Jean-Luc Aigoin, vice-president of the association of Eco-mayors of France, supports from Gard an action carried out by an NGO to help the people of Mahor find drinking water.
It is a water fountain similar to those decorating offices. Except that this one, like a filter jug, can clean ten liters of water in a few minutes, thanks to an integrated filtering system, to make it suitable for consumption.
An Indian-made object, 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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Honorary mayor of Saint-Jean-de-Serres, in the Gard, Jean-Luc Aigoin is currently vice-president of the Eco-mayors of France, an association of local elected officials wanting to unite for sustainable development. On January 7, he learned of Unigaia's new project: sending 1,000 of their water fountains to Mayotte, ravaged by Cyclone Chido, and where access to drinking water was sorely lacking for the victims. He and the “Eco-mayors” embrace the challenge without hesitation.
“Solidarity, when it is shared between everyone, it takes nothing at all”
“Just one of these fountains costs €94, specifies Jean-Luc Aigoin. And solidarity, when it is shared between everyone, it takes nothing at all: there are, for example, 100 other departments in France. If everyone pays 5 fountains, imagine the potential. We all have a duty to build Mayotte.”
Very quickly, the elected official made requests for financial participation in the territorial millefeuille. He is now awaiting responses from the president of the Department of Gard, 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 president national of this same association. “We have 36,000 municipalities in France, it would still be a shame if David Lisnard said: “I’m sending 36,000 fountains to Mayotte thanks to the mayors!”
Unigaia hopes to start installing these fountains in Mayotte from February. For transport, the NGO highlights the position of India, the device producing country, located much closer to the archipelago than the mainland. Other arguments put forward by Jean-Luc Aigoin: the longevity and reuse of fountains, which would also reduce the use of plastic bottles, which become waste that is difficult to treat.
