Humanitarian & Development
- Location:
Népal - Sponsor:
Laurent Besson - Grant:
5,000 to the Selection Committee on 28 March 2024 (Winner of the Student Solidarity Public Prize 2024)
Project Leader
In several Nepalese villages, the Solidarité France-Népal association is working to improve access to drinking water and sanitation. For its 2024 projects, it won the 2024 Public Prize for Student Solidarity. David Poinard, Managing Director of the Veolia Foundation, presented them with the trophy.
They are students at ESCP and, every summer, they leave for six weeks to Nepal to bring aid to the inhabitants of the villages where they are staying. Since it was set up in 1994, Solidarité France-Népal, the organisation that hosts these programmes, has led 30 humanitarian missions in which more than 500 students have taken part.
Locally, the association works with the NGO CRDS (Community Rural Development Society), which carries out studies and helps to identify needs so that effective action can be taken. Solidarité France-Népal is developing projects to supply drinking water, renovate public sanitation facilities, refurbish administrative and school buildings, and purchase and build furniture. In the field, the students also run English classes in schools.
In 2024, the association plans to intervene in Kalphaldanda, a village located 1? hours from Kathmandu, to repair the drinking water supply system, and in Chaughadapour to rehabilitate sanitary facilities. Four other villages could benefit from the renovation of their school buildings.