In Calvados, students create a solidarity board game: the Red Cross in support

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Thursday November 7, 2024, Francis Lemarié, president of the local unit of the Aunay Pré-Bocage Red Cross, at Aunay-sur-Odon (Les Monts d'Aunay), in Calvados, met the following students the Red Cross option at Charles-Lemaître college.

And he did not come empty-handed, since he gave them a check for €150 to help finance their solidarity project that Christine Anfray, mathematics teacher, presented.

We are going to create a board game about differences and the fight against discrimination. We will do this in partnership with sick students from Manoir d'Arpigny and students from Merida in Spain.

Actions to finance the project

In order to carry out this project, the different partners will need to meet. This condition, added to the purchase of material, has a costthis is why Francis Lemarié gave this check to the students.

Different actions to raise funds will also be committedincluding a sale of pastries.

We will meet the students of Manoir d'Arpigny on January 30. As part of an Erasmus project, 13 students from the Red Cross option, among the most motivated, will go to Merida for a week in February and we will receive the Spanish students the last week of March.

50 families in the area helped

Before handing over the check, Francis Lemarié presented the actions of the Aunay Pré-Bocage Red Cross.

We help around fifty families who request it through a social worker. The packages that we give, for €1, are only food. Volunteers spend Monday morning in the three stores in the area, Intermarché in Aunay, Carrefour and Leclerc in Villers. We prepare the packages, which the families come to collect in the afternoon from the premises. We also organize two clothing fairs per year, we sell goodie bags during the Notre-Dame festival and we participate in food bank collections.

The next action carried out by the students of the option will be the making Christmas boxeswhich will be handed over to the Red Cross on Thursday, December 12.

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