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ACTIVITY REPORT Development AID Environment and humanitarian Book Prize 28 06 emergencies

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PAGE PAGE The world is in the grip of a serious and unprecedented health crisis. Given our mission, our Group is doing everything it can to ensure the continuation of the essential services we provide for individuals Environmental and health systems. Veolia is introducing changes to limit the virus’ Projects and Veolia CONSERVATION propagation and maintain drinking water, wastewater and waste sponsors and energy services while also protecting its employees, especially and biodiversity 22 32 those working in the field. PAGE PAGE We have a higher level of responsibility than some other companies because the services we provide are essential for everyday life. This epidemic has struck Asia, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa, indeed everywhere we are present, and our employees are committed to shouldering their responsibility. Our clients are counting on us, hospitals are counting on us, end users and public authorities are counting on us.

Since 1853, we have shown that we are able to counter adversity. Almost 170 years since its foundation, our company has relied on its unique expertise and unfailing commitment to deal with extreme crises, provide solutions and take action where an emergency needs OUR ACTIONS TO SERVE THE SUSTAINABLE us most. DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDG) In this report, you will see that our purpose is defined by our

Responsible usefulness. More than just words, day after day, we must prove just Use of renewable Fighting poverty consumption energies how useful we are, whatever the situation. Our people work to this and production end each and every day, strengthened by what this global health Building resilient infrastructure, promoting sustainable industry Fighting hunger Combating crisis is revealing: new forms of solidarity, pragmatism and that benefits all and encouraging climate change innovation innovation, and effective solutions that are in place to assist each of us and protect the health of all. Access to healthcare Reducing inequalities Life below water

Clean water Sustainable cities Partnerships to and sanitation and communities achieve the goals ANTOINE FRÉROT

CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF VEOLIA Veolia2019 Foundation 1 “Contributing to human progress by adhering strictly to the Sustainable Development Goals defined by the United Nations to build a better and more sustainable future for all – this is the purpose that guided Veolia’s action in 2019.” ANTOINE FRÉROT, CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

This purpose guides both our Group’s business activities in water, waste management and … THE VEOLIA energy to serve cities and industry, but also its non-commercial activities, notably those carried out by the Veolia Foundation. Indeed, … the Foundation illustrates the very purpose FOUNDATION of our company in extreme situations where natural disasters have destroyed everything in their path, where the negligence of human nonprofit and financial partners. Their fidelity The Foundation supports community-oriented, beings has caused severe pollution of land, corresponds to that of the Foundation and its nonprofit projects contributing to sustainable development, air and water or where hopes of finding vocation. It also reflects its effectiveness in and abroad. Its priority areas of action are employment have dwindled to almost – there is no right to error when lives are at nothing. stake due to lack of safe drinking water or humanitarian emergencies and development aid, employment electricity and when every hour counts. and social links, and environmental conservation and In each of its fields of activity – humanitarian Because we cannot trick nature – sooner or biodiversity. It takes an original approach by having each emergencies, environmental conservation and later, it turns against those who pollute it or project supported by a Group employee acting as sponsor and integration through work – the Veolia plunder its resources. Foundation makes its own contribution to by encouraging skills sponsorship, which gives its partners achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. What is perhaps less known is that – nonprofits and institutions – access to the know-how of its A tiny contribution on the scale of the world’s the Foundation is also a testbed for Veoliaforce network of employee volunteers. needs, but an important one for the people experimentation and innovation. Every year, Since its creation, in 2004, the Foundation has supported who benefit from it, as in Mozambique, it invents new equipment better adapted where it restored drinking water supply after to the needs of humanitarian emergencies; more than 1,500 projects and carried out more than cyclone Idai; in the Great Lakes region in Africa, new approaches for polluting less and 200 skills volunteering missions. where it fights cholera epidemics; and in recycling more, for teaching human beings France, where it helps the unemployed move to use our planet’s resources responsibly back into the world of work. and without damaging it, new forms of solidarity to bring together even more skills Against the tragic calculations of natural and expand its field of action. Since its disasters and human suffering, against creation, the Foundation has been acting ecological disasters that illustrate both to combat poverty and precariousness. It does mankind’s power and its impotence, the the same thing through innovation, an ideal Foundation quietly continues its work through way of demonstrating our solidarity with numerous concrete projects that give new those without access to essential services, hope to our anxious societies and open up with nature, which is both beautiful and a future that looked to be closed. To do this it fragile, and with future generations. True, relies on a network of experienced volunteers the future requires renewable energies available, if necessary, to travel at very short and recycled waste, digital technology and notice to the other end of the world to save the circular economy – but what it needs

human lives, and on a chain of faithful even more is solidarity. Veolia2019 Foundation 3 What do you see as the main highlights structures in which they are accommodated? for treating river water to produce safe of the Foundation in 2019? How can we improve facilities for refugees drinking water and a small water distribution and displaced people whose number is network in the village of Saal, in Senegal. The Thierry Vandevelde: Our priority constantly increasing? How can we improve system has recently begun operating without emergency intervention in Mozambique in health conditions and reduce the negative any Veolia volunteer in the field – the challenge the aftermath of tropical cyclone Idai. Several impacts that these huge gatherings of people is for the population to take ownership of the thousands of people had lost their homes can have on their immediate environment? system, manage it and meet its operating and we had to react rapidly to have a chance These are all questions for which we are and maintenance costs. of curbing potential epidemics of waterborne seeking solutions, with our partners. They also diseases. The Foundation was contacted by inspire our quest for research and innovation Closer to home, the Foundation is the Foreign Affairs Ministry and its partners in the field of humanitarian intervention. supporting Médecins du Monde in its health THIERRY VANDEVELDE, Médecins sans frontières (MSF), the French monitoring work in unofficial migrant Red Cross and Solidarités International to work The main United Nations agencies are camps in the region. How did this EXECUTIVE OFFICER together in the field and deploy the mobile looking at the question of “greening” example of collaboration start? OF THE VEOLIA FOUNDATION water treatment units – Aquaforce 2000 and humanitarian action. What is your reaction Aquaforce 15000 – designed by our experts. on this point? T. V.: In Aubervilliers, where Veolia’s head office is located, the Foundation was keen to How has the persistence of the emergency T. V.: This concern was formally expressed respond to the concerns of many employees led to changes in your missions? during the first World Forum on Refugees about the living conditions of migrants living “THE FOUNDATION IS organized in Geneva in December 2019 by in wasteland around the Paris ring road. We AN IMPORTANT PART OF T. V.: Crises tend to persist over time and UNHCR, the UN refugee agency. The started by supporting Médecins du Monde emergencies can become permanent. Foundation can propose solutions to minimize in its emergency medical assistance missions THE GROUP’S PURPOSE, However designing facilities for the longer the environmental footprint of refugee camps. with refugees. Then, in December last year, term is not always taken into account – as can With the NGO Solidarités International, the NGO came to talk to Group employees. WHICH IN TURN VALIDATES be seen, unfortunately, in refugee camps in particular, on the Sittwe site in Myanmar, The employees then spontaneously came OUR APPROACH: CO-BUILDING across the world. How can we adapt the Veoliaforce experts intervened to improve together around the idea of collecting operation and double the capacity of the toiletries and sanitary products – a citizen INNOVATIVE MODELS, wastewater treatment plant serving the initiative that mirrors the DNA of our Group! refugee camps. Our partnership with THE ONLY WAY TO ADDRESS Médecins sans frontières on innovation in And in 2019, the Veolia Group defined THE BIG PROBLEMS humanitarian work is more topical than ever. its corporate purpose. In what way is this MSF is already well advanced on this point approach consistent with the Foundation’s FACING OUR SOCIETY.” and is a pioneer in taking into account the missions? environmental impact of its activities. For our part, we provide assistance in management of T.: V. The Foundation is an important part the waste generated and utilities (wastewater, of the Group’s stated purpose. It validates our low-carbon energy production systems, etc.) approach: co-building innovative models, the in the camps. In Haiti, for instance, the only way to address the big problems facing Foundation trialed a system using biodisks our society. The Foundation creates links with for treating wastewater in an MSF hospital. its stakeholders, notably with its powerful network of partners – more than one So, adaptation to climate change has hundred, including foundations, UN agencies, become a central issue of your missions? and scientific and R&D organizations. In this way the Foundation contributes to a better T. V.: Yes, and a good example is our pilot understanding of their expectations, an project for supplying water to people living approach popular with Group employees, along the Gambia River, who must adapt to many of whom sign up as Veoliaforce climate disruption and scarcity of groundwater volunteers. At our own small scale, faced resources and find new solutions for their with crises that exceed our limited communities to thrive. Based on an capacities, we move ahead with partnerships, agreement with the OMVG, the agency we break down silos and we trust in the responsible for optimum management capacity of the people on the ground to

