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Page 1: DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH (SDG8) · and the business world. By strengthening human capacities and improving the use of natural resources, Piecitos Colorados ultimately aims
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The Prosegur Foundation is a non-profit entity that embodies the Company's social and

cultural commitment by helping to build a more giving society and generating development

opportunities for people. It was incorporated in 1983 as more of an artistic and cultural

institution, before shifting its focus towards social initiatives in 2005 in response to changing

social demands and patterns.

Projects are carried out in the fields of education, occupational inclusion of people with

intellectual disabilities and corporate volunteering, yet without ever losing sight of

fostering cultural advancement The foundation thus contributes to the progress of the

countries where it operates: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador,

Spain, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Singapore and

Uruguay.

Sensitive to local needs, social initiatives are implemented progressively in the various

markets in accordance with sustainability, transparency criteria and replicated best

practices. Teamwork and continuous improvement processes govern the activity of the

foundation, which aspires to becoming an area that generates shared value for society, the

company and its stakeholders. All these programmes share the same focus and are centred

on achieving the following goals:

• Bolstering training and learning for young people with the conviction that

education is the best tool for future development.

• Promoting the social inclusion of less fortunate groups, seeking to generate

changes in attitude towards more charitable values.

• Developing corporate volunteering actions with a view to shoring up employee

skills and competencies while making them familiar with the company's social

work.

The Prosegur Foundation boasts a highly skilled and professional team headed by Helena

Revoredo, Chairman of Prosegur. The board of trustees comprises representatives of

Prosegur's Governing Board and Executive Committee, who champion social commitment

and promote the foundation's activities.

Within the current context of digital transformation, the Foundation promotes innovation

and synergies throughout its projects, focusing on the competencies of the 21st century.

Prosegur Foundation

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We can break down the qualitative impact that the entity brings to different stakeholders

into 4 prominent dimensions:

A work that also influences the achievement of the following United Nations Sustainable

Development Goals (SDG):

QUALITY EDUCATION (SDG4) Particularly via the Piecitos Colorados development

cooperation project run at schools in disadvantaged areas of Argentina, Brazil, Chile,

Colombia, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay; and also the Talent Scholarship project,

which recognises the academic excellence and hard work of employees and their

children via educational scholarships in 3 continents. The foundation also supports

environmental education via new technologies with its Clean Planet programme

DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH (SDG8): Initiatives are run to help

people with intellectual disabilities gain a foothold in the labour market. Among these

are the Inclusion Plan implemented at the Company's offices (Argentina, Brazil, Chile,

Colombia, Spain and Peru) and Document Digitisation Centres, featuring training

from experts in these areas, and currently ongoing in Brazil and Spain. The initiative

is based on the Supported Employment methodology in partnership with experts in

this field such as Fundación Prodis, Fundación Aprocor, Fundación A la Par, Best

Buddies, Fundación Discar, Fundación COANIL, Centro Ann Sullivan del Perú and

APAE Brasil, etc.

PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS (SDG17) The Foundation promotes the

creation of efficient alliances with other service sector companies to obtain synergies

that provide a positive social impact. The collaboration with Fundación Créate,

Nutrición Sin Fronteras, Fundación Empieza por Educar, Lego Robotix, UWC España

and Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado, within the field of education, or the

aforementioned labour force inclusion partners fits into this area.

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EDUCATION

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The overriding objective of our Development Support Programme Piecitos Colorados is to

improve education and quality of life for children who live in underprivileged regions of Latin

America, as we help turn schools into drivers of change.

The project dates back to 2006, when a group of Argentine employees experienced just how

hard things can get at rural schools located in the north of the country, specifically in Salta

and Jujuy. The centres were woefully short of basic infrastructure and services, including no

electricity or drinking water. These schools were located in isolated rural areas and pupils

had to walk for hours just to get to class. Their worn-out shoes did little to keep out the

elements and their feet would take on the colour of the red soil as they made their way to

school, leading their teachers to affectionately call them "piecitos colorados" (little red feet).

Local support and the impact on these elementary schools by Prosegur workers in Argentina

planted the seed that eventually grew to become Piecitos Colorados: a full support

programme that the Prosegur Foundation made official and extended to the other Latin

American countries in which our company operates in the firm belief that education is the

best guarantee for a brighter future.

Before and after the reconstruction of School No. 4,386 in Salta, Argentina, one of the project's first

beneficiaries.

Development Cooperation

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Piecitos Colorados already has 48 schools onboard in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,

Paraguay and helps 5,470 schoolchildren.

