Inter and Italy soccer star Antonio
Candreva has kept his pledge to help after a girl was forced to
eat crackers and tinned tuna because her parents couldn't afford
the meal fees at a school near Verona.
Andrea Girardi, the mayor of the town of Minerbe, said the
elementary school had received the funds from Candreva.
He added, however, that the money would be used for other
purposes for the school as the town council had already
intervened in the case of the girl.
"I got a call from Candreva and he offered to pay the girl's
school-meal fees, but I explained to him that the council had
solved the problem before it entered the public domain," Girardi
said.
"Then he asked if there were other children in difficulty and
then, in a second call, we agreed for him to make a contribution
to the school".
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