TRENT. From September the “Canteen of Providence” in Trento will be moved to the current Caritas listening center in via Giusti. The Mensa is located for about 30 years in the former convent of the Capuchin friars in Cervaraand is currently managed by the Diocese of Trento through the Caritas Foundation.
The Caritas listening center in via Giusti – we read in a note from the Diocese – will soon be affected by important adaptation workto be able to host a refectory from September capable of continuing to welcome people in need, with a new area also intended for families, new kitchens and more adequate service spaces.
The decision was communicated this morning to the volunteers who are responsible for preparing and distributing evening meals to 120 people, mostly homeless. Present at the meeting were the delegate of the Testimony and Social Commitment Area, Don Mauro Leonardelli and the director of the Caritas Foundation Fabio Chiari. “The move of the canteen will allow the Capuchin friars, as they expressly requested in recent months, to dispose of the entire property complex, allocating the former convent for the purposes they deem most appropriate”, reads the note from the Diocese.
“In this regard, it should also be noted that the hypothesis initially put forward of a loan management of the former convent by the Diocese for further pastoral purposes, in addition to the canteen already taken over, did not materialize. The religious will make a donation to the Diocese , for the new structure, of the vehicles and all the equipment currently in use for the canteen of the former convent”.
