Created in November, 2002, Araucaria is a small French association governed by the law of July 1st, 1901. Its object, registered in its statutes, is “to promote and realize projects favoring, in particular, the education and the health of the children”. Its action takes place in France or in developing countries.
It is thus of general interest, without any remuneration nor profit for its members, every volunteers.
Principles
Both principles of Araucaria are:
- A project, to be useful, must be built in cooperation with the future beneficiaries. They are dominating part in the expression of needs and in the management of the realizations.
- The human relations are essential for a project to be led to its good end. The relations are happy when they are balanced. We so much have to learn from others than they have to learn of us.
Realizations
Araucaria realized, since 2002, projects in Africa, in Haiti, in India and in Nepal.
2002: financing of an open-heart surgery and an intervention by catheter in the Institute of the Heart of Maputo (Mozambique)
2004 – 2009: construction of a primary school at Fond des Nègres in Haiti for 500 children
2008: rehabilitation and equipment of a health center in Burkina Faso
2008 – 2011: implementation of a farm of spiruline in Pondicherry in India
2013 – 2014: reconstruction and equipment of a primary school in Chyaksa danda in Nepal
Why “Araucaria”?
The name “Araucaria” also carries a double symbol:
At first, it is the tree which grows abundantly in the country where we began our first project at the beginning of 2000s: Mozambique.
Its familiar name is also the Despair of the Monkeys because they manage to rise easily there but cannot get down without difficulty because of needles growing towards the sky. We want that it goes in the same way for the realization of our project: when we climb, what can be the difficulties, we have no other alternative than to go up always, continue our projects until their good end!
Structure
President: Jean-François DELEVAL
Secretary: Hélène ALLIAS
Treasurer: Bernard ALLIAS
Active members: Bernadette and Claude HURBIN, Sylvie DELEVAL
Partner Associations:
Chain of the Hope: www.chainedelespoir.org
The Volontariat (India): www.volontariat-inde.org
Codegaz (France): www.codegaz.org
Friends Of Nature: www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-Of-Nature/195531383949064
