Guatemala, November 2011. Agrofruit's Corporate Social Responsibility Department donated plastic containers to the school and health center of San Jose Mogollon, in Escuintla. The plastic containers will be used to recycle garbage, which will help keep the town clean and build a culture of care for the environment among its inhabitants.Agrofruit also obtained a
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Guatemala, November 2011. For the past two years Agrofruit has been implementing the Better Families program in 12 rural communities across the country. A self-help program, Better Families focuses on improving the health conditions, nutrition and social behavior among beneficiary families. Among its goals are to reduce malnutrition and infant mortality rates, improve school performance among boys and girls, as
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Guatemala, October 2011. Contributing to education, especially of nearby communities, Agrofruit helped build ten classrooms in the Juan Pablo Hernández School in the community of Ticanlú.
This project, which will benefit more than 550 students and some 300 families, was made possible by the joint effort of the private sector, the Municipality of Tiquisate and community leaders, among them teachers,
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Agrofruit, through their Corporate Social Responsibility Program, Happy Families, offered a free medical clinic day in two villages of Coatepeque, Quetzaltenango, Los Encuentros and Las Ventanas.
The doctors and nurses who came from Xelajú, attended more than 200 people (adults and children), mostly relatives of Agrofruit workers. Medical staff treated respiratory diseases, diarrhea and skin infections and provided the medicine.
Agrofruit undertook
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The first class of kinder garden students graduates from the Fernando Bolaños private school.
Guatemala, November 2011. Agrofruit celebrated the graduation of 19 kinder garden students from the Fernando Bolaños private rural school in the municipality of Caballo Blanco, Retalhuleu department.
The school was built earlier this year for the children of Agrofruit workers, and its innovative methodology has made it a
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Guatemala, October 2011. Agrofruit donated food to 800 families affected by the rains which recently struck Guatemala's southwestern region. The company delivered food items including flour, beans, sugar, oil, salt and bananas, focusing on the poorest families cut off from main roads and unable to replenish their food supply.
Agrofruit employees, beneficiary women of corporate social responsibility programs and community
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Guatemala, October 2011. Agrofruit recently acquired a fleet of 20 new trucks with the latest technological innovations to improve efficiency and customer service. The head of Agrofruit's transportation division remarked that the new fleet of trucks is equipped with special features based on the terrain and driving conditions of the segment trucks use to deliver fruit to the port.
The
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Guatemala, September 2011. In order to foster a positive attitude and encourage a sense of civic duty in its employees to vote responsibly and conscientiously, Agrofruit together with the civic association, GuateAmala, conducted a workshop whose theme was "Building a Culture of Citizenship". More than 1,300 employees from the farms and administrative offices participated in the workshop which initially trained
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