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Double Development
An expansion project was
successfully commissioned at
Jamalco in 2007, lifting annu-
al production capacity of the
alumina refinery to 1.4-million
mtpy from 1.25-million mtpy.
Just as noteworthy, 100% of
the employees working on
the project were Jamaicans.
This was made possible by
establishing a skills training
facility at Alcoa’s Breadnut
Mine modeled after the Alcoa
Australia Apprenticeship
program and partnering with
HEART, a Jamaican
government-owned training
institute. All graduates received
international certification.
Solar-Powered
Water System
The residents of the remote
village Goejaba, in Suriname,
now have access to a clean,
potable water system through
support, in part, from Alcoa
Foundation. The new water
filtration system uses solar-
powered pumps and is man-
aged by community members
trained in the operation and
maintenance of the system.
Before the system was
installed, women from the
village spent many hours
daily collecting and carrying
water from the river.
Songs in the
Key of “ Green”
Mahogany from Honduras
is the most-used tonewood
for guitar maker Gibson.
Behind the wood’s transfor-
mation into a musical
instrument is an Alcoa-
supported effort to combat
poverty and protect one of
the world’s biosphere
reserves from illegal logging.
Through a business liaison
brokered by the Rainforest
Alliance and funded by
Alcoa Foundation, loggers
from Honduras’ Río Plátano
Biosphere Reserve are
extracting mahogany planks
from the rainforest in a
sustainable, ethical way while
improving their livelihood.
Protecting
Chimpanzees
A major Alcoa Foundation
grant to create sustainable
economic development
in Guinea is helping protect
chimpanzees there, one of
only 10 countries with chimp
populations exceeding 1,000.
The chimpanzee population
in Guinea is being compro-
mised due to habitat loss,
human population growth,
and unchecked hunting.