This year, the National Collection of the Banque Alimentaire des Mascareignes, in Reunion, will take place Friday November 22 and Saturday November 23, 2024. For two days, dry food products and essential hygiene products will be collected in more than 50 partner stores across the island.
This outpouring of generosity is made possible by the mobilization of dozens of citizens and Orange Vests, but also partner associations or corporate sponsors.
During this collection, volunteers are on all fronts: they distribute brochures to inform of the current collection, fill the shopping carts with hope and organize the food stocks.
“This year we need more than 50 tonnes of food” specifies Bruno Prochasson, President of the Banque Alimentaire des Mascareignes.
Everyone can participate in the solidarity chain in their own way:
– by making a financial donation on the online platform monpaniersolidaire.org
– by depositing your contribution with the Orange Vests posted in front of partner stores.
Every gesture counts: during this national-scale operation, 10% of the annual supplies of Food Banks are secured, or the equivalent of around 20 million meals in France.
“In 2023, 10,121 tonnes of food were collected, the weight of the Eiffel Tower. We hope to do even better this year!” comments Laurence Champier, Federal Director of the French Federation of Food Banks.
Food Banks remain an essential support for 2.4 million people. The slowdown in inflation has not yet resulted in a decline in the number of people supported, which has increased by 30% since 2018.
Over the first two quarters of 2024, this number even started to increase again after stabilizing in 2023, with more frequent passages. The prolonged impact of inflation also results in increasingly varied profiles of the people supported: single-parent families, retirees, students, poor workers, etc.
“In this context, we need the mobilization of everyone on November 22, 23 and 24” adds Jean Cottave, President of the Food Banks network.
