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Carrefour Foundation – 2014 annual report –
FOSTERING
SOCIAL
INCLUSION
There are many
opportunities to create
social links through food.
Shopping, cooking,
gardening on one’s own little
plot of land, or sharing a
meal – these are all real
opportunities for contact
with others. Social grocery
stores, cooking courses
to learn simple, inexpensive
recipes, educational
gardens in poor or isolated
communities… these
initiatives have two major
objectives: to enable those
living in poverty to have a
better and more balanced
diet and to offer time to chat
in a convivial atmosphere.
A powerful motor for social
integration.
5million
PEOPLE SUFFER FROM
LONELINESS AND HAVE
NO SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
WHATSOEVER IN FRANCE
(1)
.
(1)Source:
FondationdeFrance
–2014
ReportonSolitude.
“It isunthinkable that a childcan
still suffer fromhunger inplaces
where foodcanbegrown. The school
vegetablegardens thatwe set up
enable children to learn that
simple seeds canbe synonymous
withabetter diet.”
“Our ambition for the social
grocery stores is tohelp
beneficiariesbecome
independent.”
PACTE
The 11
PACTE
(
Pour Agir Contre
Toute Exclusion
–
To act against all
exclusion) social
grocery stores have
been opened in
regions with high
unemployment and
enable consumer
goods to be sold at
reduced prices (20%
of their usual retail
price), while helping
those who are victims
of exclusion to find
work and get back on
their feet. Today 90%
of
PACTE
staff are
former beneficiaries.
Since 1995, the
Foundation has
been supporting
the development
of grocery stores,
a network initially
set up by Carrefour
employees. In
addition, 60%of
the products sold
in the groceries are
provided by the
Group’s stores and
warehouses.
1,400 families
benefitted in 2014
from the aid of the
four social groceries
in the Nord
department.
Interview of Dominique Lecomte
President of
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HUERTANIÑO
Even though
Argentina’s
agricultural
production can feed
350 million people,
6 million children
still suffer from
malnutrition in the
country
(1)
. So, in
order to offer children
a better diet and to
raise their awareness
about the importance
of healthy eating,
the
Huerta Niño
Foundation has set
up 260 vegetable
gardens in remote
rural primary schools
since 1999.
Carrefour Argentina,
along with about
160 Carrefour
employees,
volunteered to dig
and develop
vegetable plots in
different parts of the
country. In 2014, eight
new educational
gardens were dug
and 20,000 children
have already
benefitted from
the programme.
(1) Source: UNICEF.
Interview of Juan Lapetini
Executive Director of
Huerta Niño
FRANCE
ARGENTINA