The NGO ‘Vida Digna’ has needed to shut the place the place it supplied sizzling meals on weekends. In addition to the exorbitant electrical energy invoice, there are a collection of additional prices and repairs that they can’t afford. This entity fed some 650 individuals with out financial sources. Vigo and its space of affect
The ‘Vida Digna’ charity affiliation has been unable to open its soup kitchen in Vigo (Pontevedra) for 2 weekends. This NGO, which fed about 650 individuals each weekend, has not been in a position to withstand the consequences of inflation.
“The accounts, proper now, don’t give us,” says Ricardo Misa, head of ‘Vida Digna’, to NIUS. To the cost of the lease of the premises the place they provide their meals, different further prices are added that the affiliation can’t afford.
“We can’t pay 750 euros for electrical energy,” explains Ricardo. That has been the final quantity of the electrical energy invoice and the straw that broke the camel’s again. “We have freezers and a chilly room, however that quantity is ridiculous contemplating that the place solely works on weekends,” he says.
The value of gasoline and meals supplied to its customers has additionally risen. And it’s that though they’ve the assistance of corporations that donate meals to them, they have to additionally go to the market to purchase others. “The meat, for instance, we now have to purchase ourselves. Everything has gone up and the whole lot provides up, ”he explains.
Repairs for which there isn’t any finances
To all this, as well as, we should add a collection of repairs that should be undertaken and for which there isn’t any finances. “We can’t open a eating room with a chilly room that works solely midway,” he exemplifies.
Volunteers working within the ‘Vida Digna’ soup kitchen. CANCELED
“We cannot open a spot that’s half in the dead of night both as a result of there are quick circuits within the electrical set up,” he says. “That’s not truthful to our customers,” she provides.
It would even be essential to purchase a fryer and a heater, repair the blinds or purchase tuppers in order that customers can take meals house. “With all these bills, it was unfeasible to proceed working,” explains Ricardo.
Help from the City Council of Vigo
The ‘Vida Digna’ eating room, situated within the Teis neighborhood, had been working since 2009. It supplied sizzling meals for the homeless or these with financial issues each weekend, because the different eating rooms solely labored on weekdays.
He at present had a grant of 43,000 euros a yr from the City Council of Vigo. “We are very grateful for the help that the City Council has at all times given us, however it’s the identical assist that we had a number of years in the past and the bills are now not the identical”, he causes.
The closure of this eating room won’t imply the cessation of the remainder of the providers that ‘Vida Digna’ supplies to households experiencing financial difficulties. The weekly distribution of meals will proceed and the wardrobe will even stay open.
Ricardo hopes that the miracle will work on the gates of Christmas and that the closure of the eating room shouldn’t be ultimate. “We ship an SOS to whoever may help us”, he concludes.