Médecins Sans Frontières remains close to populations in the most difficult conditions. In Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it operates hospitals and works in camps for displaced persons. At its side, the Veolia Foundation is stepping up its efforts to improve access to drinking water.
Two Veoliaforce experts were mobilized for a mission to the heart of refugee and displaced persons camps in Eastern Chad. Faced with a major humanitarian emergency, they supported the UNHCR, the UN agency in charge of protecting displaced populations and refugees, to improve drinking water supplies.
A look back at recent collaborations with the Norwegian Refugee Council, the French Red Cross and the Bioforce Institute, while new Veoliaforce volunteers have just been trained in this area.
Meet A Travers les Murs (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Projet Solidaire d'Échange et de Partage au Sénégal (PSEPS, Icam) and Solidarité France-Népal (ESCP).
Severe storms hit southern Brazil, prompting a response from Veolia teams based in Brazil in coordination with the Veolia Foundation. Water treatment equipment and humanitarian emergency experts were mobilized to help the stricken population.
Find out more about the skills sponsorship projects carried out around the world, the projects supported in France and abroad, the authors honoured in 2023, the student initiatives rewarded...
Federico Soda, IOM Director of Operations, and David Poinard, Managing Director of the Veolia Foundation, signed the agreement on April 26, 2024.
A collaboration between UNICEF and the Veolia Foundation
10th World Water Forum
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In Bali, Indonesia, the 10th edition of the World Water Forum opens with several hundred participants to make water an absolute priority. With its institutional partners and NGOs present on site, the Veolia Foundation is promoting a partnership approach to better respond to humanitarian needs that are more pressing than ever.
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.
Governance
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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.
Veoliaforce
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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.
Supported projects
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Inauguration of 10 2.0 and 3.0 kiosks in the presence of the Cambodian Ministry of Rural Development and Ministry of Economy.
World Day
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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.
Supported projets
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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.
Veoliaforce
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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.
Veoliaforce
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After the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, a new solidarity operation is under way in Ukraine with the support of the Veolia foundation.
event
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A laboratory boat on the Saône and Rhône, a second-hand sportswear shop, a better protected Mé river... Discover the winning projects of the Student Solidarity Awards.
World Day
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At the Veolia Foundation, we support research to find solutions, raise awareness and advocate to halt the degradation of the oceans.
Publication
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Find out about the projects supported and the expert missions carried out around the world by the Veolia Foundation in 2022.
UN Conference
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United Nations Water Conference 2023: thousands of decision-makers, government representatives and private sector figures gathered to discuss the issue of drinking water. The Foundation was there to talk about water and health.
World Day
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The 2023 edition of World Water Day coincides with the start of the United Nations Water Conference, which takes place from 22 to 24 March in New York. The Veolia Foundation will focus on the importance of water in the fight against cholera and the vital nature of access to water in humanitarian situations.
Veoliaforce mission
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The Veolia Foundation has mobilized to help the populations affected by the earthquake that devastated southeast Turkey and northern Syria on February 6.
Event
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For two days, some fifty experts in access to water and sanitation in the humanitarian sector exchanged views at the invitation of the Veolia Foundation and the French Water Partnership.
Innovation
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The deployment of the Aquaforce RO, the latest addition to the Veolia Foundation's range of water purification plants, was tested and validated in mid-January during a trial run in the Pyrénées Orientales.