Rotary Club Morimondo Abbey

[Article by Silvia Lodi Pasini published on “Settegiorni”] – It is for the "Portico della Solidarietà" of the City of the Lion that last Sunday the End of Summer Party organized by the young people of the Rotaract Club Abbiategrasso together with the young people of the Rotaract club Morimondo Abbazia took place at Villa Umberto 1896.

The Portico della Solidarietà is a well-established reality in Abbiategrasso, born a few years ago from the collaboration between the Andrea Aziani non-profit association and the Municipality of Abbiategrasso, to meet the food needs of the weakest sections of the population. In fact, the economic crisis of recent years and the increase in the cost of living has led to an increase in families on the poverty line. This situation pushed the Aziani association to create a project that could represent an adequate response to food needs, finding an attentive interlocutor in the municipality, aware of the usefulness and possibility of reducing costs for social services. Today it represents a concrete implementation of the principle of subsidiarity and the numbers demonstrate it: 17904 hours of volunteering served in 2023, 32 volunteers engaged, 83 thousand kilos of food distributed, 947 people helped. It is for this reason that the young people of RotarAct, strengthened by the motto "Better Together", decided to join forces, raising funds through a party, which not surprisingly fell close to the autumnal equinox, which was also attended by the two American girls who had recently arrived in Italy through the Rotary Youth Exchange programme.
Silvia Lodi Pasini