Corporate Social Responsability
The Odebrecht Group fulfills its corporate social responsibility by ensuring its clients' complete satisfaction through high quality and productivity in the products and services it offers, while, at the same time:
· participating in projects the community needs;
· producing resources for the State by paying taxes;
· offering opportunities for work and personal development;
· distributing part of its results to its members and shareholders;
· reinvesting a substantial portion of the results achieved;
· and respecting and preserving the environment.
These actions are part of the social responsibility of Odebrecht's members, who make an essential and necessary contribution to the communities in which they work.
Furthermore, resources are voluntarily donated to social and cultural initiatives that focus on promoting public education and health and creating sources of jobs and income and prioritize low-income areas.
These social outreach programs are carried out by:
· the Odebrecht Foundation;
· the Engineering & Construction and Chemicals & Petrochemicals businesses, through projects in the fields of education, health and work and income creation focused on communities located near their jobsites and plants;
· the Group's holding company, Odebrecht S.A.
Odebrecht sponsored 120 social outreach projects in 2006. The amount invested totaled BRL 29.1 million.
Farm couple Zaida Bocanegra e Carlos Luiz Garcia,
on their coffee plantation in Peru
Supporting family farming
The Cordillera Escalera is a 150,000-hectare mountain range in the Peruvian Amazon that has been declared an Environmental Conservation Area. Thirty-six kilometers of the 955-km IIRSA North route pass through that area. The road project is being built by Concin, a joint venture in which Odebrecht is a partner.
Concin is carrying out a socio-environmental management program in the Cordillera Escalera. Among other projects, it provides support for small farms (less than 5 ha) in the Urahuasha sector of the Shilcayo River highlands, where 24 families grow organic coffee.
These family farms needed more profitability, technical assistance and market access. Concin is working to meet these needs, and in 2006 helped them join the Oro Verde (Green Gold) Cooperative, which has an extensive distribution and marketing network in Peru and other countries. Now, the organic coffee they produce has its own brand (Cordillera Escalera) and its packaging carries the Fair Trade and Bird Friendly seals of approval. As a result, Urahuasha families that once sold their produce for 175 Soles per quintal (56 kilos) can now get 250 Soles per quintal.
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