“It’s Christmas and you have to do something special,” says Antonio Mohedas, director of Cáritas Sant Antoni, and for this reason next week they will offer a special Christmas package to all low-income families who benefit from the food parcels offered by Cáritas in this municipality
Usually, families can get their food on Wednesdays during alternate weeks, but next week all those who benefit from this initiative -about 80- will be able to come by to pick up a very special Chistmas package: “It will be unique and we have also prepared a surprise for the children.”
These food packages go to families who have a roof over their heads but who have financial difficulties that do not allow them to make ends meet. An ordinary basket of this type includes basic products such as rice, pasta, oil, sugar, milk, plus other food that arrives from donors: “We try to make them non-perishable, but if any supermarket offers us surplus, we distribute them, just as we do when vegetables, eggs or fruit arrive.”
In addition to helping those who have homes, Cáritas also offers services to homeless people which include a soup kitchen, a day center for shelter from the cold that also offers snacks and breakfasts, and a shower and washing machine service, as well as the provision of clothing vouchers.
Awaiting 2022 statistics frm Cáritas
Cáritas Sant Antoni has not yet offered the figures of its activity in 2022 and the last ones it has released are from 2021. Despite this gap, Mohedas predicts that those of 2022 will be very similar since “the activity has been more or less the same.” “In summer it calms down, but from October onwards it goes up. Now we deliver packages to 40 families every week, but as of January we estimate that the demand will increase and we will have to offer food twice a week.
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