Major Initiatives
In the area of Education, the Quality Teaching Program (PEQ), coordinated by ArcelorMittal Aços Longos and its foundation, became public policy in two municipalities of the state of Minas Gerais. PEQ aims at improving the quality of fundamental teaching, promoting the attendance of students in schools and the reduction of repetition levels. By 2006 the program had benefited 4.2 thousand educators and 70 thousand students in nine municipalities of Minas Gerais, Bahia, Espírito Santo and São Paulo.
Another initiative of great impact is the Bone Marrow Donation Program which over the last two years, mobilized employees, family members and the whole network of suppliers and partners of ArcelorMittal Brasil, with the objective of increasing the Brazilian Register of Bone Marrow Donators (Redome) of the Brazilian Cancer Institute (INCA). In 2005 and 2006, the work of ArcelorMittal Brasil encouraged about 40 thousand new enrolments to Redome, with the identification of seven effective donors.
Two other actions stand out in the process of promoting sustainable development concepts and practices by the Company: the Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility Program (SRE) created by ArcelorMittal Aços Longos in 2003, promotes the inclusion of suppliers of its productive chain in the adoption of responsible socio-environmental practices; and the Communication with the Third Sector Program, created in 2004 by ArcelorMittal Tubarão to promote the enabling of social entities to become self-sustainable. The SRE program also served as a model for the creation of the Programa Tecendo Redes Sustentáveis - Tear (Weaving Sustainible Networks), conceived by the Ethos institute and financed by Inter-American Development Bank - IDB.
Two other actions stand out in the process of promoting sustainable development concepts and practices by the Company: the Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility Program (SRE) created by ArcelorMittal Aços Longos in 2003, promotes the inclusion of suppliers of its productive chain in the adoption of responsible socio-environmental practices; and the Communication with the Third Sector Program, created in 2004 by ArcelorMittal Tubarão to promote the enabling of social entities to become self-sustainable. The SRE program also served as a model for the creation of the Programa Tecendo Redes Sustentáveis - Tear (Weaving Sustainible Networks), conceived by the Ethos institute and financed by Inter-American Development Bank - IDB.
(More information on the ArcelorMittal Aços Longos, ArcelorMittal Tubarão and ArcelorMittal Vega websites)
