The anti-usury commitment travels from Cosenza to Cassano, also passing through Catanzaro, Lamezia, Locri and Crotone, moving on the legs of professionals and volunteers who support women and men who are victims of loan sharks and bent by the thousand dramas that usury brings with it. The two dioceses of Cosentino have been involved in this delicate sector for years with their respective anti-usury foundations. That bruzia dedicated to Don Carlo De Cardona, that of Cassano in San Matteo.
«I remember with joy the story of a family helped after the father, having lost his job, could no longer support his daughter who was in her final year at university. Thanks to the foundation, he was able to graduate brilliantly. She immediately found work and became the economic column of the family. This like many others.” Roberto Enrico Battaglia gives voice to the commitment of “San Matteo Apostolo” which is rooted in the diocese of Cassano all’Ionio, but operates throughout Calabria. Also because it is one of the oldest in the region. On 7 March it celebrated thirty years of activity, as many as the fundamental law establishing anti-usury foundations and associations in Italy. It pursues “civic, solidarity and socially useful purposes, with particular reference to the prevention of usury, the support of over-indebted people and the protection of the civil rights of people and families in conditions of economic, social or family fragility”, explain the volunteers who run it. Adding: «The action of the foundation is inspired by the principles of Christian charity, human solidarity and the promotion of the dignity of the person».
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