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COMMUNITY

Corporate Volunteers Program

This project was born in 2002, while the Argentine crisis was hitting its lowest ebb. The purpose of this undertaking is to improve both the infrastructure and facilities of the refectories in our influence areas. We focus on specific actions, making sure that the contributions made to the different organizations remain effective in the long term, independently from us.

Since 2005 we have promoted and backed our employees' initiatives. Our volunteers present their projects in Social Project Contests and we assess and select the project that we consider most worthy of aid.

2005 Winning projects

Bahía Blanca Area

First Place: "Training of the young man with different capacities for his integration to the social environment"
Volunteer in charge: Américo Iturburu

Second Place: "Much more than just a baker shop"
Team Leader: Leandro Cañón

Autonomous City of Buenos Aires Area

First Place: "Generation of resources for the Argentine Library for the Blind"
Team Leader: Mario Rosón

Greater Buenos Aires Area

First Place: "Hands on the pastry"
Team Leader: Jorge Arbeleche

Neuquén, La Pampa and Río Negro Areas

First Place: "Provision of means and training for food self- supply"
Team Leader: Víctor Navarro

Second Place: " On horseback"
Team Leader: César Santana

Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego Areas

Project: "Little Magic Smiles"
Team Leader: Federico Acuña

    2006/2007 Winning Projects

    Bahía Blanca Area

    First Place: " Graphic Production Workshop"
    Volunteer in charge: Hernán Vargas

    Second place: " Happy On Horseback"
    Volunteer in charge: Hermes Balod
    Team: Daniel Resch-Diego Montiquín

    Autonomous City of Buenos Aires Area

    First Place:"Threading in the Social Loom"
    Volunteer in charge: Margarita Seiler

    Second place: " Playing Around in the Goodwill Legion"
    Volunteer in charge: Roque Surace

    Third place: " Book Corner Library"
    Volunteer in charge: Silvia Acevedo

    Buenos Aires Province Area 

    First Place:"Room for everyone"
    Volunteer in charge: Nicolás Haya
    Team: Julia Zapata

    Second place: " Self- sustainable eco-educational orchard"
    Volunteer in charge: Corina Cohen
    Team: Juan Carlos Ruiz, Leonel Pita

    Third place: "How to use a PC and get closer to books"
    Volunteer in charge: Pablo Dhers Martín
    Team: Patricia Lopez

    Neuquén, La Pampa and Río Negro Areas

    First Place: "Fuss in the Shelter House"
    Volunteer in charge: Julián Solorzano
    Team: Victor Navarro, Mónica Ferreyra

    Second Place: "It grows from the foot"
    Volunteer in charge: Carlos Barrionuevo
    Team:Julián Arroyo, Néstor García, Jorge Romeo, Pablo Henkel

    Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego Areas

    Project:"Improvements in production and occupational health and safety"
    Vounteer in charge: Javier Montoya
    Team:Marcelo Acuña, Néstor Turri, Daniel Bahamonde , Daniel Huerta, Alejandro Bruno and Nelson Prieto.

    TGU - Uruguay

    Project: "Where we want to be!"
    Volunteer in charge: Carla Benitez
    Team:Néstor López, Mariella Dimperio, Gustavo Troche, Fabrizzio Beltramini, Pablo Santos, Juan Clavijo, Adrián Lutz, Alejandro Aqcuarone, Juan Pablo Mujica, Oscar Acevedo, Hermann Costa, Álvaro Medina, Nicolás Risso, Mateo Klosz, Fernando Ferreira, Henry Negrin.

    Honorable Mentions

    • Project: "Sowing Dreams"
      Volunteer in charge: Fabio Patrón
    • Project: "Orchestrating School"
      Volunteer in charge: Roberto Andreone
      Team: Jorge Barroso, Javier Bork, José Mancilla, Walter Rubilar

    2008/2009 Winning Projects

    Bahía Blanca Area

    Project: "Book Recycling"
    Project Leader: Hernán Vargas
    Beneficiary: Sociedad de Fomento del Barrio Latino, from Bahía Blanca
    Objective: Supply of resources for a book binding workshop.

