Children and families

In the Greater Paris area, around 50,000 babies are estimated to need emergency food. During the first lockdown, many women found themselves in even greater difficulty to provide their children’s basic needs.

Fondation de France welcomes and looks after young, homeless mothers and their newborns, to help women who are in distress or living in great poverty. 

November 20 is World Children’s Day. For the past 13 years, Fondation de France has supported projects to help every child grow up and flourish in the right environment.

United Nations figures are stark: Two hundred million women in the world have been excised and three million girls are likely to suffer this mutilation each year!