Esenttia S.A.

Social Value Generation

Generate and maintain constructive and trustworthy mutually beneficial relationships, preventing, mitigating and improving environmental situations, through actions focused on generating value, which allow managing the social impacts of the operation. Esenttia's social value generation is based on four strategic pillars.
Social Value Generation

Strategic Pillars

Strengthening supply nodes and social entrepreneurship

  • Women's Leadership and Green Business School: program aimed at the economic empowerment of women in Cartagena and Tocancipá, strengthening entrepreneurship skills and income generation.

  • Community Transformation School: training space for community leaders that promotes sustainable local development and the management of productive projects in the areas of influence.

  • Corporate Volunteering and Support for Community Management: initiatives that connect Esenttia employees with local communities to strengthen the social fabric in Cartagena and Tocancipá.

  • Local hiring is encouraged, strengthening economic development in the areas of influence of the company.

Polyhabitat: Furniture and Social Urbanism

  • PoliHábitat Furniture: project developed in Cartagena and Dibulla in the department of La Guajira, which delivers furniture solutions to vulnerable families, improving living conditions and quality of life at home.

  • PlastiTON: circular culture platform that connects communities, recyclers, educational institutions and companies. Since 2018, it has trained more than 35,000 people in source separation and responsible consumption.

  • Recovery of more than 310 tons of post-consumer plastic waste between 2018 and 2025, with direct impact on more than 500 waste pickers through training and income strengthening processes.

  • Recycling under the Zero Waste approach, integrating recycling of reusable materials and composting of organic waste.

  • Boomerang Scholarships: program that supports the return to higher education of people who had to interrupt their studies, facilitating their technical, technological or university training.

Scholarships, strengthening of public institutions, comprehensive development and job training for teenage mothers

  • Educando Transformamos Vidas (ETV) Scholarships Cartagena and Tocancipá: technical and technological education for young people from communities near the operation plants, promoting social mobility.

  • Comprehensive Educational Model and Center of Excellence: pedagogical intervention in educational institutions to improve their quality, with a focus on 21st century competencies.

  • Sustainable Classrooms (Environmentalist Educational Institution of Cartagena): provision and adaptation of sustainable learning spaces linked to environmental education.

  • Works for Taxes 2025: technological equipment, furniture and household goods in educational institutions of PDET and ZOMAC municipalities in Bolívar, Sucre and La Guajira, with 19,800 additional beneficiaries.

Emergency Care: Comprehensive Care for Vulnerable Populations

  • Health care and support for communities in Cartagena: support activities in preventive health and emergency care in areas of Cartagena and Bolívar.

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