2023-12-20 13:01:00
The Christmas holidays are already this weekend. The preparations continue and for some, it’s a race to find the last gifts and the last items for New Year’s Eve. Not everyone is lucky enough to be able to organize a small family celebration. Some are suffering and struggling to make ends meet during this period.
It is to help them that a solidarity Christmas market was organized this Wednesday in the streets of Charleroi. Tents and chalets offered products to the most deprived, ranging from toys to put under the tree, to care kits and classic food. An initiative that touches the hearts of those affected.
This is particularly the case of Jean-Pierre and Carine, grandparents of a little girl. They wanted to please him for this festive period. “Since she already doesn’t have much, even her dad doesn’t really have the means either, being grandparents, we can do that a bit for our little girl”they tell us, with a smile, happy to be able to please him.
Other visitors, who arrived at the end of the long line that formed around the chalets, are also happy to be able to benefit from this help. Because they feel at the end of their rope. “Everything increases, every year, every time, but people who don’t know how to pay, what do they do? They go to the streets”says one of them. “I’m at the CPAS, I only have €600 per month. After paying for water, electricity, gas and groceries, I have nothing left to make it through the month”says another.
“If they weren’t there, I would do like those under the bridge with a cup”, specifies another citizen. Among the visitors, many families, but also students, who face delicate situations. “They can’t do it, they don’t know how to combine work with their studies. They come looking for food,” explains Geneviève Briclet, Facilitator at the Secular Action Center of Charleroi.
Around 500 people were expected this morning. A new meal distribution is already planned for December 23.
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