Association Energies Sans Frontières

Access to water, electricity and training for disadvantaged populations

P R ES E N T A T I O N

Contributions and Objectives

Supporting

populations’ local anchoring

Contacts and Organisation

Global economic imbalances are causing an ever-increasing number of populations to slide into poverty, and inequality is worsening. For over 28 years, the humanitarian association Energies Sans Frontières has been using its skills to carry out development projects in the poorest countries to help improve the living conditions of these countries’ disadvantaged populations. The association works to make their everyday lives easier by implementing projects to provide access to water, electricity or training. It also intervenes in post-emergency situations after natural disasters in Haiti, Croatia and Greece, for example. The work of Energies Sans Frontières, an association for international solidarity, relies on the commitment of its volunteers and aid from its partners and donors, all of whom contribute to the success of its projects. Energies Sans Frontières runs projects all over the world.

Tanzania – Training in solar power

Ban Boumlou, LAOS

Contributions and Objectives

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Our objective has not changed since 1988 - identifying needs in close consultation with populations is indispensible, the mutual comprehension that we seek is essential and the appropriation of the project by everyone involved is crucial. We strive to carry out our projects as hands-on training programmes to ensure the future of our work and to motivate local young people. A year or two after the completion of a project, depending on the situation, an assessment is made to see if objectives have been met, if the choices made with regard to needs were relevant and to observe how the project is evolving. These projects improve access to healthcare and education, and slow down rural exodus. They also enable local populations and tradespeople to participate in construction work by choosing whenever possible to purchase materials locally. Over time, we have built up a network of donors - industrialists and local authorities, suppliers and donors - whose loyalty and solidarity make it possible to carry out our projects.

Supporting populations’ local anchoring

In the 28 years of its existence, Energies Sans Frontières has launched actions in the following countries: Armenia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Comoros, Congo Kinshasa, Croatia, Ecuador, France, Greece, Haiti, India, Iran, Laos, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Romania, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Togo and Vietnam, with Médecins Sans Frontières in the CAR and with the Red Cross in Indonesia.

Energies Sans Frontières stepped in with post-emergency assistance after the natural disasters in Iran, Pakistan, South-East Asia, Haiti and Greece.

NEPAL Construction of the Activity Centre in Kharmi comprising a workshop and classroom, training to install a low-voltage overhead grid, commissioning of the micro-hydroelectric plant, laying low-voltage lines and providing homes with electric lighting.

LAOS Drilling 4 wells equipped with hand-pumps in the village of Ban Boumlou to do away with the time-consuming task of fetching water, installing a compost toilet per home (75 homes), raising villagers’ awareness with regard to hygiene and conserving the forest and animals, electric lighting for homes using solar panels and 2 light bulbs, creating a battery charging point, with the management committee, setting up a local subscription system with a usage fee for charging batteries in order to raise money for further collective works and pump maintenance.

HAITI A 28m² container was delivered to Port au Prince with electrical equipment, a cement mixer, bicycles, doors and windows, two motorised cultivators and medical supplies. The container was transformed in situ. The work involved drilling doors and windows, installing frames and indoor and outdoor trims and fitting the roof and electrical installation. A 2nd container purchased locally was adjoined to the first to create enough floor space. Installation of 2000 light points.

Nepal: Children in a classroom

Hands-on training programme in Vietnam

Hygiene training in Laos

Container for Haiti

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In the field

LAOS As part of the programme to develop local ecotourism, the village of Konglor was given access to drinking water and the 1st and 2nd stages of work were carried out to light up the caves for tours. Management training for pirogue boatmen committees and visitors’ accommodation with host families. Training for Laos Electricity technicians. TANZANIA

Installation of a solar generator and teacher training. The institute was built by the

BURKINA FASO With the Villeneuve d’Echirolles/Tanghin association, fourteen young people from the Tanghin district of Ouagadougou were trained. Hands-on training programme for indoor electrical installations in the district’s ten schools.

Ecuador

Armenia

Peru

Benin Togo Vietnam

Cambodia

Madagascar

Burkina Faso

India Cameroon Mauritania

LAOS Connection to the network and electrification for Paksong villages.

ADEI association (International Educational Development Action). Its objective is to train young people in local industry sectors to BTS (higher vocational) level.

Lighting in the Konglor Caves in Laos

Training in Burkina Faso

Connecting to the network in Laos

Tanzania

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In the field

ESF Head Office: 44, avenue de la République 38170 SEYSSINET PARISET Email: esf.grenoble@orange.fr

ESF Administration: 1030, route de St Sauveur, les Deveys, 38160 IZERON 04 76 36 83 07 Email: esf.administration@orange.fr

www.energies-sans-frontieres.org

Energies Sans Frontières is entirely run by volunteers. In 2016, it had 150 members. The association is represented in Rhône Alpes by its correspondents and has three technical sites: the association’s head office is in Seyssinet (Grenoble) and it has three workshops to prepare projects and expeditions in Izeron, St Alban and Ampuis.

The Izeron site houses the administrative and accounting management. Energies Sans Frontières is a 1901 (not-for-profit) organisation, SIRET 425 375 128 000 13 - Code APE 94 99 Z, recognised as being in the public interest.

The association’s 2015 budget amounted to €459,000

Members of the ESF Board: President Jean Pierre CHARRIN 06 03 50 80 06 Secretary Renée BOUTEILLON Secretary General Daniel LABEYE 06 83 45 71 55 Vice-president Michel MUNOZ Treasurer Marc MIGAI

Vice-treasurer Jean Claude CHABRIOL Site Representatives in Rhône Alpes: Drôme-Ardèche Patrick MASSON Lyon- Nord Isère Serge TITEUX Sud-Isère Francis POTIN Savoie-Haute Savoie Michel DARBELET ESF Editor Jean-François PELISSIER Public Relations René ZORATTI, Michel PEVET

Contacts and Organisation

LAOS Solidarity Trips These trips organised by Energies Sans Frontières for our partner CCAS (gas and electricity companies’ works council) brought travellers to Laos for sightseeing and also to visit the sites of completed Energies Sans Frontières projects. The travellers helped install a solar power station to recharge batteries in the village of Boumlou.

Vietnam Since 2005, the Energies Sans Frontières Association has been running short training sessions in Vietnam to teach disadvantaged young people to become electricians. Eleven sessions have been held over recent years and more than 250 young people have received electrician training from ESF.

Energies Sans Frontières has equipped the training centres with the teaching models and tools necessary for training and the trainers in these centres are now giving lessons themselves. ESF is hoping to train 700 more disadvantaged young people over the next 4 years. Energies Sans Frontières and its partners provide organisational, material and financial assistance with the project. In addition, ESF is opening a business incubator to help these young people start out in the industry.

Solar power station, Laos

Young people training in Vietnam