- March 9, 2011
It's Friday morning and Caritas Convent is on a pay bills for electricity, water and gas for those who joined the fund family work. In a couple of hours is a constant bustle of people coming into town from across the province, sometimes hitchhiking because they have no equity or money for bus fare. Mr. F., 43, does not hold the emotion when he speaks of the daughter of 6 years who always wears the same clothes have become tight.
In Piedmont had a job as a security guard and was shopping at the supermarket like everyone else. The promise of a leap into a career as a technical director institution supervisory with rent paid had the land in Bergamo load of hopes and dreams. Dreams that were shattered almost immediately.
"I gave all the savings fund, and so I turned to Caritas that helps me making me a small fee every 15 days by which we try to move on. Do not switch the heating to save and live with 13 degrees in the house, the only luxury we allow ourselves is that we only use a small heater in the bathroom, but the light is always off. Now we hope for a miracle. "
G., 46, worked in a large company Alzano Lombardo that the crisis has turned into a layoff of 500 € per month a few years ago. "I could not keep my wife and two children with little money. So I got fired for being able to find another job. The problem is that a I can not find another job. For two years we eat pasta for lunch and evening, fortunately, Caritas has helped us pay some bills. No longer able to move forward. "
Next Italians then there is an army of non-EU came to Italy years ago to escape hunger, the hunger, but now are suffering here. That's what happened to S., 45, Senegalese in Italy for 16 years, a wife and a daughter of 4 years. "I was convinced to come here and find a better life, in Senegal there is no work, people are dying of hunger. I have always worked as a welder or a driver then suddenly everything changed. A year and a half ago, I ended the contract e non me l'hanno più rinnovat».
«A casa mangiamo solo riso con un poco di zucchero dentro, altro non possiamo permettercelo. Ho proposto a mia moglie di dare nostra figlia a qualche famiglia, ho pensato che così potrebbe mangiare e stare bene ma lei si è messa a piangere. Quando si è disperati si arriva a fare di tutto».
In Piedmont had a job as a security guard and was shopping at the supermarket like everyone else. The promise of a leap into a career as a technical director institution supervisory with rent paid had the land in Bergamo load of hopes and dreams. Dreams that were shattered almost immediately.
"I gave all the savings fund, and so I turned to Caritas that helps me making me a small fee every 15 days by which we try to move on. Do not switch the heating to save and live with 13 degrees in the house, the only luxury we allow ourselves is that we only use a small heater in the bathroom, but the light is always off. Now we hope for a miracle. "
G., 46, worked in a large company Alzano Lombardo that the crisis has turned into a layoff of 500 € per month a few years ago. "I could not keep my wife and two children with little money. So I got fired for being able to find another job. The problem is that a I can not find another job. For two years we eat pasta for lunch and evening, fortunately, Caritas has helped us pay some bills. No longer able to move forward. "
Next Italians then there is an army of non-EU came to Italy years ago to escape hunger, the hunger, but now are suffering here. That's what happened to S., 45, Senegalese in Italy for 16 years, a wife and a daughter of 4 years. "I was convinced to come here and find a better life, in Senegal there is no work, people are dying of hunger. I have always worked as a welder or a driver then suddenly everything changed. A year and a half ago, I ended the contract e non me l'hanno più rinnovat».
«A casa mangiamo solo riso con un poco di zucchero dentro, altro non possiamo permettercelo. Ho proposto a mia moglie di dare nostra figlia a qualche famiglia, ho pensato che così potrebbe mangiare e stare bene ma lei si è messa a piangere. Quando si è disperati si arriva a fare di tutto».
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