Every year, engineering students from the Gasole association go on expeditions to carry out renovation projects. This year, five teams set off: those from Cluny, Aix-en-Provence, and Lille went to Nepal, the team from Bordeaux went to India, and thosefrom Angers and Metz went to Senegal.
Marc Gondran, a second-year engineering student, is the president of the Gasole association at the arts et Métiers campus arts et Métiers Cluny. He talks about the humanitarian trip to Nepal that he undertook with around twenty of his classmates. Together, they implemented measures to improve life in the village of Mandan Kundari in Nepal. The inhabitants of this village, which was devastated by an earthquake in 2015, benefited from the skills and techniques acquired by the Arts et Métiers engineers. With their invaluable help, the villagers now have individual reserves of non-potable water to prepare for the dry season. The students brought with them a machine that can transform earth into bricks, saving 70% of raw materials. Finally, they built a portable water tank in the courtyard of the primary school, which has 50 children.
All this with a budget of €15,000, which they were able to obtain thanks to the Arts et Métiers campus Arts et Métiers Cluny, companies in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, the people of Cluny who took part in the lottery organized jointly with Sonia Roland's Maisha-Africa association, and the festival-goers at the Grand Bastringue, which will take place this year on June 8 and 9, 2018. The Reggae festival donates its proceeds to the Gasole association. Not to mention the Lions Club of Kathmandu, which handled all the logistics for Marc's team's trip.
Marc passes the torch to Agathe Moncorgé, a first-year engineering student. "Her energy and commitment to her classmates were recognized when she was elected, and I wish her all the best."
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An unparalleled experience in Nepal - November 27, 2017 - Le Journal de Saône et Loire
