Since its creation in 2004, the Foundation has helped more than 1,500 projects and carried out nearly 200 skills missions.
World
Environment & Biodiversity
Prefigure a coalition to bring together 1,000 representatives and 1 billion of the planet's inhabitants affected by rising sea levels.
World
Environment & Biodiversity
Tara Polar Station: studying the Arctic, sentinel of the climate
France
Humanitarian & Development
Support for the NGO's operations to combat water scarcity and safety training for staff during operations.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
An operation to raise public awareness of biodiversity by creating a work of plant and human art near the Place de l'Etoile.
Nepal
Humanitarian & Development
Supplying drinking water and renovating public toilets in Nepalese villages.
Senegal
Humanitarian & Development
Promoting environmentally-friendly farming practices in Senegal through a women's economic interest group.
France
Social & Employment
Regional development of a network of speech and eloquence training courses for prisoners.
France
Social & Employment
Support for the ActiviTeil employment company in the commune of Le Teil, Ardèche, as part of the Territoires Zéro Chômeur de Longue Durée (TZCLD) integration program.
France
Social & Employment
Support for the Espacea employment company in the Pontchateau area, Loire-Atlantique, as part of the Territoires Zéro Chômeur de Longue Durée (TZCLD) program.
France
Social & Employment
Support for the Acsomur employment company in the Ménimur area of Vannes, as part of the Territoires Zéro Chômeur de Longue Durée (TZCLD) integration program.
France
Social & Employment
Support for the Nouvelle Equation employment company in Joinville, Champagne, as part of the Territoires Zéro Chômeur de Longue Durée (TZCLD) integration program.
France
Social & Employment
Support for Emile et Rosa, an employment company operating in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, as part of the Territoires Zéro Chômeur de Longue Durée (TZCLD) scheme.
Occasional support for an association for young people in difficulty based in Marseille.
France
Social & Employment
Supporting SMEs and VSEs on their path towards inclusive enterprise.
France
Social & Employment
Support for the Bouffémont Attainville Moisselles area, a candidate for the Territoires Zéro Chômeur de Longue Durée (TZCLD) integration scheme.
Armenia
Humanitarian & Development
Purchase of child hygiene equipment for displaced populations in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Construction of a drinking water supply system and five boreholes in villages around Ouéléni (Burkina Faso).
Kenya
Humanitarian & Development
Infrastructure to supply water to four schools and a health facility on Rusinga Island on Lake Victoria (Kenya).
Benin
Humanitarian & Development
Composting toilets to solve sanitation problems and facilitate access to agricultural fertilizers.
Ivory Coast
Environment & Biodiversity
Programme to protect the Mé River in Côte d'Ivoire.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creation of a thrift shop in Paris dedicated to sportswear and accessories.
France
Social & Employment
Support for the Val d'Emploi employment company in Livron (Drôme) as part of the Territoires Zéro Chômeur de Longue Durée (TZCLD) scheme.
Social & Employment
Development of integration activities around the circular economy of materials.
France
Humanitarian & Development
Support for the Cercle Action internationale, an advocacy forum for foundations with international commitments.
India
Social & Employment
Creation of micro-entrepreneurship training centers in India and Indonesia.
France
Social & Employment
Deployment of an economic and professional integration program: Zero long-term unemployment districts
Costa Rica
Environment & Biodiversity
Development of a plastic waste recycling workshop in Costa Rica
France
Humanitarian & Development
Support for the online magazine "Défis humanitaires".
World
Environment & Biodiversity
A think tank to mobilize and convince people about the oceans
Senegal
Humanitarian & Development
Experiments and research on sustainable aquaponics with women's MSEs in Senegal. Ar Jeeguen program.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Setting up a recycling centre (collection, sale, recovery) dedicated to building and public works materials in the Vannes area.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Setting up a local circular economy loop for bio-waste in a district of Angers.
World
Environment & Biodiversity
Mission Bougainville: to set up the first innovative campaign to collect data on all the world's seas and oceans.
World
Environment & Biodiversity
TREC expedition: for a new understanding of coastal ecosystems
World
Humanitarian & Development
Support for the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) working group in the context of crises and fragility.
Lebanon
Humanitarian & Development
Chemical analysis of latrine sludge from a camp in Lebanon to assess the performance of bioadditives.
Vatican City
Humanitarian & Development
Technical support for a programme to provide access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in hospitals.
France
Social & Employment
Conversion of a van into a mobile laundry to reach out to isolated people in the Rennes metropolitan area.
Benin
Humanitarian & Development
Rehabilitation and construction of water infrastructure in the village of Agolèdji (Benin).
Nepal
Environment & Biodiversity
Creation of a waste collection, destruction and recycling plant in Nepal.
France
Social & Employment
Support for the integration programme of an association for the defence and protection of donkeys.
France
Social & Employment
Support for the "Enjoué" employment company in Villeurbanne (Rhône) as part of the Territoire Zéro Chômeur Longue Durée (TZCLD) scheme.
Monaco
Environment & Biodiversity
Scientific evaluation of alkalinisation as a solution to combat ocean acidification.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Preservation of the marine area of the National Nature Reserve of Saint-Martin (French West Indies).
DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa)
Humanitarian & Development
Support for the renewal of the Multi-Sectoral Strategic Plan for the Elimination of Cholera (PMSEC) in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa)
Humanitarian & Development
Scientific support for the implementation of a Strategic Multi-Sectoral Cholera Elimination Programme (PMSEC) in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
World
Humanitarian & Development
Strategic research and innovation partnership with the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders (DWB).
Mali
Humanitarian & Development
Construction of a borehole and a drinking water supply system in a peripheral district of Bamako.
France
Social & Employment
Development of an integration project based on the “Premières Heures” Scheme.
Mauritania
Humanitarian & Development
Renovation of water infrastructure in Bouanze (Mauritania).
Tunisia
Humanitarian & Development
Renovation of the Oasis of Gabès (southern Tunisia): sanitation component.
Senegal
Humanitarian & Development
Installation of a membrane treatment unit to desalinate water and reduce its fluorine content.
Monaco
Environment & Biodiversity
Creation of a World Coral Conservatory.
World
Environment & Biodiversity
Develop a “One Sustainable Health” approach.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Study on the melting of alpine glaciers, the diversity of its consequences and increasing awareness of the impacts of this melting on ecosystems and populations.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Improve protection of mangroves in French overseas territories and coordinate an observation and action network.
Cameroon
Humanitarian & Development
A future family centre at Hôpital Laquintinie in Douala (Cameroon).
World
Humanitarian & Development
Study water access systems in healthcare facilities in some African countries.
Humanitarian & Development
Support for the WHO regional office in Africa to improve water quality in healthcare facilities and hospital hygiene.
World
Environment & Biodiversity
Expedition to gain a better understanding of the functioning of the microbiome and study its vulnerability to climate change.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Partnership with the Foundation of the Académie de Médecine on research into chemical pollutants in the environment.
Ivory Coast
Environment & Biodiversity
Raising student awareness of waste sorting in Togo and Côte d'Ivoire.
France
Social & Employment
A water recuperation system for the Combe des Mineurs community garden.
France
Social & Employment
Développement de fablabs, ambulants et fixes, pour des quartiers démunis.
France
Social & Employment
Support for a resource centre in the Aube region to replace specific machines.
Cameroon
Humanitarian & Development
Health and humanitarian assistance program to combat Covid-19 in the Bangangté region of Cameroon.
Nepal
Humanitarian & Development
Relocation of the village of Dhye in Nepal, affected by climate change, to a new, more viable site.
France
Social & Employment
Creation of a cookery school for registered refugees.
Belgium
Environment & Biodiversity
Promoting local use of wood from the Forêt de Soignes (Belgium).
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Setting up a food waste collection and local compost recovery system.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Developing an educational pathway for children on the theme of environmental jobs in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Morocco
Social & Employment
Support for social entrepreneurship for vulnerable populations in rural areas of Morocco.
Togo
Humanitarian & Development
Creation of a library to promote children’s education in Vo Koutime.
World
Humanitarian & Development
Co-building a Mooc on waterborne infectious diseases.
Cameroon
Humanitarian & Development
Providing water in rural areas for 47 villages in Cameroon.
Mauritania
Humanitarian & Development
Waste management support in the community of Atar, Mauritania.
World
Environment & Biodiversity
Study the risks linked to climate change for coastal towns.
France
Social & Employment
Introduction of joint tutoring by teachers and company employees to help bright students from disadvantaged neighbourhoods prepare for higher education.
France
Social & Employment
Development of a wood workshop by a work experience structure in the Lyon area.
France
Social & Employment
Support for young people from disadvantaged high schools to improve access to scientific studies.
France
Social & Employment
Setting up a sewing workshop to help trafficked women find employment.
