Absolutely. We saw an important development activity, for instance, at our mine in Guatemala. It was very interesting to us simply because we just completed an economic impact study from the start of the mine to last year, and we tried to see exactly what kinds of spinoffs there were. One of the most important ones was due to the fact that, at one point, a lot of the workers in the area where we operate the mine actually were seasonal workers. They would either go to Mexico, because it's close to the border with Mexico, or they would go to other places in Guatemala to work in agricultural jobs.
We've seen an increase in terms of enrolment in primary schools in the area of about 82%. That's simply due to the fact that a lot of people who are now employed at the mine have permanent jobs in the area. They don't need to take their kids out of school to be able to bring them with them when they do go over to these other jobs. Those have been significant impacts for us, just seeing an enrolment. We've also contributed to the fact that we've built some of the schools where these kids are going.
When we started operating the mine in Guatemala there were no health facilities there at all, so we started handling a lot of the health cases in the area at our mine operation. It started to grow so quickly that we were worried about the number of people who were coming in to the mine, so we built clinics outside the mining area. Now people have access to them. Our biggest challenge there was actually trying to work with the national government, the ministry of health, to take over the actual running of these clinics. Now we have another hospital open, and people have access to health care in the area, so that is an important part.
On the other part, which I think is extremely important, we have seen the creation of businesses in the area that have started by supplying to the mining operation. Now we've also seen them start supplying to other operations in the area. It's not mining operations, because we're the only one there in that area, but they've become more aggressive in terms of looking at other business opportunities. That has worked out pretty well for them also.