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The Cerralvo Board sponsors an
ongoing food and medication distribution program for senior citizens and
families with limited resources.
The Board's altruistic work is not limited to Cerralvo, their place of
birth, but extends to other parts of the country and in recent years
Support Brigades have been
created in the South of the State of Nuevo Leon to benefit more than 1,000
families.
In addition, the Board has decided to open its
borders as a result of emergencies that have occurred both inside and outside
the country, as example, In 2003, four years before that relief effort, GRUMA
also stepped up to help soften the blow of an earthquake that shook Colima on
January 21st. gimsa coordinated efforts with the state government and
distributed 17 tons of corn flour and one ton of instant beans, along with
10,000 flat bricks and 10 tons of cement, to assist with the reconstruction of
damaged houses.
The same feeling of solidarity moved GRUMA to
assist the displaced communities, after Hurricane Paula leveled Oaxaca in 1997.
In 2002, it did the same with those devastated by the hit of Hurricane Isidoro
on the Yucatan Peninsula.
In 2005, in recognition of these
actions, Roberto González Barrera was decorated with the most important
Red Cross recognition: the Great Cross of the Meritorious Civil Service
Order and the Benemeritus Medal, personally bestowed on him by the Mexican
Red Cross President, Olegario Vázquez Raña. Later on, He also received the 2005 Philanthropist
Distinction, given to him by the Mexico City Chapter of the Association of
Fundraising Professionals’ (AFP).
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