Brigitte Macron, president of the Hôpitaux de Paris-Hôpitaux de France foundation, launched the 32nd Yellow Pieces operation in favor of hospitalized young people, through media interventions this weekend, followed Monday January 18 by a visit to a hospital in the Yvelines.
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It is part of taking care to have those you love close to you
", explained on TF1 on Sunday the wife of the Head of State, whose foundation finances the costs inherent in hospitalization, like the hotel or accommodation for relatives or recreational facilities for children.
A need reinforced by the health crisis, which isolated small patients.
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There are strict sanitary rules, which mean that we are entitled to only one parent in the rooms.
The associations which brought music, reading, human beings, can no longer go to the hospital.
And there are no more common convivial places
, ”she underlined.
Entirely dematerialized collection
Operation Yellow Pieces will this year be extended to “
screening for all violence against children, physical, psychological or sexual
”, “
because we realized that one day or another, all these children, these teenagers went to the hospital.
At that point, we have to identify them, that we include them in a course of care,
”she said.
No piggy bank this year placed in post offices and supermarkets but a fully dematerialized collection on the internet or by text message, Covid-19 requires, she explained.
Brigitte Macron, who succeeded Bernadette Chirac in 2019 at the head of the foundation, is due to go to a hospital in Yvelines on Monday to promote the Yellow Pieces operation, along with Didier Deschamps.
The president's wife, who contracted Covid-19 at Christmas, remains extremely discreet and rare in the media and refrains from intervening in the political field.
Mobilized on the theme of childhood, education and the hospital, the former French teacher was in October alongside her husband to publicize the new aid granted to parents who take leave for their own sake. care for a disabled child.
The Hospitals of Paris-Hospitals of France foundation took part in the mobilization against Covid-19 by delivering thousands of digital tablets to elderly people cut off from their loved ones as well as meals and food shopping to hospital caregivers.
For 31 years, the Yellow Pieces operation has raised nearly 98 million euros and funded more than 8,900 projects, according to the Foundation.
It also receives donations which have declined in recent years, to around 1.5 million per year, with the decline in the use of cash.
