Inventory of requirements

  • 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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Drawing up an inventory of facilities

On their arrival the first task is to draw up an inventory of facilities and to make a list of requirements.

On arrival, the project leader draws up an inventory of the facilities as well as a list of the essential requirements of the local communities and reports on the state of the water supply.
He also details what is needed in the way of water treatment equipment and to transport and treat wastewater as well as the profiles of what type of volunteers are needed etc.
This inventory is immediately sent to those in charge locally and to the representatives of the NGOs, and then forwarded to staff at Veolia Waterforce in France. This ensures that the right specialists and equipment is sent out as quickly as possible in order to carry out the assignments.