United through Distance

Is it hard to learn from the past? Tuscany region in Italy shows that it is not! While reopening the businesses after corona, many entrepreneurs introduced a way to keep their companies alive, and yet to protect both their employees as well as customers. They went far to the history for their inspiration: they re-opened medieval wine windows, stopping the spread of plague back in the days.

Medieval ‘wine windows’ are reopening, reviving Italian plague tradition It’s a quaint tradition — with a very dark history.

“A beautiful image of humanity and solidarity”, as the mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando, called it, has spread around multiple cities in Italy. Initiatives of their inhabitants are helping those who are currently too vulnerable to go grocery-shopping. At certain locations, whether it is a square in Rome or a beach in Palermo, people are leaving non-perishable food, such as pasta, rice, canned goods, long-life milk, sugar, biscuits, but also disinfectants and cleaning products. Who is able, leaves them there, who needs them, can take them. In Rome, the municipality has also organised a collection of food, later distributed among vulnerable citizens. Even supermarkets joined this warm-hearted effort: In Naples, if you order your groceries online, you can also contribute a few Euro for those less lucky.
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Covid19, pasta in strada e “spesa sospesa” in aiuto a chi ha bisogno Da Roma a Napoli fino alla Sicilia e alla Sardegna sono tante le iniziative dal basso per aiutare chi non riesce neanche più a fare la spesa: dai generi di prima necessità lasciati in strada alle iniziative che coinvolgono i supermercati