Food & Beverage

Food truck effort feeding homeless in Vatican City

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February 24, 2022

A food truck is feeding free meals to the homeless living near St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.

The effort is run by a community non-profit and kicked off last week. It aims to provide 450 hot meals a day to Rome's homeless population, according to a La Prensa Latina report.

A recent dinner included pasta, vegetable soup and chocolate cake and a breakfast offered up biscuits, juice and jam.

"From one day to the next, people on the street found themselves alone, without the familiar support they needed to survive. For the first time we met homeless people who had not eaten for days," Alberto Sinigallia, president of Progetto Arca, the group that established the food program, told the news outlet.

"So instead of locking ourselves in our houses, we decided to come up with something to help them. We put wheels on the kitchen: the homeless couldn't go to a soup kitchen, so we went to them," Sinigallia said.