From today, the 70,000 Restos du Cœur volunteers will be waiting for you at the supermarket checkout. This Friday, March 4 starts the association’s annual collection. Until Sunday, restaurants collect food and hygiene products to help 1,200,000 poor throughout the year.
2022 target: exceed 9,000 tonnes
This year, the objective is clear for the association: to beat the record of 7,800 tonnes of food collected last year, in particular due to the context. In addition to the Covid-19 pandemic which has aggravated the situation of the most precarious, the association foresees a further increase in requests due to the war in Ukraine and the massive influx of refugees.
Priority: single-parent families
One of the priorities for the Restos du Cœur is single-parent families, which represent 30% of beneficiaries. These are mainly mothers raising their children alone and who therefore need often expensive products: nappies, wipes, milk. To provide them, they must most of the time give up hygiene products or food.
What to give this weekend?
Restaurants need non-perishable food products : canned meat and fish, canned vegetables, pulses, canned fruit, jams, compotes, chocolate, biscuits, milk.
The association also needs hygiene products : soaps, shower gel and shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste. Given the proportion of single-parent families among these beneficiaries, the restaurants also need baby products : growth milk, nappies and hygiene products.
– Restos of the Heart