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, […]
Carried out in Governador Valadares (MG), the Future Maker project helps vulnerable young people develop socio-emotional and professional skills in the area of Technology. In addition to technical training, the project offers psychosocial support and seeks to promote the personal development of the participants, so that they can understand their potential and adequately get prepared […]
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 Doing Science project is an initiative of the Vale Foundation, in partnership with the Educational Community (Cedac) and complementary investments from the company DHHI. It aims to reflect new ways of teaching and learning Science and Mathematics in the municipal school system of Itabira (MG), allowing students to be protagonists of their learning and to discover […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]