Nicaragua
Humanitarian & Development
Two wells built and a water awareness programme in Bluefields, Nicaragua.
France
Humanitarian & Development
Renovation of a second house to reintegrate the most disadvantaged people back into society.
Cambodia
Humanitarian & Development
A water management support system for the Angkor region.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
In Indre-et-Loire, the association "Pour vos Yeux" commissions urban artists to decorate water towers and uses them to raise good water management awareness.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Inventories of threatened animal and plant habitats and ecosystems in France.
Senegal
Environment & Biodiversity
Mangrove reforestation program in Senegal.
Vietnam
Humanitarian & Development
Design and manufacture of a comprehensive plastic waste recycling and reuse solution.
World
Environment & Biodiversity
Expedition to sample microplastics in the Mediterranean Sea.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Solution for the recovery of organic waste in an urban environment
Senegal
Environment & Biodiversity
Study of the populations of freshwater molluscs, intermediate hosts of the parasite that causes bilharzia, in the Ferlo region (Senegal).
France
Social & Employment
Creation of La Cassette, a third place dedicated to training and producing radio programs and podcasts in Aubervilliers.
Brazil
Social & Employment
Training to enter the job market in the Brazilian favela of Vila Prudente in Sao Paulo.
Vietnam
Humanitarian & Development
Construction and running of a nursery school in a disadvantaged industrial area.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Scientific assessment of microplastic pollution along the South Brittany coast, combined with an educational mission aimed at local stakeholders.
World
Environment & Biodiversity
A new Tara expedition to go back to the origins of plastic pollution in Europe.
South Africa
Social & Employment
Creation of a third place in Durban (South Africa) based on the circular economy.
France
Social & Employment
System for integrating people with disabilities into the world of business.
Senegal
Humanitarian & Development
Installation of a water pumping and treatment system from the Gambia River to supply drinking water to the village of Saal.
Senegal
Humanitarian & Development
Installation of biodigesters in the Thiès region of Senegal.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Setting up a market garden-school for young people who have dropped out of school.
France
Social & Employment
Creation of a fishing pontoon suitable for people with reduced mobility and an educational space for learning about biodiversity.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Study of biodiversity and pollution in the deep coralligenous zone
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Identifying the effects of microplastics and nanoplastics on biodiversity.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Improving access to drinking water and community structure in the Galgouli (Burkina Faso).
Philippines
Humanitarian & Development
Creation of a platform to gather expertise around environmental health.
Senegal
Humanitarian & Development
Improve drinking water supply in the Diagane Barka district (Fatick region).
France
Social & Employment
Strengthen the economic and social fabric by supporting the creation of businesses by disadvantaged groups and by supporting isolated entrepreneurs.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creation of an educational tool to educate the general public and schoolchildren about ocean pollution by plastics and microplastics.
Philippines
Environment & Biodiversity
Creation of a Ocean Academy in the Philippines to raise awareness of coral reef protection and sustainable economic development.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Collaborative media taking stock of the climate year from one COP to another.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Obtain European funding to work on supporting marine biodiversity with sufficient human, technical and financial resources over a meaningful period of time.
Mali
Humanitarian & Development
Creating a mini-network of five standpipes and setting up a management committee in a rural area of Kendié (Dogon region in Mali).
France
Social & Employment
Creating an affordable furniture service aimed at people moving into their first home following time in insecure housing.
France
Social & Employment
Step up the production of vermicompost in order to make good use of vegetable garden waste and increase the amount of work being done by a back-to-work scheme.
Philippines
Humanitarian & Development
Programme to increase the quality of life of people in the Philippines by improving environmental health.
Kenya
Humanitarian & Development
Setting up a “Water and Healthcare” centre in Baringo County in Kenya
France
Social & Employment
An innovative educational method to integrate and educate young people from troubled neighbourhoods in the Toulon area.
Armenia
Social & Employment
Setting up training for plumbers-pipelayers and field-based customer service staff.
Hungary
Social & Employment
The organisation runs summer camps for Roma and non-Roma children in the most disadvantaged regions of Hungary.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
A back-to-work social enterprise makes good use of green waste.
World
Environment & Biodiversity
Studying plastic pollution and raising public awareness.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Designing and building a prototype sustainable urban aquaculture farm
World
Social & Employment
Overhaul of a management training program for small entrepreneurs in developing countries.
France
Social & Employment
Creation of a Wood workshop at Emmaus Défi.
France
Social & Employment
Creation of ecological and socially sustainable delivery and collection services for retailers in Bordeaux city-center.
France
Social & Employment
Creation of a community café focused on the social and professional inclusion of the most deprived.
DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa)
Humanitarian & Development
Implementation of an epidemiological monitoring tool to monitor the response to cholera in real time.
Mali
Humanitarian & Development
Re-establishment of the drinking water supply system for the village of Séro, in western Mali.
World
Humanitarian & Development
Benchmark of studies on the impact of micro-organisms in reducing fecal sludge in latrines in emergency situations carried out by humanitarian stakeholders.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Development of educational activities on the protection of reptiles in the Var.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creation of educational workshops on the theme of water.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Development of a solution for the collection, storage, and recycling of cigarette butts via a connected unit
Mali
Humanitarian & Development
Improving water supply in Sénou (a district of Bamako in Mali)
Armenia
Environment & Biodiversity
Decontaminating the beaches of Lake Sevan in Armenia, in order to protect its ecosystem and its value for the tourist industry.
France
Social & Employment
Purchasing a van to transport work scheme employees to its green space maintenance sites in Cap Sizun
Vietnam
Social & Employment
Computer programming, driving socio-professional integration in Vietnam
Cameroon
Humanitarian & Development
In Bafoussam, a major town in northwest Cameroon, the children attending the French-speaking Centre Culturel Victor Hugo don’t have drinking water. A borehole has been dug and a water supply system put in place by an Ardèche-based association, Asomocam.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Developing a mosquito repellent soap to fight malaria
World
Environment & Biodiversity
By making articles by academics and researchers available, The Conversation aims to disseminate knowledge more effectively: its reviews of topical issues are taken up by the traditional media. A section dedicated to the circular economy is being developed with the support of the Veolia Foundation.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creation of an innovative method of raising environmental awareness among neurodiverse children, particularly children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and training for teaching staff.
France
Humanitarian & Development
Forum organised by Ahimsa Fund on the theme of health for all
Benin
Humanitarian & Development
Increase sterilization capacity of medical instruments at two major health centers in Nikki, Benin, by installing solar-powered autoclaves.
Belgium
Social & Employment
Support for a reception centre in Belgium for people with mental disabilities, focusing on environment related educational activities.
France
Social & Employment
Educational programme designed to stop students dropping out of education and delivered by volunteer company employees
France
Social & Employment
Helping the most socially-excluded people with the donation boxes scheme
France
Environment & Biodiversity
A pilot initiative to better understand new forms of water contamination, characterize them, and assess the effectiveness of tertiary treatment on their elimination.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Boosting the capabilities of septic tank manual cleaners in Ouagadougou
Madagascar
Humanitarian & Development
Experimenting with a new decentralized electrification model: nano grids.
Madagascar
Humanitarian & Development
Building a water conveyance to supply 1,000 residents in a Madagascan village with drinking water.
Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)
Humanitarian & Development
Rehabilitating water infrastructures in a school to improve the health of pupils and teachers.
Mexico
Humanitarian & Development
A medical centre self-sufficient in water
France
Humanitarian & Development
Creating an information bank about initiatives towards decentralised electrification in rural and suburban areas
United States
Environment & Biodiversity
Designing an approach to raise awareness about plastic waste pollution in Mississippi waters
France
Social & Employment
Back-to-work scheme employees create gardens on the roofs of warehouses in Aubervilliers.
France
Social & Employment
Create jobs in disadvantaged neighborhoods with high unemployment.
World
Humanitarian & Development
Veolia’s end-of-life-cycle computer equipment gets recycled by back-to-work employees and is donated to charities.
France
Social & Employment
Innovative professional training for unemployed young people (18-25) in the 19th arrondissement of Paris with plans to open a sustainable space.
France
Social & Employment
A 2,000m² vegetable garden on a roof in Aubervilliers maintained by back-to-work employees.
World
Environment & Biodiversity
Bolster the Ocean Solutions Initiative partnership with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation in order to make a contribution to an upcoming IPCC report.
World
Environment & Biodiversity
Call for projects to tackle plastic pollution in the Mediterranean
India
Humanitarian & Development
Building toilets for the 500 pupils attending a primary school in the State of Karnataka.
France
Social & Employment
Acquiring a folding/drying press to sustain the laundry business at a Parisian company specialized in job integration through business.
France
Social & Employment
Creating an “accorderie” (service exchange network) in Pontcharra, Isère.
