Action by CREU-IL and Círculo Xavier mobilized hundreds of people who delivered donations of food and hygiene products that will now be given to families in need.

The Centro de Reflexão e Encontro Universitário Inácio de Loyola (CREU-IL), a Pastoral Center for Universitary Students, in Oporto (Portugal), in collaboration with Círculo Xavier (former CREU leaders) organized  a collection of basic necessities for families in difficulty. The collection beguin on the 18th and last until the 29th.

In order to reinforce the results of this initiative, an action called "Sprint Weekend" took place during 23th and 24tm may weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, the Church of Our Lady of Fatima (Jesuits Church in Oporto) was open all day to collect donations. Each two-hour shift was secured by two volunteers who received and packed the various bags in the places of the Church. The objective was that the seats were all occupied. More than 500 bags were collected to fill the seats.

This initiative started from the diagnosis of a very significant increase in the needs of the various fringes of the population covered by the works related to the Society of Jesus in Porto.

The goods collected will be distributed in three distinct ways: by the Project Pobreza Envergonhada (Hidden Poverty), which for some years now has been collecting food habitually at Sunday Mass, organised by the Christian community of CREU, in the Parish Church of Cedofeita, at 7pm; by Group 10 of the National Corps of Listening, of the Parish of Cedofeita, which will forward the food to the Food Bank of Porto; by the São Cirilo Community Centre (Migrants Shelter) , which will send it to the needy families it supports.