Company donates Q. 8 million in hospital and food supplies that it delivered in Petén. In its different working areas, collaborators of Grupo Hame take measures on sanitation protection. Representatives of Grupo Hame delivered donation to the president Alejandro Giammattei Temperature capture to workers is applied, due to the emergency of covid-19 in every working area.

This agribusiness group cares for the health of its employees with prevention actions This agribusiness group dedicated to oil palm and banana cultivation has not hesitated to join the struggle to contain the spread of coronavirus in Guatemalan territory. Through its brands Olmeca and Regia, the company that produces and commercializes oils, vegetable fats and food, knows about the importance that all health professionals in the first line against the pandemic have.

For such reason Grupo Hame, with a trajectory of 68 years of generating job positions and over 25 thousand collaborators currently, donated Q8 million for the purchase of protection equipment so that they can perform their labor in a safer way. Donation includes N95 masks, as well as disposable gloves and robes for medical personnel and nurses in the five temporary hospitals in Guatemala, Petén, Quetzaltenango, Zacapa, and Escuintla.

With this support, health personnel will be better protected, transmission will be avoided when equipped appropriately and they will be able to continue with this laudable labor they carry out since the outbreak occurred in the country.

Besides the amount abovementioned, it also gave 5 thousand bottles of Olmeca oil to the Municipality of Sayaxché, in support of the Coronavirus Prevention, Containment and Response Plan. Also through Repsa, one of the companies that is part of the group, it donated 30 gallons of diesel, 25 gallons of gasoline super, a thousand disposable masks brand 3M N95, and a thousand copies of body temperature bulletin format for the Ministry of Health in the district Nueva Esperanza, Sayaxché, that will benefit more than 56 neighboring communities.

As company, it has implemented for all employees covid-19 prevention protocols, when taking temperature constantly, sanitation of buses that transport personnel, sanitary measures like handwashing and antibacterial gel application, as well as social distancing of one meter and a half between collaborators.