Community Relations
Productive activities that we perform are focused on the respect for our environment, prioritizing people living in neighboring communities. Therefore, at REPSA, beyond being the largest employer of the department of Petén, we work hand in hand with communities, local government, NGO´s, academia, and other actors involved in the development of our neighbors and their environment.
We work under the premise to generate economic, social, and environmental value for Guatemala, and this principle is the one that leads to propose and implement projects of sustainable development in the area where we operate. Committed with joint work and coordination with neighboring communities, we have a Community Relations department to know, develop, and implement initiatives and programs of community interest.
Main lines of action and main projects are described below.
Social Management
Education
Health and nutrition
Productivity
At REPSA we work on the strengthening of capacities of different stakeholders such as: community leaders, teachers and students, youth, women leaders, public employees, and our collaborators. These trainings seek to promote governance and development of the municipality through responsible citizenship.
Aware of the central role played by education in people´s development, at REPSA we provide training programs for teachers, leaders, women, youth, municipal authorities, among others. Moreover, we support infrastructure projects to provide fair conditions to the schools in our communities of influence.
Guate is your country, stay! Initiative
Is the social plattaform of Group HAME that promotes economic, entreprenourship programs to expands family and community income opportunities.
To improve people´s quality of life, at REPSA we develop projects to strengthen knowledge in the fields of health and food security providing accompaniment to midwives, health promotors, and household improvement.
Part of our community investment budget is intended for infrastructure projects like roads, wells, sinks, washrooms, latrines, health centers, schools, perimeter walls, these projects are developed under a model that involves the municipality and beneficiary communities.
Environmental Agricultural
At the ECA we provide training to men and mainly women endowing them with knowledge and tools that directly improve their quality of life and that of their families.
People who approach the ECA can strengthen their knowledge in:
We give practical teaching to sow and harvest food such as: cassava, sweet potato, pineapple, plantain, papaya, Jamaica (Hibiscus), among others, to ensure availability of nutritious food in households. Through the training in backyard gardening we seek that people cover their food requirements and have the option to generate new incomes for their household.
This program is oriented to Q´eqchí women of the neighboring communities, who are trained as promotors and have the mission to share knowledge in their communities so that more people can make use of it.
At the ECA we also provide livestock trainings for breeding and reproduction of backyard animals with the same system of promotors who disseminate knowledge to other people of their communities.
At the ECA we promote the formation of savings groups through training in a methodology that sensitizes about its importance, responsible management of resources and investment to improve their life conditions.
Agroforestry Systems
To generate incomes for families, at REPSA we have trained and gave technical assistance to families of our communities of influence to develop agroforestry systems with cocoa trees and other species in their plots. This system integrates cocoa trees with species like pepper, clove, plantain, cassava, Jamaica (Hibiscus), pineapple, among others.
