2023-09-23 04:45:05
On September 9, Fouad Chafik, a former Moroccan international football player, discovered videos of the earthquake in the province of Al-Haouz when he woke up with his wife. And scrolls with desolation on his smartphone the images of the collapsed buildings of the village of Aït Youssef, where his parents were born and where he spent a large part of his childhood. “We had to act urgently, it would have taken some time to contact associations. So I created a pot personally. I told myself that my network in the world of football and word of mouth would allow me to raise money quickly”explains the retired player, who answers us by telephone from Aït Youssef, which he joined a few days ago.
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In less than a week, nearly 28,000 euros were paid. The footballer collaborated with a local association to deliver food, medicines, diapers, blankets and mattresses… Initially from his personal funds, while waiting to receive the money collected online on Leetchi. “When you give to an association, you don’t really know who is behind it. Here, the people who donated know me, they know they can trust me 100%”, he assures. Throughout France, other digital prize pools have been created by local associations or personalities of Moroccan origin.
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This particular form of calls for donations has become an almost immediate response to the tragedies of the world, large and small. There are beautiful stories, like that of Emilie Pécourneau, this daughter of indebted farmers from Lot-et-Garonne, who saved the family farm by collecting 270,000 euros in a few months. The determination of the teenager, aged 15 in 2019, made the front page of the local press, and her story inspired a TV movie, Peasant’s daughterbroadcast in March on France 2.
Upheavals of opinion
And then, there are the more disturbing mobilizations, like the kitty launched by the far-right polemicist Jean Messiha, bringing together, in July, more than 1.6 million euros. A tidy sum intended for the family of the police officer indicted for intentional homicide after the death of Nahel M., 17, during a road check in Nanterre on June 27. This initiative had provoked the indignation of many left-wing elected officials and part of the public, and the teenager’s family had filed a complaint against the former spokesperson for Eric Zemmour’s presidential campaign.
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