Social Programmes / Projects
Imerys RCC has nine social projects, with 2,172 direct beneficiaries. These include entire families who have the opportunity to build a better future through successful, award-winning initiatives that stimulate education, health and income generation. Get to know each of these programs:
‘Luz do Amanhã’ Pre-School Program
This activity promotes the socio-pedagogical and playful development between educators and students with the participation of the parents, in addition to improving the infrastructure of all pre-schools in Vila do Conde – Barcarena. This program is developed in partnership with Barcarena´s Educational Department.
Child and Art Program
This program promotes learning through artistic activities. In all, approximately 300 children are assisted with the support of 35 volunteer educators from Vila do Conde community, in Barcarena, under the organization of the NGO ‘Pastoral do Menor’.
Healthy Smile Program
In addition to educating children and pre-adolescents on oral health (also including the teachers and the parents of students from both municipal and state schools) through a broad prevention work, this program also offers dental treatment. By means of the project, over 1,500 people are treated in the neighboring communities at Barcarena and Ipixuna.
Ampagesta Program
With a focus on the pregnant women of the neighboring communities at Barcarena, the Ampagesta Program aims at developing the quality of life of such women through education incentives. They learn how to take better care of their health during pregnancy, to improve their family relationship, and they also attend occupational workshops as opportunities for income improvement.
Environmental Education Program
This initiative involves actions based upon the principles of sustainability towards the communities within the circle of influence of the Ipixuna Mine Site and the Plant/Port in Barcarena with the support of State and Municipal primary and secondary and high schools. The Program stimulates community knowledge and awareness concerning issues related to the environment and the Company by working on habits and culture.
Dressmaking Program
This program is maintained in a partnership with Barcarena’s stylists NGO ‘Costamazônia’. The initiative creates work opportunities, generates income and transforms riverside dwellers into entrepreneurs, thus fostering self-esteem and citizenship with the respect to the culture of the region. This initiative is now in its second group. The women of the first group created their own brand of clothes called ‘Iara’ and opened a regional fashion shop at Vila dos Cabanos.
Income Generation Project – Non-Commercial Fishing
The fishermen of São João Island, in Barcarena, in a partnership with Imerys RCC, have become entrepreneurs of their own subsistence activity. The Non-Commercial Fishing Project provides technical qualification by the Port Authority of Belém (Brazilian Navy), which issues the professional fisherman’s license, the infrastructure for work (like a 4-ton boat), in addition to the creation of the São João Island Dwellers Association (AMIS), which manages the Project.
Fishing Project
The fishermen of São João Island, in Barcarena, in a partnership with Imerys RCC, have become entrepreneurs of their own subsistence activity. The project provides technical qualification by the Port Authority of Belém (Brazilian Navy), which issues the professional fisherman’s license, the infrastructure for work (like a 4-ton boat), in addition to the creation of the São João Island Dwellers Association (AMIS), which manages the Project.
Subsistence Program
This Program involves actions in a partnership with EMATER/PA that aim at transforming the socio-economic reality of the community through subsistence, sustainable activities, thus appreciating the culture of the local people. The communities involved are: Cajueiro, Aparecida, Oliveira, Sto. Antônio and Sta. Maria do Bacuri, located in the municipality of Ipixuna, northeastern Pará, neighboring the Company’s Mine Site.
