The Veolia Environnement Foundation, created in May 2004, is one of the leading private-sector foundations in France.
It supports non-profit, community-oriented projects contributing to sustainable development, with special focus on outreach, workforce development and environmental conservation in France and internationally.
Sustainable development driven by corporate patronage
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Workforce development - France (75)
Fostering the transition from integration to a durable job
To enable its beneficiaries to find a durable job, Régie de quartier du XIXème arrondissement de Paris is developing new activities : landscaping projects, plumbing, electricity and masonry operations.
Outreach - Niger
Food security for villagers through market gardening
To guarantee the food security of the population living in the villages of the Sahel in Niger, Agrisud International is developing market garden acreages and trying to boost the capacity for access to irrigation water and drinking water.
Environmental conservation - France (62)
Discovering ecosystems through gardening
The association Le Jardin Voyageur offers the schools of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region an initiation project into gardening and the discovery of nature to explain the balances and imbalances of ecosystems to the children.
A sponsor speaks
Sabrina Thétis, sponsor of the Groupe Associatif Estuaire (GAE): launch of a bumblebee observatory.
"These insects render an absolutely indispensable service to nature and to man: they are pollinators. Without them, many plant species could not reproduce. It so happens that today, between sincere concerns and a lack of accurate data, we do not know how to quantify the impact of human activities on the bumblebee populations. By launching a study of this type, the idea is not "simply" to protect nature because it is beautiful, but because it provides genuine services."
