29/04/21

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.