Also for the year 2024, the Umbria Prevention of Usury Foundation will carry out important initiatives to support those who are most in difficulty: ‘House Plan 2024’, ‘Protection of the over-indebted’, ‘Financial education’.
The experience gained with the 2022 bill bonus and 2023 cost of living projects has suggested intervening in support of Umbrian families with regard to housing expenses.
The project will make use of the extraordinary contribution of the Umbria Region of 50,000 euros and that of the Council of the Foundations of the savings banks of Umbria which, again this year, wanted to contribute 70,000 euros.
A total budget, therefore, of 120,000 euros, with an allocable contribution of 1,500 euros for each application under the conditions specified in the announcement.
Furthermore, in collaboration with the Region, the funds for the “Protection of the over-indebted” project were increased.
The financial education project, structured in collaboration with the Region of Umbria and the regional school office, includes a program of meetings with students of the upper classes of schools in Umbria to spread principles of financial education and savings to children, with the participation of experts from the institutions, in the awareness that young people are also the best vehicle of education for parents.
The president of the Umbria Prevention of Wear Foundation, Fausto Cardella, expressed great satisfaction with the launch of these projects: “Our region is prosperous and solid and yet – he commented – an economic crisis can affect anyone. The people who turn to the Foundation give us the exact measure of the problems and needs of Umbrian families. A real estate foreclosure that affects the house where you live with your family, your children, the fear of no longer having a roof over your head are a source of anguish and situations that you can hardly face alone. ‘Housing plan’ and ‘Protection of the over-indebted’, but also ‘Financial education’ are projects that seem different but, in reality, go in the same direction, that of trying to safeguard the primary asset of the house, also helping those who find themselves in of over-indebtedness. I therefore thank the Region of Umbria and the Council of Savings Bank Foundations of Umbria, without whose convinced and timely support nothing would have been possible. Finally, I thank the staff of the Umbria Prevention of Usury Foundation, from the board of directors, to the auditors, to the staff and to the volunteer experts, who have carried out and continue to carry out extraordinary work on a daily basis in favor of those in need”.
