Head of recruitment and mobility at Veolia Environmental Services, sponsors the "Water Lily" non profit organization, which is installing a waste management project in Antananarivo.

"When the Water Lilystudents contacted the VeoliaEnvironnement Foundation,I met with them to evaluatetheir motivation and thesoundness of their project -I have experience in wastemanagement, recruitmentissues and Madagascar,having spent two years thereduring my military service.I found their project well puttogether: it was financiallysound and their analysis ofthe social aspects was satisfactory. When you want toreorganize waste collection in a developing country, youhave to take account of all the families who eke out a -miserable - living from what they can scavenge fromdumps. You can't deprive them of their sole source ofincome. Veolia Environmental Services manages the entirewaste collection system in Alexandria in Egypt and so wehave experience in this field. We sent two project leadersthere to study our organization. In June 2006, when theirmission is completed, I will spend a week with them inMadagascar during my holidays to find out what theyhave done: it's interesting to see what young people, withtheir new way of looking at things, can come up with inconnection with an issue that we don't know much aboutin developing countries, where it's impossible to exportour model of industrialized waste management."