By investing in communities in Espinar and at Los Quenuales, we aim to enhance social and economic development – avoiding dependency on our operations over the long term. Under a framework agreement established in 2003 between Tintaya and the regional authorities in Espinar, for example, Antapaccay contributes 3% of profit before tax to a community fund. These funds are invested to promote the sustainable development of Espinar through public healthcare, education, agriculture and infrastructure projects. These projects (over 1000 social projects from 2013–16) help the community find incomes outside the mine, and have resulted in major improvements to the ways in which farm animals are brought up and treated...Antapaccay operates a grievance mechanism to receive and investigate complaints from the local communities and other stakeholders...