<span style = "text-align: center; display:block">Working with Our<br> <span class="txt-white">Communities</span></span>
<span class="txt-orange">Our teams have supported local communities</span> and indigenous people<span class="txt-orange"> </span>around our forest concessions for five decades.
<span class="p2">Our investment and support has created employment opportunities, developed essential infrastructure and utilities, built housing, schools and community facilities, as well as improved access to healthcare.</span>
<span class="p2">We’re one of the largest employers in the north of the <a href="/locations/republic-of-congo">Republic of Congo</a> with around 1,600 people in our operations. All employees are paid above the country’s minimum salary – for example, entry level workers are paid 9% above the legal minimum wage – and all workers benefit from free or subsidised housing, electricity, water and healthcare.</span>
<span style = "text-align: center; display:block">Caring About Our Employees & Their Communities</span>
<span class="p2">In Pokola we fund and operate a 42-bed hospital and four rural clinics, offering medical care, vaccinations and heath information, including malaria treatment and HIV awareness and prevention to our employees, and to the communities in and around our concessions.</span>
<span class="p2">We also support treatment and supplement programmes that reach approximately 1,000 children across the villages.</span>
Tackling Malaria & Diseases
<h4 style = "text-align: center; display:block">Grievance Procedure</h4>
<span class="p2" style = "text-align: center; display:block">We recognise that feedback and input from the community and stakeholders is valuable to help drive improvements and to address their concerns. We’ve established a Grievance Procedure to report and address breaches of relevant Policies or Codes, resulting in illegality, exploitation of local communities or workers employed by Olam Agri or a third-party supplier, or unacceptable practices in land use management, as defined in our Living Landscapes Policy and the Supplier Code.</span>
<span class="p2" style = "text-align: center; display:block">Our wood products grievance procedure and log is provided below. While grievances can be made anonymously, providing full contact details enables us to better understand and address the concern.</span>
Our Forest Concessions
Responsible Forestry
