Unfortunately there are many, especially in South America, elderly Italians who, after a life of work have to face an old age full of financial problems due to inadequate pensions. On the other hand, the greatest part of their incomes is spent on medicines and, because of an inadequate sanitary coverage, to pay for medical visits or various instrumental investigations and tests. There are very few elderly people who can afford to pay for surgery and intensive cures.

Some, finding themselves living their third age in difficult economical conditions, decide to return to Italy to have a better health service, thus, however, paying the very serious cost of having to leave what has by now become their second homeland, where, in a great majority of cases, their whole family, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are left behind.

AIB, through its collaborators, becomes acquainted of the extreme cases, of people in serious conditions, people who, rather than losing their dignity, have refused to be helped.

"I would be happy" says Eng. Bezzina, with a touch of resentment, "if Minister Tremaglia, first of all, answered the e-mails he receives (I have sent many to him without ever receiving a reply) and then that he formed in each country special territory commissions to be able to maintain a constant dialogue, so as to be permanently update don the financial and social situation Italians abroad go through. These modalities would allow an exact view of the real situation.

December.2001

Sos Guatemala (In Italian and Spanish)
Solidarity with Guatemala (In Italian and Spanish)