A home ready to welcome, with your help...
A home where you can find shelter, a family that embraces you and helps you, to which you can cling in order to walk again on your own. For more than 10 years, at the Capanna di Betlemme in Bologna, run by the Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII, the city's homeless have discovered a place where they can be reborn. Now maintenance work and new furnishings are needed for this house where so many people rediscover their dignity. Let's help them together.
Not even during the pandemic did the Bethlehem Hut in Bologna close its doors to those who asked for help, always respecting all necessary precautions. The people who live here are those who are usually called "homeless," on the streets for years, but also those who until recently had a job and a family and suddenly found themselves living in their cars, in abandoned cottages...
Even more than a roof for the night and a hot dish, these brothers and sisters need the warmth of a family, in a welcoming home where they can start building their lives again, helped by friendly people.
Even more than a roof for the night and a hot dish, these brothers and sisters need the warmth of a family, in a welcoming home where they can start building their lives again, helped by friendly people.
We, a group of members and volunteers of the Pope John XXIII Community, share our lives with them, living together, day after day here at the Hut. Alongside them we face an adventure every day: to start living again. It is never too late to make it, but you need that hand that offers you help and to which you can cling and then walk alone again. It happens, and the many friends who have left the street life and chosen to live with us prove it. This is the Bethlehem Hut, which now, after so many years of life, is in need of maintenance work and new furnishings to make those who arrive feel that they are finally safe, finally at home.
Thanks to the generosity of so many people over the past few months we have already been able to replace some kitchen appliances, paint the walls and buy gardening tools that have enabled us to build a beautiful vegetable garden and chicken coop so that we always have something to eat.
Now we ask you to help us because there is still more to be done. It is also essential to replace the cabinets in the industrial kitchen, where we cook for 60/70 people every day. We need to renovate the bunk beds, mattresses and pillows in the rooms where 25/30 people sleep every night that we take in directly from the street. We also need new chairs for the dining room, the room we care most about because it is often in front of a hot dish enjoyed all together that strong friendships are created and the desire to regain one's dignity is found.
Help us, then, and leave your mark on this house. Open a collection or support those who have already opened it, and this house will be ready to welcome also thanks to you!
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Not even during the pandemic did the Bethlehem Hut in Bologna close its doors to those who asked for help, always respecting all necessary precautions. The people who live here are those who are usually called "homeless," on the streets for years, but also those who until recently had a job and a family and suddenly found themselves living in their cars, in abandoned cottages...
Even more than a roof for the night and a hot dish, these brothers and sisters need the warmth of a family, in a welcoming home where they can start building their lives again, helped by friendly people.
Even more than a roof for the night and a hot dish, these brothers and sisters need the warmth of a family, in a welcoming home where they can start building their lives again, helped by friendly people.
We, a group of members and volunteers of the Pope John XXIII Community, share our lives with them, living together, day after day here at the Hut. Alongside them we face an adventure every day: to start living again. It is never too late to make it, but you need that hand that offers you help and to which you can cling and then walk alone again. It happens, and the many friends who have left the street life and chosen to live with us prove it. This is the Bethlehem Hut, which now, after so many years of life, is in need of maintenance work and new furnishings to make those who arrive feel that they are finally safe, finally at home.
Thanks to the generosity of so many people over the past few months we have already been able to replace some kitchen appliances, paint the walls and buy gardening tools that have enabled us to build a beautiful vegetable garden and chicken coop so that we always have something to eat.
Now we ask you to help us because there is still more to be done. It is also essential to replace the cabinets in the industrial kitchen, where we cook for 60/70 people every day. We need to renovate the bunk beds, mattresses and pillows in the rooms where 25/30 people sleep every night that we take in directly from the street. We also need new chairs for the dining room, the room we care most about because it is often in front of a hot dish enjoyed all together that strong friendships are created and the desire to regain one's dignity is found.
Help us, then, and leave your mark on this house. Open a collection or support those who have already opened it, and this house will be ready to welcome also thanks to you!
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Fundraisers supporting the project
The poor can't wait for our reasoning...
Fundraising by Gian Franco Coliva
1,765 €
88%
2,000 €
28 Donations
It's not enough to have a roof, you need a bed!
Fundraising by P. Luca Morigi
4,770 €
100%
4,100 €
47 Donations
