The gift rather than the destruction. Since the Easter weekend, a horticultural operator has been delivering tulips to the Ehpad in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, which he cultivates throughout the region, and which no longer find takers because of the confinement. Its goal: "Thank the nursing staff and brighten up the daily lives of residents who no longer have a visit".
"It will be a deficit season anyway"
With a team of around ten people, Baudouin Bonduelle, 27, manager of “La cueillette fleurie”, picked 45.00 tulips, white, yellow, red, purple, which he distributed to 20 retirement homes, and has yet to offer 10 more.
"It is a perishable commodity, in three weeks there will be none left, it will be a deficit season anyway, so I wanted to bring some gaiety to the Ehpad," he adds. His initiative is helped by an online kitty to cover transportation costs and pay his team.
Florists have closed because of the coronavirus epidemic since March 22.
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- Coronavirus
- Ehpad
- Lille
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