Message from Ruy Sampaio | Covid-19 – Initiatives of solidarity
DATA: 04/01/2020
Dear Team Members,
I hope you’re all well, along with your families.
Our first commitment at Odebrecht is to the health, safety and well-being of each and every one of you.
In view of the devastating outbreak of the new coronavirus, and given that many of the activities performed by the Group’s businesses cannot be stopped because since they are essential to society, guidance has been provided in all businesses on prevention and medical care as well as on how we can carry out our work while minimizing the risks of contamination.
We shall be permanently attentive to medical recommendations and mobilized to promote all possible actions to protect the health of our members, customers and partners.
As we always do in public emergency situations, we also promote measures to support the communities where we operate and are inserted, despite our difficult financial situation.
This is a historical feature of Odebrecht. We are always together with our communities, living side by side with them their joys, as well as their anguishes and their challenges.
At this tense and dramatic time, which demands union and collective spirit, Odebrecht’s very close relationship with people and the wide diversity of its activities, businesses and services allow us to show how diverse the solidarity actions that our companies have been promoting are, both in Brazil and abroad.
These examples, some already known within the respective Business, give an overview of the set of our actions:
– Atvos will provide up to 160 thousand liters of 70% alcohol to institutions in São Paulo, Bahia, Goiás, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul.
– OR made the Olympic Park facilities in Rio de Janeiro available to the authorities to be adapted as a campaign hospital.
– OEC, OR and Odebrecht S.A. made donations to the Federation of Industries of Bahia to purchase mechanical respirators for Bahia hospitals.
– OEC has made its construction site facilities available at the various sites to be used in actions to combat the virus. It offered government clients in Brazil and abroad to perform emergency works with zero profit. In the Dominican Republic, two ambulances have been donated to health authorities. In Panama and Angola, OEC tanker trucks are being used for water supply and road disinfection. In Angola, through Biocom’s sugar-alcohol plant, 20,000 bottles of 500ml of 70% alcohol have donated to the Ministry of Health, and will donate another 20,000 directly to hospitals, day care centers and homes for the elderly.
– OTP offered ambulances and health professionals in cities crossed by its highways and distributed alcohol gel kits to truck drivers. It will discuss with the authorities the offer of free tolls for vehicles used in the anti-pandemic services.
– Odebrecht S.A. offered Centrad, in Brasília, and the Fonte Nova stadium, in Salvador, to be converted into field hospitals. Fonte Nova is already being used for the vaccination of the elderly, in the drive-thru model.
– Enseada made available beds and ambulances for the communities, and evaluated with the Navy and Port Authority the transformation of its shipyard into a mooring terminal to install a distribution center for equipment and goods for the Recôncavo.
Initiatives with the same sense of solidarity also occur at Braskem.
We hope that the actions taken so far will strengthen the awareness of the need to promote more and more support to communities. They are our foundation, our floor. They are the greatest motivation of our Spirit of Service.
Thanks.
Best regards,
Ruy Sampaio
Executive Officer
Odebrecht S.A.
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