Activity Report 2013

Activity Report
2013
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CONTENTS
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DEVELOPMENT AID
AND HUMANITARIAN
EMERGENCIES
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Development aid
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Humanitarian emergencies
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SOCIAL INCLUSION
THROUGH WORK
AND SOCIAL LINKS
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Social inclusion through work
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Social links
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ENVIRONMENTAL
CONSERVATION
AND BIODIVERSITY
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Natural heritage and biodiversity
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Education and awareness-building
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TRANSVERSAL PROJECT
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INDEX OF PROJECTS AND
SPONSORS
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Editorial
PROFILE
Antoine Frérot
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Veolia
and Chairman of the Veolia Foundation
CORPORATE
“ENTHUSIASM
AND SKILLS…”
FOUNDATION
serving
OUTREACH and
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
The Veolia Foundation ranks among France’s largest private
foundations. Where it differs is that it harnesses the goodwill
of its employees in two ways.
Some of them sponsor community-oriented projects contributing
to sustainable development that receive financial support
from the Foundation. Others, through Veoliaforce, volunteer
their skills on the ground in humanitarian emergencies
and development programs.
Development aid, employment and social links and environmental
conservation are the Foundation’s three priority areas of action.
Since its creation in 2004, the Foundation has supported
more than 1,300 projects.
The Foundation celebrated its tenth
anniversary in 2013 – ten years of
professionalism and commitment to
facilitate access to basic services for all,
promote local employment and work
towards a more balanced society in the cities
and regions in which it is active.
Ten years of enthusiasm on the part of our
Group’s employees, who unstintingly give
their time and use their skills to help the
victims of earthquakes and floods, combat
exclusion and protect the environment.
Ten years of partnership and working as a
team to do what we don’t usually do, to go
where it is not easy to go. Ten years that
have contributed to the recognition of our
Foundation and made it one of the most
successful in France.
Year after year, the Veolia Foundation has,
with calm determination, pursued its action
in favor of people, their communities and
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nature. It forms a human chain at the
service of all, acting concretely to restore
hope and embodying the values of outreach,
responsibility and innovation that drive
our Group, while continuing to expand
and amplify its action.
Protecting people from natural disasters,
promoting employment, protecting
biodiversity: the initiatives supported by
the Veolia Foundation always bring several
aspects – social, economic and technical –
into play. They foster the pride of our
employees and the loyalty of our partners.
They compose a virtuous circle that creates
mutual engagement between members of
our Group and establishes bonds between
human beings.
Veolia is changing and its foundation along
with it, but the fundamental priorities
remain the same: outreach, helping people
back to work, environmental conservation
and public health. The Foundation will
continue to rely on a network of diverse and
prestigious partners and on the skills of the
Group’s employees acting in a voluntary
capacity. It will remain a flexible and
inventive structure, capable of responding
effectively to the expectations of its
stakeholders. Some of these expectations
are predictable, as in the case of social
inclusion through work; others are not and
call for an immediate emergency response,
as, for instance, after Cyclone Yolanda, which
devastated the Philippines last November.
In 2013, the Veolia Foundation’s mandate
was renewed for another five years. It will
continue, with enthusiasm, to play a major
role in promoting outreach, building bridges
to the world of work and defending nature.
With its partners, it will continue to act to
support human beings and respond to their
needs.
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Interview
Thierry Vandevelde
Executive Officer
of the Veolia Foundation
“OUR VOLUNTEERS
BRING REAL
ADDED VALUE.”
The Veolia Foundation is
10 years old. What is your
assessment of ten years
of action in the field?
Thierry Vandevelde: The Foundation has
demonstrated the relevance of its model,
by which I mean the strong involvement
of Group employees who sponsor projects
or give up their time to work on projects
in the field. But the main conclusion I
draw is that the Foundation has matured.
Today, it is a leading player in development
aid and emergency response. Another
important factor is that it has become
more international. Our sponsors and
volunteers are based on every continent
and this augments the force of our action.
Take the typhoon that hit the Philippines in
November last year – it was Veolia Water
Vietnam employees who travelled there
to support Unicef’s action.
You began to refocus the
Foundation around a smaller
number of initiatives in 2013.
What does this mean in practice?
Our partners – the London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the
NGO Médecins du Monde, to mention
only the most recent – expect us to deliver
increasingly leading-edge expertise. When
we can do it, we want to bring added value
wherever our range of know-how can make
the difference. Development aid is becoming
the prism for selecting the projects we
support, and we now give preference to
projects where our volunteers and sponsors
can bring real added value. For instance,
in the field of water, we have over the years
built or rehabilitated a large number of wells
throughout the world. From now on we will
be focusing on more complex infrastructure
that demands the skills we possess.
How are exchanges with
your international outreach
partners organized?
T. V.: All our partnerships are highly
operational. With the Red Cross, Unicef,
UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) and the
Mérieux Foundation, the Veolia Foundation
is breaking new ground. Our R&D expertise
“ The Foundation
has moved on from
promoting sustainable
development to tackle
a wider issue, that of
human development.”
Thierry
Vandevelde
enables us to provide regular support for
NGOs and participate actively in ambitious
programs. I am thinking, for example, of our
commitment alongside Médecins du Monde
in Manila around WEEE (waste electrical
and electronic equipment) or the ecological
restoration program for the degraded
marine environment of Cap Sicié, off the
coast of Toulon.
We can now capitalize on the network
of partnerships forged over the last few
years. This capacity to harness energies and
bring other organizations on board allows
us to activate many levers. For instance,
the Foundation is engaged in the Global
Alliance Against Cholera (GAAC), which
brings private and public players together
to combat cholera and other waterborne
diseases. In liaison with NGOs, government
ministries, UN agencies and universities, the
Veolia Foundation regularly sends experts
into the field to carry out epidemiological
studies or improve water supply systems.
The renewal of the Foundation’s
mandate means it can project
its action up until 2018. What
do you envisage for the next
few years?
T. V.: The Foundation has moved on from
promoting sustainable development
to tackle a wider issue, that of human
development. Why? Because as Maria Nowak,
pioneer of micro-credit in France, says:
“We cannot envisage responding to
environmental challenges without taking
into account, first, human beings and
their personal development.” Our field
of action is therefore as relevant as it ever
was, organized around three priorities
– social inclusion through work and social
links, environmental conservation and
biodiversity, and humanitarian emergencies
and development aid. It is no accident
that our governance bodies now include
recognized experts such as Françoise Gaill,
director of the CNRS’s Ecology and
Environment Institute, and Dr. Ibrahim
Assane Mayaki, Executive Secretary of Nepad.
T. V.: After ten years of work on the ground,
we are moving into a new phase.
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DEVELOPMENT AID AND
HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES
Médecins
du Monde
protecting
informal
recyclers in
Manila
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DEVELOPMENT AID AND
HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES
Médecins du Monde
protecting informal recyclers in Manila
In July 2012, Médecins du Monde,
in association with the
Veolia Foundation, launched
a program to prevent and mitigate
health, social and environmental
risks for people making a living
from recycling waste electrical and
electronic equipment in Manila.
Millions of high-tech objects from countries
that have not signed the Basel Convention(1)
end up in open-air dumps in the poorest
countries on the planet. This is the case in
the Philippines, which has no protective
legislation and has become one of the
“preferred” destinations for waste electrical
and electronic equipment (WEEE).
Sorting this waste in the suburbs of Manila
is the main source of income for informal
recyclers. Rapid growth in the local market
also contributes to this accumulation of
electronic waste. These workers and their
families – among them pregnant women
and children – are personally exposed to
toxic chemical substances and hazardous
heavy metals such as mercury.
This waste, until recently handled without
any precautions, pollute the immediate
environment and the area where these
workers and their families live.
7,000 beneficiaries
Grant in 2012: €50,000
Grant in 2013: €120,000
Corporate Philanthropy
Environment Trophy
In February 2013, this program was
awarded a Corporate Philanthropy
Trophy for environmental conservation
and sustainable development (skills
sponsorship category) by the French
Ministry for Ecology, Sustainable
Development and Energy.
