2023-04-22 19:14:48
Salt, flour, lentils, pasta, canned sardines: Jean Medard and his colleagues from the Partage foundation are preparing food aid bags, partly filled with donations and unsold items. But for three years, certain products, food or not, must be purchased. It can be diapers of different sizes or sanitary napkins, illustrates the director of Partage Marc Nobs.
“The number of beneficiaries has increased. Automatically, the quantities distributed also increase,” he explains. “In the month of March, we are around 10,000 more shopping bags this year than last year.”
These shopping bags are transported by truck. Deliveries take place three to four times a week. Again, it’s more than usual… Among the beneficiaries are the people identified during the Covid crisis, says Marc Nobs. “We also have a whole part of the population which has not managed to absorb the price increase that there has been throughout 2022”, he adds.
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Once loaded, the trucks serve 50 associations. They are the ones doing the distribution. The RTS attended one of them a few months ago, organized by the Café Cornavin association. That day, about 80 people came.
“We try to adjust the number of bags to the people present. Today, we arrived right there. Sometimes we have a little more. Last week, some people stayed on the floor”, noted Glenn Benoudiz , the founder of Café Cornavin.
Although under pressure, the food aid system is trying to adapt. One solution is to diversify sources of supply.
Subject TV: Julien Chiffelle and Jacqueline Pirszel
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