Community

During the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to ensure business continuity and take care of our staff’s health, we implemented security measures and generated the necessary actions to guarantee the same level of service for our clients. To support the community during this critical time, we teamed up with other organizations to work on the design and construction of ventilators, which have saved lives during this crisis.

We also implemented the Waze Carpool project to reduce CO₂ emissions, although it was postponed due to COVID-19.

Children and teenagers’ orchestras, where we provide musician education and instruments to low-income children, in order to promote healthy habits and activities in this community, avoiding juvenile delinquency and drug use. These orchestras play at Metalsa’s special events.

We encourage our collaborators to participate in community development projects, which have a positive environmental impact. Some of these initiatives include reforestations, donations of food and learning supplies to the local schools and blood donations.

During 2020, we carried our COVID-19 specific activities, such as awareness programs, isolation practice drills, delivery of protection equipment (face masks, hand sanitizer, paper towels and tissues), and COVID-19 testing. Furthermore, we established a Pandemic Response Team and developed a Self-Quarantine and Return no Work Protocol to safeguard all our collaborators.

We carried out several activities to increase the communities’ wellbeing, including donating school supplies to orphanages and donating 137 candy boxes to the Campo Largo’s nearby communities to commemorate Easter. Moreover, we seek to increase families’ incomes; thus, we developed two education projects for women, the first, where our volunteers taught them to produce hand-made products for selling and the latter, where we offered cosmetician training.