Veoliaforce brings help and clean water in Haiti. Equipment and men left with our partners, the French Red Cross and Action Against Hunger.
Veoliaforce in Haiti - Veolia Environment Foundation
Immediate action with our partners
On January 13 the Veolia Foundation sent 20 tons of emergency equipment to Haiti in an Ilouchone cargo plane chartered by the French Red Cross.
The cargo consisted of Aquaforce 5000 units that can supply 15,000 to 20,000 people with drinking water.
Three Veoliaforce experts, who will supervise the emergency teams of the Red Cross, arrived in Port au Prince on Saturday night. Their mission is to take reception of the equipment and make initial assessments of the needs for drinking water in the areas assigned to them by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Four Veoliaforce volunteers from Veolia Water Guadeloupe will soon join the Red Cross team.
A second team of three volunteers from Action Against Hunger arrived on Sunday morning in Port au Prince and now has two Aquaforce 5000 units. They are also making assessments of the water and sanitation needs in other more damaged areas of the city including Champ de Mars where over 30,000 people are waiting for assistance.
Volunteers mobilized continuously
At the humanitarian hub in the Paris region where the Foundation stocks its emergency equipment, a team of volunteers has been mobilized 24/7 since the announcement of the earthquake and coordinates the logistics and the supply of equipment. Over 30 tons have already been handled on the site and sent to the volunteers on the ground. Seven new Aquaforce units are being assembled to meet the future needs of our partners.
Veolia Force is a humanitarian emergency unit supported by volunteer employees from the 4 divisions of Veolia Environnement, who are willing to contribute their skills as part of international solidarity initiatives.