A scroll around the world

The event

The scroll event was hosted by Veolia Environnement in Portugal on May 31, the day before The Childhood Day and just before World Envrionment Day.

When the project was first presented, municipalities replied with enthusiasm and agreed to participate. The challenge was for each Municipality to select one class. In the end, 180 children were invited!

Children and offcial guests spent the day at the Santa Iria de Azóia Urban Park in Loures.

The park, which boasts magnificent views across the Tagus estuary and features leisure equipment and an Environmental Education Center, was built on an old landfill site in a project that broke new ground in Portugal.

M. Jocelyn Gourlet , Veolia Water Portugal managing director, welcomed the group and launched the day. After the picnic, children participated in various environment-related games and activities run by the specialized guides from the park while the selected children were busy drawingtheir messages on the scroll

Around 4pm, the artists had completed their work, next to the 19 previous drawings from countries around the world and Portugal had taken its place on the international scroll.

Veolia Environnement's activities in Portugal.

Veolia Environnement is represented in Portugal by:

• waste management subsidiary Onyx, Portugal's leading operator in the collection, processing and recycling of (non-hazardous and hazardous) industrial waste. Onyx Portugal also handles service contracts on behalf of certain cities, such as Setúbal, and provides wastewater and industrial cleaning services.

• water subsidiary Veolia Water, which runs long-term service contracts (management, operation, production and distribution) for a number of municipal authorities (Paredes, Valongo, Mafra, Ourém) and serves a population of over 250,000 people every day.

• energy services subsidiary Dalkia, which specializes in energy management, cogeneration, which helps to optimize yields and reduce pollutant emissions, and multi-energy solutions combining the use of local renewable energy resources and conventional fuels.