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Two birds with one stone. Faced with the health crisis and the difficulties encountered by farmers in distributing their crops, the City of Grigny has chosen to turn to the Ile-de-France organic cooperative to supply social groceries. More products that allow the grocery store to respond to the requests for solidarity packages that are increasing rapidly.
Fresh vacuum-packed potatoes, carrots and yogurt. The products were delivered in the morning of Thursday, April 16, to the Sidney Bechet cultural center in Grigny. Hand in hand, the City decided to work with the Ile-de-France organic cooperative. On the one hand, this partnership allows the 70 farmers who form the cooperative not to lose all of their harvests and, on the other, to meet the increasing demand for solidarity food parcels by Grignoise families.
The cooperative, created in 2014, aims to contribute to the development of organic farming by focusing in particular on the supply of school canteens. ” However, since the start of containment, these have no longer been active and therefore deprive these operators of their commercial outlet. “, Notes the town hall. 60% of their harvest being intended for collective catering, they had to find a solution. ” Organic stores played the game, which made up for a little, but not enough. The operation of the City of Grigny helps us a lot “, Says Nathalie Zanato, director of the cooperative.
Thus, the following were saved from the loss: 200 kg of whole potatoes, 75 kg of prepared potatoes, 180 kg of carrots and 1,000 yogurts. The cooperative warns, however, after confinement: ” What impacts us a lot is milk, we have 1,400 liters per day to process. In particular, we made a lot of cheeses, but the communities will have to stay when the school resumes. Its very important ” In principle, other cities in the Greater Paris South agglomeration should soon opt for this type of action.
The exceptional assistance for low-income families paid on May 15
This delivery is first intended for the Grignois households who obtain food from the social grocery store. In one month, 200 families, 300 adults and 400 children, were supplied, but the number is increasing. ” In the first week of containment, we delivered 35 packages. This week is between 90 and 120 a day “Explains Saïd Seddouki, director of social action at Grigny.
In addition to the families already registered, and without counting the forty or so new ones who registered on the day of this delivery, the social grocery store will also deliver the families of the Popular Relief, the Red Cross, the Departmental House of Solidarity, the the Bois joli nursing home, the CHSF and the Mousseau clinic. Solidarity that works both ways. ” We will try to place an order for them per week Said Seddouki said. An action by the city which should allow families to put butter in the spinach, before the payment by CAF of the exceptional aid to modest households promised by the government, on May 15.
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