Les Restos du coeur are launching their 40th campaign this winter, starting on November 19. In 2023-2024, the Lot-et-Garonne association welcomed 16,586 people (from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2024) in the department and thanks to the commitment of 492 volunteers, 1,262,257 meals were distributed to the most deprived in the region.
The Restaurants consider food aid as a point of contact and a first step to develop other personal assistance activities: Access to rights, support and search for employment, integration through economic activity via the integration site (warehouse and Garden of the Heart), self-esteem (clothing, hairdressing areas), access to leisure and culture…
All these actions make it possible to create social bonds and fight against exclusion, in order to help people get back on their feet in the long term. After a difficult year throughout France due to a massive and unprecedented influx into its activity centers, the association is laying the foundations for new assistance for the most precarious. Additional effort will be made to two categories of profiles: single-parent families and early childhood. Students in great difficulty are also welcomed every week at the Restos du coeur site in Boé for food distribution with a shuttle set up from the Agen universities.
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