Maud Descamps with Stéphane Place, edited by Clément Perruche 6:52 am, November 27, 2021, modified at 6:52 am, November 27, 2021

The Food Bank organizes until Sunday evening the collection of food for the most vulnerable.

This year is marked by an increase in demand, linked to the decline in purchasing power.

The association also lacks volunteers to distribute food.

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If you've been shopping, you may have noticed the Food Bank stand outside your supermarkets.

As every year, food banks in France are launching a food collection campaign until Sunday evening.

And as winter approaches, the association calls for even more solidarity.

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And for good reason: during food distributions all over France, the queues are getting longer.

More and more French people are in need.

They would be 12% more than three months ago, a particularly significant increase.

For Claude Baland, the president of food banks, this phenomenon is a direct consequence of a decline in purchasing power.

"The food budget is the third budget for low-income people and it is an adjustment variable. As the expenses for gasoline, electricity and gas have increased a lot this year, it is so much less on their meager income, ”he analyzes.

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In all branches of the Food Bank, more than 100,000 volunteers are mobilized to collect and sort food.

But this year, due to increased demand, food banks are running out of volunteers.

"We will receive 450 tonnes. The whole month of December will be devoted to sorting. Some days, we would need around twenty people who come to the Food Bank to help us sort", explains Benoît Mathieu, president of the association in Gironde.

In the department, 22,000 people benefit each week from these foods.

The association noted a 20% increase in this total in two years.