Uganda, the largest host country for refugees in Africa, lives at the pace of the conflicts that undermine its neighbors. In the Kikuube District, Kyangwali is home to nearly 130,000 refugees. The camp, which has been open for several decades, sees, among others, Sudanese and Congolese from neighboring DRC coexisting. Among the humanitarian actors engaged on the ground, the Ugandan Red Cross is one of the partners in the project carried out with the support of the World Food Programme (WFP, a UN agency) to test Saniforce in real situations.
From January to March 2025, three Veoliaforce experts were mobilized to deploy a pilot of the Saniforce 500, a sanitation solution capable of treating 500 liters of fecal sludge per day.
Romain Verchère, a full-time staff member of the Foundation in charge of the innovation program, and Paul Sagot, engineer for studies and technical projects at Veolia Water, joined Gabriel David, a student from the Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) who is writing his thesis on the Saniforce. Bruno Mathias, a research officer at Veolia Water, followed up with two weeks on site.
Paul Sagot: "We're going to hear about Saniforce!"
Technical Studies and Projects Engineer, Paul Sagot, has hastily left for Uganda for a mission of a few weeks. The goal: to deploy Saniforce, the fecal sludge treatment solution designed by the Veolia Foundation for humanitarian aid, in a refugee camp.