Sustainability Report 2004

Sustainabilitay objectives for 2005

Social aspects

Aracruz’s support of social projects is characterized by its joint action and partnerships with different players, including those who need the help, project managers and funding agents, which become equally responsible for results.

Strategy and management

  • Structure the Aracruz Institute so that it acts as the Company ’s instrument to support social work.

Education

  • Expand professional training and the teaching and learning process through projects designed to increase the level of schooling of 200 employees;train 700 grade school educators in the municipalities where Aracruz has operations in Espírito Santo;provide support for 1,500 grade school and middle school students in Aracruz (ES);donate school notebooks to 130,000 students in 26 municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul; conduct professional training for 1,600 students,especially in the computer science;and offer university scholarships to 41 indigenous students from Espírito Santo.

Health and special care

  • Supporting programs in the field of health through the donation of hospital and outpatient clinic equipment to benefit 1,500 persons in Esp’rito Santo, the south of Bahia and in Minas Gerais; running programs to orient 600 persons regarding preventive health measures in Esp’rito Santo, Bahia and Minas Gerais; and donating 15 tons of paper to Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre (RS).
  • Supporting programs for people with special needs by improving the infrastructure of the Pestalozzi Society’s facilities in Teixeira de Freitas (Bahia), which helps 200 children, teenagers and adults; and the donation of 2.5 tons of honey produced in the company’s forest plantations to the Association of Parents and Friends of the Handicapped (APAE) in Rio Grande do Sul.

Social inclusion

  • Supporting social inclusion programs for 676 needy youths in municipalities where Aracruz is active; making 3,000 educational toys out of wood in workshops run by social institutions, to be distributed subsequently to underprivileged children in Espírito Santo.
  • Supporting nutritional security and local production programs by fostering family farming activities for short cycle subsistence crops and increasing levels of income in ten communities in Espírito Santo and Bahia; offering financial and technical support to agricultural projects of indigenous communities in Espírito Santo; producing and marketing one million eucalyptus seedlings and 250,000 native species seedlings in community nurseries in Bahia and Espírito Santo; supporting a beekeeping program associated with eucalyptus plantations and native species forests in communities in Bahia and Espírito Santo; and offering 200,000 hatchery fish for family nutrition programs.

Social and cultural development

  • Supporting social and cultural development programs through the voluntary action of employees, family members, trainees and outsourced personnel; community projects seeking to foster improved quality of life in communities of Barra do Riacho and Vila do Riacho, in Aracruz, Espírito Santo.
  • Supporting cultural projects such as the rescuing indigenous culture in Espírito Santo and ÒgaoechaÓ traditions in Rio Grande do Sul; the Guaíba Book Fair; and the Gaoecho Quality Program; encouragement of artistic expression in children through a contest to select drawings for Aracruz’s Christmas cards, open to grade school students in the public school system.