Protecting the health
of informal recyclers
The Médecins du Monde project, which
spans four years, aims to reduce the health
and environmental consequences of
informal recycling of electronic and toxic
waste for the recyclers and their community
in the Manila metropolitan region.
After a study phase concerning the health
and environmental risks of this activity, the
NGO put in place a number of actions, with
the assistance of Veolia Foundation
volunteers: raising awareness of risky
behavior, donating suitable protective
equipment and providing information about
health precautions.
Helping local authorities
better manage hazardous
waste
In parallel, Médecins du Monde is keen to
strengthen the autonomy and skills of these
communities, a crucial step to ensure that
they are recognized by local and government
authorities.
To this end, Médecins du Monde organizes
specific working groups in each municipality
and workshops with stakeholders, and
implements strategies that include the
communities’ initiatives: cooperatives,
micro-finance, saving schemes, etc.
“This project tackles a vital issue that is
often neglected: recycling of hazardous
solid waste in the developing countries.
Veolia’s technical contribution is crucial
if this innovative and highly relevant
project is to gain sufficient momentum
to have a real impact.”
Françoise Weber
Veolia project sponsor
Sustainable healthcare
Lastly, the program trains local health
partners as a function of the needs
identified by a precise study on workers’
health and environmental health issues.
More than 35 days of skills-volunteering missions
In 2012 and 2013, four volunteers from Triade (Veolia Group) and a permanent member of
the Foundation’s staff made several visits to the site. Another mission is scheduled for 2014.
(1) International treaty on the Control of Transboundary
Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal,
which as of 1997 forbids export of waste by OECDmember countries to non-OECD countries.
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Development
aid
DEVELOPMENT
AID and
HUMANITARIAN
EMERGENCIES
To live well, people first need safe drinking water, food and energy.
They also need adequate hygiene and access to healthcare
to safeguard their health.
The projects supported by the Foundation, its sponsors
and Veoliaforce volunteers are designed to satisfy these basic
needs, especially for the most vulnerable communities.
21
projects
8
missions
860
days of intervention by
Veoliaforce volunteers
HARMONIE MÉKONG
Vietnam
Organization of household waste
collection and cleaning beaches in three
villages.
Location: Cam Ranh peninsula
Veolia sponsor: Aurélie Tran Ngoc
Grant: €15,000
PROGRAMME
SOLIDARITÉ EAU
France
Cooperation in the fields of water
and sanitation.
Location: Paris and Madagascar
Veolia sponsor: David Poinard
Grant: €20,000
AGENCE DE
DÉVELOPPEMENT
COMMUNAL
Senegal
Improving public lighting in Saint-Louis.
Location: Saint-Louis
Veolia sponsor: Guillaume Briffeuil
Grant: €60,000
CJEAPVA*
Kenya
Supplying clean water for a primary school
and boarding facility.
* Committee for twinning, exchanges and friendship between
people living in the town of Alyéna
Location: Purko
Veolia sponsor: Philippe Mignard
Grant: €10,000
BORONU FRANCE BÉNIN
Benin
Building three classrooms for a primary
school.
EMERGENCY AID
Expanding the water-supply
network
Mali
The recent conflict in Mali led to a massive influx of refugees
from the northern regions to the area around the capital,
Bamako, where water supply had become a crucial problem.
Faced with this emergency, the Ministry for Energy and Water
asked the Veolia Foundation to install short-term solutions,
including extension of the water supply system in Sikoro
Farada. This district located in the north of the capital caters
for a population estimated at 37,900 inhabitants, who until
now have suffered from a chronic deficit in terms of clean
water supply.
Thanks to the Foundation’s support, the Mali nonprofit EDS*
was able to dig a 90 m-deep well in just a few weeks, extend
the network and install standpipes.
* Energy, water and environment in the Sahel
Location: Bamako district
Veolia sponsor: Jean-Christian Pottier
Grant: €160,000
Location: Bembéréké
Veolia sponsor: Sylvie Petit
Grant: €10,000
See all the 2013 projects at www.fondation-veolia.com
under Projects supported
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DEVELOPMENT AID AND
HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES
Development
aid
LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE
AND TROPICAL MEDICINE
Impact study concerning the combat
against cholera project in Uvira
DRC
RÉSEAU MARP*
Niger
ASSIFIC
Haiti
Construction of two potable water supply
networks fed by wells to provide water for
several villages (7,000 people and their
herds).
Supplying energy for the Léonce Mégie
school.
* Network for development and promotion of active research
and participative planning methods
Location: Kargui Bangou and Dar es-Salaam
Veolia sponsor: Habibou Doudou
Grant: €46,000
LES TIMOUS
Cameroon
Works to connect a childcare center
to the municipal water-supply network.
Location: Yaoundé
Veolia sponsor: Frédéric Lacaze-Eslous
Grant: €10,000
SOLENA
France
Exceptional expenses for volunteers
contributing their expertise on
development projects supported
by Veoliaforce.
Location: Africa
Veolia sponsor: Marc Debost
Grant: €10,000
ONE DROP
Burkina Faso
Support for development programs
providing access to water.
Location: Burkina Faso
Veolia sponsor: Dominique Héron
Grant: €7,500
APEMC G GC*
Burkina Faso
Installation of a lighting system in
a secondary school and dispensary.
* Association of professionals and students in the construction
materials, geotechnical and civil engineering section
Location: Wolonkoto
Veolia sponsor: Thierry Legube
Grant: €13,000
COMBAT AGAINST CHOLERA
Developing water-supply
infrastructure
DRC
The Veolia Foundation has been supporting the Congolese
Health Ministry in its strategy to combat cholera since 2007.
Several field visits were made to plan action programs, notably
in Uvira in Sud Kivu, one of eight cholera hotspots identified.
Only 31% of the town’s 210,000 inhabitants have access to safe
drinking water. Through its institutional support, the Foundation
helped the Congolese government obtain an €8.5 million subsidy
from the Agence Française de Développement and the European
Union for a four-year program of works to improve production
of potable water and the distribution network in Uvira. In 2013,
the Foundation offered its support to the contracting authority
Régideso to prepare for start-up of works in 2014.
Location: Uvira
Veolia sponsor: Franck Haaser
Grant: €150,000
LES ENFANTS DU NDÉ
Improving sanitation and cesspitemptying operations
Cameroon
Most of the existing sanitation infrastructure in Bangangté
(septic tanks, latrines) are not emptied. When they are, the
contents are discharged into surrounding waterways.
The nonprofit will be helping the commune to set up a sludge
management system by providing a hydro-cleansing truck
to empty the cesspits and building an environmentally friendly
reed-bed filtering system to transform human waste into natural
fertilizer.
Location: La Vallée de Jacmel
Veolia sponsor: Yannick Sourget
Grant: €16,000
TOUK MEAS –
LA PIROGUE D’OR
Cambodia
Building a new drinking water-supply
plant in an isolated village.
Location: Banteay Meas
Veolia sponsor: Marie-Françoise Malheu
Grant: €20,000
EDS*
Mali
Building a water-supply system
in a Bamako neighborhood.
* Energy, water and environment in the Sahel
Location: Bamako
Veolia sponsor: Clément Petit
Grant: €40,000
FONDATION MÉRIEUX
Africa and Haiti
Support for a diagnostic program to control
transmission of waterborne pathogens.
Location: Cameroon, Madagascar, Mali and Haiti
Veolia sponsor: Philippe Lagrange
Grant: €50,000
ICIC*
France
Support for organization of the fourth
forum for international action by
local authorities.
* Institute for international cooperation by local authorities
Location: Paris
Veolia sponsor: Dominique Héron
Grant: €15,000
The Foundation and its partners asked the London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to assess the impact of the
combat against cholera project conducted in Uvira.
The study will span the three years over which the project
will be in place.
The goal: to demonstrate that improving access to safe
drinking water helps reduce the number of cholera cases
and diarrheal diseases by minimizing use of contaminated
resources and encouraging families to adopt good hygiene
practices. Another – socio-economic – impact that will be
measured is the reduction of time spent collecting water,
leaving women free to develop income-generating activities
and children to attend school. This study is expected to provide
scientific proof of the validity of the approach adopted by
the Foundation and its partners to prevent the occurrence
of cholera.
