Dinant receives prestigious CSR award for 11 th straight year
Honduran Company Recognized Again for CSR initiatives, Outstanding Commitment to Local Communities and Sustainability
- Providing technical and financial support for community development projects on rural electrification, maintenance and access roads, water and sanitation.
- Giving nearly 600 land titles to low-income families, schools, and communities. In total, Dinant has set aside over 1,000 hectares of land to be donated to local people.
- Financing the employment of 12 elementary and high school teachers in the Leán and Aguán valleys, providing direct education to more than 300 children per year and over 6,600 children since the program began in 1997.
- Employing 18 members of staff from local indigenous communities in the Lean and Aguán valleys, as well as 66 people with disabilities such as visual impairment.
- Funding and building an aqueduct to carry 20,000 gallons of drinking water to the people of Zacate Grande in southern Honduras.
- Providing employees and members of some local communities with over 8,000 free medical consultations per year; supporting health clinics, doctors and nurses; and providing essential medicines.
- Volunteering for the “Happy Streets, Safe Communities” initiative in San Pedro Sula to promote harmony among the people of these proud but troubled neighborhoods.
- Supporting the Juntos Podemos Foundation at the Southern General Hospital in Choluteca by funding a range of operations including plastic surgery for children born with cleft lip or cleft palate.