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.
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).
Literary Routes and Networks
The Literary Routes and Networks program supports public schools to structure their policy for promoting books and reading and to integrate reading actions in the curriculum. The program fosters access to books and reading through the expansion of the schools’ literary collection and the training of teachers in reading mediation, in addition to improving the rooms and reading corners of the schools. Currently, Cedac is the executing partner of the project in Ouro Preto (MG).
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.
Nutritional Food Security
The project aims to support the structuring of sustainable rural production arrangements for family farmers in Minas Gerais and Maranhão. It is carried out in partnership with Instituto Meio and with complementary investments from BNDES within the scope of the Socio-Environmental Fund.
Rural Development Center
The Rural Development Center of the Arari Knowledge Station seeks to be a Center of Excellence in Permaculture and Bioconstruction that promotes and generates social technologies and solutions for the sustainable production of family farming in the surrounding communities.
Supported by the Vale Foundation in partnership with Mandú Inovação Social, the Center provides technical assistance and rural extension in the production process, strengthening food security and generating income for the families assisted.
Women of Maranhão Network
The Women of Maranhão Network is a collective formed by social businesses that were incubated, accelerated, and graduated by the Agir program (Support for Income Generation and Increase) on the Carajás Railroad – EFC. The social businesses are mostly composed by women who sold products through the windows of the EFC passenger train and who lost their main source of income with the modernization of the carriages in 2015, when the windows were closed. The Agir program supported the groups in their reinvention in the face of the new scenario and encouraged network associations.
As a continuation of the Agir program, the Women of Maranhão Network gained protagonism through the dynamization of its productive activities, integrating groups of babassu coconut breakers to the Network, and accessing new markets. The implementation of the program and the business support actions are carried out in partnership with Mandú Inovação Social and have Wheaton Precious Metals as an investor partner.