The Networked Territories project identifies the main challenges for the development of municipal education and proposes a set of actions to combat school exclusion, based on an in-depth diagnosis of the local reality and the articulation of governmental and non-governmental sectors. In Pará, the initiative has the partnership of Wheaton and two other Vale supplier companies – Komatsu and Keda – and has reintegrated 7,330 students into the school since 2020.

The project seeks to contribute to the full literacy of children from the 1^st to the 5^th year of Elementary School who study in public schools in Vale's municipalities. The actions include training of educators and technical teams, production and distribution of complementary teaching material and the mobilization of the school community for literacy. Wheaton and the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) are investor partners in the initiative in the state of Pará, with more than 270 schools served, 1,200 professionals trained, 36,000 students benefited and 105,000 items delivered.

The project supports the public education networks to define their book promotion policies and integrate reading actions into the school curriculum. In addition to expanding the literary collection and training teachers, it includes actions to improve reading rooms. With Wheaton's investment, Literary Routes and Networks benefited 40 schools in Maranhão, with the structuring of 22 reading rooms, training of 97 education professionals and donation of more than 8,100 items of collection.

Wheaton is an investor in the Health and Social Protection Cycle program, together with the Vale Foundation and BNDES, and has supported the initiative since the beginning of its activities in Pará, in 2015. Currently, the partnership covers 8 municipalities in Pará and 24 in Maranhão, which, until May 2024, had more than 11,100 professionals trained and 912 health and social assistance units involved, in addition to having received more than 10,100 items to better provide services to the population. In 2019, the program was chosen by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) as the “Best Public Health Experience in Pará”. It is estimated that more than 2 million people have benefited from the actions developed.

Since 2018, Wheaton has supported the Women of Maranhão Network project, a collective that currently brings together 104 people, who participate in 16 community-based businesses. Social businesses mostly involve women who sold products through the window of the Carajás Railroad passenger train and lost their main source of income with the modernization of the transport. The Vale Foundation supported the groups in their reinvention in the face of the new scenario and encouraged cooperativism.

Implemented in Pará, the Inova Up project was a result from the merging of initiatives held by the Amazon Entrepreneurship Center with the Agir (Support for Generation and Increase of Income) program. Its purpose was to train young entrepreneurs with a focus on sustainability and guide them to the opening of their companies, monitoring their performance during the first quarter of operation. The program was completed in 2023, after having boosted 18 entrepreneurs and 10 social businesses.

The partnership between the Vale Foundation and Wheaton was able to attract more than 20 companies to take part into the Mask+Income project, which created income-generating opportunities for 3,000 seamstresses and artisans from all over Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic – a challenge that strengthened us for other external funding. Of the total number of beneficiaries, 1,001 people were directly impacted by actions made possible with Wheaton's support. After the health emergency, the initiative gained continuity with the Network+Income project, which selected 1,200 artisans to deepen their knowledge about entrepreneurship. Mask+Income was the subject of the documentary “Thread of Affection”, sponsored by Wheaton and recognized at the Rio Film Festival, in Brazil, and the Cine del Mar Festival, in Uruguay.

Implementing the Multidimensional Family Monitoring methodology with the families of babassu coconut breakers, based on the experience of the Vale Foundation with the Women of Maranhão Network. The initiative focuses on community entrepreneurship with the objective of contributing to the improvement of living conditions and the appreciation of the activities of rural workers who live from babassu extraction, having reached 1,768 people and 510 families by July 2024.

Developed in Marabá (PA), the project takes advantage of the experience of initiatives that already had a connection with the communities and families of the municipality to help guarantee the rights of vulnerable children and adolescents, through the application of the Multidimensional Family Monitoring methodology. The project has reached 5,645 people and 1,366 families by July 2024, and will continue until 2025.

Wheaton's donations made it possible to set up and equip clinics to provide medical and dental care to the families assisted by the Knowledge Stations, which are now accompanied by specialized professionals, such as pediatricians, nutritionists and nursing technicians. The services are of an educational nature and seek to promote primary and secondary prevention of health problems, being available to all age groups. In the second quarter of 2024, over 2,600 health appointments were carried out.

The funds allowed the three Knowledge Stations to install solar panels, which gave them greater autonomy in the supply of electricity, besides contributing to the environment. In Marabá, the Station also underwent works to meet a demand from the community, due to the local climate, with strong sun and daily rains, and received a new covered multi-sports court. The same occurred at the Arari Knowledge Station, which now has a covered court to develop its activities throughout the year. About 5,100 people are served by the three Stations.