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Romain Boutonnet, a kite-surfing enthusiast

Kite Surfing, also called Fly-Surfing, is a nautical sport consisting in standing, with one's feet staggered, on a surfboard and being pulled by a traction kite. This hybrid sport, which belongs to the families of surfing and traction-kiting, enables to skim the surface of water at a very high speed, to perform jumps that may be spectacular (8- to 10-m high) and execute very diverse figures in the air. However, in contrast to Wind-Surfing or Wake-board, landing must be perfectly smooth. The set of gear includes mainly a wake-board- or surf-type board, on which footstraps are fitted, a traction kite and a safety harness tying the surfer to the kite. Kite-surfing remains a very dangerous sport (1st cause of serious sport-related fatal accidents in France). It is therefore highly advisable, before undertaking any individual experiment, to take a training course.

François Marie initiates a solidarity chain

The generous impulse of SODIM TP's Managing Director,itowards Madam President of the Horizons Nouveaux institution. On February 24th 2004, François Marie handed to Mme Edith Lucie Bongo Ondimba an significant quantity of medical equipment, a donation from the French-based Military Association Jean Lachenot. It was during a stay in France that a childhood friend of Mr François Marie's who works in the domain domain of military medical care, told him about the availability of this equipment as a result of a restocking. Accordingly, François Marie, who already knew what purpose this equipment would serve, based on the needs noticed in this area, grabbed the opportunity offered by the Military Association Jean Lachenot to ship the equipment to Libreville and make it available to the Horizons Nouveaux Foundation.