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 Babassu Coconut Breakers Project is one of the initiatives promoted with this objective. It is an initiative of the […]
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, […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]