French popular relief launched a "powerful appeal" for solidarity to help people in precarious situations, weakened by the reconfinement.
"The health crisis has resulted in an increase in poverty and precariousness," wrote the Secours populaire in a press release.
On the day of the reconfinement, French popular relief launched a "powerful appeal" for solidarity, through donations or time, to help the thousands of people threatened with plunging into precariousness.
"The health crisis has resulted in an increase in poverty and precariousness", wrote in a statement the Secours populaire, whose activities continue during the confinement.
"The volunteers are on the bridge"
"Food aid and hygiene products, access to rights, access to digital technology, access to healthcare, educational support ... Volunteers are on the bridge to maintain the link with vulnerable people already affected, while preparing to do so faced with new situations which will plunge thousands of people into precariousness ", continues the association.
Half of those helped had never been
To face this social wave - and while nearly half of the people helped by Secours populaire since March 17 "had never been", the association "launches a powerful appeal" for solidarity "by giving of his time, by collecting, mobilizing or making a donation ".
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During the two months of the first confinement, 1,270,000 people had requested help from the Secours populaire in its reception centers - against 3.3 million over the whole of 2019.