Offering local meals to people in precarious situations

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Le Chainon Manquant

The project

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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 millions
millions
of people in food insecurity in France in 2022
10 millions
millions
tonnes of food wasted in France every year
2,3 millions
millions
of 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 quality food surpluses (fruit, vegetables, proteins, most often already cooked)from professionals - particularly from the events and catering industries - and 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 tonnes of foodstuffs were saved from destruction by 320 dynamic and committed volunteers.
This represented the equivalent of over 300,000 quality meals distributed to more than 80 solidarity associations and the thousands of people in precarious situations they support.

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The money will be used for

Thanks to your difts , 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 projectto 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!
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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.
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Valérie de Margerie
Co-founder and President
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