ACCIONA carried out a diagnosis in the regions of La Venta and Santo Domingo Ingenio (Juchitán, Oaxaca), with the objective of reducing the impacts generated and obtaining first-hand information on the social needs that the Company might be able to support.
This program motivated the development of a Community Investment Plan, which includes a package of social improvement initiatives that are currently being implemented, with a total number of beneficiaries amounting to more than 20,000 people over the last few years.
Some of these initiatives are:
HEALTH
- Prevention and detection of cervical cancer in women and prostate cancer in men.
- Prevention of unwanted pregnancies and HIV among young people.
- Actions for self-care and prevention of cervical cancer.
- Actions for self-care and prevention of prostate cancer.
INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT
- Construction of the La Venta Eco-efficient Center: Promote employment and human capital formation, fostering social, economic and environmental growth.
- Educational Infrastructure: Construction of toilets for the schools, painting and fitting out of windows in elementary school, provision of construction materials for 4 classrooms.
- Promotion/Support of sports in the communities: Donation of sports material and construction and equipping of soccer fields.
COMMUNITY EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS
- Creation of the Wind Energy Master's Scholarship Fund and the Higher Education Scholarship Fund within your reach: Contribute to training in wind energy. Supporting young people for higher education.
- Technical course on design and manufacture of small wind turbines: Aimed at people with a career interested in creating micro-enterprises; manufacture with intellectual property of a 1.5 KW wind turbine.
- Human formation and psycho-pedagogical workshops: Donation of furniture for the library. Training to promote literacy, Spanish and mathematics; summer course for the youngest members of the community.
- Workshop on embroidery of typical clothing/computer skills, etc. developed at the Community Center.
- Sustainability Classroom/Environmental Education: Development of the Sustainability Classroom in the communities neighboring the wind farms, voluntary waste collection; talks on environmental issues at the wind farms.
- Support for higher education.
- Self-employment production center for the manufacture of poles.
- Promotion of the La Venta agricultural and livestock project through the creation of 11 rural production companies and 70 beneficiary ejidatarios.
PROTECTION/RESTORATION OF SITES OF NATURAL INTEREST TO THE COMMUNITY (ENVIRONMENT)
- Reforestation of certified protected areas.