of the Gambia River, we installed a station implement responses. Veolia2019 Foundation 4 5 SENEGAL

Adapting to climate change by treating water from the Gambia River to provide safe drinking water Access to water is becoming more difficult DEVELOPMENT in Saal, in east Senegal. Climate change is further depleting the groundwater resources traditionally used by villagers. For several weeks every year, the wells run dry, leaving them with limited access to quality water and forcing them to use low-quality water that exposes them to diarrhea and related illnesses, the second cause of mortality in children under five. During periods of hydric AID stress, the families collect water from the Gambia River, and this was the point The project also involves community of departure for the project supported by the structuring of water access through Veolia Foundation. The idea is to take water a municipal management committee AND HUMANITARIAN from the river and treat it to supply the village. and training of technicians.

Two missions carried out in 2018 by This operation for producing safe drinking EMERGENCIES Foundation engineers and Veoliaforce water from the Gambia River is a first in volunteers focused on the project’s feasibility. this region. The pilot program could serve These preliminary works enabled signature as a model for other initiatives as part of of an agreement with its partner the OMVG, the extension project now being developed the agency responsible for optimum with the OMVG. To live well, people need safe drinking management of the Gambia River, which water, food and energy. They also need could eventually be replicated over its entire Location: village of Saal (Senegal) scope of action. The Foundation also works Sponsor: Pierre-Élie Fratczak adequate hygiene and access to healthcare Grant: €150,000 with the nonprofit Leeket Bi, set up in Senegal to protect their health. The projects in 2010 to combat rural exodus in Africa by supported by the Foundation, its sponsors fostering village development. and Veoliaforce volunteers are designed to satisfy these basic needs, particularly Practically, it involves organizing a raft-based for vulnerable people. water intake in the Gambia River using a thermal pump connected to a buried pipeline to feed the treatment plant. The infrastructure is comprised of a water treatment unit (lamella plate clarification, sand filtration and chlorination), a 10-meter high water tower with a capacity of 20 cubic meters, a small analysis lab and buried pipes

to serve the four village standpipes. Veolia2019 Foundation 7 Development aid and humanitarian emergencies

Médecins component: the Foundation’s Veoliaforce Akamasoa MADAGASCAR volunteers are assisting MSF with the cultural sans frontières changes that accompany innovation and carry Bringing water to the top of Akamasoa Developing logistics innovations out missions in the field to familiarize the with Father Pedro to serve humanitarian action teams with the equipment made available. Akamasoa, on the island of Madagascar, has For almost a decade, Médecins sans frontières For MSF, over and above the efficacy of become a key player in aid to the most (MSF) and the Veolia Foundation have been solutions and processes, the goal is also to vulnerable communities. The nonprofit, working in partnership to promote innovative limit the ecological footprint of its whose name means “good and faithful equipment and operating methods in the interventions – an ambition that enables friends” in the Malgache language, sprang This access to water will also enable Akamasoa Location: World Location: Madagascar humanitarian sector. The different Aquaforce Veoliaforce network experts to place their Sponsor: Damien Machuel from the efforts of Father Pedro Opeka, an to launch another project: building an inclusive Sponsor: Nicolas Renard mobile water treatment units designed by skills at the service of humanitarian action. Grant: €170,000 Argentinian Lazarist missionary, to help hotel, the Hostel of Father Pedro. The vocation Grant: €30,000 Veolia Foundation experts have been tested 70 families living in the Andralanitra rubbish of the establishment is to help residents by MSF in Uganda, South Sudan and Kenya. WORLD dump serving the capital to escape poverty. find jobs thanks to hotel training in the This research and innovation program also Under his aegis, it helps families build homes structure before going on to work in other covers the issue of sanitation. The Foundation and provides access to education, healthcare establishments in the country. All the profits supports MSF in assessing technical solutions and jobs. The project supported by the Veolia generated by the structure, which will have for wastewater treatment, in particular Foundation consists of providing access to safe 25 rooms, a restaurant and a shop, will go to via study and forthcoming implementation drinking water in the upper part of the village, the nonprofit Akamasoa, the goal being to turn of a solution for treating wastewater which has adopted the name of “Akamasoa”. the hotel into a profitable venture. in a pilot hospital in Port-au-Prince, in Haiti. For its almost 18,000 residents, some of whom The partnership also has a training have to walk long distances today to fetch water, it will bring daily benefits.