Niger
Humanitarian & Development
Installing water pumps and renovating existing wells to improve water supply for local people and livestock and the irrigation of farmland.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Support for the planning of a third location dedicated to eco-responsibility.
Iraq
Skills Sponsorship
Assessment of Bardarash IDP Camp, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraqi.
Togo
Humanitarian & Development
Extending a health centre in the village of Segbé in Southern Togo.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
The first web and mobile socially-responsible crowd recycling app.
China
Environment & Biodiversity
Domestic anti-arsenic sand filter project.
Cameroon
Humanitarian & Development
Using renewable energy to help supply electricity in remote areas of Cameroon.
Philippines
Humanitarian & Development
Reducing the adverse health and environmental impact of working in the informal solid waste recycling sector in Manila
Cameroon
Humanitarian & Development
Renewable energy electrification project in Cameroon
Senegal
Environment & Biodiversity
Experimenting and studying a vast operation to revitalize the African Sahel: the “Great Green Wall”
Guinea
Humanitarian & Development
Solar powered water supply system and knowledge transfer.
Niger
Humanitarian & Development
Integrated program to strengthen the population’s resilience to climate
Mali
Humanitarian & Development
Drinking water supplies in Koumi and Nerekoro (Mali).
France
Social & Employment
Learning music to remove social and cultural obstacles
France
Social & Employment
Creating and running an inclusive neighbourhood concierge service.
World
Environment & Biodiversity
Better understand the evolution of coral reefs to climate change and ecological disruption.
DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa)
Creating an educational workshop equipped with electric sewing machines operating on solar energy
Vietnam
Humanitarian & Development
Creating a waste management service and conducting a feasibility study for a drinking water conveyance system.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Extension and lay-out of an educational, social eco-garden within the Parc de la Villette, open to the general public and people with disabilities.
Italy
Environment & Biodiversity
Keynote presentations in France’s pavilion at Expo 2015 in Milan.
France
Social & Employment
Structure the VoisinMalin network’s management body. VoisinMalin is a social enterprise which fosters and maintains social ties in working-class areas.
France
Social & Employment
Organisation and moderation of shared activities in Seine-Saint-Denis
France
Social & Employment
Setting up a shared garden to foster social cohesion within a residential estate in Toulon
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Organization of two mobile exhibitions and forums dedicated to environmental issues and green economy businesses
France
Social & Employment
Reintegration of young people excluded from work by developing expertise in eco-construction and logging activities.
France
Social & Employment
Social integration and better food for disadvantaged people in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region by creating a back-to-work agency.
France
2015 Student Solidarity Award: The "Special COP21 Prize" was awarded to the Hydr'Open association for their project to build a small-scale functional hydraulic turbine for rural electrification.
Senegal
Humanitarian & Development
Cambodia
Social & Employment
2015 Student Solidarity Award: The second prize went to Family First, led by HEC Paris students, for its project to measure the social impact of the Enfants du Mékong program (Cambodia).
Niger
2015 Student Solidarity Award: The first prize was awarded to the "Ouallam Children and Young Workers Association" (Niger), for its project to create an educational and psycho-social support structure.
France
Social & Employment
Developing the activities of a caretaking/maintenance service in an environment-friendly district of Bordeaux
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Development of craft activities by women in Burkina Faso.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Counseling and educating volunteer families in Argenteuil to cut their energy consumption, through the "Positive Energy Families" program
World
Environment & Biodiversity
Creation of a MOOC on environmental protection themes.
Mali
Humanitarian & Development
Building a solar powered mini-drinking water supply in two rural schools in the region of Timbuktu.
United States
Environment & Biodiversity
Rehabilitating a Navajo territory involving the community and inspired by local traditions to fight erosion.
Germany
Social & Employment
Developing a smartphone application to help illiterates learn to read and write in complete discretion and open up their professional prospects.
Germany
Social & Employment
Bat sculptures produced by disadvantaged children for awareness-raising and environmental education.
Canada
Environment & Biodiversity
Disseminating data for a broad public on interconnections between water, energy and food for a better grasp of the economic and environmental impact of water management in Alberta.
Senegal
Humanitarian & Development
Supporting the improvement of the health and environmental status of a rural commune in northern Senegal.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Supporting the creation of a workforce development project enhancing thecollections of fruit trees of the conservatory orchard on the island of Porquerolles.
France
Social & Employment
Supporting a new field of activity in workforce development through business activity, home refurbishing.
India
Humanitarian & Development
Building sanitary complexes (toilets and showers) in the outlying districts of the western suburbs of New Delhi.
Kenya
Humanitarian & Development
Youth education program in refugee camps (curriculum adapted to the context and replicable school model).
Senegal
Humanitarian & Development
Ethical research and considerations in humanitarian issues to improve aid effectiveness.
Vietnam
Environment & Biodiversity
Phase 3 (expanded to Ha Long Bay) of the international project to transfer skills to restore and conserve water and shoreline quality.
France
Social & Employment
Counseling and supplying software packages to help microentrepreneurs gauge the social impact of their activity.
France
Social & Employment
In the IVth District of Paris, experimenting with a network of local services at neighborhood scale to create jobs and foster social cohesion
France
Social & Employment
Acquiring tools and wheeled equipment to develop the open space upkeep activities of a workforce development agency in Val d'Oise.
Germany
Social & Employment
Developing premises and a carpentry shop/training center for vulnerable youths of the region of Ham.
Germany
Social & Employment
Implementing six youth-designed environmental conservation projects in the Dresden area.
Mali
Humanitarian & Development
Supporting the production of "Blue Books" (decision aid tools for local players in water and wastewater services and international technical and financial partners).
China
Social & Employment
The "Special prize" was won by the Hand in Hand Association of the Skema Business School. Organizing educational activities and counseling disadvantaged youths, children of migrant workers, schooled in Suzhou, by students doing their school year in China.
Mexico
Humanitarian & Development
Third prize was awarded to Mexisol, the association of the Ecole Polytech'Montpellier school, and Nana Xhimai, a student association for renewable energies from the Universidad technologica del Valle del Mesquital (Hidalgo, Mexico region). Building and installing of solar-powered facilities in the disadvantaged communities of Hidalgo province in Mexico.
DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa)
Social & Employment
Second prize went to ISTOM Student Environmental Expertise (ISEE), an association of the Ecole supérieure d'agro-développement (ISTOM) de Cergy for its feasibility study of an operation to create a system for the production, processing and marketing of Gambia tea in the Kouilou region of Congo. The transformation of the lippia multifora plant into essential oil, powder and infusion will enable local economic development with low environmental impact and create jobs.
Burundi
Humanitarian & Development
First prize was awarded to Topo sans frontiers, the student association of l'Ecole supérieure des Géomètres et Topographes for a property security project in two communes of Burundi carried out by surveying and topography students. The students trained land managers and helped local officials to establish survey reference maps and land certificates to resolve conflicts.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creating a submarine species recognition and counting system tested at Cap Sicié to monitor the impact of the artificial reefs of the Remora project.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Scientific and awareness-raising mission on pollution by plastic and on the environmental challenges of the Mediterranean.
Sierra Leone
Skills Sponsorship
Installation of a chlorination system for the Freetown water supply network.
Germany
Social & Employment
Refurbishing the Güstrow Education Home by the youngsters in difficulty to whom it provides counseling for their social and professional integration
France
Social & Employment
Purchasing equipment for a Woodwork and Metalwork job integration workshop providing job-seeking employees with an opportunity to get training in a developing recycling profession.
France
Social & Employment
Recruiting new teams and acquiring equipment by a workforce development agency specialized in eco-building and ecological refurbishing.
France
Social & Employment
The leading player in workforce development in Ile de France boosts its resources.
France
Social & Employment
Assistance for the moving of a workforce development agency specialized in the production of furnished and professional accessories from recycled materials to boost its production capacity.
France
Social & Employment
Acquiring computerized equipment to improve the counseling of jobseekers.
Germany
Social & Employment
Constructing a drakkar for the social and professional integration of young Germans in difficulty.
France
Social & Employment
Reinforcing the training of a part-time workforce development agency employing former inmates.
France
Social & Employment
Creating an intergenerational database to facilitate housing for young people and erradicate the isolation of senior citizens.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Renaturation of a moorland by young people in a social and professional integration Framework.
Mali
Humanitarian & Development
Rehabilitating a drinking water supply system in a district of Bamako that is poorly served by the public main and particularly struck by the flow of refugees caused by the conflict in the north of the country.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creating a "Point Info Biodiversité" in the Logne Valley.
Cameroon
Environment & Biodiversity
Developing the use of the products of the forest, particularly the Moabi.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Furnishing a space dedicated to biodiversity education in a reception center located in the Ballons des Vosgesregional nature park.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Renovation of a national educational facility on water.
