"When I heard that the Veolia Environnement Foundation was seeking projects to support and that company employees could get involved, I didn't waste any time signing up, since I was myself looking for a local initiative to support.

I have been based in Hong Kong for eight years. I travel a great deal in China and am well aware of the extraordinary contrasts that can exist between living conditions in the big cities and in rural zones. I didn't want to work on a waterrelated project because I was afraid people would say I was doing business under cover of humanitarian action. That is why I made contact with the local office of Heifer International, an NGO that supports initiatives to improve living conditions for very disadvantaged people, so that we could work together on developing a coherent project.