THE
"OUDIN-SANTINI" LAW
The so-called "Oudin-Santini" Law, adopted on
January 27, 2005 in France, authorises local authorities
in this country to use part of their water management revenues
(up to 1%) to support international solidarity actions related
to water management and sanitation. Thanks to this law,
SOLIDARITÉS was able to initiate a partnership with
the Agence de l'Eau Seine-Normandie (AESN – "Seine-Normandie
Water Agency"), which helped us provide Sri Lanka Tsunami
victims with access to drinking water. |
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Thanks to our partners
SOLIDARITES' humanitarian action for access to drinking
water and to hygiene is possible because partners provide institutional
or private financing, individual donations or technical expertise.
We hereby wish to thank each one of these partners.
THANKS TO :
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Our 60,000 individual donors
who faithfully support our humanitarian action.
• Institutions:
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The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(DAH, DGCID).
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The Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable
Development (MEDD) and the Agence de l’Eau Seine Normandie
(AESN – "Seine-Normandie Water Agency").
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The European Commission (DG ECHO et EuropeAid).
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DFID (United Kingdom).
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Swiss Cooperation (Swiss Development Cooperation
– SDC).
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OFDA (United States).
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UNICEF (UN).
• Companies and other organisations
- Aquassistance (expertise provided by personnel members of
the Suez group)
- Fondation de France
- Fondation Yves Rocher
- CORA
- Véolia Waterforce
- Crédit Coopératif
- The Gallimard Publishing Group and the Association "L'Écrit
du Coeur"
HUMANITARIAN PARTNERSHIP
BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN
COMMISSION AND SOLIDARITÉS
The European Commission's emergency humanitarian aid is
implemented by DG ECHO, which is the major world contributor.
It devotes special attention to forgotten crises and to
issues such as AIDS, children or water. For over 10 years
SOLIDARITÉS has been a professional partner of
DG ECHO in humanitarian crisis situations.
To
find out more (in French) |
 AQUASSISTANCE
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A NATURAL, EASY FLOWING, PARTNERSHIP
Aquassistance, an Association of volunteers of the Suez
Group, offers SOLIDARITÉS its competences (expertise
and technical counselling in terms a drinking water catchments,
treatment, storage and supply). In the framework of this
partnership, Suez experts travelled to DR Congo in 2003
and 2005 to participate in the project for the reconstruction
of the water adduction and treatment network in the town
of Beni. Aquassistance also sent in a hydro-geologist
in charge of evaluating ground water reserves and to improve
the use of Hazaradjat (in the centre of Aghanistan) surface
waters in 2004. Last, in 2005 in Sumatra (Indonesia) Aquassistance
helped SOLIDARITÉS set up a purification station
in the Cot Mee camp, which provided drinking water access
to 700 people hosted on the site. And in Darfur/Sudan,
a hydrogeology engineer offered support and geophysics
training for deep drillings. « The objective of
mission I carried out for SOLIDARITÉS in the Afghan
province of Bamyan was to determine potential water resources
in five districts, in order to improve food safety for
the populations. I was thus able to observe the deep commitment,
strong motivation and established competence of SOLIDARITÉS'
volunteers, whom one can but admire."
(Jean-Marie, a hydrogeology
engineer, member of Aquassistance). |
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