Philippines
Skills Sponsorship
Guaranteeing water supply after the cyclone.
France
Social & Employment
Modernizing two jardins de cocagne organic farms to offer more organic produce and improve the working and training conditions of the back-to-work employees.
France
Social & Employment
Creating a Sport dans la Ville reception and training center in Paris, not far from the social and professional integration sites for young people through sports in the Paris area.
France
Social & Employment
Pooling the resource activities of neighborhood committees of the urban community of Bordeaux with the creation of several jobs and the re-use of hundreds of tons of bulky waste as soon as activities begin.
Germany
Social & Employment
Creating an ecological garden to educate young persons in difficulty about nature and the gardening trades.
France
Social & Employment
Enabling the expansion of the first Jardin de Cocagne organic farm at the gates of Toulouse.
France
Social & Employment
Reconciling waste upgrading and finding jobs for persons in difficulty.
France
Social & Employment
Creation of a platform for discovery and training in the sustainable development and eco-construction trades in Vexin.
Kenya
Humanitarian & Development
Sinking a borehole to supply drinking water to a school and boarding school as well as the surrounding population.
Madagascar
Humanitarian & Development
Cooperation and information exchanges between all the players in water and sanitation, particularly those of nongovernmental and decentralized cooperation.
Senegal
Humanitarian & Development
Decentralized cooperation with the city of Lille to improve the public lighting of Saint-Louis in Senegal in a populous neighborhood with high economic potential.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Installation of photovoltaic lighting in the college and health center of a village in Burkina Faso after the creation of a drinking water supply system by alumni of an engineering school.
Cameroon
Humanitarian & Development
Connecting the Timous childcare facility to the drinking water main of Yaoundé.
Benin
Humanitarian & Development
Rebuilding a school and improving access to water in 10 villages in Bembéréké.
India
Humanitarian & Development
Inde Espoir is enlisting the students of the École Polytechnique, Université Paris Diderot-Paris VII, the Paris Descartes Medical School, Université Panthéon Assas Paris II, Sciences Po Paris - Prépa Lycée Stanislas, the University of Exeter, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense and UTC Compiègne to build a boarding school in the town of Krishnadevipeta in India (Andhra Pradesh) to enable young girls from tribal groups to attend school.
Germany
Social & Employment
Creating a place for the discovery of technologies of the future for children and adolescents of the town of Weißwasser.
France
Social & Employment
Rehabilitating and furnishing the new premises of a workforce development agency in Val-de-Marne.
France
Social & Employment
Helping a women's organization in Vaulx-en-Velin to double its catering business.
France
Social & Employment
Expanding the collection, storage and sales capacity of a recycling facility to 5 communes in the Seine-Saint-Denis district.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Protecting the oceans by an awareness raising campaign in an urban environment.
France
Social & Employment
Furnishing the new premises of a social guidance association in Bondy (93).
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Supporting the work of a professional photographer on the theme of biodiversity.
France
Social & Employment
Supporting the development of the activities of a workforce development agency specialized in dematerialization, GIS and vectorial drawing.
France
Social & Employment
Purchase of a modern dumptruck by a neighborhood managementy entity to ensure five lasting back-to-work jobs and optimize the collection of bulky objects in the Montauban urban community.
France
Social & Employment
Purchase of a paper chopper by the Solidarité Papier workforce development agency to optimize its supply of recycled material, create three new back-to-work jobs and put its activity on a firm footing.
Cambodia
Humanitarian & Development
Building a new drinking water supply system (AEP) in an isolated and poor village of southern Cambodia.
Niger
Humanitarian & Development
Sinking two boreholes to supply multivillage drinking water systems in the districts of Dosso and Loga in southeasten Niger.
Haiti
Humanitarian & Development
Building a mixed renewable energy power generation unit for a school in a remote valley of Haiti.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creating an interpretation trail in the national nature reserve of Montenach, a hot spot of the regional biodiversity.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Furnishing an educational apartment to teach the population of Saint-Denis about controlling consumption and eco-gestures.
Morocco
Environment & Biodiversity
Designing and assisting the manufacture and marketing of efficient bread ovens, improving the living conditions of the villagers and conserving the forest resource.
France
Social & Employment
Developing a creative recycling facility in Bordeaux to collect, upgrade, sell furniture and scrap and teach the public about waste recovery.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Collection and recycling of organic waste from outlying districts of Ouagadougou.
France
Social & Employment
Helping prison inmates and ex-inmates of the Lille urban community to fight post-jail exclusion by returning to the job market.
France
Social & Employment
The nonprofit La Cravate Solidaire supplies apparel for the professional coaching and apparel for jobseekers, back-to-work employees, or disadvantaged students. The organization also offers image enhancement and helps job applicants draft their resumes and letters of motivations.
France
Social & Employment
Renovating a Toulouse self-service cafeteria of a workforce development agency through business activity: upgrading to standard and enhancinghospitality to expand this outreach activity.
France
Social & Employment
Optimizing the collection of foods to improveaid to the disadvantaged people of the Rhône district.
France
Social & Employment
Contributing to the integration of the cities in the PACA region by a program of meetings between artists and sidelined youths.
France
Social & Employment
Expanding the sale of organic baskets of a Jardin de Cocagne organic farm by building a technical room.
France
Social & Employment
Opening library spaces in 6 accommodation centers for the sidelined population.
France
Social & Employment
Helping the employees of a workforce development agency to advance in their search for a lasting job
France
Social & Employment
Modernizing a workforce development project through business activity handling computer and electronic waste installed in the Val-de-Marne district.
Togo
Humanitarian & Development
Providing drinking water supply for the poor districts of Kpalimé in Togo
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Gathering organic waste in the peripheral districts of Ouagadougou and producing compost for the farmers of the region.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Program of health education and promotion of hygiene and sanitation in the commune of Markoye to combat water-borne diseases.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Undertaking an overall refurbishing program of Maison du Parc du Pilat.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Producing an educational game on the theme of the challenges of water for a sustainable city to teach the population of Greater Lyon about the aquatic heritage of the urban community.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creating a pilot agroecological farm designed to disseminate the best techniques for sustainable organic farming throughout the PACA region.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creating a back-to-work project for collecting green waste.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Providing a genuine tool for the promotion and enhancement of the Corsican soil.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Conserving ecosystems by installing apiaries.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Analyzing interactions between green turtles and their environment to reconcile economic investment on the seaboard and conservation of the lagoon at Mayotte.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creating educational materials to raise environmental awareness in Île-Saint-Denis.
Madagascar
Humanitarian & Development
Converting rum to medicinal alcohol in order to boost the income of the rural population.
Senegal
Humanitarian & Development
Training in market gardening for 20 young Senegalese adults
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Producing a traveling module of a permanent exhibition on biodiversity: "All alive, and all different!"
Madagascar
Humanitarian & Development
Cooperation and exchanging experiences between all the players in water and sanitation, particularly those involved in non governmental and decentralized cooperation.
France
Social & Employment
Convey to children the values of sport, citizenship and respect for the environment.
France
Social & Employment
Creating an ecobuilding activity in a workforce development structure in the Drôme district in a fast growing sector.
Philippines
Humanitarian & Development
Alleviating the health and environmental repercussions of the activity of workers in the informal solid waste recycling sector in Manila.
Madagascar
Humanitarian & Development
Solidago brings together students in public works, chemistry and medicine to build a drinking water supply system in several Madagascan villages, to track their smooth operation, and to guarantee that they last.
Sponsor Dominique Gatel
Sponsor Dominique Gatel
France
Social & Employment
Spreading the "Emergence Le Havre" solution, an effective approach to integration
Senegal
Environment & Biodiversity
India
Humanitarian & Development
The Students' Association of post-graduates in International Relations and Action Abroad of the University of Paris I is building and equipping a school for children and a sewing shop for young illiterate women in southern India.
France
Social & Employment
The Association of the Students' Foundation for the City (Afev) offers University of Poitiers students a low rent apartment in joint tenancy in exchange for their commitment to an outreach project in the vulnerable neighborhoods.
Haiti
Humanitarian & Development
Developing a quick-detection kit for vibrio cholerae.
Cambodia
Environment & Biodiversity
Optimizing water management in the area of Angkor and Siem Reap in Cambodia.
France
Social & Employment
Suporting the development of the "Les Jardins du Dolmen" back-to-work project that helps vulnerable persons go back to work through market gardening.
France
Social & Employment
Creating a market gardening back-to-work project and a reception area around outreach, nature activities and food.
United States
Social & Employment
Furnishing a multipurpose and modern training center to even better welcome and counsel the vulnerable children of the poor neighborhoods of Chicago.