Location: Uvira
Veolia sponsor: Franck Haaser
Grant: €100,000
RAPID CHOLERA DETECTION KIT
Better-targeted prevention actions
France
The Veolia and Mérieux Foundations joined forces in the
summer of 2012 around an innovative project: to develop
and disseminate a kit for simple and rapid detection of
the presence of Vibrio cholerae in drinking water and water
resources intended for human consumption. This kit, currently
in technical development phase and designed for use in any
part of the world hit by cholera, will enable better targeting
of the prevention actions required to protect populations
exposed to the risk and sustainably eradicate cholera. Practical
field trials to validate the kit will be conducted in Haiti in 2014.
It will be made available for marketing at a low cost through
a nonprofit structure to all the agencies involved in programs
to combat cholera: governments and ministries of countries
affected by cholera, NGOs, United Nations agencies and
international outreach organizations.
Location: France
Veolia sponsor: Sandhya Bonnet
Grant: €160,000
Location: Bangangté
Veolia sponsor: Jean-Marc Loubet
Grant: €50,000
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DEVELOPMENT AID AND
HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES
Development
aid
Skills-volunteering
missions
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013
JUNE 2013
INSTALLATION
of a water chlorination
system
REINFORCING EXPERTISE
for new installations
Burkina Faso
Sierra Leone
JULY 2013
SUSTAINABLE SANITATION
and energy supply
Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, where volunteers have been supporting
UNHCR teams since 2011 under a partnership
contract, a new mission was carried out in the Dolo Ado
camps in the south of the country, which house almost
150,000 people, most of whom have fled neighboring
Somalia. After studying the solutions to be envisaged
to secure sustainable sanitation and energy supply
in the five refugee camps, it was decided to improve
electrical supply for potable water production and
distribution, notably by using solar energy instead
of diesel.
In Free Town, where Action contre la Faim is
conducting a program financed by English
cooperation agencies to improve the quality
of water in vulnerable districts in the capital
hit by a cholera epidemic, Veoliaforce
contributed its expertise to design and install
an on-line chlorination system for the
distribution network thanks to support
from France. This assistance is combined
with monitoring interventions in the field,
which will continue in 2014.
NOVEMBER 2013
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Aïcha – Saint-Louis
Senegal
The Aïcha project, backed by numerous
partners including the GRET (Professionals
for Fair Development), the Midi-Pyrénées
Region, the Adour-Garonne Water Agency
and SEDIF (Paris Region Water Authority),
supports local authority water-supply and
sanitation initiatives in the Saint-Louis region.
A Veoliaforce mission in the Senegal River
valley assessed operation of three potable
water-supply plants in Bokhol, Diagambal
and Diawara and proposed solutions for
optimizing production capacity, upgrading
work and operating improvements.
The Foundation continues to provide technical support
to the Narbonne conurbation in the framework of its
cooperation program with the commune of Karanasso
Vigué in the west of Burkina Faso and Adae, the
nonprofit set up to develop potable water supplysystems in Bobo-Dioulasso. Its volunteers working
in this region inspected the quality of works carried out
on the water-supply systems in the villages of Kien and
Dan, that will serve more than 10,000 inhabitants,
to ensure that they met the required technical
standards. They also provided advice and expertise to
business organizations, the commune and employees
of Adae. Their recommendations concerned the need to
plan for development of the future installations and
their maintenance.
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Development
aid
Skills-volunteering
missions
Humanitarian
emergencies
JUNE AND DECEMBER 2013
NOVEMBER 2013
A PARTNERSHIP
to rehabilitate the Sireti
senior high school
GUARANTEEING
water supply after the cyclone
Philippines
Moldavia
After carrying out a final mission to inspect
the works, acceptance of the toilet blocks
and inauguration of all the rehabilitation
works on the Sireti senior high school
were completed for the 750 students in
time for the new school year. The village
of Sireti, located in north-west Chisinau, has
6,000 inhabitants.
The Veolia Foundation is financing part of this
program in partnership with the international
outreach nonprofit Moldavenir and the
Orange foundation in Moldavia.
FEBRUARY, MAY-JULY,
OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2013
MODEAB*
potable water and sanitation
Cameroon
DECEMBER 2012 – FEBRUARY 2013
Supported by the Foundation since 2010, the Modeab
project, which aims to improve access to water and
sanitation for 150,000 people living in the rural part
of the commune of Bangangté, is almost completed.
Five out of the seven water networks are now
operational. They each consist of a water tower, some
ten standpipes and private connections. Thanks to
the many missions carried out by volunteers in 2013,
the technical studies for the remaining networks are
now completed and the works will soon be launched.
The water authority – whose role is to support, advise
and supervise the water users’ committees set up in
each village and the operators, which earn a fee based
on the price of the water – is operational; the users’
committees are in place and have been trained and
operators are now being recruited. The sanitation
part of the project, which provides for construction
of 15 ecological latrines, 5 in the markets and 10 in
schools, has now been completed and a sustainable
management system is in place. The proven success
of the project encouraged the French Embassy and
the Cameroon Ministry of Foreign Affairs to subsidize
an extension to supply water to the villages of Bangoua
and Bandiangseu.
STEPPING UP
the combat against cholera
Last November, Cyclone Yolanda devastated the center
of the Philippines archipelago, affecting 10 million
inhabitants. Veoliaforce intervened alongside the NGO
Solidarités International in the region of Tacloban,
the first coastal city hit by the typhoon. Two mobile
Aquaforce 500 units and a distribution system (flexible
ramps and reservoirs) were installed on the site of
the university, transformed into a reception center for
1,000 people who had lost their homes. Regular tanker
deliveries supplied water to 3,000 people in neighboring
districts and to the hospital.
At the request of Unicef, the volunteers also carried out
an assessment of the damage caused by the cyclone
to water-supply networks and treatment units in
25 localities in the Tacloban region to prepare for the
related rehabilitation work.
Haiti
At the request of the French Red Cross, several
Veoliaforce volunteers traveled to Haiti at
the end of 2012 to support the emergency
response teams working in the Grande Anse
department. They secured water supply
and sanitation service in cholera treatment
centers and participated in actions to build
local people’s awareness of hygiene.
Thanks to Veoliaforce, more than 20 centers in
the south of the country were able to benefit
from these actions.
* Contracting authority in charge of sustainable water supply and sanitation in
Bangangté
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SOCIAL INCLUSION
THROUGH WORK AND SOCIAL LINKS
Adie
the guarantee
of a new
start
* Adie: Nonprofit promoting the right to economic initiative
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SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH
WORK AND SOCIAL LINKS
Adie
the guarantee of a new start
Adie is a nonprofit that helps
people excluded from the labor
market and the conventional
banking system to create their
own company and job thanks
to micro-credit.
Set up in 1989 by Maria Nowak,
Adie adapts the concept of microfinance common in poor countries
to France.
For 25 years, Adie has contributed
to the creation of 94,000 small
companies by granting more than
130,000 micro-credit loans.
The Foundation joined forces with Adie in
2006 and committed to making an annual
grant of €60,000 over six years to foster
creation of small companies in
underprivileged neighborhoods, focusing
this assistance on tools and solutions to help
micro-entrepreneurs.
Supporting
micro-entrepreneurs
This support allowed Adie to open or adapt
some 12 advisory centers in provincial cities
and the Paris Region. They are genuine
training centers that organize group and
individual workshops before and after
start-up of a company, covering
administrative and legal formalities, sales
initiatives, opening a bank account – all the
different aspects of company management.
Apart from this personalized advice,
company creators can also meet other
entrepreneurs, share useful information
and, in some cases, set up interesting
commercial synergies with them.
