Overview
- The organization opened its 41st national food distribution on 18 November across France.
- Last season it assisted about 1.3 million people and provided 161 million meals, with field reports pointing to rising demand in recent months.
- Around 77% of those welcomed live on less than half the poverty threshold—about €644 per month—with more than half under 25 and 40% minors.
- Restos du Cœur supplies roughly 35% of France’s food aid and relies on about 78,000 regular and 30,000 occasional volunteers.
- Leaders say financial constraints force them to turn some people away each year, as Insee sets the 2023 poverty rate at 15.4%, the highest in roughly three decades.