The anti-gaspi short circuit against food insecurity
Action zones
Île-de-France
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
The project
SolidarityCircular economy
Le Chainon Manquant collects quality fresh food surpluses from professionals, then redistributes them within 2 hours to local solidarity associations, offering a healthier, more varied diet to people in precarious situations.
10
millionsof people in food insecurity in France in 2022
10
millionstonnes of food wasted in France every year
2,4
millionsof high-quality fresh meals distributed by Le Chainon Manquant to solidarity associations
Solution
To improve access for the most disadvantaged to varied, quality food, Le Chainon Manquant offers an anti-gasping, solidarity-based scheme adapted to fresh, fragile produce.
Every day, Le Chainon Manquant volunteers collect surplus quality foodstuffs (fruit, vegetables, proteins, most often already cooked)from professionals - in particular from events and collective catering - then immediately redistribute them to nearby solidarity associations (solidarity distributions, solidarity restaurants, shelters, social grocery stores ...), according to their needs, to help people in precarious situations.
In 2023, over 150 tons of food were saved from destruction by 320 dynamic and committed volunteers.
This represented the equivalent of over 300,000 quality meals distributed to over 80 solidarity associations and the thousands of people in precarious circumstances they support.
Every day, Le Chainon Manquant volunteers collect surplus quality foodstuffs (fruit, vegetables, proteins, most often already cooked)from professionals - in particular from events and collective catering - then immediately redistribute them to nearby solidarity associations (solidarity distributions, solidarity restaurants, shelters, social grocery stores ...), according to their needs, to help people in precarious situations.
In 2023, over 150 tons of food were saved from destruction by 320 dynamic and committed volunteers.
This represented the equivalent of over 300,000 quality meals distributed to over 80 solidarity associations and the thousands of people in precarious circumstances they support.
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✨ Happy holidays!
Dear difteurs,
Frankly, Bravo!
You are already more than 2,000 difteurs who have supported our antigaspi and solidarity actions!
This year, thanks to your support, we have:
- reinforced our team,
- met the huge challenge of collecting food surpluses from the Paris 2024 Games,
- saved and then redistributed over 300,000 quality fresh meals,
- and increased the number of projects co-constructed with other associations.
Here's an example to illustrate this beautiful chain of solidarity that plays out every day thanks to you:
On December 24, we received a slightly panicked message from a partner in Saint-Denis: "We have a pallet of mushrooms that we don't know what to do with and we're closing tonight. Can you come over? Luckily, our volunteers deliver meals to an association in the area; without hesitation, they volunteer!"
When we later discover a delicious mushroom blanquette on the menu for La Chorba's evening distribution at Paris City Hall (250 hot meals for precarious people, refugees, pensioners, students, the homeless...) this simple story from our daily lives makes us happy and makes us very keen to say a huge THANK YOU for your precious support!
Happy holidays, dear donors!
Take care of yourself, your loved ones, and (if you can) the most vulnerable around you.
Relive our anti-gaspi and solidarity games with us!
Dear Captains,
😊 We wanted to share with you a highlight of our year and our story: our participation in the Games this summer to collect surplus food from the Ile-de-France competition venues and redistribute it to solidarity associations.
🗓️ We'd been talking about it for 6 years, preparing for it for months... and nothing turned out the way we'd imagined!
😱 We feared our volunteers would go on vacation... but over 100 new, over-motivated recruits joined us! We thought they'd be put off by the improbable hours of the missions... but they told us, their eyes filled with wonder, of the rising sun at the competition sites and the "kiff" of the Olympic lanes on the ring road... 🤩
😱 We dreaded that the associations would be closed and that the capacity of the ecosystem would be limited during the summer... but we forged our finest inter-associative links and experienced a fantastic collective adventure.
And of course, we had our difficulties and our big bouts of fatigue... but every athlete knows: the more intense the effort, the stronger the emotions! ❤️
🥇 84,000 quality fresh meals collected and redistributed later, we're happy to share some of our memories for life with you!
🙏 THANK YOU CAPTAINS for your loyal support, which enabled us to attend and place eco-responsibility and solidarity at the heart of this extraordinary event!!!
😊 We wanted to share with you a highlight of our year and our story: our participation in the Games this summer to collect surplus food from the Ile-de-France competition venues and redistribute it to solidarity associations.
🗓️ We'd been talking about it for 6 years, preparing for it for months... and nothing turned out the way we'd imagined!
😱 We feared our volunteers would go on vacation... but over 100 new, over-motivated recruits joined us! We thought they'd be put off by the improbable hours of the missions... but they told us, their eyes filled with wonder, of the rising sun at the competition sites and the "kiff" of the Olympic lanes on the ring road... 🤩
😱 We dreaded that the associations would be closed and that the capacity of the ecosystem would be limited during the summer... but we forged our finest inter-associative links and experienced a fantastic collective adventure.
And of course, we had our difficulties and our big bouts of fatigue... but every athlete knows: the more intense the effort, the stronger the emotions! ❤️
🥇 84,000 quality fresh meals collected and redistributed later, we're happy to share some of our memories for life with you!
🙏 THANK YOU CAPTAINS for your loyal support, which enabled us to attend and place eco-responsibility and solidarity at the heart of this extraordinary event!!!
The money will be used for
Le Chainon Manquant is facing new challenges:
- a decrease and greater volatility in solidarity donations from professionals linked to the boom in the sale of surpluses at knock-down prices;
- increased needs of associations in the face of exploding food insecurity.
The association must today transform itself to adapt to the new conditions of food donations and maximize its offer of quality meals for the associations supported!
Thanks to the difts received, Le Chainon Manquant will be able to:
- professionalize its teams by recruiting an operations manager to better manage this new complexity;
- initiate a digital transformation project to gain efficiency and adopt a more opportunistic operating mode;
- cover sharply rising operational and logistical costs ;
- multiply partnerships and develop its collection circuits;
- develop and ever better listen to and support solidarity associations in their missions;
And thus give access to quality food to more people in difficulty!
Thanks to your difts
27,083
quality meals
2063 difts
Action zones
Île-de-France
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Why we love it?
Combining the fight against food waste, the fight against precariousness and quality food is the (very) successful gamble of Le Chaînon Manquant: we can't help but endorse this ingenious ecological and social innovation!
I'd like any quality surplus, the fruit of the earth's riches and our labor, to be useful to the men, women and children who need it.
Valérie de Margerie
Co-founder and President
Dift gem2024 promotion
Le Chainon Manquant is a certified association meeting these six criteria:
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