War in Ukraine: a new collection point will open its doors in Toulouse
By Quentin Marais
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Twinned with kyiv, Toulouse continues to support Ukraine intensely, affected by the war against Russia since February 24, 2022. A new collection point will open in the Pink City.
Hall 9 of the Parc des Expos
Long linked to the health crisis and the vaccine against covid-19, the Toulouse Exhibition Center will be transformed, this time, instead of collection.
It will in any case be effective for hall 9from Friday, March 18, 2022. It will be open Monday to Saturday, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“This new center will be jointly implemented (reception, management and distribution of donations) on the one hand with the Emmaüs association for donations to displaced Ukrainians in Toulouse and on the other hand with the association Ukraine libre Toulouse for donations to Ukraine, with the assistance of agents of the Collectivity.”
A list of necessary products was published by the town hall: it is available here.
Already other collections
This initiative is not the first, since for more than a week already, the Grand Marché MIN has, for its part, centralized collection of donations to Ukraineresponding to the call of the World Wholesale Markets Union.
Associations such as Alliance Ukraine Occitanie or Ukraine Libre Toulouse have also worked to Bruguières or Castanet-Tolosan, filling trucks that have taken the road to Lviv. The Occitanie Region also sent a humanitarian convoy from Toulouse, from Saturday March 12, 2022. It unloaded the donations in Rzeszów, Poland.
Over 200 Ukrainian refugees welcomed
On the sidelines of this solidarity with Ukraine, the town hall of Toulouse has set up a system to welcome refugees : they are between 200 and 250 to have been taken care of in the Pink City. Four accommodation centers were made available, and 700 Toulouse residents who had offered their help were chosen to accommodate Ukrainians. Since the start of the war, more than three million people fled Ukraine.
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