Community of Sant'Egidio
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Solidarity Summer 2002
07/16/2002
Tirana (Albania)
With the Patients of the Psychiatric Hospital
A group of friends from Italy are spending their summers holidays with the patients of the psychiatric hospital of Tirana.


"We were waiting for you! You have come back this year too! Hallo Marianna, hallo Mena!". The ill friends of the psychiatric hospital of Tirana have not forgotten even one single name of ours. They have been friends of us for a long time: friendship with them began in 1995. Since then, more than once in a year, we come here to visit them and to spend some time with them. The integration of the daily nourishment and many other activities have been done by the Community since time ago. Therefore our names are so familiar to them.

A time of joy has thus began: lunches are more nourishing as they are cooked "in the Napoli's way", excursions are made to the lake of Tirana and walks to the caf�.

Their conditions have bettered a little. Their clothes are cleaner, also thanks to the laundry we put up in January (LINK). Last Saturday we could also make a present: 25 new mattresses, with new linings, to substitute for the old or lacking ones!

Elena Sibani

 

 

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