They can exacerbate already existing social and geographical inequalities and threaten system created when the temples were built. the most vulnerable groups. After having A first project supported by the Veolia PHILIPPINES supported a program to prevent sanitary and Foundation led to the installation of a remote environmental risks in Manila, in 2012, the CAMBODIA management and flood control system Foundation is once again supporting MDM in around the temples. But Acha, the nonprofit Médecins du Monde the holistic approach implemented to enable Association pour for hydraulic management of Angkor, is keen residents of Barangay 775 to adopt best to go further. In 2019, a program named Improving the environmental practices for themselves. To encourage la cité hydraulique “Sagera” (acronym for Angkor region assisted health of people living in Manila communities to take ownership of these water management system) led by Acha In Manila, capital of the Philippines, Médecins environmental health initiatives, MDM has d’Angkor (Acha) should take this work to a new stage. du Monde (MDM) is working on the chosen to implement a shared approach Preserve the Angkor temples through The goal today is to develop an assisted water environmental factors affecting the health of involving the communities and local Location: Angkor, Siem Reap (Cambodia) optimized hydraulic management management system relying on the latest low-income urban communities. The NGO authorities. The NGO will be at the center of Sponsor: Bernard Willinger The famous temples of Angkor in Cambodia artificial intelligence techniques. The project looks at the population’s exposure to external change by playing the role of facilitator, with Grant: €175,000 are built on successive layers of sandy soil. The involves installing a network of sensors and factors (biological, chemical, physical) likely to the creation of a platform of actors likely to development of mass tourism and population a hydraulic management system over 400 km2, have an impact, whether negative or positive, collaborate to act on the different factors, growth in the nearby town of Siem Reap have recharging the water table, improving access on their physical and mental health. Exposure depending on their specific expertise. led to greater pressure on the water table, to water and sanitation for neighboring to these different factors interacts with other a development that must be compensated populations and facilitating development health determinants (behavioral, social, Location: Manila (Philippines) Sponsor: Damien Machuel

for maintaining the effective irrigation of market gardening activities. psychological, cultural, economic and political). Grant: €100,000 Veolia2019 Foundation 8 9 Development aid and humanitarian emergencies

BURKINA FASO WORLD FRANCE A.B. Curnet Veoliaforce Association Notre-Dame training sessions des Barrails Helping women in difficulty through Organization of training Renovation of a second an eco-citizen environmental project and refresher sessions for reception center for social NICARAGUA In Ouagadougou, the nonprofit A.B. Curnet, Veoliaforce volunteers. integration of very dedicated to helping young girls and women vulnerable people. blueEnergy in precarious circumstances move back into Location: France Construction of two wells DRC and international mainstream society, focuses on collecting Location: Preignac (France) and workshops to raise Sponsor: Romain Verchere Sponsor: Vincent Duchateau Eliminating cholera in Uvira, household waste and transforming it into Grant: €24,000 Grant: €10,000 awareness of good water Location: Uvira in South-Kivu (Democratic Republic compost as a way of allowing its beneficiaries practices in the town In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), of the Congo) to find employment. The Veolia Foundation of Bluefields. also known as Congo-Kinshasa, resurgence Sponsor: Damien Machuel is helping the nonprofit to buy a hydro- Grant: €427,000 of cholera is a major public health problem, cleaning truck. Location: Bluefields (Nicaragua) particularly in cities. In view of this issue, DRC Sponsor: Luca Pinardi a number of development actors, including Location: Galgouli (Burkina Faso) Grant: €12,000 the Veolia Foundation, decided to implement Sponsor: Boris Efremenko ISP Grant: €15,000 a concerted strategy to eliminate this Video project covering waterborne disease that causes uncontrollable the program to eradicate vomiting and diarrhea. Major infrastructure cholera in the DRC. work has been carried out to double the VIETNAM production capacity of the water treatment BURKINA FASO Location: Uvira (Democratic Repuplic of the Congo) plant, build a reservoir and rehabilitate and Sponsor: Thierry Vandevelde Association Solidarité extend the distribution network. In parallel, Burkin’Ardenn’Avenir’ (B’A’A’) Grant: €40,000 Internationale Santé midway through execution of the et Éducation infrastructure works, community structuring Extending a water distribution Construction and operation is being organized in the field to improve the network for public places of a humanist and ecological community’s understanding of the new water In Galgouli, in the south of Burkina Faso, two primary schools, school for the children of access system. Lastly, the program is the one junior secondary and a dispensary will be equipped with water poor working-class families subject of a scientific assessment carried out access points. The first beneficiaries will be the schoolchildren in Vietnam. by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical and the patients of the dispensary-maternity clinic. The village Medicine (LSHTM), which has been monitoring water management committee will be responsible for setting up Location: Dĩ An (Vietnam) Sponsor: Aurélie Tran Ngoc the project since the beginning to measure the water payment system. It will be assisted by the people in Grant: €25,000 its effectiveness. charge of the different public establishments.

Location: Galgouli (Burkina Faso) Sponsor: Helman le Pas de Sécheval Grant: €15,000 FRANCE Un enfant par la main Renewing Veoliaforce emergency equipment Diversifying energy sources which produce biogas from organic waste inventory in a rural area such as human or animal excrement. Replenishing supplies of the In Mbour, in the rural region of Thiès The goal is to help some 30 families adopt Foundation’s intervention (Senegal), natural resources are already practices that will better protect their equipment and material: widely used as energy sources. Families use environment and their health. Aquaforce units, drinking wood, farm residues, dried manure and water and wastewater charcoal as fuel for cooking. However, this Location: Mbour (Senegal) analysis kits, etc. dependence on plant biomass has negative Sponsor: Alain Gibert Grant: €15,000 consequences for the local environment. SENEGAL Location: Pantin (France) Sponsor: José de Graeve The project supported by the Veolia Grant: €200,000 Foundation aims to diversify energy sources

around Mbour by installing biodigestors, Veolia2019 Foundation 11 10 Development aid and humanitarian emergencies

… SKILLS VOLUNTEERING MISSIONS…

Study of the impact of environmental Humanitarian emergency factors on the health of vulnerable after a cyclone in East Africa communities

