2005 Annual Report
Executive Summary | Learning and Development
Social responsibility
Present in 150 Brazilian municipalities, Aracruz seeks to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life.
We continued to support a number of initiatives in the field of social work, focused on education and local production arrangements. The main program was Formar, which since 1997 has been striving to improve the capacity of teachers to teach basic literacy courses. In 2005 the program certified a total of 997 grade school teachers from the municipalities in which the Company operates in Espírito Santo.
The inclusion in production arrangements of families residing in communities next to the Company’s plantations made it possible for Aracruz to purchase eucalyptus and native species seedlings from them, distributing income and generating prospects for a better quality of life in these locations.
We began a process of revision of our social investments designed to adapt the current plan to the growth of the Company, establishing the focus, strategies, methods and measurement of results.