This Saturday, September 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., in an associative room in Vernet-Salanque, more than fifty needy families came to collect for their children, from Fatou Hocine, Bérengère Fourcade and Sylvie Ribeill, a full schoolbag, as well as only clothes, for a decent start to school.
At the very least, the “special back-to-school” package included a completely new schoolbag, pencil case, pen and notebook. Fruit of a collection initiated by a trio of charities – Au coeur de l’hhumanite 66, Les Enfants de Afrique and Les P’tits Bouts 66 – these school supplies were supplemented by donations of clothing for the most part. in new condition or very little worn. This is delighted by Fatou Hocine, Bérangère Fourcade and Sylvie Ribeill, three women of heart and action working hand in hand throughout the year in favor of the homeless, migrants and families deprived of CAF benefits.
“We launched this joint project in July via the social networks Facebook and Snapchat. We were pleasantly surprised at the responsiveness of anonymous people, as well as business leaders from the department, who volunteered to collect school supplies. develops Fatou. But, on the other hand, we were also shocked to see an unknown segment of our volunteers: artists deprived of contracts because of the Covid, unemployed small craftsmen, young people, children who do not have enough to eat and They hadn’t been to school benches for a long time … I even met two French families living in tents on a vacant lot in Pia with their 15 children! “.
This population of “new poor” was therefore also at the rendezvous of generosity this Saturday, September 4.
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