2024 World Health Day
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Since 2012, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and the Veolia Foundation have been cooperating in a wide range of contexts: humanitarian emergencies following natural disasters, the fight against epidemics, the management of health centers... It's this last subject that has mobilized several Veolia experts in response to a problem of contamination of water networks in Haiti.
Thierry Vandevelde, Executive Director of the Veolia Foundation for 16 years, is stepping down. He will be succeeded by David Poinard, until now Deputy Executive Director.
In a rural region of Senegal, a drinking water treatment plant has been installed by two desalination experts to provide the population with access to quality water.
Inauguration of 10 2.0 and 3.0 kiosks in the presence of the Cambodian Ministry of Rural Development and Ministry of Economy.
In Limay, to the west of Paris, a number of volunteers and permanent staff from the Veolia Foundation are taking it in turns to test a sanitation solution for the humanitarian sector: Saniforce.
October saw the launch of the Bougainville Mission: a citizen research project attached to the French Navy fleet. The adventure is embodied by students from Sorbonne University who are being taken on board by the French military to carry out a homogeneous, participative, continuous and global measurement of the ocean microbiome.
Four Veoliaforce experts, deployed by the French Red Cross via the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, took turns in Morocco to work on access to water following the earthquake on 8 September.
Veoliaforce
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Marie Gaveriaux - a Veoliaforce volunteer - was in Ukraine at the end of June to train Solidarités International teams in the deployment of mobile water purification units entrusted to her by the Veolia Foundation. Watch her testimony.
Training
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They are the lifeblood of Veoliaforce operations managed by the Veolia Foundation: some thirty Veolia employees have come to train in humanitarian operations alongside Foundation experts.