The Red Cross e-shop has been open since last Friday. - ERIC PIERMONT / AFP

  • The Bordeaux Red Cross branch launched its online store in partnership with the Emmaüs Label.
  • The objective is to continue to meet needs and maintain a social bond while the pop-up boutique on Promenade Sainte-Catherine is now closed.
  • The association now hopes to open a lasting one at the start of the Alsace-et-Lorraine course in the center of Bordeaux.

Alone is good, together it's better! And even more when it comes to solidarity. It is in this philosophy that the Bordeaux branch of the Red Cross has just opened an online store in partnership with the Label Emmaüs platform in order to pursue its mission with the most disadvantaged. "The lease for our ephemeral boutique installed on the Sainte-Catherine promenade for a few months has ended, so we had to find a solution during this crisis and especially while waiting to find a new place", explains one of the managers of the humanitarian association created in 1864.

Label Emmaüs has existed since 2016. It is an online sales platform which has also experienced its peak in its last weeks with containment. The Red Cross therefore jumped on the ball "to meet growing needs, to maintain the flame that drives us and the link with our customers and donors" in this complicated period. For the past few days, she has been selling clothes from donations.

A brand new store at the start of the new school year

Shoes, T-shirts, pants, skirts, dresses ... There is everything and nothing over 12 euros. To pick up your purchases, you can have them sent to you or pick them up at 16 cours Le Rouzic in Bordeaux, Tuesday and Thursday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Like a classic store, the platform "undertakes to reimburse you for any object that does not satisfy you within 14 days of receipt or withdrawal of your order. »Regarding donations, you must now send an e-mail to the solidarity store by e-mail: boutique.bordeaux@croix-rouge.fr.

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The device could in any case last a few weeks. Time for the Bordeaux Red Cross office to find a place, this time lasting. She is working on it right now. According to a volunteer, "it's on the right track, we should be able to reopen at the start of the new school year at the top of the Alsace-et-Lorraine course, we still need to collect the keys and redevelop the premises and it doesn't move forward not very quickly with the health situation at the moment. In this new space, free workshops will be offered by volunteers or by partner associations. In this period, everyone must adapt as best they can and perhaps even more associations such as the Red Cross essential to society.

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