On April 28, 2025, La Poste will issue a booklet of 10 illustrated stamps with the theme "Hand in hand, let's unite our generations to build tomorrow."
For over 110 years, La Poste has issued stamps each year with a surcharge for the benefit of the French Red Cross. The 2025 booklet celebrates this tradition with ten dedicated illustrations. The mission of the Red Cross is to alleviate human suffering, protect life and health, and promote peace and understanding among peoples. Guided by the principles of humanity, impartiality, and neutrality, the association acts without discrimination to protect the most vulnerable. Volunteerism, unity, and universality are at the heart of its organization, driven by the values of action, solidarity, and unconditionality. Since 2006, La Poste has donated more than €27 million to the French Red Cross to fund numerous international, national, and local initiatives in the fields of health, humanitarian, and social work.
The donation has contributed to the implementation of numerous French Red Cross projects in various fields, including:
- The expansion of first aid activities, either through the creation of first aid activities themselves (as in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region) or through the modernization of equipment (in Lens, for example), but also to enable the French Red Cross network to renew its equipment and renovate its facilities for lifesaving training.
- The deployment of mobile units throughout France with Red Cross on Wheels, which reach out to vulnerable populations who cannot afford to travel to the association's local units. - The development of support systems related to hygiene, which is so important for self-esteem. For example, the solidarity laundromat (providing vulnerable people with a space where they can wash their clothes) also allows those being cared for to find a welcoming, supportive, and helpful space.
- The creation of Alzheimer's Respite and Relaxation Centers in Normandy and Hérault. These non-medicalized reception centers offer activities adapted to people with Alzheimer's disease and allow caregivers to take time for themselves. A temporary respite centered on listening and sharing helps maintain a social connection that is unfortunately too often impaired by the disease and break the exclusive face-to-face interaction between caregiver and person being cared for. - Improving reception and operating conditions in many local units of the French Red Cross, for example, the food aid unit at the Epinal and Montauban branches, or the textile shops in Pontarlier, Quimper, Caux Vallée de Seine, etc.
- Providing adapted transportation for the elderly and residents of French Red Cross facilities to promote their independence and maintain social ties, for example in the Tours region and the Yvelines department.
