Investor Presentaiton
The Via Solidária (Solidary
Way) campaign, organized in
partnership with the portfolio
companies to promote the
culture of donation, continued
during the year and benefited
14 projects to ensure the
protection of the rights of
children and adolescents. In its
fifth year, the campaign, which
allows employees to donate
between R$10 and up to 6%
of their income taxes, raised
approximately R$880,000 (a
41% increase compared with
2020) and had a 109% increase
in the number of participants.
In 2021, Desafio Voluntário
(Volunteer Challenge), a
collection of volunteer
activities carried out by
the holding company and
portfolio companies, made
a difference in the lives of
people and communities in
Brazil and Latin America that
were heavily affected by the
COVID-19 pandemic. The
program, in the form of a
healthy competition between
the companies, launched
three thematic challenges
during the year:
► More resilient communities:
emergency actions that
offered support or assistance
to people and communities
impacted by the pandemic
► Leaders of development:
activities in which the
volunteers used individual
abilities or technical skills to
support social organizations,
people, and communities
► The company's cause:
volunteer initiatives that were
aligned with the social and/
or environmental strategy of
each company
More than 200 activities
were carried out throughout
the year, involving more than
1,250 volunteer employees
and benefiting approximately
58,450 people. Some of the
important initiatives included (i)
training programs for women in
civil construction, in partnership
with Votorantim Cimentos
employees; (ii) initiatives to
promote gender equality
in the town of Três Marias,
where the Mais Mulher (More
Women) group was created by
Nexa volunteers; and (iii) the
distribution of lunch kits to
financially vulnerable people,
carried out by the CBA team.
The citizenship program, which
promotes activities to empower
citizens, advanced on two
fronts: support for local projects
focused on young people and
the strengthening of a network
of organizations that work
to promote citizenship and
democracy in Brazil.
On the first front, the
program promoted initiatives
to strengthen political
participation and the culture
of democracy in the regions
prioritized by five portfolio
companies (Votorantim
Cimentos, CBA, Votorantim
Energia, Nexa, and Citrosuco).
In 2021, it benefited
300 people through more than
40 engagement activities.
The second front focused
on solutions to address the
challenges regarding citizenship
and the Brazilian democratic
culture identified in the
corporate ecosystem, on three
levels: innovation, knowledge,
and networks. With regard
to innovation, the program
launched the Challenge for
Democratic Culture, which
aims to support four innovative
initiatives to promote citizen
participation. In the area of
knowledge, the program is
supporting the implementation
of studies on citizenship in
Brazil through the development
of a systemic map that will
deepen the understanding
of challenges and levers for
democracy. Finally, through its
focus on networks, the program
seeks to improve networking
and partnerships with other
organizations that already work
on the issue of citizenship,
aiming to further strengthen
this ecosystem.
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