Moroccan Restaurant Owner Serves Free Meals to Homeless on New Year’s Eve in Mantes-la-Jolie

A new act of generosity by Brahim Bourkia. After coming to the aid of all the underprivileged, including students through the "suspended burger" initiative in January 2021, the restaurateur of the Étoile de Fès spread joy in the hearts of the homeless and those in need on New Year’s Eve. With four tables and a gas barbecue, he animated the forecourt of the Notre-Dame collegiate church and distributed about a hundred burgers accompanied by chips, drinks and desserts to the homeless and isolated people.

Brahim Bourkia had announced this donation operation on social networks and mobilized several people, including suppliers and catering professionals. "With the end-of-year holidays, I decided to think of those who are fed up with life, no one to count them, by doing what I do best: burgers," Brahim Bourkia had explained on social networks. Yes, yes, I’m going to spend New Year’s Eve with homeless people I don’t know. But well, love has neither origin nor color, so let’s go warm their hearts with burgers."

"We’re going to give them a hell of an evening," he had added. "It could be you or me who becomes homeless overnight. And we’d love for someone to just come say hello!"