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Poverty

Immediate help for those who cannot wait

There are families for whom even a 15 euro bill can become a problem. Families who cannot take their children to the dentist, families who have not bought chocolate for months. Specchio is close to all these families every day, donating thousands of grocery bags, financing a centre of volunteer dentists who offer free treatment and paying hundreds of bills thanks to the activity of the Specchio Point. A sort of emergency room in the centre of Turin, where every morning 12 requests for financial support are examined, for immediate help that is provided in a few days (the time required for the necessary checks).

An ad hoc project was also created for single mothers who come to the counter, Mothers & children in difficulty, which allowed us to adopt 100 of them, with their respective children. All are offered a job reintegration programme, with professional courses, parenting support courses, education in the use of money and information technology. A path towards autonomy, in short, because Specchio has always worked like this: it takes people by the hand, accompanies them.

Just like Sister Cristina does. She’s the soul of the Breakfast for the Poor, another project in Turin that offers breakfasts to 150 homeless people every morning. And then a hot shower, clean clothes, medical examinations and psychological support. Some manage to get up on their two feet again, find a job and a home. So they return to Sister Cristina to say thank you: they have in their eyes the same gratitude as the children to whom we give a holiday every summer. Children who have never seen the sea.

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Poverty
Turin
Breakfasts for the poorest
Every morning a hot meal for 150 homeless people
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Poverty
Italy
Specchio d'Italia
Giving hope to those who need it the most
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Poverty
Turin
Mothers and children in distress
We take 100 single mothers and their children by the hand
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News

05/05/2022
We have donated 500,000 breakfasts to the homeless in Turin
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17/11/2020
Genoa, Specchio d’Italia opens an after-school programme for the children of Fegino
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04/11/2020
Rome, how we will help the children of the Bastogi suburbs
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04/11/2020
Specchio d’Italia inaugurates a new project for students in Milan
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Since 1955, we have been giving hope to those who suffer with immediate and concrete projects in Turin, in Italy and in the world: when there is an emergency, we are always there.
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