AN ANONYMOUS Larnaca resident has donated €25,000 to meet the growing needs of the Larnaca community market which provides basic food items for the poor and needy of the area.

Larnaca Mayor Andreas Louroudjiatis yesterday thanked “a fellow citizen who in a true spirit of philanthropy has offered a large sum to the community market. Such expressions of solidarity are the basis on which we build social cohesion at Larnaca Municipality”.

The municipality’s community market programme, providing basic food items to the most needy in the local community, was first launched around a year ago.

Unfortunately, the number of needy is “constantly increasing”, said the mayor.

“We have over 1,000 people relying on the municipality’s community market for food, and we depend on the solidarity of all our fellow citizens to rise to the challenge, since one person’s problem is everybody’s problem,” said Louroudjiatis.

The mayor described the sizeable contribution to the community market as a “selfless” act, made in recognition of the efforts of the municipality to tackle the poverty facing many of the town’s residents.

Cyprus Mail