The Creuse Food Bank collecting donations in supermarkets

It's impossible not to see them with their orange vests. Volunteers with trolleys wait for donations at the exit of around twenty supermarkets in Creuse. They are collecting food for the Food Bank from November 22 to 24 as part of the association's national collection.

“I give canned goods and menstrual protection”, describes Marie at the exit of a supermarket in Guéret. There is no no small donations assures Madeleine Fiolle, deputy head of the Dun-le-Palestel Red Cross who is participating in the collection. “What we often lack are household products because people don't necessarily think about giving this. But it's important because it has a cost even if they say that with black soap you can do lots of things. “

“The Creusois and Creusoises always respond to the call for solidarity”

During the collections organized in 2022 and 2023, the people of Creusois responded to the call for solidarity launched by the department's Food Bank: the association had collected 17 tonnes of food. “This represents around 10% of our annual needs”estimates the president of the Creuse Food Bank, David Chaouche.

Despite inflation, David Chaouche finds that the quantity of donations during the national collection is still “fairly stable”. “The people of Creusois always respond to the call for donations because I think that each of us knows someone who is in need or a beneficiary. And then, we must keep in mind that this can happen to each of us. We.”