This Friday March 3, 2023, the Enfoirés troupe returns to TF1 and France Bleu. But as the kick-off of the long-awaited event is fast approaching, The Parisian brought to light a disturbing analysis of the current situation. According to our colleagues, the Restos du Coeur could experience a sharp increase in attendance. An increase that had already been noticed in 2008, during the crisis. At the time, a quarter of additional people had been identified in the various centers. The daily reports that we are “already 22% more, on average, just thirteen weeks after the start of the organization’s 38th winter campaign, in November, according to a preliminary report unveiled on Wednesday, three days before the broadcast of the Enfoirés concert and the start of their national collection, this weekend in 7,000 stores”.
From November 2021 to November 2022, the association, founded by Coluche in the 80s, would have welcomed 1.1 million people. But since last November, the threshold of 1 million has already been exceeded. If the Restos du Coeur “distributed 142 million meals in 2021-2022, they could reach 165 million according to internal projections”, assures Le Parisien, which also specifies that 11 million people currently live below the poverty line in France. Figures that can be explained in particular by inflation, but also by the energy crisis.
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Faced with such an observation, the association intends to collect more than “9,000 tonnes of non-perishable food and basic necessities”. Resource “vital” for the Restos du Coeur which should also be able to count on the money raised by the Enfoirés troupe. As a reminder, this one had “enabled to bring in more than 8.5 million euros for the Restos in the 2020-2021 financial year”can we read on the site.
VB