An "alarming" student precariousness. For the volunteers of the association for the fight against food waste Linkee, the situation is appalling. "Every day, we make one or two distributions for 300-400 students," testifies a volunteer, confident to be overwhelmed "morally and psychologically" in the face of the number of young people in precarious situations. Outside the premises of the association, in the streets of the twentieth arrondissement of Paris, the line of students grows, endless. Some have been standing there in the rain for sometimes two hours to ensure “a good place”. A shopping bag in hand, they are each waiting for their 5 to 7 kg of food products collected by Linkee from merchants and supermarkets.
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"I live on 500 euros per month and my rent is 200 euros", confides a student in the queue.
So, to get by, she sometimes eats only one meal a day, some weekends, and goes to food distributions every week.
The end of meals at 1 euro for non-scholarship students in early September also weakened young people, already in difficulty.
Anaïs has been coming here every Thursday since October: "I went to private school, suddenly I lost the right to the scholarship", explains the young woman, clutching her handbag against her.
