The concern aiming the employees’ life quality is increasingly in Votorantim’s agenda. The programs entitled to promote the employees’ health and the well-being had a fast propagation in all units of the Group. The pioneer project was + Life, from Votorantim Pulp and Paper, started in June 2003 and now implanted in all business units. By and large, such programs view to stimulate health, culture, leisure, and the employees’ family relationship by means of activities, campaigns and agreements. Here is some of the activities comprised by those programs:

- Clinical examinations;

- Health prevention (anti tobaccoism, nutritional orientation);

- Woman’s health;

- Labor gymnastics and massage;

- Stimulus to regular physical activities;

- Work ergonomics;

- Covenants with bookstores, movie theaters, entertainment centers, amusement parks, hotels and hostels;

- Volunteers and blood donation.