Offering skills: the volunteer's role

The volunteers of Veoliaforce are technicians or engineers, ready to go to the four corners of the world to make their professional skills and expertise available to others.

Veoliaforce, the volunteers of emergency and development

Providing the population with drinking water, restoring energy supply, handling waste disposal and treatment, assisting the transport of food and equipment. The Group has the necessary expertise for all these tasks.

The volunteers take some of their working time as employees of Veolia Environnement. The Foundation takes charge of the logistics and costs of their travel, and finances the equipment, usually left on the spot.

Emergency missions

In 2008, Veoliaforce was involved in five emergency humanitarian operations in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, mobilizing French and foreign employee volunteers. They spent over 500 days in the field.

Development projects

In 2008, Veoliaforce volunteers spent over 900 days in the field to make their technical skills available for development projects, essentially in Africa and the Middle East.

How to become a Volunteer ?

PAY ATTENTION: You have to be an employee or a retired employee of the company Veolia Environnement.

Fill in one of the following Volunteer form :
- in french,
- in english,
- in spanish.

Emergency

Haiti, January 2010

Emergency
Haiti

The Veolia Environnement Foundation went into action immediately after the earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. As of January 13, it had sent over 10 metric tons of emergency equipment to Haiti in a cargo plane chartered by the French Red Cross, and the first Veoliaforce volunteers were on the ground in Port-au-Prince as of January 16.

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Development

AIMF

Outreach
Cameroon

Rehabilitation of drinking water networks and creation of sanitary blocks in the commune of Bangangté, in Cameroon.

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