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For Suelopetrol, entrepreneurial social responsibility goes beyond philanthropy. With this in mind, Suelopetrol has developed several programs for assistance and support for the communities:

ARATURE PROJECT

Located in the Orinoco Delta, Monagas State, the Boca de Tigre Eco Camp is a protected area as per resolution of the Ministry of Environment due to its formidable yet vulnerable natural surroundings, where about 33  warao etnia families inhabit. The promotion of the YaKeRaJa School sets a new challenge for Suelopetrol: to build a sustainable new community settlement built under the premises of respect, social values, culture and ecology. Suelopetrol  planned this project together with the warao community and has proposed a central area of 240 x 100 mts for the casique house and the common areas:

• School
• Dispensary
• Community House
• Village Square
• Soccer field

Within the warao community, the houses are disperse and in very poor conditions. Using their own techniques and materials, it is proposed to build new houses for the improvement their sanitary conditions. It is also planned to install an electric system in accordance with the environment, by using alternate sources like wind energy, solar energy or biogas.

• The benefits of this project would be:
• Conservation of the natural and cultural patrimony and the welfare of the indigenous community in the area.
• Using of non-contaminant, less expensive and more effective energy sources.
• A community with a sense of understanding the value of the natural environment, feeling the need to protect it and preserve it for the next generations.
• A community caring and proud of their origins, culture, spiritual values and legacy.
• A durable settlement and a habitat that humanizes the family relationships and with neighbors and communities.
• Model of sustainability for other communities.

PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS AND CITIZENSHIP

Suelopetrol promotes the citizen participation, co-responsibility and social control of public affairs through the formation of better citizens. With that in mind, Suelopetrol carries out workshops to the leaders in the communities about Project Planning and Social Controlling. Also, with local counsels carried out workshops to increase the organization’s capacity for the community development.

COOPERATIVISM

Suelopetrol supports the strengthening of cooperativism and the incorporation of Social Production Enterprises (SPE) as productive organizations.

EDUCATION PROGRAMS

• YAKERAJA SCHOOL

For the last 15 years, Suelopetrol maintains a school for indigenous children of warao etnia located in Isla de Tigre, Caño Manamo, Monagas State.
In the school, named Yakeraja that means “Excellency” in warao language, approximately eighty children receive classes of grammar, mathematics, Venezuelan History, both in Spanish and their mother tongue. This school also has been the scenario for international cultural and educational exchanges.

• EXCELLENCE PROMOTION

Suelopetrol has created a scholarship plan jointly with the Asociacion Venezolana de Ingenieros Geofisicos (ASOVG) [Venezuelan Association of Geophysicist Engineers] to offer two scholarships to the best two students of Geophysics Engineering of the national universities. In this way, Suelopetrol not only reinforces the academic excellence but also promotes the growths of the future professionals in the area. Also, Suelopetrol promotes research and expansion of knowledge through the donation of computers to schools located in areas where company operates.

• HEALTH PROGRAM

Suelopetrol is aware of the sanitary needs and disease prevention specially in distant places, with that in mind it promotes and carries out plan of pediatrics and geriatrics primary medical assistance and vaccination programs within the communities.

• ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM

Suelopetrol knowledge the impact of its operations in the surroundings and its capable personnel perform programs for the conservation and respect of the environment. The main environmental conservation action of Suelopetrol is to perform a secure operation that preserves the environment and grants confidence and tranquility to the community. Additionally, the company carries out awareness programs within the communities, since their members are or will be the environmental auditors of our programs. In this sense, Suelopetrol dictates workshops in the schools to teach the citizens of the future and also develop reforestation plans jointly with the communities.