EDP Institute supported over 80 thousand people through social projetcts
The Company announced new projects for 2019 in addition to current social and educational projects in areas where the EDP Group operates.
At the initiatives launched by the EDP Institute, an organization created eleven years ago to manage the EDP Group’s social and environmental activities, benefited over 80 thousand people in 2018 in states where the company operates: Amapá, Bahia, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Tocantins, Espírito Santo, São Paulo, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. Over R$ 13.6 million was invested in initiatives to promote Education, Culture, Sports, Volunteering, Social Development, Health and Income Generation.
In 2018, programs such as EDP in Schools, Aprender e Crescer, Manobra do Bem, Brincando com Pipas and Caravanas do Esporte (Learn & Grow, Doing Good, Playing with Kites and Sports Caravanas) sought to support human development of local children and youngsters, as well as entire communities.
In addition to the projects backed by the Institution, 694 employees from all the company’s operating regions provided 7,958 hours of volunteer work on several campaigns focusing on the elderly, children, homeless people, animals, the disabled, the environment and the safe energy use. Over 500 hours were spent cleaning the beaches in Caraguatatuba (SP) and Taíbe (CE); As part of the Natal sem Fome (Christmas without Hunger) campaign, 11 tons of food were donated to over 500 vulnerable families from São Gonçalo do Amarante (CE); A community garden was planted in Serra (ES) to feed over 900 children at the Lar Semente do Amor Association and the “Safe Energy Use” theme reached out to over 15 thousand people via the São Paulo and Espírito Santo Distributors, underlining EDP’s goal of “using energy to take better care of the community”.
At the EDP Institute manages the Desafio do Bem (Challenge for Good), a program now in its eighth year which encourages peopel to volunteer through team building - in addition to EDP staff, relatives, friends or employees from other companies can also take part. Each team chooses a local social organization to assist.
“We are very happy with the way the Institution’s programs are developing. EDP associates are becoming increasingly engaged in the Company’s social causes and are becoming social agents for transformation”, said Luiz Carlos Gouveia, director of the EDP Institute.
EDP also supports efforts to promote the Portuguese language. Over the past two years, EDP used to a truck to take a travelling exhibition, called "The Power of the Portuguese Language", around the country. Visitors to the exhibition are able to learn more about the countries that speak Portuguese , the background to common sayings, the language’s specific characteristics and the differences between Portuguese spoken in Portugal and Brazil. Portuguese is the fourth most popular language in the world and the most common language in the southern hemisphere.
At the Company is also a Master sponsor of the Portuguese Language Museum restoration works and the first company to announce a R$ 12 million sponsorship to renovate the Ipiranga Museum, which has been closed since 2013. EDP sponsored the last two editions of FLIP - the Paraty International Literary Fair - and the 2018 edition of the São Paulo Biennial Book Fair for the second time.
See below for further details about the projects approved during the EDP 2019 Selection Process, which will run alongside the initiatives already under way in areas which it operates.
