It is an exceptional meeting which
Le Figaro
attended on Tuesday morning, at the Ministry of Health in Paris.
At 8:45 a.m., a small delegation from Secours Catholique, led by its president Véronique Devise, was received by Jean-Christophe Combe, the Minister of Solidarity, to talk about the 2022 report on the state of poverty in France that the charity to 60,000 volunteers publishes this Thursday morning.
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The former director general of the French Red Cross was thus able to talk for an hour with Sonya, Germaine and Emilia, three women living in poverty extremely committed to Secours Catholique, who had come from Lyon to talk to the minister about their daily fight to survive.
“It is important to hear from the mouths of those who experience it on a daily basis what poverty in France
is, explains Véronique Devise to Jean-Christophe Combe in the introduction after giving him the key figures* of the 2022 report
. doesn't have the same impact as if it's me talking about their life...
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