The Foundation also helped the nonprofit
set up Adie Connect, the micro-credit
website aimed specifically at microentrepreneurs. They can submit a request
for a loan and consult the practical data
sheets free of charge, but it also gives
In 25 years, the nonprofit has helped
create 94,000 small companies
Success rate for the companies created:
70% in 2 years
Percentage of people supported moving
into employment: 84%
Grant 2006-2012: €375,000
them access to an online forum for
exchanging ideas and sharing best practices,
thanks in particular to the involvement of
legal and financial experts. In parallel, the
Foundation helped finance a study on
simple DIY (handymen) for a socially
inclusive micro-franchise program, an
end-to-end service concept that will be
developed on a larger scale.
Putting micro-companies
on a sustainable footing
Over and above financing, the support given
to company creators before, during and after
they set up their company is a guarantee of
its survival. Most of the beneficiaries were
living under the poverty threshold when
they came into contact with the nonprofit.
These people have successfully escaped the
welfare dependency trap: the success rate
for companies created with Adie’s support
stands at 70% over two years – a ratio
similar to that of company creation in the
mainstream sector.
Special coaching
CréaJeunes is a training program devised by Adie
to respond to the determination of young people
in difficult neighborhoods to set up their own
company, despite their lack of experience and
capital. Offered free of charge to young people
aged between 18 and 32, the program consists
of group modules focusing on increasing
confidence and practical knowledge of the
business world over a period of two to four months,
followed by individual coaching to structure the
project and networking actions.
To start up their activity, the young entrepreneurs
can obtain micro-credit and a personal loan, with
repayment deferred for up to two years. This loan,
launched thanks to a fund set up in October 2011,
responds to the specific difficulties of these young
company creators, who often have no capital to
invest. One thousand young people have obtained
such a loan since the program was set up.
CRÉAJEUNES:
The Foundation supports
100 young company creators
Some 30% of the companies created with
Adie’s support are headed by young people
under 32, a group which the nonprofit
decided to support further with its
CréaJeunes program set up in 2007. Almost
5,000 young people have already benefitted:
one-third of them created their own
company and another third moved into
salaried employment. Emboldened by its
success, in 2013 the Foundation decided to
help 100 young people from underprivileged
neighborhoods create their own company
over the next three years. Veolia employees
are free to get involved, as sponsors or as
members of the jury, once the young people
supported have completed the program.
“The findings of the 2013 impact study
on Adie’s action show quite clearly
how a person living in precarious
circumstances and excluded from
the labor market, without the level
of training enjoyed by most company
creators, is nonetheless capable of
developing a viable economic activity
as long as he/she receives the financial
support and advice needed to succeed.”
Catherine Barbaroux
Chairwoman of Adie
Grant 2013-2015: €150,000
Veolia sponsor: Éric Lesueur
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Social inclusion
through work
SOCIAL INCLUSION
through WORK
and SOCIAL LINKS
Work allows people to live independent and useful lives with
dignity. Having a job gives meaning to people’s lives.
The Foundation supports initiatives and bodies helping people
who have dropped out of mainstream society to return to work.
Organizations aided include nonprofit groups, subsidized
employment schemes and projects that offer training and
individual coaching or help enhance social links.
Each of these projects is supported by a Group employee
acting as sponsor.
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projects
in France
4
projects
outside France
R3*
France
Pooling the re-use of discarded
objects activities of three
neighborhood social associations.
* Neighborhood social associations network
for re-use of discarded objects
Location: Bordeaux, Gironde
Veolia sponsor: Sylvie Recrosio
Grant: €20,000
MONTAUBAN
SERVICES
France
Acquisition of a vehicle for
a bulky waste removal service.
Location: Montauban, Haute-Garonne
Veolia sponsor: Jacques Poujade
Grant: €15,000
SYNETHIC
France
Creation of an online “CV library”
to help people on subsidized
employment schemes find a job.
See all the 2013 projects at www.fondation.veolia.com
under Projects supported
Location: Midi-Pyrénées
Veolia sponsor: Jean-François Rezeau
Grant: €20,000
NTA*
Integration and innovative
technologies
France
NTA, a social-integration company specializing in paperto-digital transfer (digitization, indexation, electronic data
management), geographic information systems (GIS) and
vector graphics based in Le Puy-en-Velay, employs people
with no access to the labor market and trains them to use
innovative technologies. To support a greater number of
people on subsidized employment schemes, it needed to
invest in secure storage equipment for its premises (fire-proof
cabinets, special locks and secure storage units) and acquire
new vector graphics licenses and image processing software.
The Foundation’s support will allow the structure to increase
its workload and take on more people, plus train employees
to use the new products and acquire new skills.
*New technologies in Auvergne
Location: Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire
Veolia sponsor: Frédéric Figari
Grant: €10,000
“NTA’s originality is that it has expertise
in innovative technologies, unlike most
subsidized employment enterprises that
focus on sectors delivering lower-grade
qualifications.”
Frédéric Figari
Veolia project sponsor
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WORK AND SOCIAL LINKS
Social inclusion
through work
VEXIN INSERTION
EMPLOI
France
Creation of a platform to let people
find out about and access training
in the eco-construction sector.
Location: Cormeilles-en-Vexin, Val-d’Oise
Veolia sponsor: Gérard Etcheverry
Grant: €10,000
ASCISE
France
Buying equipment for a subsidized
employment enterprise active in
interior finishing work and thermal
insulation.
Location: Valence, Drôme
Veolia sponsor: Hélèna Thrap-Olsen
Grant: €10,000
AMPG*
France
Creation of a furniture renovation,
sale and delivery workshop for
people on very low incomes.
* Moral support for the gypsy community
Location: Aude
Veolia sponsor: Charles-Henri Galmiche
Grant: €10,000
OPTIM SERVICES
France
AGEHB*
Paper recycling to get back to work
France
To help people unable to find
work, the nonprofit set up a
social-inclusion workshop,
Solidarité Papier, which
recovers, sorts and processes
paper and cardboard, destroys
old archives and produces
animal litter. Some paper mills
are looking for sources of one
of the materials sorted by
the nonprofit – white office
paper printed with black ink
– once it is transformed into
strips, and are willing to pay
a higher price for it. Solidarité
Papier plans to acquire a
paper shredder to optimize its
supply of this type of recycled
paper, secure its activity by
generating additional revenue
and create new subsidized jobs.
The Foundation’s financial
support is supplemented
by assistance from Veolia
Environmental Services
on the sorting activity and
promotion of the nonprofit’s
work by local agencies to its
customers.
* Support and management for employment
and accommodation in Brittany.
Location: Quimper, Finistère
Veolia sponsor: Gilles Regnard
Grant: €15,000
INITIATIVES SOLIDAIRES
A well-equipped wood and metal
workshop
France
The nonprofit is opening a new subsidized employment
workshop in Aubervilliers focusing on recycling objects and
furniture. This fast-growing sector offers job opportunities
for people on back-to-work schemes, while also responding
locally to environmental and sustainable development
challenges. A “wood and metal” workshop equipped by the
Foundation and supervised by a skilled craftsman-trainer
will produce limited-edition objects from recovered items
(furniture, lamps, sculptures, etc.).
Modernizing a socially inclusive
garden.
Location: Morbihan
Veolia sponsor: Adrien Morel-Fatio
Grant: €12,000
LES JARDINS
DU GIROU
France
Developing the organic
market-gardening activities
of a back-to-work garden.
Location: Gragnague, Haute-Garonne
Veolia sponsor: Amador Esparza
Grant: €10,000
RÉSINE*
France
Creation of a subsidized
employment workshop providing
digital and multimedia services.
* Inclusive network for digital and eco-responsible
initiatives.
Location: Draguignan, Var
Veolia sponsor: Gilles Rousseaux
Grant: €10,000
HALAGE
Ecological subsidized employment
workshops
France
Halage is a nonprofit that organizes back-to-work activities
in the Paris Region focusing on development and upkeep
of green spaces using ecological methods and equipment.
It employs some 30 permanent staff and 78 people on
subsidized employment schemes, who are given an
opportunity to undergo training leading to qualifications.
To better respond to its clients’ requirements, Halage needed
to acquire modern tools that would also allow it to prepare its
employees for using the sophisticated equipment employed
by businesses and local authorities.
For instance, electrical tools generate less noise and do not
disturb the insects that pollinate plants in these green spaces,
make the gardener’s work easier and protect biodiversity
(bees, birds, etc.). Thanks to the Foundation’s financial support,
Halage was able to acquire the new equipment.
