This Friday 26 and Saturday 27 November, the food bank is organizing its major annual food drive across France. In Brittany, 700 stores and 15,000 volunteers are mobilized all weekend for this operation and the sorting of food.
15% of the year’s food collected over a weekend
This collection weekend alone represents 15% of the association’s annual resources, so the volunteers innovate to ensure a sufficient stock. In addition, the number of beneficiaries of the Banque Populaire increased from 10 to 30% in the various departments of the region.
Packages prepared in advance
For five years, the food bank has offered in some stores packages already prepared that you just have to take at the entrance of the store before handing them over to the volunteers after the checkout: “I took the one with the hygiene products with toothbrushes, toothpaste and soaps “explains Solène, a Rennes woman”I could have taken it individually, but I find these bags already prepared are very practical“Three types of bags are available: a sweet, a savory and hygiene products. “This allows us to take missing food rather than buying things that they already have in quantity.“added Danielle, just behind. From the first year of implementation of this system, donations increased by 40%.
– Thibault Delmarle
After collection, all these foodstuffs will be redistributed to beneficiaries thanks to 353 Breton associations. In 2020, during the Covid crisis, the number of donations increased by 45% compared to 2019, from 175 to 255 tonnes on the only Intermarché Hyper in Rennes.
This weekend you will find the association in many stores in the region. It is also possible to donate via the website monpaniersolidaire.org