Cagliari, new poor people lined up to ask for help from Caritas and the Domus de Luna Foundation

From the lockdown to the crazy bills, from the health alarm that had also contributed to the birth of new poverty, to the emergency triggered by a skyrocketing cost of living . They are always the ones who pay: the poor of yesterday and those of today. As confirmed by the endless queues in front of Caritas or Exmè di Pirri , headquarters of the Domus de Luna Foundation which in 2005 transformed the former market in via Antonio Sanna into a center to assist children, teenagers and mothers in serious difficulty, which became a center of social aggregation and for three years also a point of reference for the new poor.

The " TiAbbraccio con la shopping " was born there. And it is there that people in serious difficulty turn to for basic necessities and to ask for a helping hand also to cope with old and new problems, new needs. “For example the gas cylinder”, says Ugo Bressanello , president of the Foundation.

The numbers are constantly growing. “In the first week of October we distributed the shopping for almost 2 thousand people. Practically the same number as last year, the one that was supposed to be the last difficult one ”, explains Bressanello.

“We are finding ourselves faced with a new emergency due to crazy bills that are impossible to pay, but also to new fears of not making it and less solidarity. All this while the line of people in conditions of true poverty increases ”.

Like at Caritas in via Po. "Only today - confirms Maria Luisa Pusceddu , 70, from 17 volunteer - we have 'detached' 150 tickets". As many families, fathers and mothers who reached the headquarters from 9 in the morning to noon to be able to take home a few packs of pasta, peeled, homogenized, even a dress for themselves or their children, diapers for the children. And more notebooks, books, a pencil so as not to feel different behind the school desk.

"And maybe a toy to not feel different from other more fortunate peers", whispers the volunteer. “The difficulties grow, and sometimes the cases are heartbreaking,” says Antonella Uras , a retired pharmacist and volunteer for several years. “It hurts to see mothers asking for help for their children, for their children”.

Stories of life and pain . "Like that mother who comes to us for her son, who however is 40 years old, is sick and cannot feed himself except with baby food".