Location: Épinay-sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis
Veolia sponsor: Philippe Brion
Grant: €15,000
“Changing methods and tooling on these two
Halage worksites is also a way of promoting
ecological methods for landscaping work
in Seine-Saint-Denis. I will make efforts
to recommend them and help them expand
their activity in the region.”
Philippe Brion
Veolia project sponsor
Location: Aubervilliers, Seine-Saint-Denis
Veolia sponsor: Dominique Boizeau
Grant: €20,000
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WORK AND SOCIAL LINKS
Social inclusion
through work
APPROCHE
France
CANNELLE
ET PIMENT
France
Upgrading the premises of a
recycling center managed by a
subsidized employment nonprofit.
Acquisition of a refrigerated
vehicle for the catering activities
of a women’s nonprofit.
Location: Saint-Maur-des-Fossés,
Val-de-Marne
Veolia sponsor: Alain Legrain
Grant: €10,000
Location: Vaulx-en-Velin, Rhône
Veolia sponsor: Philippe Lagrange
Grant: €10,000
PAPIERS DE L’ESPOIR
France
ACTA VISTA
France
Development of a training space
for blind and partially-sighted
people.
Further work on restoration of the
Fortin de la Cride by young people
supported by a subsidized
employment workshop.
Location: Vertou, Loire-Atlantique
Veolia sponsor: Philippe Praud
Grant: €10,000
RESSOURCERIE
DEUX MAINS
France
Developing the collection, storage
and sales activities of a subsidized
employment nonprofit.
Location: Le Blanc-Mesnil, Seine-Saint-Denis
Veolia sponsor: Thomas Lecoq
Grant: €10,000
ATELIER D’ÉCO SOLIDAIRE
Recycling to forge social bonds
France
The Bordeaux-based workshop focuses on reducing the
volume of bulky waste through re-use and repair, raising public
awareness of environmental conservation and promoting
practices that make sparing use of resources. Its new project
for a creative recycling center to collect, recycle and sell discarded
furniture and other materials and build public awareness
of waste recycling required investment to fit out the premises
made available by the Bordeaux Urban Community. It also
needed to purchase tools for carrying out its activity.
The Foundation joined forces with the nonprofit to carry out
this project alongside many other partners, including DIY chains.
Location: Sanary-sur-Mer, Var
Veolia sponsor: Paul-Émile Roblez
Grant: €10,000
AWO
KREISVERBAND
FULDA STADT UND
LAND E.V.
Germany
APIJ*
Training local teams
France
APIJ employs and provides
training in the building
trades for people in difficult
circumstances. For some
years now, it has been
focusing on eco-construction,
thereby contributing to local
development and also offering
training with added value
compared to the conventional
building sector, since it takes
in thermal insulation, use of
renewable energies, wooden
construction, green renovation
of old buildings and building
wood-frame or post & beam
structures. These sectors are
seeing sharp growth in the
urban environment and the
Creation of an ecological garden
providing learning opportunities
for young people in difficult
circumstances.
Location: Fulda, Hesse
Veolia sponsor: Harald Nieves
Grant: €10,000
Location: Bordeaux, Gironde
Veolia sponsor: Jean-Christophe Poultier
Grant: €15,000
“The supervisory structure is in place and
has solid experience in re-using discarded
objects and an active network of volunteers,
notably in the underprivileged Grand
Parc neighborhood. This neighborhood
social project is part of a local sustainable
development policy.”
Jean-Christophe Poultier
Veolia project sponsor
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trend is set to continue for
several decades.
To respond to market needs,
APIJ needed to train new
teams and recruit more backto-work employees. With the
support of the Foundation,
it hopes to purchase a new
vehicle with a rack and trailer
assembly to transport the
timberframe-raising machine
and the special materials
required.
* Nonprofit promoting social inclusion through
work for young people and adults in difficult
circumstances
Location: Seine-Saint-Denis and Paris
Veolia sponsor: Éric Hestin
Grant: €20,000
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WORK AND SOCIAL LINKS
Social inclusion
through work
GREP INTÉRIM
France
FOYER AUBOIS
Re-using discarded objects:
green, ethical and inclusive
Upgrading training facilities for a
temporary subsidized employment
enterprise supporting former
prison inmates.
Location: Lyon and Villefranche-sur-Saône,
Rhône
Veolia sponsor: Hervé Lesaux
Grant: €6,000
SOLIDARITÉS
NOUVELLES FACE
AU CHÔMAGE
France
Acquisition of educational
equipment for trainers working
with jobseekers.
Location: France
Veolia sponsor: Philippe Lagrange
Grant: €5,000
LOG’INS
France
Fitting out new premises for a
sheltered workshop enterprise
specializing in logistics.
Location: Le Coudray-Montceaux, Essonne
Veolia sponsor: Christian Dexemple
Grant: €30,000
NATURSCHUTZBUND
DEUTSCHLAND
KREISVERBAND
GIFHORN E.V.
Germany
Restoring the natural environment
in a marshland by young people in
social and professional inclusion
schemes.
Location: Gifhorn, Lower Saxony
Veolia sponsor: Olaf Koschnitzki
Grant: €10,000
France
ARES*
Improving the tools,
strengthening the training plan
France
Since 2012 and with financial support from the Foundation,
Ares has been expanding its subsidized employment programs
so as to better respond to the growing need to help people
excluded from mainstream society and implement innovative
techniques to reach people with no access to the labor market.
It is focusing primarily on two priorities. The first entails
improving its system for tracking and optimizing the progress
of its employees, with finalization and deployment
of assessment tools for general and job-related skills,
supplemented by migration to a new information system
specifically designed for tracking the progress of the nonprofit’s
beneficiaries.
The second aims to structure an Ares employment and training
expertise platform with the brief of strengthening Ares’s
training plan and ensuring that it meshes with the “job-seeking”
actions implemented throughout the scheme (preliminary
upgrading modules, general know-how, pre-qualification
training modules and training leading to qualifications,
coaching for entrance exams for longer training courses, etc.).
Lastly, Ares is increasing the number of “job-seeking” actions
aimed at its back-to-work employees, the people responsible for
assisting them and potential recruiters by organizing company
visits and job encounters with professionals in different sectors.
The goal: to let Ares’s employees find out about the many
different professional environments and the wide range of jobs
available in the main sectors of the economy.
For over 50 years, the nonprofit has been tackling
the causes of social exclusion leading to welfare
dependency and supporting the men and women who
choose to rebuild their lives. In its recycling workshop,
opened in 2010, the nonprofit’s team recovers used
objects (furniture, bicycles and other items) from four
waste drop-off centers around the Troyes urban area,
repairs them and sells them at low prices to people
living in precarious circumstances. In this way, its
activity is not only environmentally friendly but also
has an ethical and socially inclusive component, plus
an economic dimension that facilitates the social and
professional integration of its employees on back-towork schemes.
Today, the Foyer Aubois is keen to go further and
organize almost-daily collections thanks to the vehicle
financed by the Foundation.
Location: Troyes urban area
Veolia sponsor: Delphine Cousinie
Grant: €10,000
EXTRAMUROS
Change of scale
France
With the help of the Veolia Foundation,
the work-integration enterprise Extramuros
set up shop in premises near the Veolia
Environmental Services waste transfer center
in Gennevilliers. It designs and produces
furniture and related objects produced from
recovered materials using environmentally
friendly processes, then sells them to local
businesses. Extramuros has drafted a threeyear development plan aimed at tripling its
turnover and the number of back-to-work
employees (i.e. some 40 people plus 12 or
so apprentices trained, looking to 2017),
while promoting eco-responsible French
craftsmanship (carpentry, cabinet-making,
metalwork, sewing and upholstery).
To achieve its goals, the enterprise needed
to augment its production facilities. With
the help of the Foundation, it will be moving
to a larger site and fitting out a storage area
for the materials it recovers. The existing
carpentry-cabinet making workshop will
be expanded and a new metal workshop
installed and equipped. It may also bring back
part of the sewing activity in-house.