    Project: "Sharing Warmth"
    Project Leader: Enri Seveso
    Team: Gastón Gasparini and Miguel Ángel Suberbie
    Beneficiary: Escuela de Educación Media N° 3 “Almafuerte”, from Bahía Blanca
    Objective: Supply of resources for a book binding workshop.

    Project: "TGS and the community, for the community"
    Project Leader: Norberto Ramírez
    Team: Felipe Ortiz, Gustavo Cortesi, Diego Capdevila and José Urra
    Beneficiary: Gral. Daniel Cerri community
    Objective: Implementation of a reforesting and landscaping program to embellish the entrance to the community of Gral. Daniel Cerri.

    Project: "Overcoming Barriers"
    Project Leader: César Muñíz
    Beneficiary: Escuela de Educación Especial N° 501, from Médanos
    Objective: To furnish the equipment required in the kitchen workshop within the pre-occupational area.

    Autonomous City of Buenos Aires Area

    Project: "Enhancing"
    Project Leader: Mónica Ferreyra
    Team: Diego Marmanelli
    Beneficiary: Comunity refectory 7 de Mayo, in Constitución neighbourhood.
    Objetivo: To adapt kitchen facilities to an increased confectionery production, thus generating greater revenues for the community refectory that operates there. The Project includes training for the prevention of AIDS and teenage pregnancy.

    Buenos Aires Province Area

    Project: "Home Warmth"
    Project Leader: Julia Zapata
    Team: Micaela Kvitca, Pablo Scaffidi, María Eugenia Schiappacasse, Hugo Romero, Roque Surace
    Beneficiary: Retirement Center “El Refugio”, José C. Paz
    Objetivo:  Installation of a gas network for the setting up of a heating system, a gas water heater and a cooker at the Center, as well as attainment of differential or reduced tariffs.

    Project: "Art, the universal language"
    Team Leader: Corina Cohen
    Team: Guillermo Ávila
    Beneficiary: Children's refectory “De Todos para Todos” in Villa Martelli, Vicente López
    Objective: To supply training in Fine Arts to volunteers and young people at the refectory, so that they transmit these skills and arts to the children and teenagers that attend the refectory .

    Río Negro Area

    Project: "Learning through Playing"
    Project Leader: Elvio D´Ascanio
    Team: Ezequiel Dios, Sebastián Gómez, Plácido Salvo, Andrés Villalobos and Miguel González
    Beneficiary: Escuela de Educación Básica N° 354, in Choele Choel
    Objective: Supply resources for the playground of the primary school .

    Project: "Digital Reading"
    Project Leader: Juan Zabransky
    Team: Oscar Barrionuevo, Aldo Reyes, Edgardo Damiano, Miguel Segura, Ernesto Panelo, Héctor Erriest and Juan Mameli
    Beneficiary : Popular and Municipal Library “Cincuentenario”, in San Antonio Oeste
    Objective: Total Update of the computer equipment of this Library located in San Antonio Oeste.

    Project: "Renewal of the Greenhouse installed in 2005"
    Project Leader: Víctor Navarro
    Team: Martín Siban and Norberto Amarilla
    Beneficiary: Shelter School N° 83 from Naupa Huen
    Objective: Supply of resources to adapt the greenhouse installed in 2006.

    Neuquén Area

    Project: "Playing and Learning Together"
    Project Leader: Pablo Henkel
    Team : Emanuel Albariño, Pablo Serna, Claudio Alfaro and Carlos Barrionuevo
    Beneficiary: Independent Kindergarden N° 51, from Río Colorado
    Objective: To furnish the kindergarden with several playground sets and materials.

    Project: "Community Association Eucalipto Blanco del Limay"
    Project Leader: Rafael Peucón
    Beneficiary: Community Association Eucalipto Blanco del Limay, Neuquén
    Objective: to improve current infrastructure in community football fields .