On March 14, 2019, Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe Foundation responded to the call: water treatment units A substantial training effort was organized to ensure With Médecins du Monde, its NGO partner, the Veolia were struck by one of the most terrible cyclones in their were sent and a first Veoliaforce volunteer trained by the sustainable access to drinking water after the departure Foundation is looking at the population’s exposure to external history. With 1,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands French Red Cross Emergency Response Unit left on mission of the Veolia Foundation volunteers by setting up a local factors (biological, chemical, physical) likely to have effects, of people displaced, Idai had devastating consequences, on March 23. team equipped to continue the work. Mozambique residents whether negative or positive, on their physical and mental particularly in Mozambique and Beira, the country’s Humanitarian actors converged around Beira, which had were trained to operate the Aquaforce units before being health. In Manila (Philippines), where health and second-largest city. With the French Red Cross, become the center for coordinating humanitarian aid. handed the controls to produce drinking water under their environmental risk actions campaigns have already been Médecins sans frontières and Solidarités International, Médecins sans frontières and Solidarités International, own steam. conducted, two Veoliaforce experts carried out a mission the Veolia Foundation mobilized to send equipment two of the Veolia Foundation’s partners, were present from concerning waste management, an essential component and 10 or so Veoliaforce experts. these first days. They welcomed some 10 Veoliaforce experts Location: Mozambique of the program initiated by Médecins du Monde with tasked with deploying the Aquaforce mobile water treatment Date: March-April 2019 the Foundation. With winds of over 200 kilometers/hour, Idai developed into units designed by the Foundation. This equipment was a tropical cyclone of an intensity seen only a few times in the installed as close as possible to the population and in the Location: Philippines cyclone season every year. It hit Mozambique twice, leaving health centers opened shortly after the disaster. The goal Date: March 2019 the south of the country facing an unprecedented crisis. was to supply safe drinking water to patients and the In the first few days after the disaster, the international surrounding population. Over these two months of community mobilized to cover the elementary needs of the intervention, the Veoliaforce missions focused on assessing Read the personal accounts population: emergency accommodation, water, hygiene, and available water production equipment, repairing pre-existing of Veoliaforce experts on their sanitation to prevent the feared outbreak of cholera in a infrastructure, deploying Aquaforce units, optimizing return from Mozambique region already vulnerable to waterborne diseases and malaria. production and storage of the water produced and on the Foundation website. Contacted by the French Foreign Affairs Ministry, the Veolia installing distribution ramps. 2019 Veolia Fondation Veolia 2019 13 Development aid and humanitarian emergencies

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Innovation to secure sustainable access Combating cholera Ensuring the sustainability to water for a rural community by providing access to water of a sanitation service

The Veolia Foundation’s engineers do not only bring their to take the water to the new treatment unit installed in Saal. For more than ten years, the Veolia Foundation has been In Bangangté, Cameroon, a program to provide sustainable expertise to bear on humanitarian emergencies. A small The water can then be stored in the new water tower before conducting a major program to combat cholera in the access to water and sanitation has allowed the municipality village in east Senegal has benefitted from a development being made available through a network of standpipes. The Democratic Republic of the Congo by reinforcing its access to organize robust public access to water service and launch program giving its inhabitants access to safe drinking water. team worked closely on community structuring with local to water infrastructure. Since the start of the works launched a project to treat and recycle wastewater sludge. The Veolia The project in Saal, south of Tambacounda, a large city in east contacts to define the ideal sites for installing the standpipes in Uvira, in South-Kivu province, Veoliaforce experts have Foundation supported the municipality when it acquired Senegal, launched in 2018 with exploratory missions to and organizing access to the water. made frequent site visits to monitor the works and their a sewage truck and a Veoliaforce volunteer visited the site establish its feasibility, took on its full dimension in 2019. reception alongside Regideso, the local operator. in November 2019 to complete the training of local personnel Throughout the period, some 10 Veoliaforce experts relayed Location: Senegal One Veoliaforce volunteer, an expert in water networks in maintenance of the equipment and safety measures. each other in the village to complete this ambitious program Date: March-April 2019 and pipelines, intervened to assess the quality of the works for producing drinking water from the Gambia River. in progress. Location: Cameroon Their work led to the installation of a water intake on the This structuring program is also monitored by the London Date: November 2019 Gambia River and construction of a 4-kilometer pipeline School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, which has been studying the project to measure its effectiveness from the outset. The overriding ambition is clear: to curb the resurgence of cholera in this part of the African Great Lakes Region.

Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo Date: July 2019 2019 Veolia Fondation Veolia 2019 15 Acta Vista In 2019, again supported by the Veolia Foundation, Acta Vista teams focused on (Groupe SOS) the Fort Saint-Nicolas. The City of Marseille Building to rebuild your life entrusted work on this structure, classified Since 2002, the nonprofit Acta Vista has made as a Historic Monument in 2002, to the sustainable work integration its core activity. nonprofit to carry out training and work- Whether advising companies, providing integration workshops, in liaison with the assistance, assembling or managing projects Drac(1) and Bâtiments de France architects, or running back-to-work schemes, its results enabling restoration and upgrading of certain are conclusive. Its specialty is preservation parts of the building. The works were and rehabilitation of outstanding heritage gradually extended to the upper floors. sites in the south of France, the Loire valley and the Luberon. Acta Vista is keen to Today, Acta Vista recruits and trains more revitalize on-the job apprenticeship and runs than 350 people a year under subsidized back-to-work schemes and professional employment contracts, one third of them training in heritage-related trades. The people under the age of 26. Some 92% of employees it works with learn a trade by working on qualify for a diploma at the end of the prestigious buildings and monuments – the subsidized employment period and over 60% goal is to achieve sustainable, long-term obtain a job. These kinds of work-integration integration into the labor market. initiatives can also help build social links when the employees work on preserving local built SOCIAL In 2015, Acta Vista focused on interior and heritage to the benefit of all. exterior restoration of the La Cride military (1) Regional directorate of cultural affairs. fort in Sanary-sur-Mer (Var department). The missions assigned to the young Location: Marseille (France) beneficiaries were varied – they included Sponsor: Hervé Pernot excavation of interior soils, construction Grant: €50,000 of a stairway, clearing out interior spaces, weatherproof tiling of the terrace, underbody and surface coatings, reinforcement INCLUSION of a moat retaining wall, and construction FRANCE and erection of a wooden belvedere.

In 2017, its employees worked on the Caroline THROUGH WORK hospital, on the Ratonneau island, in the Le Frioul group of islands off Marseille. Almost 300 people on subsidized employment contracts carried out reinforcement work on AND SOCIAL LINKS 7 of the 12 hospital pavilions and finished restoration work on one of them, the Pavilion of Chevalier Roze.

