GBH renews its support for food banks in Overseas France
for solidarity
On Wednesday 26 June 2024, the French Food Banks Federation (Fédération Française des Banques Alimentaires - FFBA) and GBH renewed their partnership agreement signed in 2022 to help to respond to the growing demand for aid and replenish food stocks in Guadeloupe, Maritinique and Réunion Island.
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 join forces to provide assistance to French overseas territories
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 compliments the scheme already in place with GBH’s Carrefour subsidiaries, which have worked alongside the local food banks for several years in order to secure the donation of food items and continue their aid work to local organisations.
In addition, in each département, GBH deploys specific resources in order to support the work of local food banks.
"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".
From left to right: Photo 1
Marcel Sigiscar, President of the Guadeloupe Food Bank; Bruno Prochasson, President of the Réunion Island Food Bank; Michel Lapeyre, GBH Indian Ocean and Africa Managing Director; Jean Cottave, President of the French Food Banks Federation; and Madeleine Kaw, President of the Martinique Food Bank.
From left to right: Photo 2
Michel Lapeyre, GBH Indian Ocean and Africa Managing Director; and Jean Cottave, President of the French Food Banks Federation.