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Project/NGO |
Description |
Area of Activity |
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Cidadania Em Ação (Citizenship in Action) Project 2019 / Friends’ Association of Justice, Citizenship, Education and Arts |
Promotes citizenship, education and arts among elderly people through artistic, cultural, sporting and recreational experiences and activities that foster sociability. |
Ibiraçu / ES
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Aprender e Crescer (Learn and Grow) / Atenas Athletic Association |
Contributes towards improving the overall quality of life and provides youngsters with access to educational, cultural, sporting and humanistic mechanisms through football. |
Paranã, Lajeado, Peixe, Miracema and Palmas / TO |
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Jovens Protagonistas (Young Leaders) Agency / Celebreiros Association |
Helps youngsters from state schools in the Metropolitan region of the Vale do Paraíba that face social vulnerability through audiovisual education, developing audiovisual and broadcasting projects on the Community TV Channel, ensuring participants are qualified to become knowledge multipliers. |
São José dos Campos, Taubaté and Caraguatatuba / SP |
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Norquestrando Sonhos (Orchestra of Dreams) / Pecém Family Association |
Helps children and adolescents in São Gonçalo do Amarante develop communication skills through music and other personal development and social transformation initiatives. |
São Gonçalo do Amarante / CE |
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Rhythms: Capoeira, Music and Dance for People with Disabilities / Pecém Family Association |
Provides music, dance and capoeira workshops led by trained professionals exclusively for people with disabilities in São Gonçalo do Amarante. 60 places are available for the 24-month project, allowing for a longer terms workshops the provide additional opportunities for social inclusion. |
Ceará |
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Brinquedoteca - Alegria de Viver (Toy Library - Joy of Living) / Association of Parents and Friends of Disabled Persons in Baixo Guandu |
Provides disabled children and adolescents with the opportunity to experiment, experience, explore and handle objects, increase their knowledge, develop their creativity, self-sufficiency and initiative, broadening their perceptive, affective and social capabilities while also contributing towards the APAE team’s multidisciplinary service. |
Baixo Guandu / ES |
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Futebol Esporte E Vida (Football, Sports and Life) / Mascarenhas Residents Association |
Provides learning opportunities in two sports categories, teaching the rules and working on the fundamentals of each sport under professional guidance. Use sports to develop social and physical well-being of children and adolescents in the Mascarenhas neighborhood. Develops integration, education and citizenship among children and youngsters, supporting social inclusion as a means of creating community spirit and offering an efficient means of preventing social exclusion, drugs and violence while also promoting education and reducing school drop-out rates. |
Baixo Guandu / ES |
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Norquestra Contemporânea Brasileira (Contemporary Brazilian Orchestra) / Associação dos Amigos da Arte (Association of the Friends of Art) - AAMARTE |
Norganizes performances by the Contemporary Brazilian Orchestra of Ceará, where orchestra musicians will exchange experiences and provide musical training to 160 youngsters from vulnerable backgrounds, with the goal of creating a youth orchestra. |
Ceará |
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Sinfonia (Symphony) Project - Transforming Lives Through Music / Association of Salesian Cooperators of Pindamonhangaba |
Promotes social inclusion and supports education and culture through free music classes for 80 children, adolescents and young adults from the city of Pindamonhangaba and the district of Moreira César. |
Pindamonhangaba / SP |
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Campeões Uchi Mata Judô (Uchi Mata Judo Champions) / Uchimata Judo Association |
Provides children and adolescents facing social and personal risks with access to sporting activities, contributing towards their overall development, helping them tackle their needs, desires and expectations while developing their citizenship, creating responsibility, supporting their intellectual and physical development and offering e real chance of social integration that helps keep them away from drugs and violence. The goal is to develop high performance athletes and future champions at sports and life in general and to promote sports as a healthy leisure activity. |
Cariacica / ES |
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Além da Rua (Beyond the Streets) Project - Arts and Relationships Festival / Cultural Marketing Act
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Atransforms the local scene and promotes the positive relationships built by the initiative. The festival is supported by a network of artists, companies and other supporters. |
São Gonçalo do Amarante / CE |
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Adequar para Melhor Atender (Adapt to Better Serve) / Missionários da Luz House of Prayer
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Provides the physical adjustments to required expand the capacity of the Cohabitation Service that currently assists 15 (fifteen) elderly people but could serve up to 40 (forty) people. Adapts the infrastructure to begin the Institutional Accommodation Service that will shelter up to 20 (twenty) elderly people aged 60 or above and are living in vulnerable situations. The cohabitation center avoids social isolation through community participation. |
São José dos Campos / SP |
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Apoio à Criança e Adolescente (Support for Children and Adolescents) / CMDCA Laranjal do Jari |
Protects the rights of children and adolescents from Laranjal do Jari. |
Laranjal do Jari / AP |
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Expands the Neurology Service provided by the National Public Health Network (SUS) / GAC in São José dos Campos |
Expands the oncologic neurosurgery service at the Fabiana Macedo de Morais Hospital for Youth Treatment, part of the Support Group of Children with Cancer - CTFM/GACC. Expands neurology service by providing specialized and comprehensive treatment to SUS patients with cancer affecting their central nervous systems. |
Vale do Paraíba / SP |
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Amparo ao Idoso (Elderly Support) / Hospital do Amor |
Develops a support program for elderly people, providing a wide range of care activities and treating their clinical issues, as well as addressing their general well-being and the social aspects of their disease and its repercussions. |
National |
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Caravana do Esporte (Sports Caravan) / Sports Education Institute |
Supports children and adolescents’ education by teaching the importance of physical activities and promotes sport and games as tools to provide education, inclusion and social transformation in low income communities with a low human development index. |
Baixo Guandu, São Gonçalo do Amarante, Laranjal do Jari / BR |
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Futebol de Rua Pela Educação Year VIII (Street Football Supporting Education) / Futebol de Rua Institute |
Promotes sporting activities and encourages school attendance, supporting student integration with school, family and community.
