Vendée: the company Sodebo prints emergency call numbers against domestic violence on the packaging of its products

These emergency numbers will be labeled on 35 million pizzas and salads. One way to help victims “who do not know where to turn”, specifies the company.

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The Vendée company Sodebo signs a partnership with the national gendarmerie to help fight against domestic violence and digital violence, reports France Bleu Loire Océan on Friday October 28. The emergency numbers 116 006 and 30 18 will be labeled on 35 million Sodebo pizzas and salads. This partnership with the national gendarmerie should last six months. The first products, Dolce pizzas, were released on October 17. They will be followed by salads, then PIZZ products in November.

It’s a way of providing solutions to young people who are in great difficulty at the time and who do not know where to turn.“, explains Patricia Brochard, co-president of the company. She also claims to want to help “parents facing this kind of situation without knowing how to help their children“. Patricia Brochard admits that it is difficult to estimate the effectiveness of such a measure.

“Even if it helps, even saves, one or two people, it will give meaning to the action”

Patricia Brochard, co-president of Sodebo

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This is the second time that the Vendée company has signed a similar partnership with the national gendarmerie. During the first confinement, in the spring of 2020, faced with an upsurge in domestic violence, the Montaigu gendarmerie contacted Sodebo, based in the same town, to ask for help by printing on the packaging of its pizzas the number emergency 39 19.”We are a family business and we are headed by three women, protecting families is part of our valuess”, justifies to France Bleu Loire Océan the co-president of the company, Patricia Brochard.


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