With the coronavirus crisis, many demonstrations of solidarity have emerged.

And Toulouse is one of the examples.

In the Bagatelle district, for a year now, an association has enabled 300 families to come each week to collect a basket full of foodstuffs.

An initiative that is often essential for the beneficiaries.

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One year to the day after the first confinement linked to Covid-19, we have learned to adapt and change our daily lives.

And there is at least a little good in this health crisis, which has seen the emergence of great initiatives all over France.

This is particularly the case in Toulouse, where one of these demonstrations of solidarity continues in the Bagatelle district.

Each week, 85 families now benefit from food aid and are distributed all kinds of food to meet their needs. 

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Fruits, vegetables, cereals for the children ... It has been two months since Fatima has come to collect a basket every Tuesday to fill her cupboards and fridge a little.

For her, the situation has suddenly deteriorated this year with the health crisis.

"I lost my job. From 800 euros per month, I went to 480. It's tough, especially when you have a child at home. So it's good to know that there is someone there who can be listening to you, that's reassuring, ”explains the mother of the family. 

Nearly 300 families affected each week

A year ago, none of this existed.

But the neighborhood house realized during the confinement that many people needed help.

The AlimEco Association, chaired by Rosetta Arcuri, was then set up during the summer.

And since then, nearly 300 people have benefited from it every week. 

"At the beginning, I did not think that it was so essential for some people. But here, we have whole families who do not have housing and who live in squats", recognizes the association manager.

"And the good thing is that beneficiaries can also volunteer." 

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Encourage food autonomy and ecology

In addition to helping families to feed themselves, the association also helps to create links, as Rosetta Arcuri affirms.

"People want to come every Tuesday, they want to build something and not to suffer," she explains.

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But AlimEco wants to go even further and even seeks to encourage food autonomy and ecology.

The volunteers of the association thus work on the installation of shared gardens or henhouses at the foot of the towers of this district of Bagatelle.