Location: Hauts-de-Seine
Veolia sponsor: Pascal Peslerbe
Grant: €20,000
* Nonprofit promoting economic and social inclusion
Location: Paris
Veolia sponsor: Didier Courboillet
Grant: €30,000
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WORK AND SOCIAL LINKS
Social links
CFA SAINT-JEAN
VAL-D’OISE
France
Building a sports and recreation
area for training center
apprentices.
Location: Saint-Gratien, Val-d’Oise
Veolia sponsor: Éric Haza
Grant: €10,000
AVENIR
NOUVELLE MAISON
DES CHÔMEURS
France
Upgrading the computer facilities
of a nonprofit that supports people
on very low incomes.
Location: Toulouse, Haute-Garonne
Veolia sponsor: Marie-Alcine Montaut
Grant: €3,500
PACT
DU PAS-DE-CALAIS
France
Thermal insulation of housing
for 30 families in difficult
circumstances.
Location: Pas-de-Calais
Veolia sponsor: Michel Talbot
Grant: €10,000
LFM RADIO
France
Installing and running radio
recording studios in junior
secondary schools in Les Yvelines.
Location: Mantes-la-Jolie, Yvelines
Veolia sponsor: Fatima Diallo
Grant: €7,000
SPORT SANS FRONTIÈRES
“Play-learning” resources
France
Since 2012, Sport sans Frontières has been working on a kit
based on an educational concept that entails using sports
and play to get educational messages across and foster positive
behavior in children. This kit, made up of sports equipment
and “ready-to-go” sessions, will enable teachers to tackle themes
such as nutrition and obesity, violence, relations between girls
and boys, cooperation and environmental conservation in a
different and more effective way. Tested with volunteer teachers
in several primary schools in the Paris Region in areas targeted
for priority educational action, the kit is ready for large-scale
production and promotion to schools.
To encourage deployment of the kit and help teachers get
the project up and running, a “play-learning” resources platform
and training sessions will be provided for teachers.
The Veolia Foundation, which became a partner to the project
in its test phase, is supporting production and dissemination
of the kits.
Location: Paris Region
Veolia sponsor: Claire Billon-Galland
Grant: €10,000
STATION FÜR
TECHNIK, NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN,
KUNST –
WEIßWASSER E.V.
Germany
A venue where children and
teenagers can discover the
technologies of the future.
Location: Weißwasser, Saxony
Veolia sponsor: Sandra Tietz
Grant: €10,000
CONCORDA LOGIS
France
Creation of an intergenerational
database to bring together young
people in need of housing and older
people living alone.
Location: Montpellier, Hérault
Veolia sponsor: Xavier Héber-Suffrin
Grant: €5,000
GÜSTROWER
BILDUNGSHAUS E.V.
Germany
Building a Viking drakkar to help
young unemployed people move
into training or work.
Location: Güstrow, MecklembourgWestern Pomerania
Veolia sponsor: Susanne Schmaal
Grant: €10,000
LA MARMITE
France
Developing outdoor spaces
for the nonprofit’s new premises
to improve reception for its
beneficiaries.
SPORT DANS LA VILLE
A new center in Paris
France
Sport dans la Ville, set up in 1998, aims to foster social and
professional inclusion for young people in underprivileged
neighborhoods through its sports centers, training and
subsidized employment programs. The nonprofit already
has 22 such sites in the Rhône-Alpes and Paris regions,
where 3,000 young people from aged 7 to 20 regularly practice
a sport and participate in educational actions.
Ten sports centers will be opened between now and 2016
to support around 2,000 young people in the Paris Region.
To develop the actions of its different programs, it needs
to create a reception and training space.
The nonprofit decided to rent premises in Paris near the Gare
du Nord railway station and fit it out, with the help of the
Veolia Foundation. The idea is to facilitate access for young
people from the surrounding area and other areas in the Paris
Region which Sport dans la Ville will be focusing on in future.
Location: Paris
Veolia sponsor: Philippe Yvon
Grant: €25,000
“Sport dans la Ville is an exemplary nonprofit
organization and its action has won strong
recognition in the Lyon and Grenoble regions.
Veolia Water and Dalkia have been partners
to the nonprofit for many years, helping with
recruitment, mentoring the young people
and taking part in the inter-company events
organized by Sport dans la Ville.”
Philippe Yvon
Veolia project sponsor
Location: Bondy, Seine-Saint-Denis
Veolia sponsor: Varravadha Ong
Grant: €10,000
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ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
AND BIODIVERSITY
Remora*
revitalizing
the natural
milieu
* Remora: Ecological restoration in marine environments using artificial reefs
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AND BIODIVERSITY
Remora
revitalizing the natural milieu
At Cap Sicié off the coast of Toulon,
scientists will be installing an
artificial reef to give new life to
the marine environment, polluted
for decades by non-treated
wastewater from the Toulon
conurbation before commissioning
of the Amphitria wastewater
treatment plant.
The Amphitria treatment plant, designed,
built and operated by Veolia Water since
1997, put an end to pollution from humangenerated waste thanks to effective physicalchemical treatment and biological filtration.
The sandy bottom of the site has been
cleaned up, but aquatic life has not recovered.
Water plants have failed to re-establish
themselves and there is nothing to attract
the flora and fauna for which this marine
environment was once noted.
An innovative artificial reef
Responding to a call from the RhôneMéditerranée-Corse Water Agency to
revitalize the marine environment, a multidisciplinary group of experienced partners
will be trialing an innovative artificial
reef – Remora – in the summer of 2014 to
encourage the return of aquatic flora and
fauna to the site. It consists of light fiberglass
and epoxy resin structures arranged in
the shape of a hedge or in 3D geometric
forms (igloo, spiky clusters, pyramids) and is
designed to serve as a habitat and protective
area for juvenile marine fauna. Its original,
very fine structures will speed up fixation of
micro-fauna, micro-flora and post-larval fish,
providing nutrients for aquatic species and
the seabed itself.
Five years of analyses
Two identical reefs will be installed some
15 meters deep: one near the outlet pipe
discharging 60,000 cu. m./day of treated
wastewater from the Amphitria plant, which
is rich in organic matter providing nutrients
for fauna; the other behind Cap Vieux away
from the outlet current. The objective is to
compare the impact of each reef on the
return and development of fauna and flora.
After observation of the initial state,
two analysis campaigns will be carried out
every year for five years, one in spring and
the other at the end of summer, to examine
the revitalization of the seabed, improvements
in ecological diversity and the robustness
of the structures to currents and storms.
The end of summer is an important period
since the water is warmer and fauna more
abundant (fish, shellfish, mollusks), while the
organic matter discharged from the station is
at peak levels due to the presence of tourists
and the dry weather.
2 x 360 sq. m. immersed reefs,
each made up of 18 modules
“This project represents a major
innovation in reclaiming coastal milieux. It has an important research
and development component since
it opens up interesting perspectives.
If the scientific results are positive,
we will be capable of offering global
technical solutions combing latestgeneration wastewater treatment
plants and innovative reefs, which will
halt human-generated pollution while
also contributing to the restoration of
degraded environments.”
Emmanuel Plessis
Veolia project sponsor
of different shapes
2 annual analysis campaigns
over 5 years
Taking samples
without harming
the milieu
To collect and measure
the biomass fixed to the
reef, extractable tubes
are attached to the fine
structures installed.
Samples can then be
taken without scraping
the structure and
damaging it.
Grant: €200,000
A collaborative project
Financed by the Rhône-Méditerranée-Corse Water Authority and the Veolia Foundation,
the Remora project, managed by Toulon Var Technologie, an innovation-oriented nonprofit, brings
together environmental and marine professionals under the wing of “Pôle Mer”: DSB (designer and
manufacturer of artificial reefs), ERAMM (marine environment design office), IOPR (scientific agency
specializing in ichthyology and expert on the area), and IX Survey (local marine works company).
Veolia’s R&D arm will be responsible for scientific monitoring of the project and Veolia Water for
operational coordination.
