These strategic footholds, distributed across the Group’s main geographic regions, bring technical expertise and emergency equipment closer to vulnerable areas.
How? In partnership with local teams, each Veoliaforce hub relies on human and material resources:
- Veoliaforce volunteers, employee candidates from dozens of countries where Veolia operates. They share their expertise with the Foundation during working hours and are trained in humanitarian emergency response.
Mobile water treatment units, known as Aquaforces (capable of supplying 2,000 to 7,500 people per unit). They are pre-positioned at strategic transport hubs to reduce response times during the critical first hours of a disaster.
By drawing on these international hubs, the Veolia Foundation ensures action on the ground that is closer, more responsive, more consistent, and more sustainable.
In response to the multiplication and increasing severity of humanitarian, ecological, and climate crises,
the Veolia Foundation is evolving its intervention model.
Humanitarian response is now decentralized through a newly formed network of operational hubs.
The Veolia Foundation has developed solutions for access to essential services.
Following a “copy & adapt” approach applied to Veolia technologies, the Foundation designed mobile water treatment units (Aquaforces), a sanitation device (Saniforce), and other equipment adapted to humanitarian contexts.
The Veolia Foundation relies on humanitarian
partners.
Veoliaforce hubs operate in close synergy with international and local humanitarian ecosystems. Whether working with United Nations agencies (UNICEF, UNHCR), the Red Cross, or partner NGOs, the approach is coordinated, unified, and tailored to the needs expressed by relief actors on the ground.
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Turning global expertise
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AND THE VEOLIA TEAMS BEHIND THEM
How are these Veoliaforce hubs driven?
Through skills-based sponsorship, in partnership with Veolia teams.
With specialized equipment developed by the Veolia Foundation.
Equipment and training materials are standardized, interoperable, and use uniform methods. Regardless of their country of origin or professional background, Veolia employees trained by the Foundation apply identical methods.