“We all have a duty to build Mayotte”: an action launched to deliver new types of drinking water fountains to victims of Cyclone Chido

Jean-Luc Aigoin veut faire usage de son réseau pour aider ce projet humanitaire. Midi Libre – Paul Barraud

Jean-Luc Aigoin, vice-président de l’association des Éco-maires de France, soutient depuis le Gard une action portée par un ONG afin d’aider les Mahorais à retrouver de l’eau potable.

It is a water fountain that is similar to those decorating offices. Except that this one, like a filter carafe, can clean ten liters of water in a few minutes, thanks to an integrated filtering system, to make it fit for consumption.

An object of Indian manufacture, but which found a buyer at Unigaia Solidarité, an NGO working for better access to drinking water, in France and abroad. These fountains have already found buyers in several countries, including Benin, where the issue of access to water is problematic.

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In Benin, the NGO provides fountains in several schools. DR

Honorary mayor of Saint-Jean-de-Serres, in the Gard, Jean-Luc Aigoin is currently vice-president of the Éco-maires de France, an association of local elected officials who want to come together for sustainable development. On January 7, he learned of Unigaia's new project: to send 1,000 of their water fountains to Mayotte, ravaged by cyclone Chido, and where access to drinking water is sorely lacking for disaster victims. He and the “Eco-mayors” adhere to the challenge without hesitation.

“Solidarity, when it is shared between everyone, takes nothing at all”

“A single one of these fountains costs €94, specifies Jean-Luc Aigoin. And solidarity, when it is shared between everyone, takes nothing at all: there are for example 100 other departments in France. If everyone pays for 5 fountains, imagine the potential. We all have a duty to build Mayotte.”

Very quickly, the elected official made requests for financial contributions to the territorial millefeuille. He is now waiting for answers from the president of the Gard Department, Françoise Laurent-Perrigot, but also from Philippe Ribot, Gard representative of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF) or even from David Lisnard, the mayor of Cannes and national president of this same association. “We have 36,000 municipalities in France, it would still be quite impressive if David Lisnard said: “I am sending 36,000 fountains to Mayotte thanks to maires”!”

Unigaia hopes to start installing these fountains in Mayotte from February. For transport, the NGO highlights the position of India, the country that produces the devices, located much closer to the archipelago than mainland France. Other arguments put forward by Jean-Luc Aigoin: the longevity and reuse of the fountains, which would also reduce the use of plastic bottles, which become waste that is difficult to treat.

Unigaia also calls on individuals to join the project through donations. More information: www.unigaia-solidarite.org.