the one that I see
in the
news… and that I can now hardly recognize. It feel a little
like
being in a
cage to be thousands of miles away from home and not being able to do
anything
to help.
Twelve
years
ago after the Assisi
earthquake, we found that one of the
hardest thing to do was to convince farmers to prepare the land for a
new
season, when the common feeling wasn’t
“homeless” but
“hopeless”. Here
below I
provide a link of the “Caritas
Italiana”, an Catholic association that works without regards
for
race, nation or belief, with and for the people, helping
them non only in reconstruction of the houses, but also in the
reconstruction
of the hope for their lives. It comes by my personal experience that
not a
single dime of money donated to this organization will be lost or
wasted. The aid
workers donate their time and support themselves with their own money.
Every monetary
donation is used to reach the needy. In
addition to Caritas Italiana, there are many other aid organizations
that are
in a position to accept donations:
