Other leading lines of work in Spain and Portugal
Country Main projects Beneficiaries in 2008
Spain
Portugal
young people from disadvantaged backgrounds a
chance to develop their full potential as responsible
citizens. In 2008, BBVA Compass and its
employees donated over $0.3m to the
organisation.
RUTA
QUETZAL
BBVA
Since 1993 BBVA has been
organising and sponsoring Ruta
Quetzal, a training programme
declared of cultural interest by
UNESCO. Participants not only get a chance to
learn more, they also develop a spirit of
international cooperation. The project is built on
values education, helping the young people
involved to overcome inequalities and
encouraging equal opportunities, mutual respect
and effort, among other values. Including the
participants in the 2008 Ruta, more than eight
thousand young people have now taken part in
the programme.
This year, 325 participants from 55
countries joined the Twenty-Third Ruta Quetzal
BBVA —The Crocodile River Jungle. Panama-
Chagres River. The young people travelled to
Panama, where over a period of nearly six weeks
they visited the famous canal — a magnificent
work of engineering over a hundred years old —
the City of Knowledge, Panama La Vieja,
Portobelo, Colón and some of the royal
highways, where they learned more about
the country’s fabulous diversity of plant and
animal life.
Back in Spain, the visit centred on the city of
Zaragoza, where Expo 2008 was being held under
the banner Water and Sustainable Development, as
• BBVA Popular Solidarity Race with UNHCR. Educational project in the Dadaab
refugee camp (Kenya)
• Support for victims of the earthquake in China through the Chinese Red Cross.
Project for the building of schools in the south west China ( Sichuan)
• BBVA Foundation programme to provide aid for resarch on cancer in Institute of
Biomedical Research in Barcelona
• BBVA Foundation - Carolina Foundation grants programme for training
Latin American specialists in Spain in medicine, the environment
and economics
• Porto Vivo Programme for renewing degraded urban areas in the
city of Porto
• Social integration programme with Casa Pía in Lisboa
Ruta Quetzal
BBVA contribution €1.7m
Focus Education
Benefiting group Young people aged 16 and 17
Essays submitted 1,500
Hits on the website 230,000 (24 million pages viewed
since its new configuration
in June 2008)
one of the major themes of Ruta Quetzal BBVA
2008 was water resources.
(http://www.rutaquetzalbbva.com)
RESEARCH
DEPARTMENT
1,200 children
Children affected by the
earthquake
Society in general
Latin American
graduates and doctors
Citizens of Porto
Institution's pupils
The Research Department’s
economic analyses are tailored
to the growing needs of an
internationalised banking group, assessing globalised
economic development. Its reports are a valuable
contribution to society; as economic analyses, their
capacity for overview and evaluation of different
economies make them trail-blazers and benchmarks.
(http://serviciodeestudios.bbva.com)
Research Department
BBVA contribution €2.1 m
Benefiting group Society in general
Presence (9 countries) Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Chile,
Mexico, Peru, Venezuela,
United States and China
Team Professionals with 14 different
nationalities
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Corporate Responsibility Report 2008
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