EDP Brasil, a company that operates in all segments of the Brazilian electricity sector, decided to double the amount available in the EDP Solidária - Covid 19 call to support projects to deal with the pandemic in vulnerable communities, such as low-income and indigenous communities.  Due to the large number of projects registered, the Company announced that it will donate R$ 2.1 million - instead of R$ 1 million, as originally planned. In just over ten days, the public notice received more than 600 projects from all Brazilian states.

In this first round, 24 projects were selected, aimed at donating food, hygiene and cleaning products and other basic needs, which will be acquired through a food card that will be destined to the final beneficiaries and the acquisition of basic baskets for indigenous communities donations, transferred through the EDP Institute, will directly benefit around 20 thousand people in vulnerable communities in all regions of Brazil for three months, totaling R$ 1.5 million to offer these essential resources. The selection process was attended by an external committee, formed by Carlo Pereira, executive director of the Global Pact in Brazil, and Regina Esteves, chief executive of the social organization Comunitas and was audited by EY. In the coming days, the winning projects in the other categories of the notice will be announced.

“We gave priority to the announcement of the selected projects that need to be attended to with greater urgency - those that involve donations of food and hygiene and cleaning products. Then, we will announce the winners in other areas”, says Luís Carlos Gouveia, director of the EDP Institute. “The number of entries surprised us and made us double the initial donation target. We believe that we have achieved a range of serious and interesting initiatives, which will play a fundamental role in facing the pandemic among the people who need it most”, adds the IEDP director.

Meet the first selected projects:

• Acacci on the front line against Covid-19 - Espírito Santo
• Ágape - Espírito Santo
• Food for the Kayabi People - Mato Grosso (*)
• Food and Protection: All against Covid-19 - Espírito Santo
• Food for the prevention of our Mundukuru people - Pará (*)
• Bananas against Corona: farmland and suburb in the fight against the pandemic - São Paulo
• Bem Maior – Espírito Santo
• Batucanto FT: hand in hand against Covid-19 - São Paulo
• Paths of Solidarity - Tocantins
• Power Station against Pandemic - Espírito Santo (**)
• São José de Calasanz Social Center - Espírito Santo
• Combat and Mitigation of Covid-19 in the Mbya Guarani villages of Porto - Rio Grande do Sul (***)
• Health Education to combat Covid-19 - Tocantins
• Together We Are Stronger - Espírito Santo
• Far from the Eyes, but close to the hearts - Espírito Santo
• Hands with Lives - Ceará
• Clean Hands, Helping Hands - Espírito Santo (*)
• Movement of Good - Amapá
• Women in action against the coronavirus - Rio Grande do Sul
• Solidary Sight - Espírito Santo
• Bread on all tables - Maranhão
• Food safety for the Apiaká people - Mato Grosso (*)
• Covid-19 solidarity, together and strong - São Paulo
• All Together Against Covid-19: Rede Alsa - Espírito Santo

About IEDP

Since it was founded in 2009, the Instituto EDP has invested more than R$ 100 million in social cultural projects, which have benefited about 3 million people, in about 400 programs throughout the country. Only in 2019, the initiatives supported by the organization favored 82,000 residents of the communities surrounding the Company's areas of operation. The Instituto EDP is responsible for structuring EDP's investments and social initiatives on fronts related to the valorization of the Portuguese Language, education, local development with income generation, entrepreneurship and volunteering, by means of sports, culture and health.

About EDP in Brazil

With over 20 years of experience, EDP is one of the largest private companies in the electricity sector operating throughout the value chain. The Company, which has over 10,000 direct and outsourced employees, operates in Transmission, Trading and Energy Services and has six hydroelectric generation units and one thermal power station. In Distribution, it serves about 3.5 million customers in São Paulo and Espírito Santo, in addition to being the main shareholder of Celesc, in Santa Catarina. In Brazil, it is a reference in areas such as Innovation, Governance and Sustainability, having been in the B3´s Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE) for 14 consecutive years.

(*) It must submit a letter of consent from the National Indian Foundation (Funai) and missing documentation required by EDP to receive the funds.

(**) It must submit missing documentation required by EDP to receive the funds.

(***) It must submit a letter of consent from the National Indian Foundation (Funai) and missing documentation required by EDP to receive the funds.