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Our main project is individual solidarity support. Street outreach and Chill & Charity events complement it and fund it.
Many people in difficulty fall through the gaps of existing schemes: procedures that take too long, support that doesn’t fit, isolation. We start from each person’s situation and build a response for them.
Requests are made directly on this site, by the person, someone close to them or a professional. A team of volunteers reviews the situation, then a solidarity committee decides together what help to give. Deciding as a group keeps the help fair and transparent.
Beyond one-off help, we refer each person to the right partners (housing, health, food, paperwork) and stay in touch to follow how things evolve. The goal is for the person to regain independence, not to depend on us.
We act first in Paris and the surrounding region. Our statutes also allow us to help abroad, especially in Africa: we do so case by case, when a trusted contact can check the situation and hand over the help.
Until we raise enough to support more people individually, we organise outreach nights (“maraudes”): a group outing to meet people who live outside, with hot food, kits (hygiene, winter, clothes) and time to talk.
We buy in bulk so every euro goes as far as possible. On our December 2025 outreach, 40 to 50 hot meals and as many kits were handed out for less than €400. Outreach also helps us meet people we can then support individually.
The dates of our next outreach rounds are in our events page. You can come and help prepare or hand out meals, with no membership needed. See upcoming events · Volunteer with us
Chill & Charity is our series of fundraising events: we have a good time together, and the profits fund our work. Tickets cover the costs; the raffle and on-site donations do the rest.
Picnic photos: Andrey (@withandrey)
Next event: The Secret Venue, Saturday 21 November 2026, by invitation. Write to us to receive one.
To grow, we are looking for public, private and institutional funding for two projects.
Structure the scheme described above in Paris: online requests, solidarity committee, financial, food and housing help, social support and follow-up for each person. It is aimed at people who are homeless, students in hardship, families and people living alone, and people who are ill or living with a disability.
Buy a vehicle to carry meals and donations, run more outreach nights and organise collections. Lent out occasionally under clear rules, it will also bring in income that goes entirely back into our work.
IFE Foundation is a secular, non-political, non-profit humanitarian association. Its statutes give it the mission of helping disadvantaged people of all ages, anywhere in the world: fighting hunger and malnutrition, access to healthcare, access to education for children, defending the rights of women and children, and moral, financial and material support.
Every role in the association is unpaid. Our activity reports and accounts are available on request, and we will publish the results of our work here: number of people helped, types of help, money spent.