AquaOrbi

More than one billion people lack of proper access to drinking water and basic sanitation facilities in the world. The majority of those citizens live in rural allotments, slums and medium urban centres of 100.000 to 500.000 inhabitants, areas with low interest for the major international private water operators. Local conditions (social, technical, political and economical) are usually very unstable and hard to cope with and constitute tomorrow’s greater challenge for an operator. Delivering high quality water and sanitation services to those thousands of medium towns is critical for fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). AquaOrbi®, through its activity and the network of water operators it leads, intends to actively participate in the fulfilment of those three objectives:  Upper objective (Improving the living conditions of the population), Development objective (Changing a specific situation, as aspired by the population itself), Water and sanitation project objective (Educating and changing community attitudes, knowledge and behaviour).

ARP Développement

African Development Bank

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s mission is to help reduce poverty, improve living conditions for Africans and mobilize resources for the continent’s economic and social development. With this objective in mind, the institution aims at assisting African countries – individually and collectively – in their efforts to achieve sustainable economic development and social progress. Combating poverty is at the heart of the continent’s efforts to attain sustainable economic growth. To this end, the Bank seeks to stimulate and mobilize internal and external resources to promote investments as well as provide its regional member countries with technical and financial assistance.

Centrale humanitaire medico-pharmaceutique

Fondation Veolia

Created in May 2004 at the initiative of Henri Proglio, chairman and CEO of Veolia Environnement, and endowed with an annual budget of 7.2 million euros, the Veolia Environnement Foundation is one of the leading private-sector foundations in France. It supports non-profit, community-oriented projects contributing to sustainable development, with special focus on outreach, workforce development and environmental conservation in France and internationally. It is unique in that every project that it supports is accompanied by a sponsor, who is a Company employee. At the same time, the Foundation fosters and encourages employee volunteering, providing the expertise of Company employees to the associations or institutions active in the areas of emergency aid and humanitarian development.

Sorosoro

The Forest Trust

The Tropical Forest Trust is a non-profit organization founded in 1999 for the purpose of fighting climate change and the relentless trend towards uniformity that is sweeping the world’s cultures by working to preserve tropical forests. Thanks to partnerships with companies in the lumber industry, the TFT steers forest logging companies and the communities living in the areas being logged towards sustainable management of forest resources. Backed by a 60-person team comprising forest engineers and agronomists, anthropologists, biologists and other experts, the TFT is present in Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Gabon, Cameroon, the Congo, and Brazil.