40,000 people benefited from Fundación Cepsa’s actions in Campo de Gibraltar in 2020

• The foundation invested more than €450,000 over the past year
• The actions include social support and educational, environmental, cultural and sports activities.

Fundación Cepsa continues to work towards its goal of strengthening its voluntary responsibility to the Campo de Gibraltar society by promoting initiatives that help its members. Under this mission, the Foundation’s actions in 2020 helped a total of 39,942 people in Campo de Gibraltar, despite the limitations imposed by the health crisis that has forced the institution to modify its programs and adapt them to the security protocols required by Covid-19.

Those above-mentioned Campo de Gibraltar locals took part in 36 initiatives that were launched last year, framed within the Fundación Cepsa’s five strategic lines: social support, scientific-educational, environmental, cultural and grassroots sports. In order to continue its social responsibility work, Fundación Cepsa invested nearly €452,000 in 2020.

One of the Foundation’s most notable actions was the Social Value Awards; in last year’s edition funding was increased to €62,000 and six regional entities were awarded, two of them for their Covid-19-related project. Thanks to a collaboration with the Persán Foundation, a total of 34 tons of detergent and cleaning products were also distributed to vulnerable families in Campo de Gibraltar, whose Food Bank also benefited from a donation of 480,000 kilos to the Spanish Federation of Food Banks (Fesbal). Fundación Cepsa gave €10,000 in gasoline vouchers to the regional Sub-delegation of the Government of Andalusia for emergency transport during the State of Alarm. The City Council of San Roque also saw an increase in its Food Guarantee Program fund thanks to a donation of €20,000 from Fundación Cepsa, among other actions carried out by the institution both in San Roque and in the rest of the Campo de Gibraltar.

According to Fundación Cepsa representative Estrella Blanco, "2020 was a year in which we not only had to reinvent ourselves and adapt Fundación Cepsa's actions to the demands of Covid-19, but also one in which we made a concerted effort to help associations and public administrations to offset the effects of the health crisis that has battered the most vulnerable sectors of society."

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, although with some changes due to the pandemic. Furthermore, nearly 200 students participated in the activities launched by the Fundación Cepsa Chair at the University of Cadiz.

We also want to note that the owl recovery project in southern Spain, which is carried out at the Madrevieja Environmental Station in collaboration with the Government of Andalusia and the European Union, continues to show good results following the release of 19 owls in 2020.

Fundación Cepsa is approaching 2021 with the same commitment to Campo de Gibraltar focusing its efforts on designing quality actions framed within its current strategic lines.