The 37th Restos du Coeur campaign starts Monday in Toulouse and Haute-Garonne
Through Quentin Marais
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While the Bank’s big fundraising will feed the end of the 47th week of the year, it will also be marked by another charitable action: the Restos du Coeur campaign will be launched in Haute-Garonne on Monday, November 22, 2021.
“We are taking up the tradition of Restos du Coeur”
This start will take place 24 hours before the national launch. ” We have centers open on Mondays in Haute-Garonne, so we start the campaign on November 22, ”explains Isabelle Barthe, departmental president of Restos du Coeur.
Yes ” the plane covid always to the extent that we are always subject to barrier gestures and to wearing a mask ”, this 37th campaign is taking place in conditions reminiscent of the time when the epidemic had not yet appeared.
This year, we welcome people inside the centers, we are taking up the tradition of Restos du cœur. The people return and we will do the accompanied distribution. It’s not like during this whole period of crisis when people stayed outside and we brought the products. This is positive because it also means that the coffee reception of people, which is a very important choice at the Restos du coeur, is also resuming.
And this last parameter is of paramount importance. “It was during the coffee reception that people are more relaxed, notes Isabelle Barthe. This conviviality had been lost for more than a year… ”
“We expect to have more people than this summer”
As of Monday, the campaign will launch “as before. During the closing period of the centers, the teams worked and proceeded to the registrations of the families“. A planning system has been put in place for each of them.
“We welcome them, we bring them in and we make the circuit in the center so that they choose products“, Recalls the president of the Haut-Garonnaise branch.
For the winter campaign, where the scales for people welcomed are different, we expect to have more people than this summer. It’s recurring. It is true that it is difficult to anticipate because all the registrations are not finished. But with all that we hear in the news, the increase in the price of fluids, fuel… We do not expect a drop in the number of people received.
However, Isabelle Barthe has “no stronger fears” this year than in previous campaigns. “But on always regret that there are so many benefits… ” Across the Haute-Garonne, around 1,500 volunteers will be on the bridge.
The complete list of Restos du Coeur de la Haute-Garonne activity centers can be found at find on this link.
A painful crisis
Following the example of the observation made by the Food Bank, the Restos du Coeur deplore a ” crisis which worsened the situation of the most precarious“.
Nationally, the association welcomed 1.2 million people, do not 850,000 during the winter period, during the last annual campaign.
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