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Aligned with its commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Aeris works on developing corporate social responsibility and sustainability policies.
Since it set up shop in the Pecém Industrial and Port Complex in 2010, Aeris identified, through the application of an instrument, that the surrounding region, especially the municipalities of Caucaia and São Gonçalo do Amarante, lacked social initiatives focused on community development.
Aeris believes that it is possible to facilitate citizens’ access to essential rights through a solidarity network, joining forces to provide free services that are relevant to the population. In this sense, SINCE 2019, it has promoted the Ventos Solidários action, which refers to the implementation of a voluntary effort to provide essential, integrated and free services in the areas of health, leisure, education, citizenship and employer branding.
The action is part of Aeris’ Corporate Volunteering front and brings together volunteers from the company’s employees, suppliers and government partners every two months to provide services to local communities. The event is held in nearby public schools.
The services provided range from issuing SUS cards, administering vaccines, blood pressure and blood sugar tests, rapid HIV, Syphilis and Hepatitis tests, BMI calculation and nutritional guidance, oral health consultations, fluoride application and cleaning.
The action also includes the areas of self-care, where haircuts and skin cleaning are provided, and employer branding, with professional guidance. Children also enjoy the cultural and leisure area with space for kids, face painting, drawing, cultural presentations with puppets, among other games.
More than 600 people have already benefited from this program.
Aeris believes in the transformative potential of education and, for this reason, provides access to an internal and online professional qualification platform, with professional training courses for young people and adults from the surrounding communities.
The courses offered are: Basic Excel; Intermediate Excel; Advanced Excel; Power BI; MASP (8D); Yellow Belt Concepts; Assertive Communication; Balancing Energy for High Performance; Time Management and Personal Financial Management.
More than 500 people have already been certified through this resource.
Through the Rouanet Law, between 2019 and 2022, Aeris sponsored the Ventos do Saber Project, which aims to transform public school libraries into spaces for leisure and socializing, as well as to carry out educational and cultural activities focused on reading and developing children’s cognitive, creative and language skills.
Twelve (12) municipal public schools for early childhood and elementary education in Caucaia-CE were awarded model libraries, generating new possibilities for knowledge, reader training, social transformation, updating of educators and local development of the communities
covered by the project.
Meet the schools that were benefited:
In 2019
In 2020:
In 2022:
Mentoria Jovem Program is an annual initiative that seeks to support the employability of socially vulnerable young people, aged between 18 and 24, from the communities surrounding Aeris, contributing through corporate volunteering, with the development of technical, behavioral and cultural skills.
In the first stage of the program, the young participants and the company volunteers register. Then, both go through a training activity, which defines the pairs of mentors and mentees. After this process, the mentoring sessions begin, which take place every two weeks, lasting approximately one and a half hours (each). In total, five sessions are held to develop the young people. Finally, the graduation ceremony and the presentation of certificates are held.
The topics covered during the training range from career guidance, the importance of self-knowledge and empowerment, developing empathy, choosing a professional field, building a professional action plan, preparing a resume, simulating an interview, and even a tutorial on how to use LinkedIn.
At the end of the program, young people can also apply for vacancies at Aeris and are monitored through an employability beacon.
Since 2021, more than 30 young people have already been impacted by the program.
The Formando Campeões Triathlon School was launched in 2015 in Curitiba (PR) and is a model for training in the sport in the country. Created by the Olympic athlete from Curitiba, Juraci Moreira, it includes more than a thousand children and teenagers in 25 centers spread across Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo, Distrito Federal, Goiás, Espírito Santo, Bahia, Ceará and Sergipe.
The Formando Campeões do Ceará Triathlon School of Aeris, based in Caucaia, is sponsored by Aeris and has 50 children. It is run by the Triathlon Federation of the State of Ceará and the
Instituto Escolinha de Triathlon with support from the City of Caucaia and is made possible by the Sports Incentive Law, a program of the Ministry of Sports and the Federal Government.
The project encourages the practice of sports with facilities and equipment and professionals trained to serve children and teenagers in the region.
The Gente que Faz na Comunidade program aims to involve company employees in the corporate volunteer movement, to develop lectures, courses or workshops that contribute to the training of the surrounding communities in subjects that they demand.
Among the topics already worked on, the following stand out: personal and professional development, financial education, sustainability, health care and entrepreneurship.
The program has already contributed to the development of more than 880 people.
Aligned with the cultural attribute of Development of the surrounding communities, the Adote um Sorriso program works with the participation of company employees who mobilize to sponsor a child by donating toys and school shoes, from the communities or institutions that are selected for the initiative.
The action is connected with the promotion of childhood, receives three-month planning and is conceived during the month of October, with activities alluding to Children’s Day.
Since 2018, the Adote um Sorriso action has already benefited more than 4 thousand children in several communities in Caucaia, Ceará.