Sustainability Report 2019
Helping communities through art Viterra grain silos in South Australia are being turned into canvases for dramatic artworks that are helping to boost tourism and community pride in rural towns. In 2019 we sponsored the painting of silos in Waikerie, Karoonda and, most recently, in Cowell, where New Zealand/Australian artist Austin ‘NITSUA’ Moncrieff worked with the Franklin Harbour Community Development Group to paint the local silos. The mural features local man Lionel Deer and one of his many pet camels as well as a local Port Lincoln parrot and a nearby farmhouse ruin. We also worked with projection art organisation Illuminart on their ‘Travelling Light’ tour of South Australia, which visited 17 towns projecting on to seven of our silos along the way. Since 2017, the seven silo art projects we have supported in South Australia have all won awards for the benefits they have brought to local communities. Supporting young people at risk Glencore Agriculture has signed up as a platinummember of the On the Right Track Program (Programa Na Mão Certa), an initiative by Childhood Brazil which aims to unite governments, companies, and third- sector organisations in promoting rights and protecting children and adolescents against sexual violence, prevalent on Brazil's highway network. The networks that benefit from child and adolescent sexual exploitation often operate along Brazil’s federal highways, where children and young people are at risk from international drug and human trafficking gangs. The On the Right Track programme develops campaigns to educate truck drivers about the issue and to enable them to safeguard young people in danger. Advertising, informative guides, presentational workshops and action guidelines are all used to raise awareness among drivers and communities. We are committed to upholding the rights of children and adolescents. Our platinum-level support for On the Right Track is a public declaration that we understand our social responsibility for the development and the wellbeing of children and adolescents. Raising concerns To ensure we maintain high standards of human rights, we have empowered all our people to report any situation that appears to breach our human rights policies to our Raising Concerns programme. This allows the reporting of any unresolved concerns, anonymously if necessary, and is publicised widely across all our work sites. Nobody working for Glencore Agriculture suffers demotion, penalty or any other disciplinary action for raising a concern in good faith. Glencore Agriculture Sustainability Report 2019 22
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