Athens
24
12
2022
COMMUNITY

Municipality of Athens: Over 2,000 meals to be distributed to the homeless

With big "hug" for everyone and especially for vulnerable citizens, the Municipality of Athens opens this Christmas as well, organizing holiday meals that will be distributed to homeless shelters, but also on the streets of the city - through the Street Work teams of the Reception Center and Solidarity of the municipality (KYADA), while the "love meals" will be repeated on New Year's Eve and Day.
With big "hug" for everyone and especially for vulnerable citizens, the Municipality of Athens opens this Christmas as well, organizing holiday meals that will be distributed to homeless shelters, but also on the streets of the city - through the Street Work teams of the Reception Center and Solidarity of the municipality (KYADA), while the "love meals" will be repeated on New Year's Eve and Day.

Specifically, on Christmas Eve, a total of 1,200 "love meals" will be distributed, accompanied by appetizers and traditional sweets, donated by the MEGA SA company, while the following day - Christmas Day - an additional 1,200 full, hot meals will be offered - donated by Lidl Hellas - in places where there are homeless people and people in need.

In the meantime, the festive activities at the Multipurpose Center for the Homeless started with the "Street Pasta Night", in collaboration with Barilla and the Le Monde Cooking School. Students of the school, volunteers and employees of the company, a few days ago prepared 250 portions of pasta at the Day Center, which they distributed to the guests of the structure and to homeless people on the street.

Furthermore, every day, since the beginning of the month, reinforced packages with all the necessary items for households living in difficult conditions are distributed through the Municipality's Citizens' Mutual Aid Hub. In fact, the Social Grocer, having developed partnerships with companies in the food industry, enriched the packages with meat, chicken and sweets (more than 5,000), in collaboration with the companies Karamolegos, Politis Group, ELOMAS group.