Dino Impagliazzo is a renowned chef in Rome — not just because his cooking is delicious, but because it serves a purpose. Impagliazzo is known as the “chef of the poor” because he prepares and delivers meals to the homeless.
The 90-year-old runs his own nonprofit, called RomAmoR, which distributes about 800 hot meals to people in need living in Rome, according to United World Project, an organization that connects charities across the globe. Impagliazzo was a retiree when he started this initiative in 2006 under the name “Quelli del quartiere,” or “the neighborhood people.”
He came up with the idea when he was walking through the Tuscolana train station in Rome and a man asked him for money, according to the RomAmoR website. Impagliazzo got to know the man, who was homeless, and learned that it was difficult for him to get food on Sundays, when homeless associations didn’t provide free meals.
That’s when Impagliazzo decided to do more than hand out some spare change.
