In recent months, JBS, continuing with the actions of its program “Good Deeds are Good – Feeding the World With Solidarity”, has carried out improvement works that benefit indigenous communities in the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Mato Grosso. Check out the initiatives below:
JBS has signed an agreement for basic sanitation work in Indian villages in Benjamin Constant do Sul and Ronda Alta (Serrinha), both located in the northern region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, commencing in October.
The Company has channeled R$ 300,000 to building a 25m² space in each village, which includes toilet facilities and a private electric shower, as well as two external handbasins.
In September, JBS began basic sanitation work in two Indian villages located in Chapecó (Água Amarela) and Ipuaçu (Olaria), in the western region of Santa Catarina. The communities received new brick bathrooms donated by the Company.
JBS has channeled R$ 230,000 to building a 25m² space in each village, which includes toilet facilities and a private electric shower, as well as two external handbasins. In Ipuaçu, the improvements also included the expansion of the healthcare unit located within the indigenous area, consisting of a waiting room and a bathroom.
At the end of September, JBS handed over more than six thousand items – 356 items of equipment (steel and wooden beds, digital thermometers and oxygen concentrators) and 5,700 sundry items (mattresses, blankets, hammocks and disposable sheets) – to the Special Indigenous Sanitation District (DSEI) in Cuiabá (MT), responsible for distributing these to ten Indigenous Primary Response Units (UAPIs) in the towns of Água Boa (2), Barra do Garças (3), Brasnorte (1), Confresa (2) and Tangará da Serra (2).
The UAPIs comprising the DSEIs of Cuiabá, Xavante and Xingu attend to around 40,000 indigenous people in the region. These deliveries account for around R$ 500 thousand within the R$ 26.7 million JBS has donated JBS to combat the new coronavirus in Mato Grosso, covering 21 cities and with capacity to benefit around 1.5 million people.
For Audimar Rocha, Secretary of the DSEI in Cuiabá, “those who benefit from these donations are usually to be found in remote locations. During this pandemic, partnerships like this are essential for providing the agility we need in the processes for acquiring equipment, enabling it to get to where it is needed to address the demands of those communities. We have made it a point of building these primary response units to avoid, as far as possible, the Indians having to check into the hospital network in cities. We want to keep them in the village and look after those with slight and moderate symptoms of the disease within their own community. These donations are extremely important for supplementing our work”.