Work provides dignity and independence and gives meaning to people’s lives. The Foundation supports initiatives and structures helping people who have dropped out of mainstream society return to work: nonprofits and enterprises running subsidized employment schemes and projects that offer training and mentoring or that help strengthen social links. Each of these projects is supported

by a Group employee acting as sponsor. Fondation Veolia 2019 17 Social inclusion through work and social links

Heko Farm activities and socialize. It is open to all Five days a week, they follow a well-defined throughout the day on Wednesdays and schedule: two and a half days are devoted An ecological urban farm Saturdays. Tuesdays are dedicated to to development and management of the in Marseille participatory activities where the people economic micro-activity they have chosen; The nonprofit Heko Farm, based in Marseille, present build structures, plant vegetables, one and half days to remedial schooling, and is working to establish a local, sustainable harvest the produce and prepare Le Talus’ one day of personal coaching allowing them and resilient food system in the city. It can future. The goal is to trial ecological INDIA to define their life objectives. During the point to several successful initiatives, transition in this open-air laboratory. twelve months of training, the beneficiaries notably the project called “Le Talus”, receive a weekly stipend to help them become installed on a former worksite waste dump Location: Marseille (France) Location: Calcutta Life Project 4 Youth autonomous. This funding – a genuine alongside the A507 urban motorway Sponsor: Hervé Pernot and New Delhi (India) investment to help young people integrate Grant: €10,000 Sponsor: Chandana Das (bypass L2). Grant: €20,000 (LP4Y) into society – is a strong point of LP4Y’s Two problems are associated with this Training centers in India for young educational program. The stipend is double unused urban land: no green spaces and people in very precarious circumstances the amount of the poverty threshold but less the difficulty of accessing quality local food. Life Project 4 Youth (LP4Y) has adopted than the local minimum age to ensure that To solve them, an ecological urban farm was FRANCE an original positioning. The nonprofit, employment remains an attractive option. set up in 2019. Le Talus combines market dedicated to professional and social From their first day at the center, they are lifted gardening containers for rental, organic integration of young adults aged 18 to 24, out of poverty and can support themselves for production and sale of fruit and vegetables, relies on entrepreneurship to help the a year while undergoing training. Coaching a hen house selling fresh eggs, a collective people it supports and has set up is provided to help them make the best use vermicomposter, a range of training courses entrepreneurial micro-project incubators of the Life Project Money stipend. Since and events, a beehive, a pond for near shantytowns. These Life Projects opening of the first center in 2009, LP4Y has educational activities and a canteen. Centers offer young people in very difficult helped 2,000 young people towards In this third place supported by the Veolia circumstances (single mothers, school drop- professional integration in the Philippines, Foundation, people can grow produce, outs, disabled people, former prisoners, etc.) Indonesia, Vietnam and India. Some 1,000 eat and enjoy a drink, observe the different a specially adapted coaching program called have set up a business activity, 300 are “Professional Training for Entrepreneurs”. looking for a job and 600 are still in training.

FRANCE Espaces which means that trees can be planted. Espaces coordinates the project and Urban agriculture on rooftops the human resources, while Topager BRAZIL The nonprofit Espaces, set up in 1994, contributes its agronomic expertise and is dedicated to social integration of people monitors the crops. The growing methods Associação Arca de centers installed in the heart of the favela. in difficult circumstances through urban are based on the principles of agro-ecology: One of them welcomes 120 children, aged ecology. It has developed high-level skills no chemical fertilizers, respect of Noé de Apoio Social 6 to 14, every day and offers educational, in ecological engineering – the Espaces biodiversity and biological interactions Escaping poverty cultural and sporting activities. The second team coordinates more than 25 shared between the different species. The crops in a Brazilian favela is devoted to adults and young people aged or inclusive gardens, all managed according are irrigated by a carefully controlled drip- In the Vila Prudente favela in São Paulo, 16 and over and teaches trades such as to the principle of zero chemicals. Two feed system which delivers substantial Brazil, 90% of adults have no secondary bread-making, the hotel industry and sales. of the gardens are installed on rooftops. water savings. school diploma(1) and the jobless rate is With the support of the Veolia Foundation, In 2016, it decided to move into urban The goal, supported by the Veolia much higher than the national average, new training programs will be set up in 2020 agriculture projects. CultiCime, designed Foundation, is an ambitious one: to create which means that poverty is a common and 2021, around digital techniques, English in partnership with Topager, a company a new economic model of profitable feature. The Franco-Brazilian nonprofit Arca language learning and the catering trade.

specializing in design of ornamental and urban agriculture that can be replicated de Noé de Apoio Social is working to help (1) According to an Ipsos study. urban vegetable gardens, is one of these and creates subsidized jobs. change this situation. It offers residents projects. The pilot initiative is located educational and social assistance to help Location: São Paulo (Brazil) in Aubervilliers on the roof of a shopping Location: Aubervilliers (France) them become independent and boost their Sponsor: Valentine Barnoin center whose owner agreed to sign an Sponsor: Luc Mosqueron self-confidence, making them better Grant: €20,000 Grant: €40,000 operating lease. The soil is one meter prepared to adapt to the working world.

deep – unusual for a rooftop garden – Arca de Noé de Apoio Social runs two Veolia2019 Foundation 19 18 Social inclusion through work and social links

