FRANCAISComité français pour la solidarité internationale - History
1960-1969
-From 1960, France: launched with support from President Charles de Gaulle as a response to the FAO’s (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation) call to fight malnutrition in developing countries, the CFSI first emerges as the French Committee against Hunger (CFCF) before taking its current name in 1995. To raise funds for operational NGOs, the group starts as a financial channel which obtains recognition as of public utility in 1970. At certain times, trade unions participate in the Committee as members, namely CFTC (French Confederation of Christian Workers), CGT (General Labour Confederation), CFDT (French Democratic Labour Confederation) and FO (Worker’s Force). Close to the socialist minister for Cooperation, Jean-Pierre Cot, in 1981, the CFDT also deals with development projects through its Belleville Institute, created in 1982, and its clubs CODEV (Cooperation-Development), launched in 1986.
