Since 2019, GBH and its Carrefour subsidiaries have distributed nearly 4.3 million meals to food banks in Overseas France

Through this partnership, GBH and its Carrefour subsidiaries have distributed nearly 4.3 million meals to recipient non-profits in these three territories since 2019. 

This is the first time that the food banks network has received such support in these overseas territories at the same time. 

The French Food Banks Federation and GBH are furthering their long-term partnership in order to support and develop the work of the three overseas food banks. GBH has earmarked logistical resources and specific funding in order to make its container loading bays available and ensure that supplies are transported to Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion Island: 

• GBH will finance the transportation of food items in several containers a year, thereby providing the food banks with access to its container packing platforms in Mainland France.
• The French Food Banks Federation will call on the support of its 79 food banks in Mainland France and in French overseas territories, as well as its regular donors, in order to step up the coordination of emergency supplies. 

The volume of goods transported to the three overseas territories will increase significantly each year as a result. 

"This partnership is invaluable because it helps to transport products in order to respond to the needs of people in food poverty in French overseas territories, where the issue of food supplies is particularly challenging. Thank you to GBH for this support and continued faith in the work of food banks", said Jean Cottave, President of the French Food Banks Federation. 

Rodolphe Hayot, Executive Officer of GBH said: "We wanted to renew our assistance to the overseas food bank at a national level by offering our logistics tools in order to transport additional food items to Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion Island free of charge. Our teams are stepping up to continue this partnership. We are going further in our aid efforts to address the rising food precarity in these territories".