ARGENTINA (10)

PERU (6)

COLOMBIA (8)

BRAZIL (9)

PARAGUAY (7)

• Teófilo Otoni (2) • Pouso Alegre • Aguas Lindas • Manaos • Belford Roxo • Olinda • Santa María • Curitiba •

• San Lorenzo (Asunción) • Capiatá • Julián A. Saldívar • Capitán Miranda • Concepción • Caaguazú • Cedrales

Paysandú • Tacuarembó • Canelones • Salto

URUGUAY (4)

• Chacua • Florence • Bucaramanga • Manizales • Cali • Cartagena de Indias • Barranquilla • Montería

• Cuzco • Lima • Juliaca • Piura • Arequipa • Jaén

CHILE (4)

• Pirque • Talca • Molco • Poconchile

• Jujuy • Salta • Tucumán • Misiones • Santiago del Estero • Mendoza • Mar del Plata • Bahía Blanca • Chaco (2)

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In this regard, the project aims to bring about lasting change, moving away from one-off or

isolated welfare actions to focus on cooperation between families, the educational community

and the business world. By strengthening human capacities and improving the use of natural

resources, Piecitos Colorados ultimately aims to make schools self-manageable in the long

run by increasing their development opportunities.

When going about its work, Piecitos Colorados starts by selecting schools according to the

criteria set out in the Work Manual: a common implementation methodology for the seven

countries where we manage the project. After selecting a centre, an Enrolment Agreement is

signed with the local educational authority to which they belong and the different phases of

intervention begin:

Infrastructures: Depending on their condition, we improve or even rebuild infrastructures to

achieve an environment suitable for educational development and optimal hygienic-sanitary

conditions.

• Nutritional training: We want to promote healthy eating habits through training and the best use of our environmental resources. A phase working in partnership with the NGO Nutrición Sin Fronteras (Nutrition without Borders), entails publishing Nutritional Guides adapted to each country and school.

• Improving education: Without interfering with official curricula, we support the renewal of

teaching tools and materials, and the development of teaching methods that bring students closer to the competencies of the 21st century with the aim of reducing the educational gap in these schools.

• Sports: We promote their practice among students, rehabilitating or building sports facilities to

enhance their physical development and educate them on the values of teamwork, effort and healthy competition.

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Given that this is a comprehensive education project, students who have a greater learning

capacity, effort and responsibility are tracked from the outset with a view to supporting them

with Talent Scholarships to continue their studies either in high school, universities or

technical training. This will effectively bring us full circle when it comes to providing help and

support under our programme: training professionals now who are to work for their

communities in future.

The programme clearly shows our efforts to achieve quality education by providing innovative

educational methods as a new way in which students and teachers alike can learn and teach

(Education 4.0), fully centred on the competencies of the twenty-first century. These include

the prominent start-up training initiative "Despierta, Crea y Transforma el Medioambiente"

("Wake up, Create and Transform the Environment"), in collaboration with Fundación Créate

Children can use these dynamic tools to develop projects, starting with an idea that is based

on exploring their local environment, and going through all the steps and phases to build their

individual projects: from developing their idea, publicly presenting their solution, prototyping,

resource analysis and drawing up a brand strategy.

The final phase in this enterprising journey culminates in the Innovation Fair, where the

children present and defend their initiatives to a panel of teachers, education professionals,

and Prosegur employees and customers.

We also help cultivate the creative and communication capabilities and skills of students.

Since 2017, we have been conducting introduction to art classes in partnership with the

Prado Museum. Art masterpieces are the perfect vehicle to take children on a trip through

space and time to expand their cultural horizons and appreciate their artistic heritage, all

under the slogan "Creativity as a driving force of change".

The project is unique in its educational team, comprising company professionals committed

as volunteers to train as art teachers (with specific resources created by the museum) and

give classroom lessons. A challenge that representatives of the different departments and

business units of the company have joined, starting with senior management.

Learn more about its impact here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUdlNKNSBcU

The programme currently has a total of 50 student with scholarships: 28 students at the

"secondary" level, 1 at the "tertiary", one working on an international studies programme,

2 in pre-university training; 16 studying at the university and 2 in technical training.

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In a bid to train new generations, our Foundation has Talent Scholarships: a commitment to

academic excellence and individual effort of Prosegur employees and their children.

Scholarships are adapted to fit the needs of each geography: aid for high school; for students

at the university age or who are doing technical studies, and even for workers who combine

training with their work at Prosegur.

