From its beginnings, Grupo Secacao crafted a vision of Corporate Social Responsibility. The sustainability of our business model is nourished by a culture of ethics whose main values are respect, responsibility, integrity, and excellence.

These values strengthen the performance of Grupo Secacao and guide the way we run our business through principles that strengthen our corporate citizenship.

An administrative model was created based on the definition of several priorities, and its main areas of focus are the following:

• Human Resource Management
• Social Management
• Environmental Management

The most important thing for us at Grupo Secacao is our people. We believe that we are only able to reach our goals and objectives because of the enthusiasm and effort of everyone who forms part of this organization.

Human resource management is in charge of training and developing our collaborators, and it is interested in their health and occupational safety.

In a four-year effort, all the collaborators of the company who hadn’t attained a primary or secondary education were encouraged and given the chance to do so. Two hundred and twenty-six (226) people reached the objective, obtaining a high level of satisfaction as well as personal and professional pride.

We identify self-improvement opportunities for our collaborators and evaluate their competencies, and we invest in their formation and training in an effort to guarantee the quality of our operations and the growth of our team and the Group itself.

We ensure compliance with our health and occupational safety norms to make sure that our collaborators are protected through safe work spaces.

Grupo Secacao supports community development over social management through the sponsorship of Fundación Trece Aguas, a nonprofit organization that works with 25 communities in Senahú, Alta Verapaz. By doing so we seek to strengthen community relationships and provide for the implementation of projects that contribute to the development of the communities within our sphere of influence. We also support and recognize the value of responsible local procurement, maintaining commercial relationships with the region’s small businesses.

We carry out this task through four main areas of focus aimed at community development:

Economic Development. Actions that promote the economic development of 25 communities in Senahú, Alta Verapaz. The main objective of this program is to increase the potential to generate economic resources that will allow people to have a better quality of life.

Community Development. We provide spaces for training sessions aimed at strengthening the leadership skills that will allow community leaders to generate their own development and face the challenges that come as a result of population growth and social needs.

Health. Efforts to support health improvement, promoting the kind of precautions and measures that are needed to ensure healthy families, besides offering first aid and medical missions at the Fundación Trece Aguas’ Health Center and the transportation of patients to local hospitals.

Education. We support the improvement of educational facilities adequate for the students’ proper academic development, as well as the strengthening of teacher skills in order to enrich the learning experience.

We respect the dignity, aspirations, culture, and knowledge of indigenous populations and aspire to be a good and trustworthy neighbor to them. We seek opportunities to give and share additional benefits by engaging in dialogue with adjacent communities throughout the life of our projects, establishing partnerships with local governments in search of their sustainable social development.

One of our objectives is to develop policies, procedures, and work plans focused on the effective management of our operations’ environmental risks and impacts.

We seek to reduce our carbon footprint, promoting a responsible corporate culture when it comes to natural resources and their sustainable use.

We guarantee that Grupo Secacao’s activities have no adverse effects on either terrestrial or aquatic ecosystems and on either air or water quality.

We seek environmental sustainability by managing our activities sustainably, minimizing any impacts on biodiversity.

We are convinced that, if we develop our activities in an environmentally responsible way, renewable electric energy projects can have positive economic, social, and environmental impacts. For this reason, we are committed to the sustained improvement of our environmental performance, and to the environmental protection of our operations’ areas of influence.

This is the only way we can ensure that our projects promote sustainable development in Guatemala.

With the purpose of cementing our commitment to environmental protection, we follow a four-tier model that we implement progressively in all of our activities: