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Up to seven million people in France rely on food banks, reports leading charity

November 28, 2021 By Faïza Zerouala

Up to seven million people in France, or around 10 percent of the population, had need of free handouts of food in 2020, a situation unprecedented in peacetime. That was just one of the shocking conclusions of the latest annual report on poverty in France published by one of the country’s principal social and humanitarian aid associations, the Secours Catholique. Faïza Zerouala reports.

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Last year, close to 10 percent of the French population had need of free food distribution, a record proportion in peacetime in the country, according to an annual report on poverty in France by one of the country’s principal social and humanitarian aid associations, the Secours Catholique.

Up to seven million people in France rely on food banks, reports leading charity

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