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The Maltese charity canteen in St. Petersburg is celebrating its 30th anniversary. As Mikhail Kalashnikov, development manager of the Maltese Aid Service, told a Rosbalt correspondent, the organization now feeds 250 needy people – 170 residents of the Central District of the city and 80 parishioners of the Orthodox parishes of the Prince Vladimir Cathedral and the Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God; Catholic – Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Catherine of Alexandria, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Stanislaus; Lutheran communities of the churches of St. Anne and St. Peter.
The canteen was opened on February 8, 1992 on the initiative and at the expense of the charitable organization “Maltese Relief Service” of the Bavarian cities of Würzburg and Bamberg. The premises for the dining room on Tchaikovsky Street 81 in the basement of the House of Veterans were provided by the administration of the then Dzerzhinsky district of the city. The establishment is located at this address to this day.
The cost of a hot lunch is currently 110 rubles. According to Kalashnikov, now the canteen cooks meals and gives them out due to epidemic restrictions. And her clients are elderly people, residents of crowded communal apartments, it sometimes happens that neighbors simply do not let the elderly into the kitchens – to cook food, the disabled, people with mental problems.
“These are the most vulnerable residents, for whom a daily hot lunch is a great help,” Kalashnikov said.
The direction to the dining room gives the social service center of the Central District of the city. The district administration does not charge for the rent of the dining room, and also pays for housing and communal services. German donors continue to help – their assistance in terms of rubles is approximately 5 million rubles annually, another 2 million rubles were covered by presidential grants and donations – the total amount of the project annually is approximately 7 million rubles.
Source: Rosbalt
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