Projects
Vale Foundation’s projects and initiatives are developed and structured on Education, Basic Health, Productive Inclusion, and Social Protection, and include five Knowledge Stations. The projects are implemented in the territories in which Vale operates. On this page, you can learn more about the projects and filter considering the theme, the state or the city of operation.
Councils Strengthening Program
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.
Health and Social Protection Cycle
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.
Literacy Trails
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).
Networked Territories
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.