Italia Avanti, Siamo Con Voi!

We want to make a stop in our activities to express our condolences over the heavy loss of life and property in a deadly earthquake that struck central Italy. A powerful earthquake hit Central Italy killing 207 people, injuried about 1600 and leaved arround 75.000 homless, according to the latest report.

We wish to express our deepest condolences, and fellings to the families of the victims and to those injured in the earthquake. 

In Quebec,Canada several organizations have already co-ordinated their own fundraising campaign with a website, www.fcciq.cm, to help friends or relatives who were victims of the earthquake and its aftershocks

The GTA's 500,000-strong Italian community is ramping up its efforts to help victims of the devastating earthquake in their homeland.

Many local Italian organizations have kick-started fundraisers to provide relief for those suffering in the Abruzzo region, the area hardest hit by Monday's quake.

Francesco Riondino, a manager for the Italian Canadian Credit Union, said about $2,500 has been collected at their branches on Woodbridge Ave., in Woodbridge, and Dufferin St. and St. Clair Ave. W. in Toronto since they launched a fundraising campaign Monday.

"The response of the community has started to be great," he said. "The bulk of donations are coming in right now and it goes up by the minute."

The Abruzzi Federation for Greater Toronto and the Grand Priory of Canada Knights of Malta have opened a trust fund at CIBC. Ivana Fracasso, the federation's president said money donated to the fund will be used for a major project such as a school reconstruction. She said the federation will host events to boost fundraising and members from the two organizations will then visit L'Aquila to ensure "every penny" is spent effectively.

"We are trying to put our strength together for the benefit of our people back home," she said.

Smaller community organizations such as Club Abruzzi, a social meeting place and recreation club for seniors like Mario Ardizzi, 73, have started to rally members in an effort to develop some form of support package in the coming days. Ardizzi said he knows of no one at the club who has lost kin in the quake and he was happy to discover that his cousins living in L'Aquila, the capital of the Abruzzo region, escaped the quake unscathed.

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