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(ANSA) - PALERMO, APRIL 22 - Eataly and the award-winning pasta factory Afeltra donated a ton of durum wheat pasta from Gragnano to the Sicilian committee of the Italian Red Cross, as part of the solidarity campaign promoted by FondazioneLaps, a charitable organization founded by Lapo Elkann . Lapasta, already delivered to CRI, will be distributed in all Sicilian provinces. "Selflessness and generosity are the basic elements of our present and our future - explains Lapo Elkann -. We
thus add to the funds raised thanks to the many received messages also of the food destined for those who are suffering the economic consequences deriving from the health emergency.
This donation symbolizes the unity of our country: from Piedmont, the region in which Eataly was founded, to Campania, the place where the pasta was produced and to Sicily that received it as a gift. "" I am thrilled that in this emergency - he commented Luigi Corsaro, resident of the Red Cross Sicily - the generosity, experience and professionalism of Lapo Elkann in support of the Italian Red Cross has increased, allowing, with the fundraising in progress, to assist a growing number of people who are in a state of greatest vulnerability. Thank you for this donation which, through the 38 territorial committees, will reach the people and families we assist every day in the next few days ". (ANSA).
