Pradel's article...

The association that I chose is les Restaurants du Cœur  commonly and familiarly known as the Restos du Cœur.

It  is a french charity: the main activity of this association is to distribute food packages and hot meals to the needy. 

It was founded by the comedian Coluche in 1985.

The comedian and actor Coluche launched the idea of the Restos du Cœur on 26 September 1985. 

"I have a little idea, a bit like this... If there are people who would be interested in sponsoring a free soup kitchen, we'd start first in Paris and then spread to France's big cities." 

The first of the Restos opened on 21 December and soon multiplied all over the country.

 The goal of the founders was to give away 2,000 to 3,000 meals per day; 8.5 million were distributed in the first winter alone. 

The initiative was supported by a song written by the songwriter and singer Jean-Jacques Goldman called 'Les Restos du Cœur', which included some of the lyrics being sung or read out by other celebrities.

 A televised show allowed the organization to collect several million francs.

Coluche pleaded for the Restos' cause at the European Parliament in February 1986 after learning that surplus products cost more to store than to distribute for free to the poor; his plea was heard and the surplus was opened in 1987 to four organizations.

France has a huge housing problem and it is charitable organizations like this that stop hundreds of homeless people dying each winter.

I think that this charity is really important because there are so many persons who die of hunger every years and it's important to not forget that it could be any of us, every person in the world needs to be helped by the others.

The most important thing it's to know that sometimes even if those homeless poeple got a job they could not have a home, sometime it's just persons who don't have enough money to buy food, that's why I think that this type of association are really important to give hope to every one who don't believe that their life could be better. 

 

The person who works in this association does it for free, they just want to give hope, and love to those persons that is really amazing.

 Every person is important and thank to this association the needy one could not think that they are nothing.

 -Pradel