The mayor of Marseilles announced Wednesday that it would reopen its imposing central kitchen, which usually serves school canteens, to prepare 5,000 meals each day for "the most precarious families", in the midst of a coronavirus health crisis.
"Mayor LR Jean-Claude Gaudin asked the company Sodexo, delegate of the community for school catering, the reopening of the central kitchen as soon as possible," said a press release. "Within ten days", 5,000 daily meals, "of a nutritional intake suitable for adults", will be prepared and then delivered cold in order to be reheated at home, specifies the town hall.
"A real gesture"
"This aid system is in addition to the provision of more than 60,000 meals and 1.6 tonnes of sandwich bread from the emergency stock of schools and already returned to social restaurants in Marseille with the support of associations approved by the State ”, specifies the city, which also has a municipal social security plan.
The mobilization of the central kitchen of the second city of France is "a significant gesture that we look forward to, a real gesture," welcomed the local director of the Abbé Pierre Foundation, Florent Houdmon.
Marseille
Coronavirus in Marseille: "Families who barely had their heads above the water are falling into worrying precariousness"
Politics
Coronavirus: Why Emmanuel Macron is "passionate" about the work of Didier Raoult
- Marseille
- Precarite
- Poverty
- Canteen
- Meal