Sponsors' summaries

The sponsors talk about their actions, discoveries and personal highlights.

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"Everybody is focused on the essential objective: to provide sustainable support to a population in danger."

Pascal Merland, Veolia Propreté

Emergency
 Nigeria

Pascal Merland and Pierre-Yves Cailleton, Veoliaforce volunteers from Veolia Environmental Services, went to Nigeria for two weeks to support American NGO the Blacksmith Institute, appointed by UNICEF to decontaminate local villages.
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"Professionally, this kind of work is very rewarding and enriching."

Laurence Miller, Veolia Environnement, Paris (75)

Workforce development
 France (Paris)

Laurence Miller legal advisor on environmental law at the head office of Veolia Environnement, is a Foundation sponsor and volunteer. It is in the second capacity that she has been providing legal assistance over the past few weeks for the Ares organization.
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"It's so satisfying to know that you are helping others, to know that training local technicians means that people in Kadoma will be supplied with good quality water."

Paul Hoeferlin, Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies

Emergency
 Zimbabwe

Paul Hoeferlin, an engineer at Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, was in Zimbabwe from July 9 to 26 to provide support for the French Red Cross, one of the Foundation's partners. He was stationed in Kadoma, a city with a population of 100,000 in the center of the country, where he took over from Patrice Darré, who went out in September 2009 to identify and prioritize the work to be done at the water treatment plants.
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"We don't mean to act indefinitely in place of the inhabitants, but generally to transmit our knowhow so that tomorrow, Dschang can manage collection all by itself, with sufficient human and material resources."

Guillaume Courtin, CREED, Veolia Propreté

Outreach
 Cameroon

An engineer at CREED (Research Centre on Environmental Services) in Limay, Guillaume Courtin is a specialist in waste management and sponsor of the nonprofit Elans (Ensemble pour l'Action Nord Sud).
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"I'm convinced that by combining their skills and ours, we can provide innovative solutions for the development of these urban territories and also for rainwater management."

Eymeric de Chaumont, Veolia Water

Workforce development
 France (Hauts-de-Seine)

Eymeric de Chaumont, an engineer with Veolia Water, sponsors the nonprofit Espaces, specialized in social and professional integration via the ecological management of the urban environment in the Val de Seine area.
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"One has the feeling that one has succeeded in doing something to effect a small change in the destiny of these children."

Anca Strachinaru, Veolia Environnement, Montreuil (93)

Outreach
 France (Seine-Saint-Denis)

Anca Strachinaru, who has Romanian origins, is in charge of promoting the group's business units in the schools on the Veolia Campus; she sponsors the project of the association Hors la Rue: day welcome center for young Roma in danger in the Paris region.
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"Participate in an initiative that fosters local dynamism by guaranteeing the quality of the drinking water as well as food security."

Doudou Habibou-Halidou, Veolia Eau, Niger

Outreach
 Niger

Habibou Halidou Doudou, special assistant for the Environment at SEEN (Société d'Exploitation des Eaux du Niger), and sponsor of a project developed by Agrisud in Niger: the development of village truck farming zones, with a drinking water access aspect.
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"A group of youths who all work hard, unpaid, with extraordinary enthusiasm, love for their neighborhood and total friendship."

Bertrand Auneau, Veolia Propreté, Gironde (33)

Workforce development
 France (Gironde)

Bertrand Auneau, director of a Veolia Propreté agency specialized in services to communities in Gironde, and sponsor of the K-Prod project.
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"These insects render an absolutely indispensable service to nature and to man"

Sabrina Thétis, Veolia Eau, Nanterre (92)

Environmental conservation
 France (Loire)

Sabrina Thétis is a special "Sustainable Development" assistant at Veolia Eau and sponsor of the project of Groupe Associatif Estuaire (GAE): launch of a bumblebee observatory.
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"The association is doing an extraordinary job of training and transmitting knowledge!"

Aurélia Greff, Veolia Environnement, Paris (75)

Outreach
 Madagascar

Aurélia Greff is a multimedia communication manager of Veolia Environnement and sponsor of the "Nubian vaults" project of the association Ecoles du Monde.
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"Our little drops of water finally succeed in filling large reservoirs!"

Philippe Mignard, Veolia Eau, Pyrénées-Orientales (66)

Environmental conservation
 France (Pyrénées-Orientales)

Philippe Mignard is a Unit Manager in the Veolia Water Agency of the Pyrénées-Orientales and sponsor of the arboretum project of the association "Naturalia et Biologia".
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"I am amazed to observe the strength of the relationship between the sponsors and their charges"

Hélène Gabay-Humienny, Veolia Eau, Paris (75)

Outreach
 France (Paris)

Hélène Gabay-Humienny is a jurist in the legal division of Veolia Eau and sponsor of the association Parrains par Mille.
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"They're terrific professionals"

Alain Bunisset

Workforce development
 France (Paris)

Alain Bunisset is a special assistant for the Plan Handicap with the regional manager of Veolia Eau Ile-de-France Centre and sponsor of the ESAT du Père Lachaise and the ESAT de la Bièvre.
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"I decided to do skills sponsoring with Ecoles du Monde."

Alexandra Sourzat, Veolia Eau, France (77)

Outreach
 Madagascar

Alexandra Sourzat is the sponsor of a project carried out by the association Ecoles du Monde in Madagascar, which helped to replace obsolete wind generators by solar pumps so that the water reservoirs of seven villages would be supplied all year round.
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«Warmth, outstretched hands which erase the differences"

Clotilde Bottino, Veolia Eau, France (75)

Outreach
 France (Seine-et-Marne)

Clotilde Bottino is the sponsor of the Ellen Poidatz Foundation, at Saint-Fargeau in the Seine-et-Marne district, which welcomes handicapped children and adolescents for periods of care and rehabilitation, while continuing to provide them with a school curriculum.
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"I felt I was instilled with a responsibility that went far beyond "mere" sponsoring."

Maxime Zyma, Veolia Eau, Gabon

Outreach
 Gabon

Maxime Zyma sponsors "Sida Zéro", an association which has built a care center for persons affected with HIV in a disadvantaged suburb of Libreville.
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"The opportunity to directly impact the communities in our area piqued my interest."

Denisse Ike, Veolia Environnement, United States

Outreach
 United States

Denisse Ike sponsors the non-profit organisation "Northern Illinois Food Bank", which distributes over 12,000 metric tons of food every year to people living under the poverty threshold in the suburbs of Chicago.
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"The strength of partnership between a small structure and a large Company"

Soazig Le Clouerec, Veolia Propreté, France (76)

Workforce development
 France (Orne)

Soazig Le Clouerec is the sponsor of AIFR (Association Insertion Familles Rurales Bocage), which organizes back-to-work schemes based on waste collection.
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"We share the same values of respect and high expectations"

Sylvain Picard, Veolia Transport, France (76)

Workforce development
 France (Seine-Maritime)

Sylvain Picard sponsors the non-profit organization Émergence in Le Havre, which helps young people from 18 to 24 without training or qualifications to move into the world of work.
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"Everyone can make a small contribution"

Philippe Videlot, Veolia Energy, France (35)

Philippe Videlot, operations foreman at Dalkia France and sponsor of non-profit organization Cheval Dire, which gives disabled children the opportunity to discover horse riding.

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