Hérault: the Green People's Green Fathers ready to help Santa Red Christmas

As every year at this period, Secours Populaire Français launches its important campaign of Green Christmas Fathers with a call for donations and volunteering but also volunteers.In Hérault, 24,613 people are helped, including 9,300 children and adolescents.

A helping hand to Red Santa Claus

The end of year celebrations are fast approaching with their share of wonder, reunion and shared joys.Unfortunately this will not be the case for everyone.Once again, the Secours populaire Français acts its "Green Christmas Fathers to give a helping hand to Santa Red" as Nicole Guillosson reminds us."In this party period, we want each child to be able to receive a gift and live Christmas in joy" supports the event referent.

To achieve this, the 33 Hérault branches of Secours Populaire multiply the solidarity activities in order to collect financial and material donations."Green is the color of hope.At the Secours Populaire, this word is part of our goal: to give hope "underlines Nicole Guillosson by thinking of the 24,613 supported people including 9,300 children and adolescents, 11,000 adults and 3,400 students or job seekers."We practice unconditional solidarity here but also there, internationally," she.

A partners' club

To carry out its various operations, Secours Populaire benefits from the important contribution of its partners' club.Or near 300 companies and institutions throughout the department that provide aid, services and donations.Thus the traditional Rockers have of the heart which will be held on Saturday December 18 in Secret Place where the entrance ticket is a new toy, the company Les Senles illega at the Mauguio theater offers a show, Royal Canin will give 300 toys, new partner Le Domaine de Vercing is collecting a collection ... "We thank our partners truly.There is a wave ”greets Michaël Fieschi.

The Solidarity Partners' Referent Club also highlights the role of schools, colleges and high schools.With for example, the work of the pupils of the 3rd preparation of the Lycée Pierre Mendès-France who are in the process of nine about fifteen bikes collected by Century 21 as well as the electric bikes given recently by Enedis.

Another new partnership was established this year."Knowing that the covid affected us a lot and especially the disadvantaged families, we wanted to take action with a social theme" explain Noah, surrounded by his comrades Perrine, Alizée and Noémie.As part of a study project, these 2nd year information and communication license students at Paul-Valéry University chose Secours Populaire and got closer to the MHB whose young man is a member of the Technical Commission.

"This is the more titled club of French handball.This is the club also with the most workforce.This season has about 800 licensees this season this represents a large pool to collect toys ”.The MHB responded favorably to the project and signed a partnership agreement.So, until next Wednesday, students will collect toys with the various teams.

For an orphanage in Morocco

As part of the Green Christmas Fathers, Secours populaire is carrying out an international operation each year.After bringing toys to children from the refugee camp on the island of Lesbos last year, it is an orphanage of illegitimate children in Meknes in Morocco that will be supported.

"They are children confined in a hospitalized space.The Rita Zebner Foundation carries out a remarkable job but it needs means.They are children with too few emotional links.We want to bring them stuffed animals because the plush has a resilience effect.Besides the joy of the gift, it is bringing them a little affection.There is also a therapeutic notion ”explains Gilles Loison, a world solidarity referent.Political science students from the University of Montpellier will thus organize a collection to offer stuffed animals and clothes.

Donations and volunteers

During the coming weeks, the 1,215 Hérault volunteers from Secours Populaire, wearing their green hat, will therefore multiply the solidarity actions.Braderies, collections, shows ... will be as many opportunities to collect toys, books, clothes, foodstuffs ... With a precision provided by Gilles Loison: "If they are not new toys, we sell them during the clearance sale.Children must help Populaire have toys like other children ”.

And if the material donations are important, the financial donations are essential because they allow the different actions to be built and carry out."When we dedicate a euro to the Secours populaire for the Green Christmas Fathers, this euro goes entirely to the Green Christmas Fathers" underlines Michaël Fieschi, recalling that the donations are deductible from the taxes.From December 4 to 24, Green Christmas Fathers will be at Fnac in Polygone to make gift packages.An operation which makes it possible to collect many donations but which is also very heavy to wear.Secours Populaire thus needs volunteers and therefore launches in this sense a call for good wills to also "give a helping hand to Red Santa Claus".

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