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Angola
Addressing education and health needs in Kwanza Sul province
Save the Children and Africare, together with the Angolan Ministry of Education, are addressing the education and health needs of women and children in Kibala, in the Kwanza Sul province of Angola with funding from the ExxonMobil Foundation. More than 300 students will benefit from 10 new schools. Three community health posts will benefit more than 6600 people in the region, supplying vaccines and essential medicines. In addition, the Talanganda health post was constructed in partnership with the Ministry of Health and local authorities in an area without health care to serve 15,000 people from nine surrounding villages. Local health workers, including nurses at the new health post, were trained in the diagnosis and treatment of malaria.

Chad
Community health dispensaries
To help meet the needs of the communities in the Oilfield Development Area of Chad, ExxonMobil refurbished and upgraded three community dispensaries. The first one, in Kome, was completed and turned over to the community in 2005, and two in Mokassa and Miandoum were completed in 2007. Since completion, more than a thousand patients have been treated at the dispensaries. ExxonMobil also provides logistical support to the national polio vaccination days and distributes mosquito bed nets. We have reached thousands of people through health education campaigns about the dangers of HIV/AIDS and how to prevent the disease.

Canada
How ExxonMobil helps consumers
Imperial Oil Limited, our Canadian affiliate, has supported the Clean Air Foundation’s Car Heaven Program since its inception in 2000. In Canada, the program facilitates retiring older, higher-emitting vehicles at no cost to the owner and provides incentives for the purchase of new vehicles or other cleaner alternatives. To date, the Car Heaven Program has helped to remove more than 73,000 vehicles from Canada’s roads, preventing smog-forming emissions of 12,000 metric tons and carbon monoxide emissions of 50,000 metric tons.

China
Practical Skills Training Center for Rural Women
In China, many girls from low-income families in rural areas are forced to discontinue their formal education and move to cities in hopes of finding a job. The Practical Skills Training Center for Rural Women launched a program to help girls with this transition by providing vocational and language training among other topics. By 2006, 5400 students from across China had benefited from this program. In 2007, ExxonMobil China helped support another program focused specifically on providing computer training and life skills to start a new life in the city. Several girls in the program were offered jobs prior to completing the program.

Egypt
INJAZ—Junior Achievement Worldwide Affiliate
INJAZ teaches young Egyptian students how business helps improve a community’s prosperity and inspires them to become entrepreneurs. Throughout the academic year, INJAZ reaches more than 13,000 students, mainly from underprivileged communities. In 2007, 36 ExxonMobil Egypt employees volunteered to help teach the INJAZ curriculum and shared their professional experience with youth at local schools and national universities by teaching practical skills on how to succeed in the private sector.

Qatar
Career Counseling Unit
We have supported projects targeting low-income families and community development through the Social Development Center since 2001. In 2007, the ExxonMobil Foundation contributed $300,000 to finance the Center’s Career Counseling Unit, which provides career guidance and skills training to high-school and university students. Career counselors help students explore their career interests and prepare for the job market.

Russia
Strategic community investments through national content development on Sakhalin Island
In 2004, the Sakhalin-1 Project Consortium and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) launched the $500,000 North Sakhalin Credit Program to support financially viable small businesses that would not otherwise receive funding from commercial banks. To date, the program has loaned more than $1.3 million to small businesses and helped to create or sustain more than 500 jobs and 100 businesses. In 2007, the North Sakhalin Credit Program became self-sustaining as a result of its market-based design. Building on the program’s success on Sakhalin Island, we are currently exploring the possibility of launching a similar program in Khabarovsk Krai, the location of an oil-exporting terminal.

Sub-Saharan Africa
Combating the spread of HIV/AIDS
In 2007, we continued to support Safe Blood for Africa in its efforts to implement blood quality programs in Angola, Equatorial Guinea, and Nigeria. For example, for the fourth year, we supported the ExxonMobil Nigerian National Training Institute, which provides training on safe blood practices to staff at blood centers, testing labs, and hospital transfusion services. In 2007, more than 50,000 HIV rapid test kits were distributed through the ExxonMobil Akwa Ibom Blood Relief Plan throughout Akwa Ibom state in Nigeria. Over the past three years, Esso Angola has been sponsoring a behavioral-change program in Bengo province to educate the community on HIV/AIDS. In 2007, our awareness campaign reached more than 13,000 people and nearly 3000 volunteered to get tested.

Thailand
Sustaining global water supplies
In 2007, we supported a project in eastern Thailand focused on preserving sensitive rainforest and mangrove areas, and providing sufficient water supplies to support surrounding agricultural and community use. ExxonMobil constructed 80 check dams of local materials over an area of more than 2000 hectares. These dams are designed to slow water flow along steep slopes, which also reduces top soil nutrient loss and prevents wildfires due to increased humidity. Communities assisted with the construction of the dams and now ensure their maintenance. As a result, 11,000 community members benefit directly from adequate water supplies and indirectly from reduced top soil nutrient loss and increased biodiversity.