A home care service aimed at people living alone, sick, troubled families and children at risk by volunteers prepared and coordinated by a group of experts. The new project of Caritas of Rome AID PERSON who will try to alleviate the suffering of vulnerable people through an intervention that emphasizes listening and sharing has as objective to support, assist, be coming right through the encounter with people in their living space, the house. Try to establish a relationship that can bring relief, which can make people feel less alone and more supported by a regional network of solidarity, all this obviously responding to needs including material there where there was need.
diocesan Caritas of Rome is questioning some time on the so-called new poverty in the city. From the parish communities, the many people who come to the Listening Centres that Caritas has the city is becoming increasingly obvious that, in addition to the more extreme forms of poverty, there are hidden inconvenience caused mainly by loneliness, many people now live in this condition even in the home. Among these, the "new poor" are also underemployed, casual workers, single-income families, the elderly themselves, the sick, victims of usury and indebtedness, those who are most vulnerable, they react to life's difficulties marginalizing or forms of depression and addictions such as alcohol, drugs or gambling.
discomfort that only minimally dependent scarcity of income, but which often stem from inadequate network of help and support of social and family relationships
"For Caritas and for all those involved in voluntary work its way a new way of working, the proximity. Intending thereby to build a supportive community through an extensive presence in the territory of testimony, building relationships and solidarity. Proximity means empower vulnerable people by lowering the welfare approach paths replaced by the proximity of emotional support, reception and care. By its exhortation of John Paul II to the fantasy of charity Caritas in Rome this new service will help the person who will operate in a network with local resources but will be characterized by the availability, care and share, "said Msgr. Guerino Di Tora, director of Caritas of Rome.
The service will have an operations center near the Colosseum and a telephone switchboard (tel. 06.4743843) and will be open Monday-Wednesday-Friday from 9.00 am to 12.00 (you receive upon reservation).
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