Repsol YPF

Projects

The programmes undertaken in 2006 include a great variety of matters and have been carried out in all the countries where the company is present. In 2006, Repsol YPF and its foundations have spent 25.4 million euros to promote social and cultural programmes, principally in education and training, health, social integration, community development and art and culture. The abovementioned quantity is an increase of 12% on the amount invested in 2005. All told, in 2006, there are 763 programmes of Repsol YPF 's social and cultural action, 24% more than in 2005. 

Below are listed a sample of projects carried out in the areas of influence of Repsol YPF's operations, organized by the 8 Millennium Development Goals established by the United Nations.

1. Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty

• "Helping Hands", volunteers of Repsol YPF Peru collaborate in the construction of housing in Ventanilla, Callao. "Helping Hands" is the programme of Voluntary work made up of workers of...   
• Generically High Quality Pig Production Units Project in Venezuela. In Venezuela, Repsol YPF has taken part by cooperating financially in the "generically high quality pig production units project”...                  

2. Achieve Universal Primary Education

• "Yes, I Can", Literacy Programme with the support of the Repsol YPF Ecuador Foundation.  The Repsol YPF Ecuador Foundation closely supports the Cuban Programme "Yes I Can" of the Municipality...   
• The "Mathematics for Everyone" Programme, Peru. In Peru the programme emphasizes Mathematics for all, aimed at students and teachers of lower resources. This project has as its objective helping improve ...
• Rural Patagonian Communities Programme. As a committed and active part of the community it is active in, Repsol YPF made a strategic alliance concrete in the year 2001...                  

3. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

• Micro-loans for female entrepreneurs in Orellana, Ecuador.  The programmes developed by Repsol YPF are normally carried out by entities of recognized prestige, such as...                 

4. Reduce Mortality of Children under 5

• Dakar Solidarity. Repsol YPF, through Dakar Solidarity Foundation, collaborates economically and logistically to make it possible to send medicines and medical and sanitary material ... 
• Burns Unit of Bolivia  Repsol YPF collaborated in the improvement of the Mario Ortiz Children's Hospital in Bolivia...             

5. Improve Maternal Health
 

• "Proyect Life” of the Trinidad and Tobago Red Cross. Project Life is Project Life is a program for the Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission. Preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission is an important strategy in the efforts to reduce HIV rates in Trinidad and Tobago.
      

6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

• HIV/AIDS Prevention Programme in Trinidad and Tobago. From 2003 Repsol YPF has collaborated with Red Cross though the project "HIV/AIDS Prevention and reinforcement of the ambulance services...
• Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases- Without your support AIDS ... with your support LIFE: Repsol YPF supports the project “Without your support AIDS ... with your support LIFE"...                  

7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability

• Forestation Programme in Neuquen. Repsol YPF is recovering the coast of the Rio Malleo (Neuquen, Argentina), where 300 families live, which is in a process of desertification due to over-grazing ...   
• "Florestas do Futuro" Project, Brasil. This program is aimed at the reforestation of the Mata Atlántica (one of the most endangered tropical jungles on the planet) and to the recovery of areas on the margins...            

 8. Develop a Global Partnership for Development

• Virtual Latin-American School– Orellana Province - Ecuador: The Repsol YPF Ecuador Foundation, conscious of the importance of accessing technological resources...