France
Social & Employment
Enlargement and upgrading to standard of the premises of a workforce development agency in the restaurant trades in the Paris area to consolidate its development and its permanence.
Brazil
Humanitarian & Development
Supplying two cold rooms to an agricultural school in the Amazon to better preserve the foods it produces and sending a group of students on a training course to ensure their permanence.
Benin
Humanitarian & Development
Professionalizing the local players managing a public water service to ensure its permanence in the communes of of Allada, Toffo and Ze in southern Benin.
Morocco
Humanitarian & Development
Construction of restrooms and a septic tank to send another 160 students to the El Bguyrine school on the periphery of Casablanca.
Romania
Humanitarian & Development
Construction of a multi-activity community center for the vulnerable population of Berceni, while meeting High Environmental Quality Standards.
France
Social & Employment
Developing the organic market gardening activities of a workforce development agency in Troyes.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creating a neighborhood composting platform for educational and agricultural purposes.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creating an outreach, collective and educational garden.
Brazil
Environment & Biodiversity
Creation of an organic kitchen garden and an agroforestal system to protect the local biodiversity and encourage its protection in a favela of Rio.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creating an educational outreach breeding farm for black bees - an endangered endemic species of the Paris area - accessible to the public and run by and for the beekeepers.
France
Social & Employment
Creating a collaborative platform to optimize the coordination and communication of a nonprofit for junior high school students in the Paris area.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Launch of a biodiversity protection campaign in Hamburg by the installation of beehives on the roofs and awareness raising actions.
United States
Environment & Biodiversity
Furnishing a mobile educational unit to teach children about the environmental, economic and social role of the rivers and to promote their protection.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Recycling green waste from the Guy-Weber educational nature park in Seine-Maritime.
United States
Environment & Biodiversity
Development of an internet program for awareness of energy conservation aimed at schools and families.
France
Social & Employment
Participating in the construction of a first rank ship of the line.
France
Social & Employment
Consolidating the activities of the Menage (housekeeping) hub of a back-to-work nonprofit in Lot et Garonne.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Supporting a program for environmental education on the Rhone River.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Electrification and water supply for an agricultural training center in Burkina Faso.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Providing the Naundorf ecological station with a photovoltaic installation.
France
Social & Employment
Furnishing a barge to optimize the reception of vulnerable persons.
Senegal
Environment & Biodiversity
Drawing up a plan for the territorial development of Thies in Senegal.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Supporting the organization of a photography contest for amateurs and professionals on the theme of biodiversity.
France
Social & Employment
Supporting the production of reportages on the theme of sustainable development.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Continued compilation and dissemination of the "red list" of endangered land and marine spaces in continental France and overseas.
Togo
Environment & Biodiversity
Helping the people of Togo make better use of 3000 hectares
France
Social & Employment
Enlarging the infrastructures of the Jardins du Cœur of Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone for better reception of the beneficiaries.
Madagascar
Humanitarian & Development
Constructing a photovoltaic installation to supply solar electricity to a health center in Madagascar.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Organise the protection of flamingos and fish species in the Camargue; extend the project through an international cooperation programme.
France
Social & Employment
Structuring and developing the Environmental Services activity of a back-to-work nonprofit.
Senegal
Humanitarian & Development
Optimizing and structuring the harvest of a school farm in southwest Senegal, by the installation of a multiblade wind generator.
France
Social & Employment
Replacing a baling press in a professional integration workshop for recycling paper and cardboard.
France
Social & Employment
Creating an outreach garage for persons in difficulty in Perpignan.
France
Social & Employment
Providing access for handicapped persons to an eco-tourist forest farm and providing it with a wood-burning boiler house.
France
Social & Employment
Organizing the workshops and a sales area for renovated home appliances in new premises, more appropriate for accommodating back-to-work employees.
France
Social & Employment
Installing an onboard IT system on the truck fleet of a carrier employing drivers in a back-to-work situation.
Benin
Humanitarian & Development
Constructing, transporting and installing a cold room to produce ice in Ouessé by the students of a vocational school in Nantes.
Moldova
Humanitarian & Development
Refurbishing the media library of the Alliance française de Chisinau for the 20th anniversary of its presenece in Moldava.
France
Social & Employment
Boosting the production capacity of a workforce development agency in Roanne (Loire).
France
Social & Employment
Installing an irrigation system in a social and professional organic truck farming integration project.
France
Social & Employment
Rollout of eco-friendly practices in back-to-work schemes specializing in green spaces in South Lille. Economic development of the business.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Creating a national contest to encourage children and adolescents to discover nature around their stadium.
France
Social & Employment
Converting a multi hectare truck farming site into a space for social cohesioin combining family gardens, workforce development and environmental education activities.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Equiping a trailer as a BioLab to organize practical learning on ecosystems in situ.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Refurbishing an ancient house as a nature discovery center in the Riddagshausen Nature Reserve (suburbs of Brunswick).
United States
Environment & Biodiversity
Launching a research program on the world challenges of water bringing together students and teachers in various disciplines, industrialists and governmental bodies.
Canada
Environment & Biodiversity
Organizing a Rain Garden to recover and utilize the runoff and educate the thousands of visitors of the Museum of Living Memory.
France
Social & Employment
Placing art and culture at the heart of the projects of an ESAT (établissement et service d'aide par le travail).
United States
Social & Employment
Publishing a guide of relevant solutions for the demand transportation of elderly or handicapped persons in the countries of the south.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Inaugurating a drinking water supply for 25 000 persons spread among 37 villages in northern Burkina Faso.
Indonesia
Humanitarian & Development
On September 30, 2009, a violent earthquake, magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale, devastated the Indonesian island of Sumatra and severely damaged homes and water infrastructure.
Nigeria
Humanitarian & Development
The mission of the Veolia Environnement Foundation in Nigeria to fight against lead poisoning.
Cameroon
Humanitarian & Development
Program to provide sustainable access to drinking water for inhabitants of Douala.
Togo
Humanitarian & Development
Producing a gravity-fed drinking water system to supply a dozen villages in the Fiokpo area, in the southwest of the country.
France
Humanitarian & Development
Development of information and documentation resources to improve the effectiveness of the outreach projects between France and the countries of the South.
France
Social & Employment
Production of shows for disadvantaged publics, generally unable to attend opera performances: schools, retirement homes, hospitals.
Mexico
Humanitarian & Development
Construction of a permanent drinking water supply in the Western Sierra Madre for the Huichol Amerindians of San Miguel Huastita.
France
Social & Employment
Inauguration at Vernon (Eure) of a halfway house with 20 places to accommodate people in difficulty.
Belgium
Social & Employment
Construction of a residential facility and day center with a semi-professional kitchen space for young people suffering a severe mental handicap in Brussels.
Togo
Humanitarian & Development
Improving the conditions of access to drinking water and sanitation in eight villages of Liligodo, alongside the local and national authorities, the population and professionals.
India
Social & Employment
Acquisition of a bus to provide transportation to school and to propose extracurricular activities to the children accommodated in the orphanages of Mumbai.
India
Humanitarian & Development
Installation of solar panels in a Himalayan school to give the villagers the benefit of light 24 hours a day.
Moldova
Humanitarian & Development
Refurbishing the school of Vionova to offer better study conditions to Moldovan school children.
France
Social & Employment
Development of a back-to-work agency specialized in the collection and upgrading of waste electrical and electronic equipment.
France
Social & Employment
Safeguarding the production of an organic jardin de Cocagne in a rural area to guarantee quality and quantity by installing an irrigation system on a plot.
France
Social & Employment
Opening an organic jardin de Cocagne to offer work to women in the commune of Sainte-Colombe-sur-Seine in Côte-d'Or.
France
Social & Employment
Acquiring a new greenhouse provided with an irrigation system to create 5 additional open-term contracts.
France
Social & Employment
Development of a back-to-work organic vegetable garden thanks to the irrigation of new cultivated plots.
France
Social & Employment
Increasing the production capacity of the organic jardin de Cocagne located in the Haute Borne scientific park of Villeneuve-d'Ascq (59).
France
Social & Employment
Creation of a technical platform for a back-to-work project producing organic compost obtained by the upkeep of vulnerable wetlands.
France
Social & Employment
Creation of back-to-work projects to build mobile entertainment materials in the disadvantaged neighborhoods of the Nantes urban area.
France
Social & Employment
Acquiring better technical tools to gain contracts to upkeep open spaces in Maine-et-Loire.
France
Social & Employment
Creation of a social garage for automobile maintenance and repair for hard-up people of Toulouse.
France
Social & Employment
Enhancing workforce development and providing publics in difficulty with a car to make it easier for them to find a job.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Organization of educational circuits on water and biodiversity on aquatic nature spaces and a bird observatory for information and interpretation.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Renovation of a refuge for rare animals made available to scientists free of charge.
