Since the beginning of Congelados Apolo, the company has carried out a corporate social responsibility policy mainly focused on sustainable production management, ecosystem conservation and responsibility towards society in general. Social improvement projects in Ecuador and other parts of the third world and developing countries are essential to comply with this policy.
To comply with this philosophy, Mariscos Apolo participates together with various organizations and associations in different projects that carry out social and environmental actions, such as the Spanish Red Cross or the Probeso Foundation of Colombia.
However, Congelados Apolo not only focuses its attention on the allocation of funds for social and environmental aid, but within its company policy is a rigorous control of quality and sustainability, both in Apolo’s own facilities and in the fishing areas from which it imports its wide variety of products, and for its compliance, Congelados Apolo only works with companies that meet these requirements of quality and responsibility.
Let’s join hands and smiles
On this occasion, Mariscos y Congelados Apolo has started a collaboration with another of its supplier companies in South America, providing aid directly to the employees of the company Omarsa, in Ecuador, with the aim of improving their quality of life.
The “Let’s join hands and give smiles” campaign will consist of improving the quality of life of several of the company’s employees, who were selected after carrying out a socio-economic analysis of all of them, and in which different essential priority needs were observed to ensure a good quality of life for the company’s personnel. After the study, the most critical needs were detected and defined, and a way was sought to offer both the worker and his family a small contribution to improve their quality of life.
Congelados Apolo’s contribution will go directly to:
- The construction and installation of toilets with septic tank.
- The purchase of wooden boards to cover floors and walls of the houses.
- Installation of zinc roofing.
- Purchase of basic dining room sets.
- Purchase of refrigerators.
- Donation of mattresses.
- Purchase of bunk beds.
- Purchase the basic elements to set up a kitchen.
Omarsa is an Ecuadorian shrimp processing company founded in 1982. Among the certifications they hold is the ASC (Aquaculture Stewardship Council), a certification created by the non-profit organization WWF in 2010. This demonstrates the company’s important commitment to carrying out responsible work that preserves the sustainability of the species and improves the quality of life of the population.
