Assisting NGOs

  • Organizing emergency response teams

    The volunteers' first glimpse of where they will be working.

  • Loading the emergency equipment

  • Coming face to face with the aftermath of the tsunami

  • Getting the volunteers and equipment to where they are needed

  • Checking the equipment

  • The welcome of the local community

  • Assisting NGOs

  • Living conditions

  • Inventory of requirements

  • Assessing the quality of the wells

  • Prioritizing drinking water for the hospital

  • Repairing the water supply system in Meulaboh

  • Treating water

  • Storing drinking water

  • Supplying water

  • Monitoring the quality of the drinking water

  • Children back at school

  • Supplying drinking water to remote villages

  • Concentrating on the task ahead

  • The feeling of having been useful


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Local organizational structure

The volunteers leave with their orders from NGOs such as the French Red Cross.

Volunteers leave to fulfil the tasks that have been assigned to them by the NGOs and in particular by the French Red Cross.

On their arrival each volunteer reports to an official who will explain what their task will be for the duration of their time there.

As a general rule, all volunteers operate more or less within the parameters of those projects usually entrusted to a small team of volunteers from Veolia Waterforce.