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Corporate citizenship
Since the start of its operation and in a pioneering way Alumar has been supporting projects and institutions, using its own resources and those of the Alcoa Foundation, the Alcoa Institute and BHP Billiton. These resources benefit thousands of people in the areas of education, health, culture, the environment and sustainable development. In 2007 the investment passed the R$ 7 million mark, one of the largest amounts donated in the Consortium’s history.
Alumar’s employees are also involved with volunteer activities and projects that transfer knowledge, reinforce the concept of citizenship and promote quality of life in the communities.
The integration between the undertaking and those who work in it results in everyone being encouraged to be socially responsible and to be aware of the importance of everybody participating.
Alumar’s efforts to behave in a socially responsible and citizen-like manner, by acting in projects that benefit the population, have received recognition by the São Luís City Administration, which awarded the Consortium its “Corporate Friend of the City” trophy
- Total investment in 2007: R$ 7 million
- Total number of people who benefited between 2001/2007: more than 550,000
- Total investment over the last seven years: R$ 30 million
A commitment to local communities
In 2007 all Alumar’s social actions were carried out in communities that are situated close to the plant. Furthermore, the World Month of Community Service program promoted four actions in different neighboring communities.
These are just some of the pieces of work developed by Alumar in surrounding communities:
“Transform Project” Prize
This aims to encourage communities surrounding Alumar to develop sustainable community projects. It was launched during the World Month of Community Service and the winning project receives from the Alcoa Institute and from the Alcoa Foundation the funds necessary to make it viable.
In 2007 the projects that won the Transform Project Prize were:
- Rio Grande community – a project for building the Rio Grande Community Center, which will offer professional training courses to the community’s young people and adults.
- Vila Maranhão community – Voices of Tomorrow Project (ACONJAVIMA), the objective of which is to promote the teaching of the playing of musical instruments among young people.
Inauguration of the Waste Sorting Center
In November Alumar’s Refinery Expansion Project inaugurated its Waste Sorting Center. The Center is operated exclusively by women who come from communities surrounding Alumar and is a new watershed as far as the culture of recycling for the project’s neighboring population is concerned.
Introduction of the Reading Corner
In October 2007, in order to encourage the reading habit, employees of Alumar and of the Refinery Expansion Project inaugurated the “Reading Corner”, in the Gomes de Sousa Basic Education Unit in Taim, in the rural destrict of São Luís.
Figures from the BRAVO! program
In 2007 the BRAVO! and BRAVO! BRASIL programs benefited 168 institutions, in which 1,534 volunteer employees and 44 trainees participated, for a total of 78,460 hours of voluntary work and nearly R$ 700,000 in donations. For the fifth consecutive year Alumar is the location with the largest number of Bravistas of all Alcoa’s locations in Brazil. Since its introduction in Alumar, in 2002, the Program has already benefited approximately 130,000 people.
Culture
Alumar aims to value the local culture and to do this it has invested more than R$ 30 million since 2001. The Consortium has supported institutions like the Black Culture Center and the Josué Montello Foundation and has sponsored movies and the production projects of local artists such as Chiquinho França, Papete, Bicho Terra, Tutuca, Beto Pereira, Mano Borges, Sávio Araújo, among others.
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