A total of ten communities from the municipality of San Marcos, Province of Sucre, received from Bavaria – together with the Red Cross and the Risk Management Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior– 1,060 purification filters and the same number of drinking water storage tank.

 

The campaign executed by the Company since 2007 seeks to provide inhabitants from the different settlements continuously affected by the rainy season, water supply, thus contributing to improving their health, hygiene and basic sanitation conditions.

 

“To Bavaria, social responsibility is a priority that presently provides to communities undergoing natural disasters a novel, sustainable manner to counteract their situation with a basic resource for life in a human being, such as the supply of drinking water”, affirmed Isabel Cristina Ochoa, Social Responsibility professional, process delegate in the area.

 

Hand-made water purifiers manufactured by craftsmen in Santander are comprised of a clay vessel, a 30 lt. Plastic tank and a dispenser. The model and its parts are customized from the version produced by the Nicaraguan organization Ceramistas por la Paz and the idea was implemented in Colombia by OXFAM (Oxford’s Committee for Famine Relief), an international devoted to fighting against poverty worldwide.

 

Bavaria’s Uni2 program created in 2005 is an initiative supported by the Company employees, which purpose is to contribute to improving life conditions of the communities around our industrial Plants and counteracting disaster situations in the country.