SAN ANTONIO LAS QUINTAS NEIGHBORS INAUGURATE IMPROVEMENTS IN EASEMENT ROADS

November 13, 2024

• The project "Las Quintas Mejor," designed by the community itself, was made possible thanks to the first Global Participatory Fund associated with the operation of the Campo Lindo Wind Farm by AES Chile.

With a ceremony that brought together representatives of the San Antonio Las Quintas Neighborhood Council - which includes 200 families - and AES Chile and its Foundation, the "Las Quintas Mejor" project was officially inaugurated. This project involved the improvement of the sector's easement roads.

The initiative, made possible by the Global Participatory Fund associated with the operation of the Campo Lindo Wind Farm, aimed to improve the connectivity of the sector's residents, especially the most vulnerable population, who were often isolated and exposed to risks when the adjacent roads were rendered impassable due to adverse weather conditions.

Adrián Palacios, secretary of the San Antonio Las Quintas Neighborhood Council, highlighted that the fund "contributed more than $11 million, which allowed us to improve the quality of life and access to homes. We changed and added pipes to prepare for a better winter because the roads and rainwater drains had not been maintained for a long time."

Meanwhile, Jovita Sáez, a community member, thanked the Campo Lindo Wind Farm "which has helped us with all the sector's needs, with projects that as a community would have been impossible for us to carry out."

Paola Olivares, director of the AES Chile Foundation, stated that "this is a milestone for the community neighboring our wind farm. We hope to promote initiatives year after year that go hand in hand with their main needs, especially to improve the daily aspects of the neighbors. This was carried out thanks to the first Participatory Fund, and it is a sign that if they managed to design and then implement this significant initiative, surely in the following years, great dreams will materialize."

The director of the Foundation added that, like other projects associated with this fund, this initiative was carried out with local labor, through work commissioned to suppliers from the Los Ángeles commune.