Volunteer for our Christmas Dinner

The Christmas Lunch with the poor is a tradition of the Community of Sant’Egidio since 1982 when a small group of poor people was invited to join the the banquet table in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere.

There were about 20 people invited: some elderly of the neighbourhood friends of ours, who would have staid at home alone on that day, and some homeless people we had got to know in the streets of Rome.

More than 30 years have passed since that first Christmas lunch: from that moment on, the banquet table has widened year after year, and from Trastevere it has reached many parts of the world, wherever the Community is present -even the big city of London!

You are invited to participate to the preparation and the presentation of this year's wonderful Christmas meal!

Whether you are young or older, homeless or hipster, lonely or free on the night of the 24th, you will be most welcome.

Please feel free to come and help out for the preparation as well as stay on for the meal.