Fundación Cepsa's activities in 2023 benefit close to 40,000 people in Campo de Gibraltar

• The Fundación invested close to €500,000 over the past year
• The activities aim to support the society of Campo de Gibraltar in social, educational and environmental matters

Fundación Cepsa is still loyal to its goal of strengthening its voluntary responsibility to the Campo de Gibraltar society by promoting initiatives that help its members. With this mission, it has helped a total of 39,517 people through its actions in 2023 in the Campo de Gibraltar area.

Those above-mentioned Campo de Gibraltar locals took part in 29 initiatives that were launched last year, framed within the Fundación Cepsa’s three strategic lines: social support, scientific-educational and environmental. In order to continue its social responsibility work, Fundación Cepsa invested more than €494,425 in 2023.

One of the most notable actions was the Social Value Awards; with funding up to €65,000 and six regional entities were awarded, four of them for their energy transition-related project and another that received the Special Employee Award. It is important to note Fundación Cepsa's commitment to the fight against energy poverty, among other actions, with the project to install photovoltaic panels in the supervised apartments of the San Roque City Council. In Algeciras, the Fundación collaborated with the adaptation of the new resource for homeless people in the Pescadores neighborhood regarding energy efficiency in line with the Fundación's efforts in the fight against energy poverty. Among other initiatives, the whale watching point on the coast of La Linea has been restored with informative signage in collaboration with the City Council.

Estrella Blanco, head of Fundación Cepsa, emphasized that "we continue to work hand in hand with administrations and institutions to offer quality initiatives that benefit our neighbors with education and environmental actions as the core of our activity, without forgetting the social support to the most vulnerable sectors of the society of Campo de Gibraltar."

This year we were once again able to carry out our wetlands awareness program at the Madrevieja Environmental Station with 6th grade students; similarly, we were able to run our Energy Campus program to teach secondary and Baccalaureate-level students about the energy sector. Furthermore, more than 140 university students participated in the activities launched by the Fundación Cepsa Chair at the University of Cádiz.

The owl recovery project in southern Spain is still underway and being carried out at the Madrevieja Environmental Station in collaboration with the Government of Andalusia and the European Union, where more than 60 specimens have been released since 2019.

The SOS Caretta program was also carried out over the past year: Pescadores por la Biodiversidad (Fishermen for Biodiversity) in collaboration with the Hombre y Territorio association, an initiative thanks in which more than 30 turtles have been rescued off the coasts of Cadiz and Huelva since the project launched. The President of the Andalusian Regional Government, Juanma Moreno Bonilla, participated last year in the release of one of these specimens on the coast of Cadiz, together with Fundación Cepsa and Hombre y Territorio, for World Environment Day.

Fundación Cepsa faces 2024 with the same commitment to the Campo de Gibraltar, focusing its efforts on designing quality actions framed within its current strategic lines.