The École des semeurs SOUTH AFRICA FRANCE

Organic farming to combat school Savoir-Fair Var federation FRANCE drop-out Launch of a third place for fishing and protection Since December 2019, the École des semeurs dedicated to the circular of the aquatic environment has been training young school drop-outs economy and responsible Adapting a fishing pontoon in organic vegetable growing techniques. agriculture in South Africa. for people with reduced The structure stands out for its practical mobility and a space approach to the jobs taught: the young Location: Durban for encouraging awareness (South Africa) people spend 70% of their time learning Sponsor: of biodiversity. in the field and dealing with real customer Maria Caniati Dinard orders, which helps them build confidence Grant: €25,000 Location: Brignoles (France) Sponsor: Olivier Cavallo in themselves and their capacities. In Bernay Grant: €10,000 and Pont-Audemer, in Normandy, the École des semeurs is keen to set up a market gardening school supported by the Veolia Foundation. It will welcome young school Transmission drop-outs from the age of 15 in the Château Opening of La Cassette in de Beaumesnil with the aim of providing Aubervilliers – a third place training qualifying them for market gardening dedicated to training and jobs. The young people will prepare the soil creation of radio programs and sow the crops, then process and sell the and podcasts. ASEI – Agir, Soigner, products in the Château shop and outdoor markets and to local authorities. Location: Aubervilliers Éduquer, Inclure (France) Sponsor: Thierry For region inclusive Location: Bernay and Vandevelde and outreach enterprises Pont-Audemer (France) Grant: €20,000 Sponsor: Louis de Reboul ASEI (Agir, Soigner, Éduquer, Inclure), set up Grant: €15,000 shortly after World War II, is dedicated to helping disabled people. It runs specialized reception centers and fosters inclusion of disabled people in schools or business NIGER depending on their age. ASEI has focused more particularly on employment support, a strategy Empow’Her steered by the regional health agencies that A third place to build encourages integration of disabled people awareness of ecology in the business world. The Veolia Foundation Yokoumi and help women through is supporting the nonprofit to make it a key a dedicated center in contact in Occitanie, capable of understanding Promoting the emancipation Niamey, in Niger. the way companies work and their particular of Togolese women constraints, with the aim of overcoming them Yokoumi supports a women’s shea Location: Niamey (Niger) Sponsor: Fanny Demulier so as to integrate more people with disabilities. butter cooperative in Kélizio as a way Grant: €30,000 of fostering the emancipation of Togolese Location: Toulouse (France) women. The nonprofit markets its cosmetic Sponsor: Pierre Dissaux products and devotes part of its revenues Grant: €10,000 to supporting a micro-credit program. FRANCE FRANCE These different initiatives aim to help Togolese women achieve financial Novaedia independence. Creation and development of an inclusive urban farm Location: town of Tsévié in Seine-Saint-Denis. and village of Kélizio (Togo) Sponsor: Boris Efremenko TOGO Location: Stains (France) Grant: €5,000 Sponsor: Xavier Metteil Grant: €20,000 Veolia2019 Foundation 21 20 Tara Ocean ENVIRONMENTAL Foundation Microplastic pollution: studying the origins of pollution by looking at nine European rivers EUROPE For six months, the schooner Tara has sailed around Europe and studied nine rivers. Its objective is to characterize microplastic The expedition allowed it to identify the pollution flows to assess the impact sources of pollution, understand how they of plastic carried from land into the sea. break up into small particles in rivers and CONSERVATION predict their dispersal in the ocean. Microplastics account for 94% of the plastic Another subject of study was to understand found in the seas. The crew of the famous their impact on marine biodiversity schooner Tara discovered this after taking and on the food chain. AND BIODIVERSITY samples of the plastics caught in their nets during its different expeditions since 2010. In addition, the 18 stopovers provided In 2014, it focused more particularly at an opportunity to discover the high-level plastic waste in the Mediterranean during scientific research carried out with the Living in harmony with nature, conserving an expedition also supported by the Veolia European Molecular Biology Laboratory Foundation. These findings prompted it to (EMBL). A consortium coordinated by the EMBL resources and biodiversity, mitigating return to sea, from May to November 2019, brings together more than 100 scientists climate disruption – all these can help to trace this very specific type of pollution. and 18 partner institutions across the world keep our planet habitable. The Foundation to study plastics pollution. encourages initiatives to build public Formed from the breakdown of larger awareness and teach eco-responsible plastic waste, microplastics have numerous The scientific director of the 2019 interactions with marine organisms: Microplastics Mission was the eco- behavior. It contributes to their financing dispersal of the potentially invasive or toxicologist Jean-François Ghiglione. and helps raise their profile, with the pathogenic species attached to plastic attentive and enthusiastic support waste, accumulation of toxic products Location: Mediterranean in the food chain, etc. Sponsors: Célia Devinoy, of a sponsor. Mathilde Nithart Grant: €200,000 In order to measure this impact, Tara visited 9 of Europe’s 15 largest rivers for six months. Samples were taken in the estuaries of the Thames (England), the Elbe and the Rhine (Germany), the Seine, the Loire, the Garonne and the Rhône (France), the Ebro (Spain)

and the Tiber (Italy). Veolia2019 Foundation 23 Environnemental conservation and biodiversity

University notably in the harbor and on the origins of these μP particles on land, an essential of step for identifying possible actions Pollution in the Mediterranean: by local actors. The project supported what is the impact of micro and by the Veolia Foundation should lead nanoplastics? to the creation of an innovative method for The university of Toulon, founded in 1968, detecting and identifying nanoplastics works on the issue of microplastics (μP), by the university of Toulon. This first phase the plastics particles under 5 millimeters will allow the evaluation of their toxicity FRANCE large that infest the Mediterranean. for certain marine plankton organisms This state of affairs was observed by and, by extension, to estimate their Ifremer following evaluation campaigns potential impact on the consumer products carried out in 2012 and 2015. However, sold by the fishing industry – an essential Location: Toulon (Var, France) Sponsor: Emmanuel Plessis little data is available for the Toulon contribution to greater knowledge L’Œil d’Andromède Grant: €10,000 ecosystem on the presence of microplastics, of plastics pollution in the sea.

Discovering biodiversity FRANCE in the twilight zone Surveillance of coastal waters stops at 80 meters below the surface. The diver Laurent Ballesta and his team are keen to enrich Observatoire leisure sailors, environmental protection knowledge of deeper marine environment nonprofit volunteers, schools and the to characterize the biodiversity of this twilight du plancton general public. zone and measure the effects of pollution. Pollution on the Atlantic coast: In 2019, it took on a new mission, microplastics and participative science coordinated by the Bretagne-Sud L’Œil d’Andromède (Andromeda’s Eye), a The Observatoire du plancton, set up in 2003 university, aimed at acquiring new data marine and coastal ecology nonprofit, seeks grounds for fish and amphibians. It shelters and based in Port-Louis, in the Morbihan, has about local microplastics pollution and to build greater awareness of the need to coralline reefs, formed by accumulation a dual purpose, scientific and educational. its distribution in terms of geography preserve the environment. Its flag-bearer of calcareous algae skeletons, forming an The nonprofit regularly conducts scientific and time, an observatory that relies on Laurent Ballesta is renowned for his ecosystem of 1,700 species. studies on the theme of plankton before participative science. The nonprofit will explorations in deep-sea environments and disseminating the findings to as many involve other actors concerned by the issue leads expeditions, known as “Gombessa”, to This innovative approach is working on people as possible: marine professionals, to extract and characterize microplastics. improve knowledge of them. The goal is to transdisciplinary scientific protocols and The first step consists of establishing promote their esthetic potential, often little- developing a new diving technique combining FRANCE uniform collection methods to guarantee known, and carry out ecological audits. autonomy and saturation mechanisms. homogeneous data that can be exploited by the scientific world. To this end, and with The expedition supported by the Veolia A first campaign of bathymetric acquisition the support of the Veolia Foundation, Foundation took place over three weeks in the (measurement of deep marine environments) the Observatory has acquired a Zooscan, summer of 2019 in the French Mediterranean made it possible to precisely locate the sites an imaging system that can measure and between Marseille and Monaco. It of interest. It was followed by a surveillance classify the organisms present in a liquid complemented the surveillance of coastal campaign during which the scientific protocols environment. waters which, at the present time, stops at a were established in partnership with researchers depth of 80 meters in very deep waters. recognized in their particular field of study. Location: France Laurent Ballesta and his team dived to a depth Sponsor: Yoann Burban Grant: €10,000 of around 100 meters to assess the state of The data gathered will be used to establish water in this so-called “twilight” zone and that reference points for mapping ecosystems, of its biodiversity. Another objective of the conduct a biodiversity inventory and expedition was to set up a surveillance system. characterize pollution – a valuable store of knowledge to guide best practices This twilight zone is particularly difficult in the future. WORLD to access and is not well-known. However, it could be essential to the Mediterranean Tara Ocean Foundation Location: World Location: Mauguio (Herault, France) Sponsor: Camille Besse environment as a refuge from human Sponsor: Emmanuel Plessis Design of a unit to process onboard water Grant: €150,000

pressure and warming and as spawning Grant: €50,000 for a polar station currently in project phase. Veolia2019 Foundation 25 24 Environnemental conservation and biodiversity

