Aquassistance Organization

In March 2009, the Aquassistance Board of Directors decided to undertake twelve new projects in addition to the sixty already in progress. Although eight of them are rather conventional hydraulic projects carried out in West African villages, the four others are more atypical. They range from the master plan for the integrated management of waste in a small town (Gaibandha) to the post-crisis reconstruction of urban water networks (Gumri and Bwamanda) and to the capitalization of experience (collaboration with ENDA Tiers Monde). The teams of volunteers are being trained to enable the first missions of expertise to be all carried out before the end of 2009. The first will take place before the summer.

On its March meeting, the Aquassistance Board  has also decided after assessments to continue its involvement in three projects launched during previous meetings.

By Jean-Claude CLERMONT, Aquassistance Executive Director 

Helping populations in distress is the only concern, the only justification for the action of the association. Where the association succeeds in its undertakings, it is thanks to the competence of our members and the financial contributions from our partners. All those who contribute to the preparation and the carrying out of its projects do so on a voluntary basis, during their free time.

 In November, Olivier Schlosser (Research Center Suez Environment - Le Pecq) and Huot Srun (Lyonnaise des Eaux Headquarters) spoke to doctors and nurses from the Faculty of Medicine Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris, on the theme of supply water in the tropical arreas.

This intervention answered the request of the medical community with concrete feedback by Aquassistance on recent projects (Senegal and Vietnam)