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19/12/2007
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Votorantim Cement will invest R$ 1.3 million in 2008 to include new towns in the Evoluir Program.
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Votorantim Cement’ Evoluir Program (Evolution Program) will reach out to new towns starting in 2008. The company will invest R$ 1.3 million to start training young people in mechanics, electricity and electroelectronics in Itaú de Minas (MG), Baraúna (RN), Cantagalo (RJ) and Vidal Ramos (SC), besides a new group to be established at Xambioá (TO). In 2008, expectations are to train another 98 youngsters out of the groups started in 2007
The courses, offered together with the Votorantim Institute and Professional training institutions, usually take one year and a half, with a total of 1,232 hours/classes split into two training nuclei. Besides the technical nucleus, dedicated to Mechanical and Electric Industrial Maintenance, there is also the citizenship nucleus, with socio-educative activities geared to the personal, community, professional and ethical development of the young participants.
To take part, the young must live in the communities where the company operates; they must have time availability for the classes; they must be high school graduates; they should not be enrolled with or have concluded college or another course of a technical level; they must be 18 to 24 years old; and they must prove a family income of up to one minimum wage per head.
With the program, while Votorantim Cement offers the young the chance of Professional training and access to the first job, it also tries to solve the hurdle arising from hiring professionals in regions with precarious infrastructures in which it has productive units. The company strategy in this case is to set up the project even before the plants start working.
When a Votorantim Cement unit is established in a Brazilian town, many things change around it. The first one is the wish that life in the community will evolve with the company. A good example of this is the new Xambioá (TO) plant, expected to start operating in 2009. When it is in full gear, the Xambioá unit will have 32 Electronics professionals from the program concluded in 2008. Moreover, the new plant may have another group of 25 young with a Mechanics grade that is scheduled to start in February 2008 and whose screening process is set for January.
In the municipality of Cantagalo (RJ), the first step of the Evoluir Program will start next year. Together with the Cenecista Santa Mônica College, two 25-student groups will start a technical training in Mechanics and Electricity. Once they graduate, they may work in the local plant.
With more than 20 years of existence, the Evoluir Program is a successful initiative. In 2007 alone, 167 young people graduated in the units of Sobradinho (DF), Nobres (MT) and Corumbá (MS). The towns that are now being the object of actions for the first time are Xamioá (TO), Laranjeiras (SE) and Caaporã (PB).
Social Investment
Convinced that investing in the transformation power of the young in the present guarantees the future, Votorantim Cement is pouring another R$ 6 million a year in social actions geared to the education and inclusion of low-income young people in the labor market.
Among corporate programs, it is worth mentioning Future in Our Hands, which professionally qualifies people from 18 to 24 years old for the civil architecture market. Over the last four years, this program has already trained in excess of seven thousand people in all regions of the country.
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