The new Louvre post office building gave a luxurious dimension to the launch of the Pièces Jaunes operation.
In the ideal setting of the building nestled in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, a stone's throw from Chatelet-Les Halles station, Didier Deschamps and Brigitte Macron kicked off the 33rd Yellow Pieces operation in a freshness warmed by the smiles of the children present for the occasion.
"
It is an honor and a privilege to be here in this mythical place,
enthusiastic the coach of the Blues, sponsor of the operation for the fourth consecutive year.
It is a pride to bear witness to the imagination and creativity that invades these children to create boxes
. ” New for this 2022 edition (January 12 to February 5), the boxes will now be homemade, with a view to recycling. Equipped with an FFP2 mask, Deschamps observes the little hands working around the tables. "
It's good to have ideas
," he says to a child who hesitates between two supports to start making his homemade box.
Gathered for the occasion, the children of postal workers and others from a karate club have redoubled their inventiveness to build boxes that will accommodate the precious pieces intended to improve the reception conditions of thousands of children and adolescents. hospitalized.
So many sick children who symbolize "
a lesson in life and a great example that there are always more serious things in life
", relativizes Deschamps.
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Complicated visio and photocall
A tailoring workshop specific to five other Post offices (Bordeaux, Calais, Brive-La-Gaillarde, Strasbourg, Marseille) Poste, which were able to participate in the event by video despite a fluctuating connection. Thus, the vocal performance of Antoine Delie, finalist of season 9 of The Voice, was inaudible from Calais. The essential was elsewhere, as Brigitte Macron recalled, wearing a yellow scarf for the occasion: "
These two years have changed our lives but what endures is our confidence in our hospitals
."
Faced with the difficulty of communicating with other post offices, the First Lady, president of the Hospitals Foundation, accompanied on stage by her vice-president Anne-Barrère and by Philippe Wahl (CEO of La Poste), welcomed the initiatives flourishing in the four corners of France.
"This crisis has come to underline the importance of maintaining the human link within hospitals but also the need to take better care of those who treat us
," stressed the First Lady at
Le Figaro
before the ceremony
.
These are two of the strong commitments made by the Hospital Foundation
. ”
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Following this complicated "multiplex", the ambassadors of the operation returned to the warmth in a room of the Louvre Post Office, which will reopen its doors on January 18 after seven years of work.
Didier Deschamps was able to sign a few autographs before taking part with Brigitte Macron, the other star of the day, in the photocall game, where a device was waiting for them tucked away in front of an old La Poste van.
Each of the children waited in a row to have their little souvenir photo.
Because it was also their moment.