Madagascar
Environment & Biodiversity
Launch of an access plan to renewal energies on the natural reserve of Vohibola with the construction of a solar-powered boat.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Publication of an educational booklet on the topic of water for the young public of Pau (64).
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Reprinting and update of an educational kit on the forest for 20,000 French children.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Reorganization of an environmental discovery and education center to accommodate a broader public and to obtain the "Tourism in Handicap" label.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Launch of a pilot program of environmental education to improve the educational methods of a school in Lower Saxony.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Creation of a green class to raise the awareness of the natural environment for 150 children of the evangelical school of Eisenach (Germany).
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Deployment of the "Tell me about your river" educational project for the Rhone valley and internationally.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
A pilot project using artificial reefs to revitalize the sea bed at Cape Sicié in Toulon harbour
Morocco
Humanitarian & Development
Rehabilitating a rural school in southern Morocco
France
Social & Employment
Expanding the capacity of food aid for destitute families in the Val-de-Marne district (94).
Brazil
Social & Employment
Restoring hope to maltreated children by accommodating them in healthy homes in a host family.
France
Social & Employment
Promoting the learning of French for migrant adults and updating the corresponding IT tools.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Providing water supply for isolated villages in Burkina Faso
France
Social & Employment
Developing the collection of bulky objects and raising awareness of waste issues in the urban community of Arras.
Canada
Social & Employment
Converting wastes into resources to promote jobs for people in difficulty
France
Social & Employment
Developing a platform to foster the mobility of persons in a social and professional integration project
France
Social & Employment
Proposing mobility alternatives to people in difficulty to boost their chances of finding a job
France
Social & Employment
Creating an organic garden to find work for jobless persons
France
Social & Employment
Developing a workforce development facility in a difficult rural context, with complementary trades to market gardening
France
Social & Employment
Creating an organic market garden for the social and professional reintegration of vulnerable persons.
France
Social & Employment
Opening an outreach restaurant for the destitiute of Paris and creating 18 back-to-work jobs
France
Social & Employment
Creating a platform to upgrade used textiles in the form of a workforce development agency by Emmaüs
Bulgaria
Environment & Biodiversity
Teaching respect for nature by restoring the old village school of Vlahi in Bulgaria.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Expanding the biodiversity and educating the population of a village in Lower Saxony about this natural treasure.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Educating the children of today about their environment to make them nature-friendly adults tomorrow
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creating a regional center to save the wild fauna in Languedoc-Roussillon
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Raising the awareness of the children of Hamburg about their natural environment
France
Social & Employment
Creating a specialized laboratory on neuroblastomas, children's cancer, at Institut Curie.
France
Social & Employment
Creating a virtual home for adolescents, in the form of an interactive internet site run by specialists in adolescence.
India
Social & Employment
Creating a second home at human scale for the street children of Delhi.
France
Social & Employment
Construction of a boat to enable wheelchair bound persons to discover the joys of the sea.
World
Social & Employment
The installation and use of interactive digital tools in the informal educational sector in the six French-speaking sub-Saharan African countries.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Improving the water and sanitation services in the seven urban villages of Houndé in southern Burkina Faso .
France
Social & Employment
Reinforcing the counseling of young people engaged in European community programs with international mobility.
France
Social & Employment
Getting back to work in a rural setting
United States
Social & Employment
Expanding the employment and vocational training of handicapped adults in the Chicago area.
United States
Environment & Biodiversity
Production of an entertaining and interactive exhibition of the impact of human activity on water resources: "Water Ways" by the Museum of Discovery of Dayton, Ohio.
World
Environment & Biodiversity
Creation of an interactive web platform to connect the European student associations working for sustainable development.
Burkina Faso
Social & Employment
Rehabilitation of a village maternity hospital, prevention of sexually transmissible diseases and raising awareness in hygiene.
Mozambique
Environment & Biodiversity
Creation of tree nurseries to fight forest overexploitation and conserve the biodiversity with the population of the Limpopo National Park.
France
Social & Employment
Creation of a pocket electronic Braille dictionary with audio readout of the definitions.
Nepal
Humanitarian & Development
Installation of solar panels in a Nepalese school and development of renewable energies in the schools of the area.
Germany
Social & Employment
Enhancing the mobility of people who cannot travel by train unaccompanied.
Germany
Social & Employment
Equipping a professional kitchen workshop of a learning island designed for handicapped persons.
France
Social & Employment
Video equipment and computer hardware for a maritime adventure for hospitalized children.
France
Social & Employment
Improving the work of the volunteers of a soup kitchen by redesigning their storage space.
France
Social & Employment
Equipment for an outreach grocery designed for low-income families.
Madagascar
Humanitarian & Development
Installing solar panels and irrigating vegetable gardens for a remote Madagascan village.
France
Social & Employment
Constructing the cold room of an eco-building designed to accommodate the truck farming activities of a workforce development agency through business activity.
France
Social & Employment
Creating a new workforce development activity for publics in difficulty through an ironing service forresidents of the 12th arrondissement of Paris.
France
Social & Employment
Helping people in difficulty to find a job and (re)construct a professional and personal project.
France
Social & Employment
Outreach and ecological refitting of the last French Newfoundlander.
India
Social & Employment
Building the multipurpose room of the public school of the capital of Ladakh.
Togo
Humanitarian & Development
Constructing drinking water pumping stations in five villages of southern Togo.
India
Humanitarian & Development
Implementing small irrigation systems and sustainable farming practices among poor peasants.
France
Social & Employment
Building new premises for the professional reintegration of scores of Haut-Savoyards in difficulty.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Rearranging an old small dam as a leisure space with the young people of the neigborhood.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Creating a database for converting military reservations into protected spaces.
United States
Environment & Biodiversity
A new scientific cooperation project with the University of Arizona
Senegal
Humanitarian & Development
Construction of a solar pumping well in the isolated neighborhood of a village, as part of a joint project initiated by the Foundation between SOSF and a young high school student engaged in an outreach dynamic for access to water.
Vietnam
Humanitarian & Development
Proposing an integrated micro-scale drinking water/wastewater services approach to improve the hygiene conditions of isolated communities in the north of the country.
France
Social & Employment
Contributing to the economic development of the village of Tiaboli, by creating a truck farming zone and purchasing small equipment.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Refurbishment of the Franco-Australian Museum of Villers Bretonneux designed in an exemplary environmental and social approach.
France
Social & Employment
Assisting the purchase of a utility vehicle adapted to the driving and transportation of persons with reduced mobility in order to develop the practice of board sports for handicapped persons.
DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa)
Social & Employment
Connecting the future "Dominique Savio" vocational center for social youth reintegration to the electric power grid.
France
Social & Employment
Developing a specialized behavioral counseling service and installing a specific training program by the acquisition of educational equipment and adapted telecommunication tools.
Brazil
Humanitarian & Development
Improving the living conditions of the farmers of the communes of the region of Sertao by the construction of tanks for drinking water supply and the construction of a dam for agriculture, livestock and household needs of non-drinking water.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Installation of a photovoltaic pumping unit on an existing well and construction of a tank with a distribution network in the village.
Romania
Social & Employment
Openinga short- and medium-term residential center for the 15-25 age cohort living in the streets of Bucharest.
Germany
Social & Employment
Converting the courtyard of a home for services to elderly persons into an open garden of senses, to establish a space ideal for improving the living conditions of the population of the neighborhood and bringing the inhabitants closer to their neighbors of all ages.
France
Social & Employment
Launch of a micro-franchise system in the area of plumbing and home do-it-yourself.
France
Social & Employment
Reinforcing the capacities of Société coopérative d'intérêt collectif Vertex, for the recycling and treatment of used textiles.
France
Social & Employment
Creating a workforce development association for business activity around the repair, resale and leasing of old bicycles.
France
Social & Employment
Developing the "outreach garage" activity of the nonprofit to enable persons undergoing professional and social integration in the district, to enjoy access to an automobile repair and leasing service.
France
Social & Employment
Earthworks and sanitation projects for connecting the modular buildings of a new workforce development site.
France
Social & Employment
Refurbishing the premises of a workforce development agency to arrange dressing rooms, sanitary blocks and a relaxation room, and purchase an additional vehicle to transport the back-to-work employees.
Madagascar
Social & Employment
Initiating a professional reintegration program in a rural environment for 30 families in severe uncertainty (homeless of the Madagascan capital and landless peasants).
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Constructing a building to ecological standards to serve as a place for accomodation and activities in a kindergarten.
Vietnam
Environment & Biodiversity
The second phase of the international project for the transfer of skills to restore and preserve the quality of the water and shoreline of the Bay of Hai Phong.
