MIlano, mid -August. The hectic life that characterizes the city is increasingly giving way to an exodus towards the sea and other cooler locations where you can spend the mid -August period.
The roads empty slowly, leaving room for more fragile people without a roof where you can repair from the heat. But they are not alone: Every evening, in fact, the City Angels, led by the founder Mario FurlanI’m there for them. With dark trousers, jacket or red shirt and blue be Basketthe volunteers travel the city streets with their own furniture, bringing food, clothing and, novelty of recent years, a personal hygiene service.
In addition to the van that transports the essential goods, in fact, for two years the Angels of Milan, which also operate in another 21 citiescollect requests for People who need a shower or a cut of beard and/or hairreach them and satisfy them.
Ceska, one of the volunteers responsible for this unit, He said that everything you need for washing is prepared inside the camper used, From soap to dryugaman to clean clothingand that, once the process is finished, “winter of the hot and a blanket are served, while in the summer of the cold”.
The clothing are crammed into the warehouse that the City Angels have within the headquarters in the Mortirolo underpassin the central station area, to be sorted, selected and sanitized. It was explained by Anna, who also recalled how “unfortunately very fragile people” those assisted, therefore “there are no structures that can welcome them. We must think about it”.
With Ceska and Anna, both on the camper of the toilets, there was also Swat, who took care of the haircut of a boy, who was very satisfied with work. “For two years we have this service,” Ceska said, “before we did it in a more improvised way, we organized ourselves with water bins. Many are habitues’, they wait for us to wash them”. “The underwear”, finally points out, “we buy it separately with the association’s money”.
Meanwhile, in the city, always in more or less central areas and pulsating from homelessnessalso operates the mobile unit with the essential services of food and water.
A stage of the journey, in particular, is in Stazione Tibaldi, south of Milan. There are many patrons who go to the van looking for food, but there is more: following the volunteers who go up the stairs arriving close to the tracks, A real dormitory of needy can be achieved.
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