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04-19-2012, 01:00 PM
One of the first businessmen to set an example for genuine corporate social responsibility, innovator Manuel Arsenio Urena died yesterday, Wednesday 18 April. He innovated in his work as founder of the Plan Sierra community mountain project, Banco Ademi for small business loans, and for kicking off the planting of macadamia nuts in the Dominican Republic.
Family members, friends and associates of the Urena Rodriguez family walked by the casket to say their last goodbyes to the departed business leader. The wake was held at the Blandino Funeral Home in Santiago. On Thursday morning, 19 April, he will be taken to the Church of the Annunciation at the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) where he was a founding member of the board of directors. He will be buried in the Santiago 30 de Marzo Cemetery at 6pm.
The outstanding businessman died at the age of 73 at the Metropolitan Hospital of Santiago (HOMS) after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. He is survived by his widow Camelia, and his children Junior, Richard, Carmen Guerly, Josie, and Juan Manuel.
Urena was a philanthropist who started working as a trader on Valerio Avenue in the lower part of Santiago, later founding the Centro Manuel Arsenio Urena or Centro MAU selling lubricants and tires. He also founded Camelia Agroindustrial and the Banco Ademi. Among his lesser-known achievements was his commitment to education at the most basic level.
His dedication to his birthplace Guama, in the foothills of the Central Mountains, and to Janico where he lived as a child is legendary. In fact, it was through his efforts that both Guama and Janico have become the only two towns in the country that are 100% literate, a true achievement for posterity.
He left his mark as a director of the Plan Sierra, where he promoted projects in benefit of rural families in the areas around San Jose de las Matas, Moncion and Restauracion. He encouraged reforestation and the cultivation of macadamia nuts, which he introduced to the market along with other crops.
He was a member of the board of Directors of Coraasan, the Santiago Water Works, and of the Development Association, as well as president of the patrimony commission of the Development Association. Urena helped found the Santiago Food Wholesalers Association (Amaprosan) as well as the Santiago Traders and Industrialists Association (ACIS)
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Family members, friends and associates of the Urena Rodriguez family walked by the casket to say their last goodbyes to the departed business leader. The wake was held at the Blandino Funeral Home in Santiago. On Thursday morning, 19 April, he will be taken to the Church of the Annunciation at the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) where he was a founding member of the board of directors. He will be buried in the Santiago 30 de Marzo Cemetery at 6pm.
The outstanding businessman died at the age of 73 at the Metropolitan Hospital of Santiago (HOMS) after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. He is survived by his widow Camelia, and his children Junior, Richard, Carmen Guerly, Josie, and Juan Manuel.
Urena was a philanthropist who started working as a trader on Valerio Avenue in the lower part of Santiago, later founding the Centro Manuel Arsenio Urena or Centro MAU selling lubricants and tires. He also founded Camelia Agroindustrial and the Banco Ademi. Among his lesser-known achievements was his commitment to education at the most basic level.
His dedication to his birthplace Guama, in the foothills of the Central Mountains, and to Janico where he lived as a child is legendary. In fact, it was through his efforts that both Guama and Janico have become the only two towns in the country that are 100% literate, a true achievement for posterity.
He left his mark as a director of the Plan Sierra, where he promoted projects in benefit of rural families in the areas around San Jose de las Matas, Moncion and Restauracion. He encouraged reforestation and the cultivation of macadamia nuts, which he introduced to the market along with other crops.
He was a member of the board of Directors of Coraasan, the Santiago Water Works, and of the Development Association, as well as president of the patrimony commission of the Development Association. Urena helped found the Santiago Food Wholesalers Association (Amaprosan) as well as the Santiago Traders and Industrialists Association (ACIS)
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