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against poverty and inequality
Drop by drop
Dealing with requests
when people have
difficulties paying the
water bill, endorsed by
municipal social services,
and donating an annual
sum are the commitments
acquired by the Company
in the agreement signed
by both entities.
Cáritas and FCC Aqualia join forces to support people in Spain
a who are vulnerable and at risk of social exclusion
Working together to fight poverty and social
inequality and contributing to improve the
lives of people who are vulnerable or at
the risk of exclusion, is the objective of the
agreement recently signed by FCC Aqualia
and Cáritas Española. The signatories of
the document were Félix Parra, managing
director of FCC Aqualia, and Sebastián
Mora, secretary general of Cáritas Española
at an event held at the company’s Las Tablas
headquarters.
The agreement reflects the desire of both
entities to collaborate institutionally to
support the initiatives undertaken by Cáritas
and contemplates two specific actions. On
one hand, collaborate with and support
people who are in a vulnerable situation
or at risk of social exclusion who go to the
Company when they have problems paying
their water bill. Hence, as part of its corporate
social responsibility (CSR) policies, FCC
Aqualia agrees to study each case provided
it is endorsed by Cáritas and by a report
issued by the Municipal Social Services.
On the other hand, FCC Aqualia will make
an annual donation to this institution for
a sum equivalent to the water bills at the
various population centres covered by the
Agreement – nearly eighty – where FCC
Aqualia provides its services.
Cáritas has been working in Spain over the
past 65 years in favour of underprivileged
groups who have difficulties in terms of social
inclusion. The charity’s structure consists
of nearly 82,000 people, 77,000 of whom
are volunteers. Its resources include care
centres, retirement homes, occupational
workshops, night shelters, and centres for
immigrants, for the homeless and for drug
addicts.
The agreement signed in 2016, which
could be extended on a yearly basis, is in
keeping with FCC Aqualia’s corporate social
responsibility policy at all the locations where
it provides services in order to contribute
technical and social solutions that benefit
the community.
In the photograph: Sebastián Mora, secretary general of Cáritas Española, (on the left) and Félix Parra,
managing director of FCC Aqualia.
From left to right: Pedro Barquero, CSR manager – Cáritas; Juan Pablo Merino, communications and
CSR manager at FCC Aqualia; Sebastián Mora, secretary general of Cáritas Española; Félix Parra,
managing director of FCC Aqualia; and Isidoro Marbán, financial director at FCC Aqualia.