Developing alliances with local partners. Veolia collaborates with local organizations to provide mediation and dialogue, preservation of natural resources and educational campaigns in the community. These actions have a positive impact on employment and improve the quality of the public service provided.
Promoting social reintegration through employment. Mindful of its community responsibilities, Veolia has developed partnerships worldwide with social service and employment aid organizations to help those on the margins of society find work that will reintegrate them into the community. Veolia campuses offer training curricula for updating old skills and acquiring new ones in specialized fields relating to the environment.
At the same time, Veolia has pledged to work with socially responsible subcontractors and calls on numerous organizations in the sheltered employment sector for a variety of projects.
In 2012, Veolia Environmental Services and ELISE (Local Enterprise for Initiatives to Serve the Environment) signed a five-year partnership to increase the amount of office waste paper collected and recycled. The goal of the partnership is to collect 50,000 tons of office paper annually and create nearly 500 jobs for people with disabilities or employment difficulties. By drawing on Veolia Environmental Services' 98 branch offices, this partnership will help to create a network of community integration organizations throughout France by 2015.
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