Infants aged 0 to 3 are also more numerous – 110,000 at the start of the campaign – up 16% over one year. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP
From March 3 to 5, a new Restos du Cœur collection will be held in 7,000 supermarkets throughout France.
This year, “misery is much stronger“, Alert this Friday morning the president of the Restos du Cœur, Patrice Douret, on Radio Classique. Since the launch of the 38th campaign in November, the association has noted a 22% increase in the number of individuals received, “at the scale of 1.1 million people“, emphasizes Patrice Douret. The situation is getting worse among theyoung people under 25which constitute half of the beneficiaries of the Restos du Cœur. Infants aged 0 to 3 are also more numerous – 110,000 at the start of the campaign – up 16% over one year.
To help them, a new national collection begins this Friday and will be effective until March 5 in 7,000 stores in France. The 83,000 volunteers mobilized hope to reach the objective of 9,000 tonnes of food. For the president of Restos du Cœur, “it is essential today“, with “increasingly difficult access to food” for the French people. In question, record inflation, at 14.5% in food, according to INSEE.
For Patrice Douret, whatever the initiative deployed, “food aid is vital for [les] families, which are often single-parent“. “A packet of pasta almost becomes a luxury item“, he regrets. During this fundraising weekend, he underlines that “all donations count“, including non-perishable products, hygiene items and for infants. Despite a drop in the number of donors to the association’s latest campaigns, the amounts of donations have been maintained, with “Generous French“, according to Patrice Douret.
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