This Friday, December 30 and Saturday, December 1, the Food Bank organizes its traditional collection of foodstuffs. In Redon, it's the Campus Spirit students who wear the orange vests. They were joined at Lidl by a handful of yellow vests, who came to lend a hand.
This Friday, November 30, the small corridor facing the crates that allows you to exit the supermarket Lidl is crowded. Two volunteers dressed in orange vests, representing the Food Bank, collect in caddies the many donations from customers. They are helped by two other volunteers, yellow vests.
"Their hand makes us happy"
At the origin of this mix, Stéphanie Vié, local craftsman and yellow jacket of the first hour. "I had the idea on Wednesday. Yellow Vests Redon fight for greater purchasing power for the poor, while communicating a message of non-violence. This is what I want to show this morning, "she explains, full of dynamism and good humor.
At first, Clarisse Le Boudec, who was in charge of the Lidl Food Bank collection and a second-year Campus esprit student, was not reassured by their coming. "I was personally blocked by the yellow vests, which did not leave me a good memory," she slips. Finally, she finds their help welcome. "There is a lot of passage and people giving, more than we thought. Their hand makes us happy. "
The collection continues on Saturday
Retirees stop, take the time to talk with the volunteers, whatever the color of their jacket. Later, a 50-year-old raises his thumb in the direction of the yellow Vests. "Keep going! She asks them.
Stéphanie Vié admits she did not choose Lidl by chance. "People whose purchasing power is rather weak, who do not have much means, get their supplies here. It's also for her that we fight. "
In Redon, the collection of food will continue this Saturday, December 1, in the following stores: Lidl, Intermarché, U Express, Leclerc of Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon, Guémené-Penfao Super U ... 65 students of Campus Esprit are on the bridge.