Senegal
Environment & Biodiversity
Opening a large tree nursery, plus a center for public training and awareness raising, to assist the reforestation of Senegal.
Philippines
Humanitarian & Development
Tropical storm Ketsana, the strongest experienced by the archipelago in 40 years, and typhoon Parma struck the northern Philippines in October 2009, creating an emergency for nearly 2 million people.
Central African Republic
Humanitarian & Development
Last December, a multi-ethnic conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sparked massive population movements: 80,000 to 100,000 persons fled across the border to Congo Brazzaville and the Central African Republic.
Madagascar
Social & Employment
Organizing humanitarian projects in the bush villages of Madagascar to build, refurbish and equip the schools by Paris high school students.
Cameroon
Humanitarian & Development
Creation of a complete waste management program in the urban community of Dschang.
Senegal
Humanitarian & Development
Setting up an affordable wastewater services solution for the disadvantaged districts of Dakar.
Senegal
Social & Employment
Back-to-work projects for young persons in Senegal involving young French and Senegalese in the field of communication and multimedia.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Progressive construction of a school complex ranging from primary level to technical and vocational training.
France
Social & Employment
Furnishing an outreach grocery at Sérifontaine.
Cambodia
Social & Employment
Construction of a national center for reparative surgery and for third degree burns at the Preah Kossamak Hospital.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Institutional and technical counseling of the commune of Karangasso to improve access to drinking water and wastewater services.
Niger
Humanitarian & Development
Rehabilitation of a small water supply network, running on solar energy.
Madagascar
Social & Employment
Recycled IT hardware for institutions (high schools and vocational training centers) in eight regions of Madagascar.
Romania
Social & Employment
Backing the development of a WEEE recycling business for a nonprofit social and professional integration agency in Bucharest.
France
Social & Employment
Refurnishing of a kitchen of a workforce development restaurant to set up a system to prepare organic meals.
France
Social & Employment
Creation of a service of eco-responsible drivers for individuals and professionals.
France
Social & Employment
Creation of a socio-professional and multi-cultural back-to-work restaurant.
France
Social & Employment
Enlarging the farmed area of a Jardin de Cocagne to increase the number of back-to-work jobs and meet growing demand.
France
Social & Employment
Aid to development of a workforce development agency in the field of ecological wood construction.
France
Social & Employment
Constructing a HEQ building to aid the development of an organic truck farming business.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creating a botanic trail for persons with reduced mobility around a pond.
Slovakia
Environment & Biodiversity
Workshops for awarereness raining in sustainable development in holiday camps for children from seriously disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Mobilizing young people on back-to-work contracts for an outreach project aimed to drill a complete well and to renovate the health infrastructures of the village of Bittou.
Mali
Humanitarian & Development
Running an electric power generation facility by photovoltaic collectors at the Community Health Center of Médina-Coura.
France
Social & Employment
Participating in refurbishing a center for accommodation and social reintegration in Toulon.
France
Social & Employment
Proposing tuition to freshmen and final-year high school students from disadvantaged circles having the potential to succeed in preparatory classes for the French elite schools.
France
Social & Employment
Renewing and developing the fleet of a workforce development agency for home deliveries by acquiring four vehicles that are more mobile and more secure .
France
Social & Employment
Improving the working conditions of a workforce development project which sorts and reconditions textiles collected by the Fédération de Haute-Vienne of Secours Populaire Français.
France
Social & Employment
Setting up a catering - world cuisine business for individuals or institutions at Saint-Ouen-l'Aumone.
France
Social & Employment
Financing the equipment needed to create five back-to-work projects in a rural area, in the environmental field.
France
Social & Employment
Participating in the equipment of an outreach automobile garage consisting of a workforce development agency in order to ensure access to mobility for persons in social and professional difficulty.
France
Social & Employment
Acquiring production equipment for the development of a workforce development workshop concerning finishing works in the town of Auch.
France
Social & Employment
Creating three "back-to-work driving schools" in the Ardèche and southern Drôme districts for persons having learning difficulties and who need driving licences to go back to work.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Reinforcing environmental education in a kindergarten by broadening its educational program and providing it with items for the practical discovery of natural phenomena, particularly with a water playground.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Developing a practical tool to initiate a dynamic of permanent behavioral change among private individuals as part of an "Agenda 21 for Families".
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Transforming an agricultural plot into a "children's forest" - designed and constructed by themselves - to pool their awareness of nature and to educate them in assuming responsibility for the environment.
Brazil
Environment & Biodiversity
Protecting the exceptional biodiversity of the Abrolhos archipelago, discovered off Brazil.
Senegal
Environment & Biodiversity
Knowledge and control of renewable energies in fighting against the rural exodus.
Ethiopia
Humanitarian & Development
Construction of a well to guarantee access to water and health safety of an orphanage.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Networking young professionals involved in urban waste management.
France
Social & Employment
Construction of a permanent habitat for persons out of mainstream society and in serious psychological distress.
France
Social & Employment
Help in carrying out workforce development projects in the environmental area.
France
Social & Employment
Furnishing a technical room to environmental standards for "eco-roadmen".
Morocco
Environment & Biodiversity
Construction of a hammam with an environment-friendly heating system.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Training programs for a volunteer network and raising public awareness to protect the sea, the ocean and the seashore.
France
Social & Employment
Refitting the premises of a barge to welcome the most disadvantaged people.
Cameroon
Social & Employment
Inauguration in Yaoundé of a center for resources, training and information for professionals working on issues of sexually transmissible diseases.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Drilling of six boreholes to irrigate market gardens and drinking crops.
France
Social & Employment
Creation of a portable miniature plant producing plastic corks.
France
Social & Employment
Creation of a laundry workshop in an Esat in Lyon.
France
Social & Employment
Acquiring a utility vehicle for a “green brigade” and tools for the upkeep of green spaces, and taking part in setting up a resource recovery centre in Ardèche.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Raising awareness and discussing the preservation of the ecosystem of an alluvial plain.
Argentina
Humanitarian & Development
Development of innovative and economical wood-burning cooking technology with 6000 persons in an urban and periurban zone.
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Environment & Biodiversity
Removal of hazardous industrial waste endangering the biodiveristy of the Juan de Nova island and protection of the surrounding coral reefs.
Cuba
Humanitarian & Development
Rehabilitation of a wastewater treatment plant and sanitation systems to secure the wastewater collection in Havana.
France
Social & Employment
Support for the development of Espaces Adie Conseil and launch of innovative tools to make company creation easier.
Mali
Humanitarian & Development
Reinforcement of drinking water access in nine villages of the Timbuktu region.
France
Social & Employment
Inauguration of a day care center for young isolated Romanians in danger in Montreuil.
Benin
Social & Employment
Setting up a cultural exchange between young girls from Benin and girls in difficulty in the Annonciation hostel in Clamart, with the aim of the resocialization and enhancement of the beneficiaries.
India
Social & Employment
Setting up a travelling school in the slums of Calcutta for handicapped children.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Construction of an exemplary ecological building for an association developing back-to-work projects via organic truck farming.
India
Humanitarian & Development
Installing a solar submersible water pump to supply water to the greenhouses of the Chuchot Shamma agricultural education center.
Bulgaria
Social & Employment
Providing Joëlettes to physically handicapped children, to help them enjoy mountain outings.
France
Social & Employment
Development of a school-related system throughout continental France.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Construction of educational installations to familiarize the public with the use of freshwater filtration.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Rearranging and organizing the garden of a day care center to make it safer and more enjoyable for the children.
France
Social & Employment
Fitting out a catamaran to take children suffering from cancer on a Mediterranean cruise.
Moldova
Humanitarian & Development
Thermal and sanitary renovation of school buildings + participation in reforestation.
China
Social & Employment
Construction of a health building with collective showers for the schools of a mountain region.
France
Social & Employment
Furnishing a wooded plot on the site of a welcome center for autistic adults, designed to develop outdoor activities.
Senegal
Humanitarian & Development
Testing the cultivation of jatropha to provide a permanent source of income to the farmers.
Tunisia
Social & Employment
Optimizing the paper destruction line of a workforce development agency specialized in physical and digital document archival.
Moldova
Humanitarian & Development
Thermal and sanitary upgrading of a high school in a rural area.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creation of a tool to raise awareness of the young public of the natural wealth of the major tourist sites.
Bolivia
Social & Employment
Helping 22 women of the mining town of Potosi to create their micro-business, to develop their financial self-sufficiency and guarantee a stable income for the families.
France
Social & Employment
Creation of a network for providing a link between secondary and high school students of the sensitive districts of the Paris region, and companies, to broaden the availability of training courses and promote equal opportunity.
Mali
Humanitarian & Development
A small water supply network for the villages of the Bafing nature reserve.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Creation of an activity collecting, sorting and fabricating objects from recycled plastics.
