




Offering local meals to people in precarious situations

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 millions
millionsof people in food insecurity in France in 2023
10 millions
millionstonnes of food wasted in France every year
2,8 millions
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 - particularly from the events and catering industries - 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 2024, 178 tonnes of foodstuffs were saved from destruction by nearly 400 dynamic and committed volunteers.
This represented the equivalent of over 355,000 quality meals distributed to nearly 80 solidarity associations and the thousands of people in precarious situations whom they support.
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The money will be used for
Thanks to your difts , Le Chainon Manquant will be able to:
- Launch its digital transformation for greater efficiency and responsiveness.
- Cope with rising operational and logistics costs.
- Professionalize its teams by recruiting 2 talents for operations in Ile-de-France.
- Initiate new sources of supply, in conjunction with collective catering, to capture ever more fresh, quality produce and create new channels for food aid.
- Multiply partnerships, extend its collection circuits and ever better accompany associationsin their missions.
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- And, as a bonus: renew part of the logistics fleet (if we get a dift rain!).
Together, let's bring quality food to even more people in need!

Thanks to you 👏
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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
Certified association
Le Chainon Manquant is an association certified by Dift, here are the criteria we evaluate:
Financial management
Innovation & efficiency
Entrepreneurial spirit, agility & ambition
Governance & values
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Systemic impact
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