The programme is implemented in 15 countries on three continents: Argentina, Brazil, Chile,

Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Spain, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay,

Peru, Portugal, Singapore and Uruguay, and has to date benefited over 12,000 students.

Thanks to the joint work of Foundation and the HR area, these excellent scholarships are

followed up to generate an internal talent quarry that can lead to subsequent recruitment.

In light of the current context of globalisation, we entered a partnership with Talento y

Deporte (Talent and Sport) to offer children of employees who practice a federated sport and

have an outstanding academic record the opportunity to study at a university in the USA.

Talent Scholarship award ceremonies in Singapore, Spain, Paraguay and Portugal

Talent Scholarships

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Prosegur Foundation environmental education initiatives focus on raising the awareness of

the new generations about the importance of sustainable development and good waste

management.

With a partnership with the City Council of San Roque (Cádiz) in 2014 and 2015, the Playa

Limpia (Clean Beach) and Campo Limpio (Clean Camp) initiatives were carried out to raise

awareness on taking care of our coasts and rural areas through recycling workshops at local

schools and beaches.

Our efforts grew in 2016, incorporating new environmental awareness technologies. The

Planeta Limpio (Clean Planet) project thus arose in partnership with LEGO® Education and

its hands-on methodology for students between the ages of 8 and 12, for developing 21st

century competencies while partaking in a mission care for our environment with the help of

robots. To date, over 8,000 Santander and A Coruña students have participated in the

different training actions, which in addition to workshops in the classrooms, incorporate a

networked challenge and playdays open to the public.

Due to the technological, environmental and technological impacts of this project on our

communities, the Prosegur Technology Department joins this initiative by providing funds to

carry out more awareness days. This investment comes from the Circular Management

Model implemented in the Inditex client: an initiative aiming to reduce material consumption

and associated costs through materials recovered from works at its stores incorporating back

into the production cycle, recycling waste and investing the corresponding savings into social

projects.

Environmental Education

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We organise a variety of language-strengthening, sporting and scientific-themed activities to

foster learning for the children of Prosegur employees during the summer months.

Aware of the concerns of our new generations, Escuelab scientific camps focus on STEM

education to gain an understanding of mathematics, engineering, technology and science

through play and experience.

Employee children at the pre-university age can also work on developing key skills for their

professional future through an entrepreneurial Summer Experience with the EDEM Business

School Innovation and teamwork are the key subjects that students address during hands-

on workshops, start-up meetings and visits to large companies.

The Prosegur Foundation has been linked to music since its origins, as music holds a

preferred status in cultural dissemination. One example of this is the close collaboration that

we've had with the Albéniz Foundation since 1995.

Our institution helps train young talent at the Reina Sofia College of Music by handing out

study grants and providing access to unrivalled training with international exposure. This is

the case of the Casal Quartet, the Albéniz Group and the Quiroga Quartet, all of which are

made up of students from this high-performance centre.

Thanks to this partnership, different classical music recitals are held annually at prominent

locations where we work, involving young talents awarded by the Prosegur Foundation, and

attended by company employees and customers.

Scholarships for the Reina Sofia College of Music

Summer Experience

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INCLUSION

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Prosegur has been working since 2007 on several initiatives to promote the socio-labour

inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities, offering a more stable future to this group

through employment. The projects promoted by the Foundation have been implemented in

the different countries where the company operates through the replica of good practices,

and are already a reality in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain and Peru.

Based on the Employment with Support methodology, the Labour Inclusion Plan for people

with intellectual disabilities permits the integration of different talent into company offices

through the following premises:

Support from the company's entire organisational structure.

Partnerships with specialised foundations, with which we signed collaboration

agreements.

A sustainable approach by always offering jobs with real content and responding to

the needs of the company.

This initiative rolled out in 2013 in Madrid (Spain) and embodies the idea of generating shared

value for the company and society. The approach arises from a need that companies

currently have to make a responsible and efficient use in content management via digitisation.

CEDs are made up of people with intellectual disabilities and aim to perform a more efficient

management of such processes, achieving greater control over available documentation and

better traceability of its use.

Following the good results achieved in Spain, the project was replicated in Brazil (Sao Paulo

and Belo Horizonte offices), Peru and Chile, reaching a volume of documents digitised

globally that exceeds 9 million.

In the current technological context, CEDs have become part of Prosegur's Robotisation,

Excellence, Automation and Digitisation Centre, and continue to evolve to achieve the

following objectives:

Contribute to Prosegur's digital transformation by incorporating digitised

documentation into business processes.