Germany
Social & Employment
Refurbishing of a reception center for gravely ill children and their siblings.
France
Social & Employment
Helping the Seine-Maritime district delegation (APF 76) to purchase a suitable vehicle to transport reduced-mobility persons.
Colombia
Social & Employment
The Veolia Foundation helps "Fundacion Ayuda a la Infancia" to build "Bambi" homes welcoming street children of Bogota.
Senegal
Humanitarian & Development
Extension of a drinking water supply from a deep well drilled in Guinguineo.
France
Social & Employment
The Veolia Foundation helps the association Éclaircie to finance the only day hospitality centre for the marginalized adults of Angoulême.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
The Veolia Foundation helps the Association de Jumelage Fontenay-le-Comte/Gaoua to improve access to drinking water in Burkina Faso.
Niger
Humanitarian & Development
Creating a complete school garden to combat illiteracy and to remedy the malnutrition of the children in the south of the Aïr.
Senegal
Humanitarian & Development
Using a photovoltaic technique to electrify a health centre, residences for teachers and the women's store to make socioeconomic development easier for a village in the Louga region.
France
Social & Employment
The Veolia Foundation has contributed to funding the renovation of the electrical installations of the social Café.
France
Social & Employment
Construction and improvement of facilities for vulnerable people.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
The Veolia Foundation helps the association L'eau partagée to set up a suitable irrigation system into a market garden in Burkina Faso.
France
Social & Employment
The Veolia Foundation helps the CESAP to create an aquatic space dedicated to the multiply handicapped persons of the reception center of Reugny.
Senegal
Social & Employment
The Veolia Foundation helps Jappoo-Senegal in the creation of a center for training in farming techniques in order to stem rural exodus.
France
Social & Employment
REPLIC Restauration plans to open a Table de Cana in Perpignan with a new grant from the Veolia Foundation.
France
Social & Employment
Financing IT equipment (computers and software) for illiterate employees re-entering the mainstream.
France
Social & Employment
Assisting the development of the activity of a "Graine de Cocagne" garden to create 16 back-to-work jobs for gardeners.
France
Social & Employment
Renewing the equipment required for back-to-work projects involving the upkeep of open spaces and nature spaces.
France
Social & Employment
Developing a new waterless carwash activity to create additional back-to-work jobs.
France
Social & Employment
Developing a recycling shop for IT and electronic hardware in order to create new back-to-work jobs.
France
Social & Employment
The Veolia Foundation helps the association Etudes et Chantiers, which created a workforce development agency, dedicated to waterway rehabilitation.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
The Veolia Foundation helps the French National Library to open to the public the Forest Garden of the François-Mitterrand Library.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
The Protection of swifts in Bavaria (Germany)
United Kingdom
Environment & Biodiversity
Learning to love the environment through gardening in London
France
Environment & Biodiversity
A major four-year project aiming to reconcile the conservation of natural spaces with sustainable tourism.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Refurbishing of a low income neighborhood in Paris
Moldova
Humanitarian & Development
Renovation of two pilot schools as part of the Child Friendly Schools program.
Mali
Humanitarian & Development
Program for supplying water in the Yélimané "circle".
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Construction of a log cabin to provide a protected place for the work of the association "Jeunesse de la Forêt".
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Developing a tool and an organization for the tracking and evaluation of the label "Our village land of the future" delivered to the rural communes setting up an Agenda 21.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Production of a resource book of the "School of the sea" for the use of educators, teachers, associative structures and communities wishing to engage in a project concerning the Mediterranean seaboard.
Canada
Environment & Biodiversity
Creation of an educational itinerary to raise awareness of the need to conserve the water resource along the rivers of Quebec.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Construction of a photovoltaic installation to raise awareness of the use of renewable energies.
Germany
Environment & Biodiversity
Construction of an ecological station in the form of a log cabin with a nature class center.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creation of educational and travelling workshops for awareness of sustainable development.
France
Social & Employment
Designing the boutique of a fair trade chocolate chain operating in the form of a back-to-work agency.
France
Social & Employment
Supporting the development of a workforce development agency active in the building sector by helping it acquire the worksite machines required for its activity.
France
Social & Employment
Creation of a workforce development activity for the redevelopment of the natural space of a rural zone in a depressed employment basin.
France
Social & Employment
Support for the activities of a workforce development association in Gironde by participating in the purchase of farm machinery.
France
Social & Employment
Workforce development program mounted by a sports association.
France
Social & Employment
Launching a back-to-work project to restore a vegetable garden of Chateau de la Roche-Guyon.
France
Social & Employment
Development of a system to re-use building materials and create new back-to-work jobs.
Italy
Humanitarian & Development
Support for the camps of the Italian Red Cross following the earthquake of April 2009 in the Abruzzi by sending sanitary containers.
France
Social & Employment
Refurbishing and refitting the reception of a home for accompaniment and guidance of persons in social and professional difficulty.
Mali
Humanitarian & Development
Installation of solar panels and a submersible pump to bring water to a truck farming area and a village school in Barapireli.
Mali
Humanitarian & Development
Reinforcement of the action capacities of a Malian GIE specialized in waste collection.
Morocco
Humanitarian & Development
Construction of two mini-solar drinking water supply systems for douars in the heart of the Moyen-Atlas in Morocco.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Equipment of a well and a sanitary block for the coed school of the village of Vadg-Yiri.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Construction of a borehole equipped with a hand pump to provide drinking water access to part of the population on the outskirts of Kongoussi.
Niger
Humanitarian & Development
Development of a solar lamp production activity in a village of Niger, aimed at the Nigerian market.
France
Social & Employment
Refurbishing and new construction of medicalized studio apartments for handicapped persons.
France
Social & Employment
Opening up an AVA class (Accompagner vers l'autonomie) for autistic children, in a school of Biarritz.
Morocco
Humanitarian & Development
Creation of a water supply network in two villages of the Haut-Atlas.
India
Social & Employment
Renovation of a day shelter for the young girls of a slum in Mumbai.
Benin
Humanitarian & Development
Construction of a water supply network and sanitation infrastructures in villages around Bohicon.
China
Skills Sponsorship
Diagnosing and identifying safe, drinkable water after an earthquake
Germany
Social & Employment
Construction of a welcome and socio-cultural center for children and adolescents.
France
Social & Employment
Refurbishing of apartments accommodating handicapped persons by an association of persons suffering from psychic disorders.
Cambodia
Social & Employment
Extension of a primary school of the province of Banteay Meanchey by the construction of a new building for the installation of classrooms of the new junior high school.
France
Social & Employment
Development of sports activities in six branches of the association for the prevention of high risk behavior in children.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Drilling of a well equipped with a hand pump to supply pure water to the canteen of a school.
Germany
Social & Employment
Creation of a center for a welcome and socio-cultural center for the unemployed youths of a rural commune in Saxony.
France
Social & Employment
Equipment of a provisional apartment for battered women and their children in Sete.
India
Social & Employment
Participation in the economic development of three villages of Tamil Nadu by enabling the women to purchase cows through microcredit.
Burkina Faso
Humanitarian & Development
Construction of a drinking water supply network in the village of Wolokonto.
France
Social & Employment
Creation of a resource center on sustainable development and eco-citizenship by a workforce development project.
France
Social & Employment
Support for the first Jardin de Cocagne of Haute-Savoie.
France
Social & Employment
Creation of a market garden to provide work for social welfare recipients.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Free online public access to the Encyclopedia of Sustainable Development
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Publication of a methodological guide entitled "sustainable development in the family"
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Creation of a resource center and raising public awareness about environmental conservation via the role of pollinating bees.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
Renovation of an educational farm by a volunteer civil project.
Colombia
Environment & Biodiversity
Support for the poor peasants of Colombia to develop apicultural activities as an alternative to coca growing.
Ecuador
Environment & Biodiversity
Conservation of indigenous plant and animal life on Floreana Island thanks to an ambitious scientific, educational and economic program
France
Social & Employment
Ecological goods transport by cycle in an urban environment: creating 200 back-to-work jobs and cutting CO2 releases by 1000 tons in 3 years.
France
Environment & Biodiversity
An unprecedented three-year scientific expedition on all the seas of the globe (understanding the spatial organisation of ecosystems and understanding their response to atmospheric viariations).
New Caledonia
Environment & Biodiversity
Review of the conservation status of several groups of living organisms, creation of a database on rare and endangered species.
Mongolia
Humanitarian & Development
Experiments on various alternatives to guarantee access fo drinking water in the outskirts of Ulan Bator.
Niger
Humanitarian & Development
Drilling of wells and dredging sumps to promote food security through market gardening.
Ivory Coast
Social & Employment
Construction of a dispensary in a structure accommodating orphans who are victims of the war and AIDS in Man.