turin - Blog - ISKCON Desire Tree | IDT2024-03-29T06:53:57Zhttps://iskcondesiretree.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/turinFood For Life in Turin, Italy, Distributes Thousands of Meals to Homelesshttps://iskcondesiretree.com/profiles/blogs/food-for-life-in-turin-italy-distributes-thousands-of-meals-to-ho2021-05-10T11:48:05.000Z2021-05-10T11:48:05.000ZISKCON Desire Treehttps://iskcondesiretree.com/members/iskcon_desire_tree<div><p><strong><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}8909937882,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="600" alt="8909937882?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></strong></p>
<p><strong>By Madhava Smullen</strong></p>
<p>Volunteers for the Food For Life Program in Turin, one of Italy’s largest cities, distributed 15,000 meals to homeless people in need during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, and plan to increase to 20,000 meals in 2021.</p>
<p>The project was launched by Prabhu Das, who moved from Milan in 2015 to start a new temple in Turin, where there had been no ISKCON center for many years. He started with nothing, raised funds through book distribution, found a building with a large kitchen and started Food For Life (FFL) on a small scale.</p>
<p>In January 2016, FFL Turin partnered with a local humanitarian organization to arrange their first lunch feeding 250 homeless people on the Feast of the Epiphany, a public holiday in Italy. Positive stories in the press attracted the attention of the local municipality, who offered to support FFL in feeding people at homeless shelters once a week on Mondays.</p>
<p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://iskconnews.org/food-for-life-in-turin-italy-distributes-thousands-of-meals-to-homeless,7791/">https://iskconnews.org/food-for-life-in-turin-italy-distributes-thousands-of-meals-to-homeless,7791/</a></p></div>