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AND BIODIVERSITY
Natural heritage
and biodiversity
ENVIRONMENTAL
CONSERVATION
and BIODIVERSITY
Living in harmony with nature, conserving resources and
biodiversity, mitigating climate change – all these can help to keep
our planet habitable.
The Foundation encourages initiatives to build public awareness
and teach eco-responsible behavior.
It also backs ambitious projects to further our understanding
of and restore natural environments. It contributes to their
financing and helps raise their profile, with the attentive
and enthusiastic support of a sponsor.
COMITÉ FRANÇAIS
DE L’UICN*
France
Continued support for compiling
the “red list” of endangered species
in France.
* International Union for Conservation of Nature
Location: Continental France and Overseas France
Veolia sponsor: Michel Mori
Grant: €20,000
CŒUR DE FORÊT
Cameroon
Developing added value for forest
products, in particular Moabi hardwood.
11
projects
in France
5
projects
outside France
Location: Lomgbon
Veolia sponsor: Jean-Pascal Rigolleau
Grant: €12,000
LPO*
France
Renovating hydraulic structures
in the Moëze-Oléron nature reserve.
* League for the protection of birds
Location: Charente-Maritime
Veolia sponsor: Patrice Alary
Grant: €10,000
GERES*
Improving management of forest
resources
Morocco
GERES, set up in 1976, today has more than 200 employees
working on innovative sustainable development projects in
France and in 12 developing countries. In partnership with local
communities and stakeholders, the nonprofit manages energy
efficiency projects fostering economic development, together
with renewable energy and waste recycling initiatives.
In Morocco, where firewood is the main energy source for rural
households, GERES, in partnership with the nonprofit Planète
Bois, combats deforestation by designing and disseminating
effective individual energy equipment (improved gas-fuelled
bread ovens).
In the protected areas of Bouhachem and Brikcha in the TangiersTétouan region, they are improving women’s lives by freeing
them from the chore of collecting wood and supporting incomegenerating activities by revitalizing an existing cooperative
activity for women based on processing and sale of farm
products.
* Renewable energy, environment and outreach group
Location: Tangiers-Tétouan region
Veolia sponsor: Alain Brighenti
Grant: €15,000
See all the 2013 projects at www.fondation.veolia.com
under Projects supported
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ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
AND BIODIVERSITY
Education
and awareness-building
PPV*
“Ready-to-go” environmental
mediation
France
DEUTSCHE
UMWELTHILFE E.V.
Germany
Campaign to raise awareness of
the need to protect the oceans.
Location: Berlin
Veolia sponsor: Lars Tennhardt
Grant: €10,000
CPIE* LOGNE
AND GRAND-LIEU
France
Setting up a “Biodiversity
information point” in
the Logne Valley.
* Permanent center for environmental initiatives
Location: Logne Valley, Loire-Atlantique
Veolia sponsor: Aurélie Arquier
Grant: €5,000
RÉSEAU ÉCOLE
ET NATURE
France
Renovation of a national
educational network
concerning water.
Location: Montpellier, Hérault
Veolia sponsor: Dominique Héron
Grant: €5,000
PPV, set up in 1997, offers Saint-Denis residents services
that foster social links and professional integration for
young people. The nonprofit has set up two “Information
Service Mediation” points in the outlying neighborhoods
of Pleyel and Sémard. These drop-in, information and
orientation points offer mediation services with energy and
water providers, dispense information about users’ rights
(understanding bills, access to subsidies, advice on use,
etc.) and raise residents’ awareness of the need to control
consumption and adopt green practices.
In this way, PPV wants to identify households in difficulty,
help them access the appropriate services and offer them
training in controlling their consumption. The Foundation
has contributed to fitting out an educational model
apartment to carry out demonstrations of green practices.
* Partners for the city
Location: Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis
Veolia sponsor: Françoise Millour
Grant: €15,000
CONSERVATOIRE
D’ESPACES NATURELS
DE LORRAINE
Promoting the discovery
and protection of
biodiversity
France
For 30 years, the Lorraine Conservatory
of Natural Spaces (CEN) has been working
to conserve the rich biological heritage
of sites and natural milieux in Lorraine
for their scientific, cultural and landscape
values. Its missions range from studying
natural milieux and species to building
public awareness and protecting the sites.
With the support of the Foundation, the
Conservatoire is developing a special pathway
in the Montenach national nature reserve, a
rich repository of regional biodiversity known
chiefly for the diversity of its wild orchids. The
goal is to allow the public to discover the rich
resources of the site and build awareness of
biodiversity conservation in general.
Location: Montenach, Meurthe-et-Moselle
Veolia sponsor: Cédric Bouzendorffer
Grant: €12,000
“This sustainable and creative
project benefits a very well-known
site, a ‘hotspot’ of biodiversity
in Lorraine, which in 2014 will
host the congress of the French
Federation of Natural Spaces.”
Cédric Bouzendorffer
Veolia project sponsor
UNIS-CITÉ
Encouraging eco-citizen
practices
France
Unis-Cité, set up in 2001, offers young people from
18 to 25 the opportunity to do voluntary civic service
to respond to social and environmental needs near
where they live. In 2009, the nonprofit launched
the Médiaterre program to raise awareness of
ecological issues among people living in low-income
neighborhoods. Young volunteers engaged in civic
service help low-income families adopt eco-citizen
practices as a way of changing their habits and making
real savings. Almost 4,000 families have benefited since
the program was launched.
The Foundation supported the trial phase of the project
and its rollout over the following years, primarily in the
Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Paris and Centre-Est regions, with
the assistance of the regional delegations (analysis of
feedback, training the volunteers, relations with social
housing agencies, organizing site visits for the families,
etc.). In 2013-2014, the Foundation is helping to extend
the program to more cities in the Lyon urban area and in
Nord-Pas-de-Calais, while also supporting management
and national coordination of the project.
Location: Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Paris Region, Rhône-Alpes
Veolia sponsor: Atika Doukkali
Grant: €50,000
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ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
AND BIODIVERSITY
Education
and awareness-building
ENVIRONMENT
BOOK PRIZE
Alain Corbin,
2013 prizewinner
France
LIGUE DE
L’ENSEIGNEMENT
– FÉDÉRATION
DE LA MOSELLE
Teaching people about
biodiversity
Every year since 2006, the Foundation
awards the Environment Book Prize to a
work aimed at building public awareness
of major environmental issues. This prize
rewards already published works, all genres
combined (essay, novel, comics, photography
books). The jury, composed of journalists,
students, well-known personalities and
Veolia Environnement employees under
the chairmanship of Denis Tillinac, awarded
the 2013 prize to Alain Corbin for his book
La Douceur de l’ombre (published by Fayard).
Christophe Galfard won the special young
people’s prize for volume 2 of his novel
Le Prince des nuages, Le Matin des trois soleils
(published by Pocket Jeunesse). The awards
ceremony this year was again held in the
Nancy Town Hall during the prestigious
book fair held in the square.
France
CNRS*
Senegal
Equipment and supplies for the
Sahel Man-Milieu Observatory.
* French Scientific Research Center
Location: Téssékéré
Veolia sponsor: Thierry Vandevelde
Grant: €50,000
ASAWA(RE)3*
Sultanate of Oman
Creation of a multi-partner
ASAWA(RE)3 platform and printing
a reference document.
* Arid & Semi-arid Area Water Alliance for
Resilience, Disaster Response and Ecological
Restoration
Location: Muscat
Veolia sponsor: Jean-Michel Glasman
Grant: €45,000
MUSÉUM NATIONAL
D’HISTOIRE NATURELLE
2013 Nature Photo Prize
France
Heir to a prestigious artistic
tradition, the Museum has
a very rich photographic
collection and has inspired
many famous photographers,
including Robert Doisneau.
Since 2011, it has taken
a renewed interest in
photography and organizes a
competition for professional
photographers on the theme
of biodiversity, in line with
one of its many missions:
educational and cultural
action aimed at the widest
possible audience. In 2013,
professional photographers
competed on the theme of
“Man and Nature” to win a
€10,000 bursary financed by
the Foundation. This bursary
allows the winner to complete
his or her project, which is
displayed in the Museum
the next year. “Planète
Grenouilles” (Frog Planet),
the reportage produced by
the 2012 winner Cyril Ruoso,
was displayed in 2013. The
2013 winner is Steeve Luncker
(VU Agency) for his “Villes
Extrèmes” (Extreme Cities)
project.