Up2green SENEGAL Reforestation Restoring mangroves in Casamance Up2green, established in 2009, is a French NGO dedicated to reforestation and community agro-forestry across the world. It has created and developed programs in Asia (India, Thailand), Africa (Senegal, Benin), South America (Peru, Ecuador, Colombia) and central America (Mexico). It has multiple objectives in all the places where it acts: conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems, management and protection of water resources, rehabilitation of soils, essential to protect this ecosystem Location: Casamance atmospheric carbon capture and, and maintain its resources. region (Senegal) FRANCE Sponsor: David Colon of course, subsistence and wellbeing The forests of Casamance are also Grant: €20,000 for local populations. threatened by the market for charcoal, IUCN French Committee In various countries, the nonprofit and farming practices must take better Creation of a “green list” accompanies and develops programs management of this resource into account. of protected environments. to highlight the importance of trees The project supported by the Veolia Foundation in agricultural systems and landscapes. on the occasion of World Environment Day Location: metropolitan FRANCE and overseas France In Senegal, and more particularly in aims to focus on fruit and forest species to Sponsor: Coline Jacobs Casamance, mangroves provide sustenance enhance living conditions for the inhabitants Association Grant: €20,000 for many populations, which means it is and maintain natural resources. des Amis REcycleurs Supporting the programs of a place for people to talk about eco-responsibility. VERI SENEGAL Providing expertise Location: Paris (France) to monitor multi-trophic Sponsor: Fanny Demulier In 2019, the UMI 3189 ESS, supported by the Grant: €20,000 aquaculture projects. Unité mixte Veolia Foundation, focused on close study of freshwater snails, the intermediary host of Location: Aubervilliers internationale 3189 (France) a parasite that causes bilharzia. This parasitic Sponsor: Thierry Vandevelde Environnement Santé disease is rampant in 78 tropical countries, Grant: €32,500 with some 243 million carriers. They can Sociétés suffer serious complications: chronic renal Stemming bilharzia in Senegal insufficiency, sterility, portal hypertension, March 1, 2009 saw the birth of the Unité cancer of the bladder and the liver. Association Pour vos Yeux mixte internationale 3189 Environnement Until now, very little data had been collected Building awareness of good Santé Sociétés, known as “UMI 3189 ESS”, on the issue in this region, and the project water management through at the initiative of the French CNRS scientific aims to identify and genetically characterize an artistic approach. research center. It was the first mixed the different species of water snail, describe international laboratory ever created in sub- their distribution and measure the prevalence Location: Indre-et-Loire (France) Saharan Africa. The research organization of infestation by parasites of each species Sponsor: José de Graeve has two objectives: to show the way towards identified. Grant: €5,000 pooling shared research tools between researchers in the countries of the North and Location: Ferlo region the South, and to carry out interdisciplinary (Senegal) Sponsor: Thierry studies involving human, social, biological and Vandevelde medical studies, together with environmental Grant: €5,250 studies. It brings together France, Senegal,

Burkina Faso and Mali. Veolia2019 Foundation 27 26 Environnemental conservation and biodiversity

The first culprit is not human greed but the very composition of our brains. Inside the brain a small organ called the “striatum” prompts us to pursue five objectives to ensure the survival of our species: eat, reproduce, acquire power, expand our territory, obtain power over others.

Yesterday, our brain was our ally against nature – but today it is becoming our enemy. Sébastien Bohler proposes three solutions: increase our sensory enjoyment while at the same time reducing our consumption, award altruism a higher social status, and develop our taste for knowledge, since satisfying our curiosity releases dopamine in the striatum.

Amandine Thomas, illustrator and graphic designer, offers us an educational and optimistic book. The oceans are endangered, but there … 2019 is some good news: we can act to save them! This playful book for children of 7 and over presents conversations by children accompanied ENVIRONMENT by illustrations and 10 aquatic ecosystems across the world, with their specific features, BOOK PRIZE… their vulnerability and concrete ways of acting to protect them. Reading to awaken people’s conscience The Veolia Foundation 2019 Environment Book Prize, the leading French literary prize focusing on the big environmental challenges, was awarded this year to Le Bug humain, by Sébastien Bohler. The young readers’ prize was awarded to Océans… Every year since 2006, et comment les sauver, by Amandine Thomas. A STRONG PRESENCE the Veolia Foundation awards AT THE BOOK FAIR the Environment Book Prize For Sébastien Bohler, who has a PhD in to a work that aims to build neuroscience and is editor-in-chief of the magazine Partner of the 2019 Paris Book Fair, the Veolia Foundation public awareness of major Cerveau & Psycho, this is not just a critical moment: was present, together with the prizewinners of the 2018 Environment Book Prize we are experiencing a genuine tragedy: over- environmental challenges. A conference was organized in the presence of Pablo Servigne The jury, chaired by population, obesity, over-production, over- and Gauthier Chapelle, authors of L’Entraide, l’autre loi Dominique Bourg, philosopher consumption, over-heating and over-indebtedness, de la jungle, Henri Trubert, their publisher and founder and professor, announced which is leading humanity to the brink. Yet no of Les Liens qui libèrent, and Thierry Vandevelde, Executive tangible collective response is forthcoming. Director of the Veolia Foundation and member of the Prize the 2019 prizewinners jury. Philosophy and reading workshops were organized at the Livre sur la place festival Worse, awareness of what awaits us seems to in the Foundation space for high-school and primary school

in Nancy, in September 2019. have no impact on the course of events. students, allowing them to talk with the 2018 prize-winners. Veolia2019 Foundation 29 28 ND PRIZE 2 RD ST PRIZE Centrale Nantes 3 PRIZE

