Excellent. Thank you, Mr. Bains. I'd be happy to comment on our programs down there.
We take a three-pronged approach to our community relations involvement. I echo your comments about the stark disparity between what's happening in the economy and what's happening with high levels of poverty and some of the social issues that are going on in Colombia. But I can comment, from having lived in Latin America and from having visited most of the Latin American countries, that Colombia is actually one of the few places where they seem to be getting it right over time. One of the things we found is that when we've implemented our own corporate social responsibility, we've actually started at a much higher level in the social hierarchy, dealing with much higher-level problems than, for example, some of the issues I dealt with the last time I was active in Latin America, which was in Ecuador.
So we've taken a three-pronged approach. We spend an awful lot of time working with the local communities, investigating their needs, and ensuring that they fully understand what our relationship will be with them if we go into an area and make investments in that area. We focus on our ability to contribute to the educational side of their communities to focus on improving the overall ability of the people in that region to both compete as well as participate in the business we're undertaking. We undertake to utilize the local people, in particular to provide both cultural and aboriginal baselines for us to complete our environmental studies, providing an opportunity for us to actually use the local knowledge as the baseline for how we want to do business on the surface.
Finally, we work very hard to make sure we inculcate a high level of employability and employment opportunities for the local people. In a very simplistic vision, our belief is that the best social program is a job.
I would suggest that we're actually starting in areas where there already is a decent social infrastructure. We're not starting from zero, so a lot of times the educational initiatives we're undertaking are actually helping local governments to understand the process of government and the legislative implications of things that are happening at the provincial and national levels. We've also spent an awful lot of time making sure there is corporate governance trickling down through the local governments and into the municipalities to allow them to carefully reinvest a lot of the tax revenue we generate and the royalty trickle-down that comes into their hands as well.
I can talk, if you like, about environmental initiatives we're undertaking, but from a corporate social responsibility perspective, those are the highlights.