At Seajoy, we understand that the success of our business depends on a mutually beneficial relationship with our employees and their communities. That’s why we take pride in establishing over 2,000 well-paying jobs in a part of the world where job creation is critical to improving the local economy and the living conditions of the population.
We also provide our employees with low interest loans, a comprehensive retail store that sells items at our cost, medical services, social counseling, organized sports activities, police and security and free meals at our company cafeteria. And at the end of the year, any money that is budgeted for these benefit programs that is not spent is distributed directly to our employees.
We also believe that the more we give back to our local communities, the more sustainable our business will be. Seajoy Group and its subsidiaries have a number of community initiatives that are making the local environment better and improving the regional infrastructure. One of these efforts, for example, is our ”Green Shield” program. Under this program, we are raising 100,000 native trees and planting them throughout local river basins that were deforested in the 1950s. Through this effort we are helping to reduce the sediment loads in the rivers and improving the water quality by restoring the natural flora and fauna.
Seajoy Group is also actively helping improve the infrastructure in the areas where we farm shrimp. For example, we have constructed power plants and brought electricity to villages which previously had none. We also have constructed and improved roads in the region to help give local communities and businesses better access to regional transportation centers.