1 “Rev’Action” (Récup’Eau Vietnam) CentraleSupélec The Rev’Action project will “Envol Vert” (Perunidad) university allow villagers in Liên Son 2, The Envol Vert project South Vietnam, to set up in the rural provinces “Les Recyclettes” (Récup’) a full plastics recycling circle: of Chanchamayo and Satipo Récup’ recycles organic waste from waste treating in Peru aims to restore the (40% of household waste) (crushing) to production natural balance of depleted in the urban environment of molded objects or fine soils, diversify activity by distributing Bokashi cables. The project aims and significantly boost the composters (concentrated to fabricate a crusher, income of coffee growers organic matter containing an extruding machine, through sustainable forest a large quantity of nutrients) an injection press and exploitation. This project to transform waste into a compressor. raises its beneficiaries’ … compost in apartments. awareness of eco-responsible 2019 The compost is collected by behavior. the association using three- wheeler bikes and delivered STUDENT to market gardeners for growing fruit and vegetables which are then sold to the SOLIDARITY members – a perfect circle Grant: €3,000 between consumers Location: Liên Son 2 (Vietnam) and producers! Sponsor: Aurélie Tran Ngoc Grant: €4,000 Location: Chanchamayo AWARDS… and Satipo (Peru) Sponsor: Jean-Marc Encouraging student initiatives Raymond that serve the community The Veolia Foundation is regularly asked to PUBLIC PRIZE support student projects. To channel these AgroParisTech requests and encourage the initiatives of student Grant: €3,000 Sea Plastics associations, it launched the Student Solidarity Location: Bordeaux With the Sea Plastics association, AgroParisTech students are (France) In this year’s ceremony, Awards in 2008 in liaison with Veolia’s Human Sponsor: Sophie Delage keen to make a contribution to scientific research in the Veolia’s Chairman and Resources Department. Mediterranean. Since 2016, the members of the association Chief Executive Officer, It rewards innovative outreach initiatives in one use their gap year to organize a three-to-six month sailing expedition to carry out sampling campaigns or other scientific Antoine Frérot, handed of the Foundation’s three fields of action led missions. In 2019, the goal is to develop new sampling the awards to the by student associations, in France and other parts protocols aimed at improving knowledge about microplastics 4 prizewinners, selected of the world. A jury nominates three prizewinners and its damaging effects in the marine environment. The grant from among 128 candidates and a public prize is awarded after an online vote. will be invested in the boat, in particular its navigation system and nautical consumables. from all over the world, at The winners receive financial support and the Group’s head office in technical back-up in the form of skills provided Grant: €5,000 Location: Mediterranean Aubervilliers on June 16. by a Group employee acting as sponsor. Sponsor: Valentin Deltreil Veolia2019 Foundation 31 30 PROJECTS AND VEOLIA SPONSORS

Development aid Social inclusion Environmental 2019 Student and humanitarian through work conservation Solidarity Awards emergencies and social links and biodiversity

Page 7 Page 17 Page 23 Page 31 Adapting to climate change Acta Vista Tara Ocean Foundation “Les Recyclettes” by treating water from the (Groupe SOS) MEDITERRANEAN (Célia Devinoy, Bordeaux university Gambia River to provide safe FRANCE (Hervé Pernot) Mathilde Nithart) FRANCE (Sophie Delage) drinking water “Rev’Action” SENEGAL (Pierre-Élie Fratczak) Page 18 Page 24 Centrale Nantes Heko Farm L’ Œil d’Andromède VIETNAM (Aurélie Tran Ngoc) Page 8 FRANCE (Hervé Pernot) FRANCE (Emmanuel Plessis) “Envol Vert” Médecins sans frontières Espaces CentraleSupélec WORLD (Damien Machuel) FRANCE (Luc Mosqueron) Page 25 PERU (Jean-Marc Raymond) Association pour la cité University of Toulon Sea Plastics hydraulique d’Angkor (Acha) Page 19 FRANCE (Emmanuel Plessis) AgroParisTech CAMBODIA (Bernard Willinger) MEDITERRANEAN (Valentin Life Project 4 Youth (LP4Y) Observatoire Deltreil) INDIA (Chandana Das) du plancton Page 9 FRANCE (Yoann Burban) Associação Arca de Noé Akamasoa de Apoio Social Tara Ocean Foundation MADAGASCAR (Nicolas Renard) BRAZIL (Valentine Barnoin) WORLD (Camille Besse) Médecins du Monde PHILIPPINES (Damien Machuel) Page 20 Page 26 The École des semeurs Up2green Reforestation Page 10 FRANCE (Louis de Reboul) SENEGAL (David Colon) Eliminating cholera in Uvira ASEI – Agir, Soigner, Unité mixte internationale DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE Éduquer, Inclure 3189 Environnement CONGO (Damien Machuel) FRANCE (Pierre Dissaux) Santé Sociétés Un enfant par la main SENEGAL (Thierry Vandevelde) Yokoumi SENEGAL (Alain Gibert) TOGO (Boris Efremenko) A.B. Curnet Page 27 BURKINA FASO (Boris Efremenko) Page 21 Association des Amis REcycleurs Burkin’Ardenn’Avenir’ (B’A’A’) Savoir-Fair FRANCE (Fanny Demulier) BURKINA FASO (Helman le Pas SOUTH AFRICA de Sécheval) (Maria Caniati Dinard) IUCN French Committee FRANCE (Coline Jacobs) Empow’Her Page 11 NIGER (Fanny Demulier) VERI Veoliaforce training sessions FRANCE (Thierry Vandevelde) Var federation for fishing WORLD (Romain Verchère) and protection of the aquatic Association Association Notre-Dame environment Pour vos Yeux FRANCE (Olivier Cavallo) FRANCE (José de Graeve) des Barrails Corporate Foundation FRANCE (Vincent Duchateau) Transmission Governed by law no. 87-571 of July 23, 1987, amended. ISP FRANCE (Thierry Vandevelde) Head office DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE Novaedia 21, rue La Boétie – 75008 Paris CONGO (Thierry Vandevelde) FRANCE (Xavier Metteil) Postal address blueEnergy 30, rue Madeleine-Vionnet – 93300 Aubervilliers NICARAGUA (Luca Pinardi) E-mail: [email protected] Association Solidarité Chief Editor: Thierry Vandevelde. Internationale Design, artwork and production: Santé et Éducation VIETNAM (Aurélie Tran Ngoc) Photos: Veolia photo library, Foundation sponsors, Veoliaforce volunteers, Foundation staff, nonprofit organizations, Isabelle Serro (cover, p. 6, 10 and 14), Patrice Normand (p. 3), Christophe Majani d’Inguimbert (p. 4, 30 and 31), Dam- Renewing Veoliaforce ien Machuel (p. 8, 12, 13 and 15), Jean-Michel Mathiot (p. 9), Marlène Cothenet and Romain Thémereau (p. 12), Acta emergency equipment Vista (p. 16-17), Heko Farm (p. 18), Didier Gauducheau (p. 18), Samuel Bollendorff/Tara Ocean Foundation (p. 22), inventory Noëlie Pansiot/Tara Ocean Foundation (p. 23 and 25), Julie Deter-Andro (p. 24), Up2green (p. 26), Sylvain Beucherie/ FRANCE (José de Graeve) Andia.fr (p. 28-29). 32 30, rue Madeleine-Vionnet – 93300 Aubervilliers – France Tel.: +33 (0)1 85 57 70 00 www.fondation.veolia.com