With joy and enthusiasm, around 120 students from Rancagua, Doñihue and Pichidegua arrived this Monday at the Rancagua Patio of the El Teniente Division, to, from there, take the bus that took them to tour Sewell, thanks to the program "Connecting with our heritage", promoted by the copper company in partnership with the Seremi of Education.

“We started these visits to different schools in the region and the idea is to open the doors of the Division, to show what El Teniente is, its history, its present and our Sewell heritage site is a tremendous opportunity to connect,” said Germán Sandoval, Sustainability and External Affairs Manager of El Teniente.

During the tour, students and their teachers will be able to learn more about regional history, heritage, production systems, local economy, environmental protection and sustainability concepts.

Creating value

The program plans to reach, between October and December of this year, some 1,600 students from communities in the O'Higgins region, with a primary focus on those where El Teniente has an impact and influence given the nature of its operations.

“We are determined to move forward and achieve the goal of what we have called triple value, of not only generating economic value, but also social value and environmental value. Connecting with young people, with children and students in the region is part of that value creation that our company seeks and pursues for all of Chile,” he added.

The regional minister of education of O'Higgins, Alyson Hadad, stated that thanks to this joint work between Codelco Chile and the regional ministerial secretariat "we will allow more than a thousand children to go to Sewell and, with this, contribute in a fun and entertaining way to the knowledge of our history, our heritage and provide a different, innovative educational space that, without a doubt, will be very important for the educational processes in our schools."