Location: Paris
Veolia sponsor: Laure Duquesne
Grant: €10,000
“I am happy to contribute to this professional
bursary supporting the work of a
photographer. This project is very close
to my professional interests and activities –
I have been working as a picture researcher
for over twelve years. I will be promoting this
competition in the company but also outside
it through my personal contacts.”
The Education League’s Moselle Federation
is keen to build an accommodation and
training chalet, with the help of the
Foundation, to improve living conditions
for children in nature classes and adult
rambling and nature discovery groups at
“Les Jonquilles”, a center set up at the end
of the 1950s in Xonrupt-Longemer, which
welcomed approximately 5,000 children
during the 2011-2012 season. The center
enjoys an extraordinary natural setting in
the Ballons des Vosges regional natural park,
from where it runs operations aimed at
preserving the environment and protecting
biodiversity in the Vosges region and France
in general. The new project will focus on
biodiversity education in a space that allows
people to discover and understand the
natural environment in all its fragility and
diversity.
The children will be welcomed in premises
accessible to people with reduced mobility
and in complete harmony with the
surrounding natural environment.
Location: Paris, Nancy
Veolia sponsor: Philippe Langenieux-Villard
Grant: €60,000
Location: Xonrupt-Longemer, Vosges
Veolia sponsor: Guillaume Arama
Grant: €12,000
Laure Duquesne
Veolia project sponsor
Veolia Foundation
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Transversal project
VEOLIA
PROJECTS
AND SPONSORS
DEVELOPMENT AID
AND HUMANITARIAN
EMERGENCIES
12 Combat against cholera
DRC
23 Montauban Services
France
6
12 Les Enfants du Ndé
Cameroon
23 Synethic
France
13 ASSIFIC
Haiti
23 NTA
France
13 Touk Meas – La pirogue d’or
Cambodia
24 Vexin Insertion
Emploi
France
Médecins du Monde
Philippines
Françoise Weber
Development aid
11 Harmonie Mékong
Vietnam
Aurélie Tran Ngoc
11 Programme
Solidarité Eau
France
David Poinard
STUDENT SOLIDARITY
AWARDS
Encouraging student
initiatives serving
the community
World
The Student Solidarity Awards, created
by the Foundation and the Campus
Veolia Environnement, aims to encourage
students in higher education to get
involved in projects serving the general
interest.
It rewards innovative initiatives launched
by student associations in France and
elsewhere in one of the Foundation’s
three fields of action. The winners receive
financial support (a grant of €15,000
shared between the different projects)
and technical back-up from Group
employees, who volunteer their skills.
Four projects were rewarded in 2013:
La Cravate Solidaire, led by the student
association of EDC (company managers
and creators school), for its project to collect
and distribute appropriate business
clothing for jobseekers in the Paris Region;
the humanitarian arm of INSA Toulouse
for its “Idée Eau” (Water Idea) project that
aims to build and install hand basins
in very small health centers in Senegal;
the nonprofit Inde-Espoir, supported
by students from nine different schools
and universities, for their project to build
a boarding facility for girls from tribal
populations in Krishnadevipeta in India;
and the EDHEC association L’Ombre et la
Plume, which helps prison inmates and
former prisoners in the Lille conurbation
find a place in the labor market.
Location: France and international
Veolia sponsor: Brigitte Durand
Franck Haaser
Jean-Marc Loubet
Yannick Sourget
Marie-Françoise Malheu
13 EDS
Mali
Clément Petit
11 Agence de
développement
communal
Senegal
13 Fondation Mérieux
Africa and Haiti
11 CJEAPVA
Kenya
13 ICIC
France
11 Boronu France Bénin
Benin
13 London School
of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine
DRC
Guillaume Briffeuil
Philippe Mignard
Sylvie Petit
11 Emergency aid
Mali
Jean-Christian Pottier
12 Réseau Marp
Niger
Habibou Doudou
Philippe Lagrange
Dominique Héron
Franck Haaser
13 Rapid cholera
detection kit
France
Sandhya Bonnet
12 Solena
France
18 Adie
France
Marc Debost
Éric Lesueur
12 One Drop
Burkina Faso
Social inclusion
through work
12 APEMC G GC
Burkina Faso
Frédéric Figari
Gérard Etcheverry
24 ASCISE
France
Hélèna Thrap-Olsen
24 AMPG
France
24 AGEHB
France
Gilles Regnard
SOCIAL INCLUSION
THROUGH WORK
AND SOCIAL LINKS
Dominique Héron
Jean-François Rezeau
Charles-Henri Galmiche
12 Les Timous
Cameroon
Frédéric Lacaze-Eslous
Jacques Poujade
23 R3
France
Sylvie Recrosio
Thierry Legube
24 Initiatives solidaires
France
Dominique Boizeau
25 Optim Services
France
Adrien Morel-Fatio
25 Les Jardins du Girou
France
Amador Esparza
25 RÉSINE
France
Gilles Rousseaux
25 Halage
France
Philippe Brion
26 Approche
France
Alain Legrain
26 Papiers de l’Espoir
France
Philippe Praud
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26 Ressourcerie
Deux Mains
France
30 Avenir nouvelle maison
des chômeurs
France
26 Atelier d’Éco Solidaire
France
30 Pact du Pas-de-Calais
France
27 Cannelle et Piment
France
30 LFM Radio
France
27 Acta Vista
France
30 Sport
sans frontières
France
Thomas Lecoq
Jean-Christophe Poultier
Philippe Lagrange
Paul-Émile Roblez
27 AWO Kreisverband
Fulda Stadt
und Land e.V.
Germany
Harald Nieves
27 APIJ
France
Éric Hestin
28 GREP Intérim
France
Hervé Lesaux
28 Solidarités nouvelles
face au chômage
France
Philippe Lagrange
28 Log’ins
France
Christian Dexemple
28 Naturschutzbund
Deutschland
Kreisverband
Gifhorn e.V.
Germany
Olaf Koschnitzki
28 ARES
France
Didier Courboillet
29 Foyer Aubois
France
Delphine Cousinie
29 Extramuros
France
Pascal Peslerbe
Social links
30 CFA Saint-Jean Val-d’Oise
France
Éric Haza
Marie-Alcine Montaut
Michel Talbot
Fatima Diallo
Claire Billon-Galland
37 GERES
Morocco
Alain Brighenti
Education and
awareness-building
38 Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V.
Germany
Lars Tennhardt
38 CPIE
France
Aurélie Arquier
38 Réseau école et nature
France
Dominique Héron
31 Station für Technik,
Naturwissenschaften,
Kunst – Weißwasser e.V.
Germany
38 PPV
France
31 Concorda Logis
France
39 Conservatoire
d’espaces naturels
de Lorraine
France
Sandra Tietz
Xavier Héber-Suffrin
Françoise Millour
Cédric Bouzendorffer
31 Güstrower
Bildungshaus e.V.
Germany
39 Unis-Cité
France
31 La Marmite
France
40 CNRS
Senegal
31 Sport dans la Ville
France
40 ASAWA(RE)3
Sultanate of Oman
Susanne Schmaal
Varravadha Ong
Philippe Yvon
ENVIRONMENTAL
CONSERVATION
AND BIODIVERSITY
32 Remora
France
Emmanuel Plessis
Natural heritage
and biodiversity
37 Comité français de l’UICN
France
Michel Mori
37 Cœur de Forêt
Cameroon
Jean-Pascal Rigolleau
37 LPO
France
Patrice Alary
Atika Doukkali
Thierry Vandevelde
Jean-Michel Glasman
40 Muséum national
d’histoire naturelle
France
Laure Duquesne
41 Ligue de l’enseignement
– Fédération de la Moselle
France
Guillaume Arama
41 Environment Book Prize
France
Philippe Langenieux-Villard
Transversal project
42 Student Solidarity
Awards
World
Brigitte Durand
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