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To be defined |
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Combati O Bom Combate (Combati the Good Fight) / Harmonia Environmental and Social Institute |
Promotes sports and physical activity, minimizes idleness, supports social inclusion for students and their families until they join university, offers FREE Jiu-Jitsu and Karate classes to children and adolescents between 07 and 17 years old living in low-income communities. |
Cachoeiro de Itapemirim / ES |
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Caravana das Artes (Arts Caravan) / Mpumalanga Institute |
Supports children and adolescents’ education by teaching the importance of physical activities and promotes sport and games as tools to provide education, inclusion and social transformation in low income communities with a low human development index. |
Ceará |
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Ambulatório de Cuidados Paliativos e Dor de Pacientes (Outpatient Clinic for Palliative Care and Patient Pain) / Santa Casa de Misericórdia Charity Brotherhood of Fortaleza |
Provide the Santa Casa da Misericórdia in Fortaleza with a palliative care and pain clinic for cancer patients in the city of Fortaleza who have undergone surgical procedures. |
Ceará |
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Longevidade Com Dignidade (Long Life with Dignity) / Torre de Melo Home |
Helps maintain the long-term residential service offered by the Torres de Melo Home. Plans to maintain and replace all of the institution’s movable and fixed assets; pays staff and for the institution’s water, electricity and telephone bills; purchases hospital and medical equipment and supplies and cleaning materials; funds meals for the elderly; organizes activities to keep the elderly active - such as trips and themed parties. |
Ceará |
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Psicoativa / Rochativa |
Helps improve quality of life and health through family integration and individual psychological sessions, family integration and treatment opportunities for children and adolescents enrolled in city and state schools that partner with Rochativa. |
Cachoeiro de Itapemirim / ES |
At the initiatives included in the selection process were approved by the Federal Incentive Acts for Culture (Law Rouanet/Culture - No. 8,313/91), Sports (Sports - No. 11,438/06), Health (PRONON/Health - Law No. 12,715/12, for Oncology, and PRONAS/Health - Law No. 12,715/12), Children and Adolescents (Law No. 8069/90) and the Elderly (Law No. 12,213).
Ato find out more about the EDP Institute, please visit: www.institutoedp.org.br
About EDP and IEDP
EDP has over 20 years’ experience and is one of the biggest private-sector companies operating across the entire value chain. The Company has over 10,000 direct and indirect staff and is involved in Energy Transmission, Sales and Services. It also operates 6 hydro power plants and one thermal power station. Its Distribution area serves around 3.4 million customers in Sao Paulo and Espírito Santo. The Company recently acquired a stake in CELESC, from Santa Catarina. In Brazil, the company is noted for its Innovation, Governance and Sustainability and has been included in the B3 Business Sustainability Index (BSI) for 12 consecutive years.
Since its foundation in 2008, the EDP Institute has invested over R$ 100 million in social and cultural projects that have benefitted around three million people, through around 400 programs across the country. In 2017 alone, 35 of the organization’s initiatives have benefited 60 thousand residents living in communities located in areas where the Company operates. The EDP Institute is responsible for structuring EDP’s social investments and initiatives, focusing on areas linked to promoting the Portuguese Language, education and local development alongside income generation, entrepreneurship and volunteering through sports, culture and health.
