Repsol YPF

Community Development

The development of communities constitutes one of the main goals of the social commitment programmes of Repsol YPF. Projects are selected in the basis that the greatest number of people benefit from them and which can be converted into sustainable programmes over time for developing endogenous capabilities in the heart of the communities where they are implemented.

In Venezuela, Repsol YPF conducts a programme of training and technical assistance in the areas of agro production, commercialization and marketing of agricultural items with the greatest potential in communities surrounding the company's operations and the states of Barinas, Portuguesa and Minago.

The results are positive, considering that productivity has been increased 800 per cent. Today’s new beekeepers produce derived products such as soap and home remedies and some have become facilitators for their neighbours.

The Volunteering Programme of Repsol YPF Peru called “Helping Hands” (Manos Amigas) is composed of employees at Repsol YPF who voluntarily carry out day assignments in schools, canteens and settlements in Lima and Ventanilla. In 2007 they collaborated in construction projects for modular houses for inhabitants of Ventanilla with limited resources, where approximately 100 volunteers of Repsol YPF participated. 

The objective of this initiative is to help build houses in the Ventanilla area, a place where Repsol YPF has one of its refineries.  The project aims to sensitise and generate commitment in the employees, showing them a reality which can be changed if they act together.  

For more information, see the: Corporate Responsibility Report 2007