Difficult period, too, for charities. Rarely have the French needed them so much and their action has never been so hampered. To continue to watch over the most precarious, while respecting health regulations, associations must then review their mode of action, trying to coordinate with the State. " We are in a major reorganization effort in the face of a crisis of a magnitude that the State and associations have never known," admits Patrice Blanc, the president of Restos du Coeur.
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The situation of the most precarious is extremely difficult: all those who lived on the informal economy or begging saw, with confinement, their sources of income dry up; thousands of homeless people were quietly relocated as their shelters closed; intense health problems threaten slums and migrant camps… In a first response, the State created 3000 places in structures
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