Foundations System

Programs



Programs

1. Water supply solutions are aimed at the quality and quantity for human consumption

In 2009, we helped solve this for 7,300 Wayuu indigenous inhabitants. In 2010, we donated water tanks to 20 families, countering the effects of El Niño and repaired 15 windmills near the Cerrejón railway line as part of a sustainability strategy for a total of 55 windmills. We have also worked on a sustainability plan for 5 of the 11 reservoirs being built in Alta Guajira and held workshops for 14 indigenous communities; a model which will be replicated for other regional reservoirs. Our other initiatives include:

  • Creation of the Programme for Food, Nutrition and Healthcare Assurance at our experimental farm.
  • Drilling deep wells in four areas and improving the jaguey or small reservoirs which are in the vicinity of the mine.
  • Improvements to water supply conditions in our neighbouring communities.
  • Improved capacity at a water treatment plant in the Manaure district.
  • Audit of the newly created Water and Sewage Mains Users’ Association of Roche, Patilla and Chancleta.
  • Promoting water harvesting strategies in rural communities.
  • Shared best practice in the construction, maintenance and safe use of jaguey’s with neighbouring communities.

2. Our Sanitation and Hygiene Solutions programme aims to promote hygiene best practices and find

ways to better dispose of waste-water

We develop training modules for educational and community centres to reduce inadequate sanitation practice and ultimately prevent disease.

We have implemented the first stage of a school educational programme in Media Luna to teach sanitation and hygiene. The Foundation has also embarked on a pilot project for people to adopt healthy water management habits at the Media Luna Ethno-Eduction Centre. To complement this programme a solar desinfection method SODIS has been implemented to have secure drinking water in the school, benefiting 800 people, among them students and teachers.

For communities that neighbour our experimental farm and our railway in Maicao, we have also rolled out more sanitation workshops. However, in 2009 we took the decision to work more with academic institutions due to the high vulnerability among the student population and the gradual benefits this would have in a school environment.

3. Integrated Management of Water Resources is a programme that seeks to increase, maintain and

monitor superficial and underground water sources

This includes ways to sustainably manage the basins and their supporting ecosystems aiming at an equilibrium between the conservation of the ecosystem and productive agriculture and livestock projects. We recover bodies of water and undertake environmental planning in the Paladines Stream microbasin, which is a tributary of the Rancheria River - the primary source of water for La Guajira benefiting 70 families.

Cerrejon Water Foundation Achievements and Goals


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