Votorantim Cimentos and Instituto Votorantim will accomplished next Wednesday, August 13, the inaugural class of the bricklayers' course of the Program Future in Our Hands in Osasco, in the region of Great São Paulo.
With partnership of SindusconSP (Construction Trade Union of São Paulo), of NGO A CASA É SUA and Senai (National Service of Industrial Learning), Votorantim Cimentos intends to qualify, altogether, 50 new bricklayers with age group between 18 and 29 years. The course will have a 200 hs duration, divided in theoretical and practical classes for technical qualification. After the conclusion, the students will receive direcion for beginning to work in civil construction companies.
The Program Future In Our Hands is focused on the youth insert in the labor market through professional training. It started to count with Instituto Votorantim's support in 2005, two years after being created by Votorantim Cimentos. Since its beginning, the Program already qualified more than 8-thousand professionals and, along 2008, it should qualify more one thousand young bricklayers in the whole Country.
The event will count with the presence of the partners of the program and executives of Votorantim Cimentos.
Future in Our Hands
Convicted that the investment in the youth's transforming power in the present assures the future, Votorantim Cimentos invests more than R$ 7 million a year in social actions intended towards education and the insertion of youths with low income in the labor market. For the Program Future in Our Hands will be destined in 2008 more than R$ 1.8 million.
Future in Our Hands qualifies youths as between 18 and 29-years old as professionals for the labor market of the civil construction. The program results from the strategic cooperation between Votorantim Cimentos and Instituto Votorantim. It exists since 2003, and it has already qualified more than 8 thousand people in all the regions of the Country.
The objective of the Program is the professional qualification with support to the youths ingression in the labor market.
Through partnerships, Votorantim Cimentos hopes to collaborate for the placement of at least 50% of the students in the labor market. The youths also take part in activities that handle themes, such as: ethics, citizenship, rights and duties, work and venture capability, a fact that provide them with additional preparation for the challenges of the labor market. These contents are part of the module called Common Nucleus, with workload of 32 hours.
Since 2007, the practical part of the course is accomplished in the community itself where the recruited youths live. The students have the opportunity to work initially in small reforms, such as the one of a day-care or a classroom.
The registrations can be made in the municipal districts where the Program is accomplished, with the partner technical schools. They are the ones that are also in charge for the student selection, in partnership with NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) and local Trade Unions. Each group is made up by 25 students.
In addition to the professional qualification, the Program foresees the delivery, at the end of the course, of a kit with the basic tools (safety glasses, PVC gloves, plumb line, bubble level, aluminum bricklayer's square, bricklayer's trowel, mortar board and measuring tape) in order to make easier the ingression of these young professionals in the market.