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Community
The growers and exporters that are members of ASOEX represent 96% of the country’s exportable fruit offer and 57.1% of the export fruit planted area.
On behalf of its members and using their funds, ASOEX contributes to the development of the communities in areas in which fruit growers do business, also providing direct support to areas having been affected by natural catastrophes, such as earthquakes, oods or landslides.
The following are some examples of actions taken in this respect during recent years:
• Rebuilding of two rural technical schools that had been seriously damaged by the 2010 earthquake in the O´Higgins Region;
• Support for rebuilding 21 permanent homes for the families of fruit workers who had lost their homes and belongings in 2015, because of landslides in the towns of Los Loros and San Pedro, in the Atacama Region;
• With the Ministry of Education, contribution to the development of a modernized syllabus for the San Vicente de Paul agricultural school in the O’Higgins Region, by adding subjects derived from the National Program on Labour Abilities, with ASOEX managing the project in conjunction with its AGROCAP OTIC and the participation of Chilean and foreign consultants, as well as Universidad de Santiago, and this project having become a model for national agricultural schools;
• Maintaining the Children’s Symphonic Orchestra of the Nocedal school in the Santiago borough of La Pintana, a population with one of the highest social risks;
• Continued support to various associations of agricultural workers throughout the country for their recreational or union activities, and
• Through its AGROCAP OTIC, training scholarship awards to temporary workers, as well as young and handicapped workers throughout the country.
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