RUSAL begins the New Village aid programme in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, the company said.
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 22.08.2010 |
ITAR-TASS
Russia's big businesses respond to the appeal from President Dmitry Medvedev to support the regions, which suffered from the wildfires. CEO of the Basic Element Oleg Deripaska said over the meeting with the president that RUSAL would assist a village in the Nizhny Novgorod.
RUSAL suggested a long-term programme to the regional government. The purpose of the programme is to provide modern social and economic infrastructures and new jobs so that the local residents did not leave their village.
The programme consists of several stages. The first one is to construct houses for the victims of the wildfires as well as to build a kindergarten and a medical aid station. The second stage will be devoted to introducing new jobs in small and medium businesses and to the construction of cultural and sports facilities, where local residents could work, too. The Volnoye Delo /Free Business/ Foundation organised by Deripaska will be a partner for the second stage.
The programme will be implemented at the site, which was specially allocated by the local government. The construction site for 50 new houses is starting now.
The houses will be between 45 and 90 square metres. They are planned to be completed by late October. Residents from nine districts of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, who lost houses in the wildfires, will move to the new houses. RUSAL will invest over 100 million roubles over the first stage of the programme.
RUSAL is a world leader in aluminium industry, with twelve percent of global aluminum production and thirteen percent of the world's alumina output, Prime-Tass reports. The company operates in 19 countries over five continents and employs over 75,000 people across its international operations and offices.
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