Projects

The Vale Foundation, with its extensive experience in strengthening public policies, established a partnership with Vale in the company’s commitment to support the movement of 500,000 people out of situations of extreme poverty by 2030. 

To this end, the Vale Foundation leads the implementation of initiatives at the Marabá, Tucumã, Arari and Serra Knowledge Stations that use the Multidimensional Family Monitoring (AFM) methodology to help vulnerable families access essential rights and develop their autonomy. The actions consider five areas for approach (education, income, health, nutrition and infrastructure) and have as investment partners Wheaton Precious Metals (Marabá) and Hatch (Tucumã).

The Vale Foundation, with its extensive experience in strengthening public policies, established a partnership with Vale in the company’s commitment to support the movement of 500,000 people out of situations of extreme poverty by 2030. 

The Citizenship Networks project is one of the initiatives promoted with this objective. It’s developed in Marabá (PA) and takes advantage of the experience of actions 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, which considers five fields for approach: education, income, health, nutrition and infrastructure. 

The Marabá Knowledge Station and Cidade Escola Aprendiz are executing partners of the the project, which has investments from Wheaton Precious Metals and BNDES through the Childhood and Adolescence Fund.  

The Councils Strengthening program is an initiative of the Vale Foundation that encourages better use of Vale’s incentivized resources for the Children and Adolescents´ Rights Fund and the Elderly Fund. Its main objective is to contribute to strengthening the management and performance of the Rights Councils in public policies, addressing issues such as regularization processes, planning, use of funds’ resources, transfers to civil society organizations, monitoring of resource execution, transparency and accountability. 

The Vale Foundation, with its extensive experience in strengthening public policies, established a partnership with Vale in the company’s commitment to support the movement of 500,000 people out of situations of extreme poverty by 2030. 

The Family Circle project is one of the initiatives developed with this objective. It is carried out in the municipality of Canaã dos Carajás (PA), based upon the action of the Health and Social Cycle project, and has a partnership with the municipal city hall to implement the Multidimensional Family Monitoring methodology at the local CRAS (Social Assistance Reference Center). 

The Banco do Brasil Foundation is an investor partner in the project, and the Municipal Department of Social Assistance and the Health Promotion Center (Cedaps) are executing partners. 

The Health and Social Protection Cycle aims to strengthen disease prevention actions and promote primary health care as a cross-cutting policy of the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS). The actions are organized based on the experience accumulated by the Health Cycle project in the territories, with an emphasis on participatory methodologies that are recognized and produce effective results. 

In partnership with the Health Promotion Center (Cedaps) and municipal departments, the project seeks to develop capacities and foster the ongoing education of managers and professionals in the areas of Health and Social Assistance, encourage a culture of intersectoral action, expand the performance of Primary Health Care and Social Assistance, provide better technical and material conditions for actions that make a difference in the territories and, thus, improve social and health indicators. 

The Knowledge Stations are spaces maintained by the Vale Foundation that offer educational, cultural, and sports activities in after-school hours, having children and teenagers from 6 to 17 years old as the main target audiences. Through their programs, they contribute to the social development of the communities, fostering creativity, innovation, partnerships articulation, participation and sharing of actions among public entities, organized civil society and communities, valuing the characteristics of each region.    

There are five Knowledge Stations in operation, located in the municipalities of Arari (MA), Brumadinho (MG), Serra (ES), Marabá and Tucumã (PA). They are independent institutions, maintained mainly with direct resources from the Vale Foundation, in addition to incentivized resources from Vale and resources from investment partners. The incentivized resources come from the Childhood and Adolescence Fund (Municipal Councils for the Defense of Children and Adolescents) and the Sports Incentive Law (Special Secretariat for Sports). 

The Literacy Trails program seeks to contribute to the full literacy of children in public schools in the municipalities where Vale operates. The actions include training educators and technical teams from the State and Municipal Education Departments, production and distribution of complementary teaching materials and mobilization of the school community for literacy.  

In Maranhão, the initiative is carried out in partnership with 24 neighboring municipalities of the Carajás Railroad, the Intermunicipal Multimodal Consortium (CIM), the Government of the State of Maranhão, and the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV). 

In Pará, 8 municipalities where Vale operates are partners in the project (Bom Jesus do Tocantins, Canaã dos Carajás, Curionópolis, Eldorado do Carajás, Marabá, Ourilândia do Norte, Parauapebas, and Tucumã), which has investments from Wheaton Precious Metals and BNDES through the Socio-Environmental Fund 

In Rio de Janeiro, the project takes place in partnership with the city councils of Itaguaí and Mangaratiba and is implemented by the partner Comunidade Educativa (Cedac).

The Networked Territories program aims to identify the main challenges related to the development of municipalities, proposing a set of actions to ensure the confrontation of school exclusion and to carry out an in-depth diagnosis of the challenges experienced, in addition to promoting the articulation of governmental and non-governmental sectors for the development of policies and actions in different areas. 

The initiative is carried out by Cidade Escola Aprendiz and has Wheaton Precious Metals, Grupo Hidrau Torque (GHT), Komatsu and Keda (KHDI) as investment partners. The project is currently active in 16 municipalities in the states of Pará, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro.