Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Receives GBCHealth Award for Best Corporate Global Health Program

June 11, 2013 /3BL Media/ - GBCHealth presented Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold as a winner of the Business Action on Health Awards.  The awards recognize the world’s best corporate-supported programs that address global health needs.  Awards were presented to winning companies at the GBCHealth annual conference, on May 15-17 in New York City.

Among the most coveted honors in the corporate social responsibility arena, the GBCHealth Business Action on Health awards are judged by an independent panel of internationally-respected experts from the private, non-profit, multilateral and government sectors.

Winner: Health & Beyond: Tackling Root Causes – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold 

In partnership with local, provincial and national organizations, Freeport-McMoRan’s Tenke Fungurume Mining operation provides clean water and sanitation to more than 185,000 community members in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This program consists of five complementary projects that maintain a clean water distribution and drainage system, provide health and hygiene education, build local capacity for pit latrines, hand-washing stations and waste disposal sites and engages community participants to manage the water supply system.

For more information about the GBC Health organizations, please see their website here http://www.gbchealth.org/

For further information about Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.‘s health programs, please visit their website at http://www.fcx.com/envir/soc_hs.htm

Please see the 2011 Working Toward Sustainable Development Report for more information on all of their social, economic and environmental efforts. http://www.fcx.com/envir/wtsd/pdf-wtsd/2011/WTSD_Bk_2011.pdf