Aquassistance Organization

The 2008 activity of the association kept being sustained with 68 missions, 122 volunteers sent and 1,318 days on sites.

At the end of 2008, we had a portfolio of 63 projects which benefited to 800,000 people all over the world. During last year we carried out 68 missions (each time an Aquassistance team is sent on site counts as a mission). Among them, two missions concerned emergency interventions, after an earthquake in the Chinese province of Sichuan and hurricanes at Gonaives in Haiti; the others concerned development aid.

The missions in the field of potable water were the majority (70%), followed by those regarding waste management (13%) and sanitation (5%). 12% of the missions encompassed several of these fields at the same time.

The number of members kept growing by 9 % in 2008 up to 840.

On 13 November Aquassistance Day took place in several companies of Suez Environnement and regional centres of Lyonnaise des Eaux. Local correspondents gathered together the members of their "local section" to better publicize the work of their association.

 

 

Thank you to all who were involved in organizing buffets, gathering stories of missions, collecting supplies for children in Africa or elsewhere ... and convincing new people to become members of Aquassistance.