Achieve a high-performance scanning team by incorporating best practices and

advanced solutions (robotics, artificial intelligence, etc.)

Foster job diversity in Prosegur by incorporating people with different abilities.

Centres of Excellence for Digitisation (CED)

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The Aprocor - Prosegur Special Employment Centre* was launched in 2007 in Madrid

thanks to the partnership of both entities for promoting an initiative aimed at sustainably

employing people with intellectual disabilities that would be lasting.

Harnessing our business know-how and the advice of the Aprocor Foundation as an

institution specialised in the field of disability, the centre began activities in laundry tasks

and industrial dry cleaning, and also incorporated recycling and garment destruction.

Thanks to its innovative approach, the application of new technologies and a commitment

to continuous improvement, this inclusive project has evolved even further, adapting to

business needs to become the Prosegur Goods Consolidation and Combination Centre,

where the uniforms of all Prosegur operational staff in Europe are received, distributed,

recycled and destroyed.

From the outset, it was committed to the specialised training of staff and support of new

technologies to adapt the work processes to the needs of employees with disabilities, with

the aim of maintaining the highest standards of quality and also conduct efficient and

environmentally friendly clothing management.

Thus, in addition to the numerous support developments based on pictograms, the centre

has a new computer software that lets employees with literacy difficulties manage the

garments in the different phases of the work chain, from entry to labelling and storage.

With efficiency in management, the Aprocor-Prosegur CEE was able to diversify activities

into sections, expand its customer portfolio and open its first retail dry cleaning shop. This

work has been recognized on several occasions with the achievement of different awards.

*A special employment centre (SEC) is a company at which people with 33% or higher disability, no matter the type, account

for at least 70% of the workforce.

Aprocor - Prosegur Special Employment Centre

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VOLUNTEERS

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The Prosegur Foundation encourages company employees to take part in different volunteering initiatives, thus supporting their commitment to society. The projects highlight the "Yellow Value": solidarity and support of employees committed to their local community.

Our entity has a programme of solidarity activities – in Spain and Latin America – to

promote the social inclusion of people with physical, intellectual and sensory disabilities,

with the aim of raising awareness of Prosegur employees and their local communities.

Thanks to the participation of employee volunteers and their families, we organise

integrative days with varied themes (adapted sport, theatre workshops, painting and

cooking, geocaching, eco-hiking, marathons, etc.), forming teams with people with

disabilities in normal and relaxed environments.

All the conferences are held in collaboration with entities and associations specialised in

this group such as Best Buddies Colombia, Centro Ann Sullivan Peru, Fundación Coanil

Chile, Fundación Discar Argentina, Development and Integration Foundation and the

Sports and Challenge Foundation in Spain.

We also organise an inclusive Camino de Santiago in which employees from all over Spain

spend seven days with people with different types of disabilities, accompanying them in

their daily tasks and helping them achieve their challenge, after going through 100 km of

solidarity: arrive at the Plaza del Obradoiro.

Volunteering for Inclusion

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The close relationship between our employees and

the Piecitos Colorados schools is a hallmark of our

venture and also the attribute that makes this support

model truly unique.

It is the employees themselves who, in addition to

presenting candidate schools for the programme,

actively participate in the different volunteer actions.

These are oriented to, on the one hand, painting work

or support in the construction of orchards and

greenhouses for self-consumption, and, on the other, training days that provide students

with knowledge about our safety know-how. Workshops are also held on accident

prevention and safe environments, road health and safety activities and the "Prosegur

Week", where we aim to bring an understanding of the work of the company's various

businesses to schools.

This social commitment also reaches the University Talent Scholarships, children of

Prosegur employees, who wish to thank the Foundation for the support they have

received, sharing their knowledge with the students of the schools. Thanks to them,

robotics or scientific workshops are developed in the laboratory, programmes to promote

reading, music, etc.

In order to improve education in vulnerable environments, Prosegur employees share

their professional and personal experiences with high school or vocational training

students, serving as an example and motivation to continue their studies and guiding

them in their future work. Thus, company professionals with different profiles collaborate

with the Begins with Educating Foundation (ExE) in its initiatives "A day in the

classroom" and MatchBox Talks. This is the case of our CFO, who regularly goes to

different schools in Madrid to share his life experience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYGgEvkep9k&feature=youtu.be

Volunteering in Piecitos schools

Motivational talks and career guidance

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For more information:

www.fundacionprosegur.com

@fundacionprosegur