The hotel chain Fuerte Hoteles has earmarked 23,998.00 €, cost of the Christmas postal mailing, to social cooperation projects. The funds to be managed by the Fuerte Foundation shall be used in those projects being developed at present by the Foundation in Marbella and South America.
This initiative came out of an ideas contest held in 2004 among Fuerte Hoteles employees, won by Irene Rico of the Commercial and Marketing Department.
Later on one of the contest winning initiatives has been the idea of creating the Forti Club Camps (our hotel children’s club), won by the Fuerte Costa Luz Reception team in 2005; a different initiative winning the contest was that of Daniel Jiménez of the Administration Department back in 2006, who thought of donating 0.50 € from each hotel bill issued by Fuerte Hoteles.
At present the Fuerte Foundation cooperates and supports the Horizonte Proyecto Hombre Association in Marbella, whose aim is to assist dependence problem people and also to work to prevent drug dependence by boosting personal development and social insertion.
In South America Fuerte Hoteles cooperates with the Magdala Foundation in poverty areas and is building a house, a sports track and a water reservoir 100 km away from Caracas, Venezuela, for the lodging and therapeutic development of youngsters aged between 12 and 16, ‘Street Children’, glue sniffers.
Likewise in Mexico, particularly on the Mayan Riviera, where Fuerte Hoteles is managing the five star hotel ‘Sunscape Puerto Aventuras’, it is where the Fuerte Foundation is promoting the construction of a village for the hotel staff families who at present are living in shanty houses and have little resources, specially after Hurricane Emily passed over the area last year.
This “self construction” system implies improvement works in kitchens, communal bathrooms and refurbishment of the existing rooms (Las Galeras), and at the same time promotes infrastructure and designs a sample dwelling to help preventing shanty houses and marginality in a new development area.
In 2006 Fuerte Hoteles donated the amount of 162,178.82 € to the Fuerte Foundation for the above mentioned projects and has a budget of 50,000.00 € for donation this year.
